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AMERICA 


A  Biographical  and  Historical 
Review  of  the  World's  Great- 
est Industry. 


Arthur  M.  Hull, 

Editor-in-Chief 

Sydney  A.  Hale, 

Associate  Editor 


CHICAGO 
THE  RETAIL  COALMAN 

1918 


Copyright,  1918,  by 

The  Retail  Coalman,  Inc., 
Chicago,  111. 

All  rights  reserved. 


FOREWORD 


HE  HISTORY  of  a  country  is  the  history  of  its  people,  of  the  individuals  who 
constitute  its  citizenship.  In  like  manner,  the  history  of  any  movement,  of  any 
institution,  of  any  great  industry,  is  the  history  comprising-  the  biography  of 
the  men  whose  lives  are  intimately  identified  therewith. 

The  history  of  the  coal  trade,  which  is  the  history  of  a  most  wonderful  industrial  de- 
velopment, is  distinctively  the  history  of  the  men  upon  whose  shoulders  have  been  borne 
the  burdens  and  upon  whose  brows  have  rested  the  victories  and  the  successes  incident  to 
that  wonderful  commercial  expansion. 

It  is  fitting  that  conspicuous  pages  from  the  unknown  history  of  the  coal  trade 
should  be  garnered  and  collected  in  permanent  form  as  a  memorial  to  that  trade,  as  a  record 
of  the  achievements  of  its  master  minds,  and  of  the  worthy  service  which  has  been  con- 
tributed to  the  industry  by  the  business  men  who  have  developed  the  various  mining 
fields,  and  those  who  have  devised  and  conducted  the  splendid  methods  of  distribution 
that  are  in  operation. 

Within  the  memory  of  men  who  are  now  engaged  in  the  coal  trade,  this  industry 
has  grown  from  small  volume,  by  leaps  and  bounds,  to  a  magnitude  that  arrests  the  atten- 
ti<>n  and  commands  the  respect  of  the  entire  world.  Modern  civilization  would  strive  in 
vain  to  produce  another  era  of  human  activity  so  stupendous  or  one  more  essential  to  human 
existence  than  that  of  the  coal  trade.  We,  the  coal  men  of  today,  are  in  such  close  con- 
tact with  this  wondrous  development  that  its  marvelous  growth  is  inadequately  realized 
by  us. 

Before  the  present  generation  of  coal  men  retire  from  the  stage  of  human  activity, 
a  record  of  what  they  have  accomplished  should  be  inscribed  on  the  pages  of  history. 

The  present  undertaking  is  of  this  nature.  It  is  proposed  to  show  by  the  lives  of 
men  how  one  great  coal  field  after  another  was  discovered,  how  the  mighty  streams  of  com- 
merce expanded  incessantly  beyond  all  bounds  and  expectations,  and  how  the  splendid  fab- 
ric of  transportation  and  distribution  took  shape  and  grew. 

It  is  a  wonderful  piece  of  mosaic  work  of  which  the  lives  of  coal  men  form  its  units, 
constituting  in  its  composite  whole  a  vision  that  should  be  imperishable  and  which  must  of 
necessity  be  mellowed  with  added  charm  as  the  years  lengthen  into  the  cycles  of  time. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENT 


^HE  layman  little  realizes  the  amount  of  work  and  tedious  detail  con- 
nected with  the  compilation  of  a  book  of  the  size  and  scope  of  "Coal 
Men  of  America."  The  editor  and  his  associates  have  devoted  the 
major  portion  of  their  time  for  nearly  three  years  in  gathering-  and 
preparing  the  necessary  information.  It  has  been  their  sole  aim  to 
make  it  as  complete  and  accurate  as  possible,  but  their  efforts  have  been  seri- 
ously handicapped  by  the  rapidly  changing  conditions  and  troublous  times  of 
the  past  two  years  which  have  brought  so  many  abnormal  demands  upon  the 
time  and  attention  of  everyone  engaged  in  the  coal  industry. 

It  would  be  impossible  to  compile  a  book  of  the  character  of  "Coal  Men 
of  America"  without  the  active,  hearty  and  cordial  support  and  co-operation 
of  many.  The  editor  realizes,  far  better  than  anyone  else,  the  debt  of  grati- 
tude he  owes  to  all  of  those  who  have  assisted  him  in  the  enterprise  and 
helped  to  make  the  biographical  data  of  the  thousands  of  coal  men  represented 
accurate  and  authentic. 

The  historical  part  and  the  introductory  matter  pertaining  to  the  coal 
industry  in  the  various  states  has  been  written  by  Sydney  A.  Hale,  editor  of 
the  New  York  Coal  Trade  Journal,  who  has  given  much  thought  and  study  to 
verifying  the  facts  stated,  and  this  part  of  the  work  will  be  especially  valuable 
for  reference  for  many  years  to  come. 

For  the  illustrations  we  are  indebted  to  many  photographers  in  all  sec- 
tions of  the  country,  and  a  complete  list  of  those  who  made  the  reproductions 
of  so  many  likenesses  possible  will  be  found  on  another  page. 


PREFACE 


N  presenting  "Coal  Men  of  America"  to  the  public  the  publishers  have  attempted 
to  make  a  contribution  of  more  than  passing  value  to  the  history  of  the  coal 
industry.  Statistics,  official  or  otherwise,  even  the  bare  records  of  business 
transactions,  exist  in  sufficient  detail  to  constitute  a  complete  chronicle  of  the 
industry  itself,  but  little  or  nothing  has  been  placed  in  permanent  form  regard- 
ing the  men  who  have  done  the  work,  the  human  element  which  actually  has  been  the 
greatest  factor  in  its  accomplishment.  They  are  indeed  the  spirit  which  has  animated  it 
throughout,  and  their  names  should  be  perpetuated  in  connection  with  its  story. 

As  an  accurate  and  reliable  record  of  the  part  which  these  men  have  played  in  the 
coal  business,  registering  their  personal  relations  with  it,  we  believe  this  volume  to  be 
unique  in  purpose,  and  to  possess  an  historical  value  and  importance  which  will  increase 
with  the  passing  of  time,  an  enduring  link  between  the  present  and  future.  The  account 
of  the  services  which  they  have  rendered  in  what  has  come  to  be  recognized  as  the  world's 
greatest  industry,  if  not  adequately  noted  while  authentic  information  is  easily  available, 
may  readily  slip  into  the  mass  of  impersonal  achievements  bulked  under  statistics,  and 
lose  forever  the  vitalizing  interest  which  always  attaches  to  biographical  history.  Too 
often  we  find  nothing  more  reliable  than  tradition  when  we  are  searching  for  this  class  of 
information,  and  this  work  was  therefore  designed  to  meet  a  demand  now  considered  prac- 
tically a  necessity  in  every  field,  presenting  verified  data  whose  immediate  worth  is-appar- 
ent,  but  far  surpassed  by  its  future  value. 

Several  thousand  coal  men  are  represented  in  these  pages,  together  with  statistics 
of  importance  and  interest  to  every  reader.  The  portraits  constitute  another  desirable 
feature.  The  editor  has  made  a  conscientious  effort  to  insure  correctness  in  both  historical 
and  biographical  matter,  the  latter  embodying  considerable  information  which  would  have 
been  preserved  in  no  other  way.  The  thoroughness  with  which  this  work  has  been  done 
should  commend  it  to  all  as  a  valuable  work  of  reference,  a  real  addition  to  the  bibliog- 
raphy of  the  coal  industry. 

Much  care  has  been  taken  in  the  compilation  of  the  work  and  every  opportunity 
possible  given  to  those  represented  to  insure  correctness  in  what  has  been  written. 

The  faces  of  some,  and  biographical  sketches  of  many  will  be  missed  in  this  volume. 
For  this  the  publishers  are  not  to  blame.  Not  having  a  proper  conception  of  the  work, 
some  refused  to  give  the  information  necessary  to  compile  a  sketch,  while  others  were  in- 
different, and  neglected  to  send  in  the  data  asked  for. 

However,  we  appreciate  the  cordial  co-operation  given  to  us  by  so  many  leaders  in 
the  trade  and  are  confident  that  "Coal  Men  of  America"  will  prove  a  highly  interesting  and 
valuable  reference  work  to  evervone  who  is  connected  with  the  coal  industry. 


Business  possesses  an 
added  pleasure  when 
it  forms  lasting  friend- 
ships that  are  built  on 
mutual   confidence," 


THE  WORLD'S  GREATEST  INDUSTRY 


IN  PEACE  AND  IN  WAR 


THE  United  States  is  the  richest  country  in  the 
world.  It  is  also  the  greatest  producer  of  coal. 
The  two  facts  are  not  accidental.  The  prosperity 
of  the  United  States  in  a  very  large  measure  is  due  to 
the  extent  of  its  coal  deposits  and  their  development  by 
the  pioneers  who  invested  their  money  and  their  time 
in  mining  black  diamonds  for  the  benefit  of  this  great 
union.  Coal  is  not  only  one  of  the  most  important  raw 
elements  on  which  our  national  welfare  is  based,  but 
it  is  the  basic  commodity,  and,  although  it  took  a  world 
war  to  drive  this  fact  home,  today  the  layman,  as  well 
.i>  the  coal  man,  recognizes  that  without  our  extensive 
eoal  deposits  as  a  military  force  the  United  States 
would  be  almost,  if  not  entirely,  helpless.  Coal  has 
made  possible  the  construction  of  the  greatest  railroad 
mileage  of  the  world.  It  has  permitted  the  develop- 
ment of  the  vast  metalliferous  resources.  It  has  added 
to  the  comfort  of  practically  every  citizen.  From  the 
time  coal  deposits  were  first  noted  by  the  early  ex- 
plorers of  Illinois  in  1668  to  the  present  day,  when  the 
annual  production  is  close  to  700,000,000  tons,  the 
industrial  development  of  the  country  can  lie  measured 
by  the  increase  of  the  coal  tonnage.  How  far  we  have 
advanced  can  be  perhaps  glimpsed  when  it  is  remem- 
bered that  in  1821,  the  first  year  for  which  we  have 
fairly  authentic  statistics,  the  total  output  of  the  coun- 
try wns  only  1,322  tons. 

The  detailed  development  of  the  coal  industry  is 
told  in  the  succeeding  pages  under  appropriate  state 
headings.  These  give  a  general  picture  of  the  condi- 
tions that  have  existed  up  until  the  time  of  the  World 
War.  The  situation  that  brought  about  that  war,  and 
particularly  by  the  entrance  of  the  United  States  as 
one  of  the  champions  for  nniversul  democracy,  deserves 
parate  treatment. 


Before  this  condition  can  be  properly  understood, 
however,  consideration  must  be  given  to  the  general 
background  of  the  coal  industry.  In  the  first  place, 
while  coal  is  vital  to  the  success  of  every  other  major 
industrial  enterprise,  it  is  peculiar  in  the  fact  that  it 
can  not  create  a  demand  for  itself.  The  consumption 
of  the  domestic  sizes  and  grades  of  coal  is  controlled 
wholly  by  climatic  conditions,  fluctuating  with  varia- 
tions in  weather  severity.  On  the  industrial  side  coal 
is  the  first  to  feel  the  relaxation  in  the  industrial 
growth  and  the  last  to  participate  in  the  benefits  of 
expansion.  As  had  been  said  by  the  author  in  another 
treatment  of  this  topic,  "the  competition  of  coal  is 
with  coal.*'  It  has  been  able  to  make  but  little  headway 
against  other  forms  of  fuel.  This  fact  is  strikingly 
illustrated  in  the  history  of  the  coal  trade  of  those 
states  that  have  come  to  the  front  as  reservoirs  for  fuel 
oil,  such  as  California  and  Texas.  Because  of  this 
peculiarity,  as  well  as  the  fact  already  mentioned,  that 
the  demand  for  coal  is  wholly  dependent  upon  causes 
beyond  the  control  of  the  coal  operator,  the  struggle  for 
markets  as  between  different  grades  of  coal  was,  up 
to  the  time  of  our  own  entrance  into  the  war,  as 
keen,  if  not  keener,  than  that  ever  experienced  by  any 
other  form  of  Commercial  enterprise  of  magnitude. 

With  export  trade  very  slightly  developed  (in  fact, 
from  the  tonnage  point  of  view  of  such  volume  as  to  lie 
inconsequential  in  the  general  trend  of  the  trade),  with 
the  producing  fields  iii  the  eastern  part  of  the  country, 
for  the  most  part  older  in  point  of  exploration,  and  con- 
taining the  better  grades  of  coal,  together  with  the  fact 
that  the  general  trend  of  traffic  movement  from  the 
east  to  the  west  lias  been  one  of  manufactured  products, 
while  the  east  hound  movement  has  been  more  largely 
one  of  raw  materials,  the  pressure  of  eastern  coals  seek- 


COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


ing  an  outlet  for  their  surplus  tonnage  was  most  marked 
in  the  territory  west  of  the  Indiana-Ohio  state  line. 
Thus,  until  the  war,  Chicago,  which  with  Pittsburgh 
shares  the  honor  of  being  the  greatest  coal  consuming 
district  in  the  United  States,  drew  its  supplies  from 
Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Maryland,  Ken- 
tucky and  West  Virginia,  with  occasional  shipments 
from  Virginia,  Tennessee  and  Arkansas. 

This  pressure  acting  upon  the  states  of  Indiana  and 
Illinois,  themselves  large  producers  of  coal,  served  to  set 
up  a  further  westbound  pressure,  which  sent  the  coals 
of  Illinois  into  the  Missouri  river  territory  and  into  the 
Northwest  and  southern  Mississippi  states.  Certain 
coals  because  of  their  special  qualities,  such  as  the 
smithing  grade  of  West  Virginia  and  Maryland,  en- 
joyed a  trade  extending  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pa- 
cific, while  the  semi-bituminous  or  smokeless  coals  for 
general  domestic  purposes  reached  as  far  west  as  the 
Missouri  river.  Although  many  of  the  western  coals 
are  well  known  for  their  quality,  this  pressure  of  the 
heavier  producing  eastern  states  and  of  the  coals  in  the 
Illinois,  Indiana  and  western  Kentucky  basin  prevented 
any  substantial  eastern  movements  of  coals  beyond  the 
Missouri  river. 

While,  in  certain  foreign  countries,  water  borne  has 
been  a  feature,  with  the  exception  of  the  coastwise  trans- 
portation of  coals  from  the  Virginia  piers  to  New  Eng- 
land and  the  movement  from  the  lower  Lake  Erie  ports 
to  the  Head  of  the  Lakes  (and  to  a  lesser  degree  along 
the  western  shore  of  Lake  Michigan)  the  coal  movement 
has  been  distinctly  a  railroad  movement.  Indeed,  in 
1915  for  example,  out  of  a  total  bituminous  production 
of  442,624,426  tons  only  21,506,488  tons,  or  approx- 
imately five  per  cent.,  moved  via  the  inland  waterways 
of  the  Great  Lakes,  and  even  this  tonnage,  originating 
in  the  states  of  West  Virginia,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio  and 
Kentucky,  had  to  move  from  the  mines  to  the  loading 
ports  on  Lake  Erie  all  rail,  and  the  bulk  of  it  was 
distributed  from  the  docks  at  the  Head  of  the  Lakes  and 
along  Lake  Michigan  in  the  same  manner. 

First  Effects  of  the  War. 

The  effects  of  the  war  upon  coal  were  first  felt  in  the 
East,  particularly  in  the  New  England  and  Middle  At- 
lantic States,  which  have  been  and  still  are  the  scene  of 
the  greatest  war  industrial  activity  in  the  United  States. 
The  abnormal  rates  paid  for  ocean  carriage  from  August, 
1914,  naturally  drew  a  number  of  the  bottoms  that  had 
been  engaged  in  coastwise  transportation  into  the  for- 
eign service.  At  the  same  time  the  movements  of  war 
munitions  of  one  kind  or  another  through  the  North 
Atlantic  seaboard  ports,  and  especially  New  York,  threw 
a  volume  of  traffic  upon  the  railroads  in  that  part  of  the 
country  that  they  were  not  able  to  handle  with  the 
usual  expedition.  As  a  result,  to  use  a  railroad  phrase, 
loads  backed  up  as  far  as  Buffalo,  then  Pittsburgh,  and 


finally  as  far  west  as  the  Missouri  river.  With  the  rail- 
road congestion  making  it  difficult  for  New  England  to 
receive  supplies  by  rail  and  the  withdrawal  of  part  of 
the  bottoms  cutting  down  her  opportunities  to  receive 
a  normal  supply  of  coal  by  vessel,  New  England  began 
to  reach  out  to  new  fields  and  endeavored  to  make  up 
the  deficit  in  her  supply  created  by  these  conditions. 

This  section  was  faced  not  only  with  the  necessity  of 
maintaining  a  normal  flow  of  coal,  but  the  business  de- 
veloped almost  over  night  in  war  manufactories  and  the 
demand  of  the  Allies  for  speed  in  the  production  of 
munitions  to  stop  the  Huns  made  it  necessary  that  her 
usual  supply  of  fuel  be  abnormally  increased.  The  re- 
sult of  this  situation  was  a  bid  of  New  England  against 
other  markets  of  the  country  for  the  portion  of  the 
supply  of  coal  that  had  hitherto  gone  to  those  markets. 
Prices,  of  course,  reacted  upward.  The  shortage  was 
at  that  time  not  a  shortage  in  actual  coal  production, 
but  a  deficiency  in  the  means  of  transporting  the  coal 
from  the  mines  to  the  New  England  market;  in  other 
words,,  as  one  editor  has  phrased  it,  it  was  a  "borrowed 
shortage."  It  reacted  upon  the  Middle  Atlantic  states 
and  slowly  but  steadily  pushed  its  way  westward.  Con- 
ditions in  the  Central  West,  however,  showed  no  great 
variation  until  the  late  summer  of  1916.  when  the 
threatened  strike  of  the  railroad  brotherhoods  awoke  the 
country  with  a  start  and  threw  coal  consumers  who  had 
not  provided  for  their  winter's  supplies  into  a  panic. 
From  that  time  the  call  for  coal  steadily  increased. 
While,  of  course,  there  were  fluctuations  in  price  in 
different  localities,  as  local  demand  and  transportation 
conditions  varied,  the  general  trend  was  upward. 

The  Committee  on  Coal  Production. 

When,  in  1917,  the  United  States  declared  that  a 
state  of  war  existed  between  this  country  and  Germany, 
the  need  for  some  control  of  this  runaway  market,  a 
need  that  had  been  confessed  by  many  leaders  of  the 
trade  then  and  prior  to  that  time,  was  so  evident  that 
positive  steps  were  taken  to  cause  a  readjustment  of 
conditions.  The  first  step  was  the  creation  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Coal  Production  of  the  Council  of  National 
Defense.  This  committee  was  headed  by  F.  S.  Peabody,. 
Chairman  of  Board,  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  111., 
as  Chairman  and  he  selected  the  following  as  his  asso- 
ciates in  the  work: 

William  Green,  Secretary,  Secretary  United  AI  ino 
Workers  of  America,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

George  W.  Eeed,  Assistant  Secretary,  Peabody  Coal 
Co.,  Chicago,  111. 

Herbert  Addison,  Vice  President  Big  Horn  Collieries 
Co.,  Denver,  Colo. 

F.  C.  Baird,  Secretary  Lake  Erie  Bituminous  Coal 
Exchange,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 


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COAL   MEN    OF  AMERICA 


I'..  J.  Berwind,  President  Berwind-White  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,  Xew  York  City. 

K.  B.  Chase.  Berwind-White  Coal  .Mining  Co.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

William  Diamond.  United  Mine  Workers  of  America, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

George  Elliott,  Secretary'  National  Committee  on  Gas 
and  Electric  Service,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Rol>ert  H.  Harlin,  International  Executive  Board, 
United  Mine  Workers  of  America. 

Frank  Hayes,  Vice  President  United  Mine  Workers 
of  America,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

W.  W.  Keefer,  President  Pittsburgh  Terminal  Kail- 
road  &  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

II.  L.  Kerwin,  Secretary  to  the  Secretary  of  Labor, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

John  L.  Lewis,  Statistician  United  Mine  Workers  of 
America,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

.lames  Lord,  President  Mining  Department  of  Ameri- 
can Federation  of  Labor,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Van  II.  Manning,  Director  Bureau  of  Mines,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

John  Mitchell.  Chairman  Industrial  Commission  of 
State  of  New  York,  New  York  City. 

C.  M.  Moderwell,  President  United  Coal  &  Mining 
Co..  Chicago,  111. 

Rembrandt  Peale,  Chairman  Tidewater  Coal  Ex- 
change, Xew  Y'ork  City. 

Erskine  Ramsey,  Vice  President  Pratt  Consolidated 
Coal  Co.,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Hoy  A.  Rainey,  W.  J.  Rainey  Estate,  Xew  York  City. 

George  Otis  Smith,  Director  Geological  Survey,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

James  J.  Storrow,  Chairman  Massachusetts  Com- 
mittee on  Public  Safety.  Boston,  Mass. 

Lucius  S.  Storrs.  President  The  Connecticut  Co.,  New 
Haven,  Conn. 

H.  X.  Taylor.  Vice  President  Central  Coal  &  Coke 
Co..  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

S.  D.  Warriner,  President  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation 
Co..  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

.1.  P.  Welborn,  President  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co., 
Denver,  Colo. 

Daniel  B.  Wentz,  President  Stonega  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

John  1*.  White.  President  United  Mine  Workers  of 
America.  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

The  committee  started  out  with  the  idea  to  apply 
natural  economic  regulations  to  prices.  It  was  appar- 
ently their  plan  "to  devote  their  efforts  to  overcoming 
the  shortage  and  restraining  the  bidding  of  buyer 
Bgainsl  buyer  for  coal  hy  increasing  the  production  to  a 
point    where   it    would    be  ample  to  meet  all   demands. 

Before  this  campaign  could  be  made  effective,  however. 

the  public  political  clamor  had  become  so  great  that  the 
Coal  men  decided  that  they  must  institute  artificial  reg- 


ulation. Accordingly,  in  .June,  1917,  Mr.  I'eabody  called 
a  general  conference  of  operators  at  Washington.  These 
operators  met  with  Mr.  Peabody  and  his  committee, 
Secretary  of  the  Interior  Franklin  K.  Lane,  and  .John 
F.  Fort,  member  of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission, 
which  had  been  conducting  an  investigation  into  the 
existing  coal  situation.  The  coal  operators  of  the  coun- 
try, in  a  most  enthusiastic  and  patriotic  meeting,  vol- 
untarily agreed  to  surrender  what  for  many  of  them 
had  been  the  first  good  market  in  years,  and  pledged 
themselves  to  observe  the  following  scale  of  tentative 
maximum  prices,  until  such  time  as  an  investigation  of 
costs  could  be  made  by  the  government  agencies  with  a 
view  of  fixing  permanent  prices  within  a  month  or  two:- 

Mine  Run     Prepared  Sizes 

Pennsylvania    $3.00  $3.50 

West   Virginia    3.00  3.50 

Ohio   (Thick  Vein)    3.00  3.50 

Ohio    (Massilon    and    Palmyra    Dis- 
tricts)        3.50  3.50 

Alabama — 

Cahaba  and  Black  Creek 4.00  4.00 

Pratt,  Jaeger  and  Corona 3.50  3.50 

Big  Seam    3.00  3.00 

Maryland    3.00  3.50 

Virginia    3.00  3.50 

Kentucky    3.00  3.50 

Illinois     2.75  3.50 

Long  Wall  Fields   3.25  4.00 

Indiana    2.75  3.50 

Tennessee    3.50  3.50 

These  prices  represented  reductions  of  from  40  to  60 
per  cent.  The  action  of  the  coal  men  so  pleased  Secre- 
tary Dane  that  he  said  to  the  coal  operators  thus  assem- 
bled in  special  session  in  Washington: 

"Gentlemen:  This  is  a  very  novel  proceeding.  I  think 
I  am  within  the  fact  when  I  say  that  no  such  hearing  or 
gathering  as  this  has  ever  been  held  in  the  United  States 
before,  or  perhaps  in  the  world.  You  are,  I  hope,  pio- 
neers in  a  good  movement.  I  come  from  the  land  of  pio- 
neers, the  far  western  country,  where  we  look  back  with 
respect  and  admiration  and  some  reverence  upon  those 
who  crossed  the  hard  and  stony  and  waterless  places  to 
the  richer  spots  beyond.  And  I  hope  that  you  will  be 
looked  back  upon  not  only  by  those  who  succeed  you  in 
the  coal  business,  but  by  the  industries  of  the  United 
States,  with  respect  and  admiration  for  the  manner  in 
which  you  have  acted  at  this  conference.  You  have  re- 
sponded as  men  should,  to  a  call  made  upon  you  in  the 
name  of  the  people  of  the  United  States.  You  are  not  a 
removed  class.  You  are  of  us.  You  belong  to  the  people. 
Most  of  you  are  men  who  were  not  born  to  wealth.  You 
came  up  out  of  the  soil  like  the  rest  of  us  and  you  have 
shown  a  sympathy  and  an  understanding  of  your  relations 
with  the  people  from  which  you  spring.  That  is  the 
essential  quality  in  democracy.  Unless  we  can  maintain 
in  our  minds  always  a  consciousness  of  the  source  of 
power  in  this  country,  democracy  is  a  failure.  There  is 
a  strong  contention  made  that  this  Government  cannot 
so  organize  itself  as  to  meet  to  the  full  the  demands  that 
are  to  be  made  upon  it,  that  other  forms  of  government 


COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


in  times  of  stress,  or  in  fact  any  times,  are  more  compe- 
tent and  more  efficient,  because  there  is  the  strong  hand 
of  the  Government  above,  threatening,  menacing,  com- 
pelling. If  we  in  the  United  States  are  to  work  out  our 
problem  economic,  social,  as  we  have  worked  out  our 
problem  political,  we  must  work  it  out  in  my  judgment  in 
the  spirit  in  which  you  have  worked — with  sympathy,  with 
recognition  of  those  whom  you  serve.  There  is  a  kind 
of  corporation  in  this  country  that  we  know  as  a  public 
utility.  A  public  utility  is  one  that  is  at  the  service  of 
any  one  and  must  render  him  the  kind  of  service  that  it 
holds  out  to  give.  In  the  biggest  and  broadest  sense,  each 
one  of  you  in  running  a  coal  mine  is  managing  a  public 
utility,  because  the  public  is  dependent  upon  you.  And 
this  world  is  going  forward  and  not  backward,  it  is  going 
to  keep  its  confidence  in  democracy,  if  the  men  who  have 
the  management  of  industry  and  the  men  who  give  direc- 
tion to  the  thought  of  the  country  have  in  their  hearts 
always  the  welfare  of  the  people.  The  one  thing  that  will 
turn  us  back  is  the  exercise  of  arbitrary  power  by  those 
who  have  power  and  who  exercise  it  ruthlessly.  You 
have  been  up  against  an  extremely  odd  situation.  And 
now  you  have  gathered  here  and  met  that  situation  in 
man  fashion.  I  think  you  have  reason  to  be  proud  of  what 
you  have  done.  Speaking  for  Governor  Fort  and  for  Mr. 
Peabody  and  his  committee  and  for  myself,  we  are  proud 
of  what  you  have  done." 


The  Baker  Letter  of  Repudiation. 

Two  days  after  this  agreement,  hailed  by  Secretary 
Lane,  had  been  heralded  broadcast,  the  program  was 
abruptly  upset  by  a  letter  from  Newton  D.  Baker,  Sec- 
retary of  War,  to  W.  S.  Gifford  of  the  Advisory  Board 
to  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  repudiating  the 
entire  agreement.  Secretary  Baker's  position,  as  ex- 
pressed in  his  letter  of  July  1,  1917,  was  as  follows: 

"My  attention  has  been  called  through  the  newspapers 
to  the  action  reported  to  have  been  taken  at  Washington 
during  the  last  week  by  the  so-called  committee  on  coal 
production  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  in  co- 
operation with  certain  coal  producers  and  representatives 
of  coal  mining  enterprises  with  regard  to  the  price  of 
bituminous  and  anthracite  coal.  The  facts  seem  to  be  that 
the  coal  production  committee  invited  to  Washington 
various  coal  operators  and  arranged  conferences  between 
them,  members  of  the  Coal  Production  Committee  and 
members  of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission,  leading  to 
the  adoption  of  resolutions  in  favor  of  an  early  and  ac- 
curate determination  of  the  costs  involved  in  the  produc- 
tion of  bituminous  and  anthracite  coal  as  a  basis  for  some 
future  action  by  some  official  agency  of  the  Government 
in  fixing  fair  and  just  prices  for  these  products,  should 
any  such  agency  be  given  power  to  do  so.  Pending  such 
an  ascertainment  of  costs,  this  meeting  seems  to  have 
adopted  a  resolution  whereby  the  operators  present  agreed 
to  sell  bituminous  coal  at  a  price  not  higher  than  $3  a 
ton  and  that  this  obligation  should  remain  in  force  until 
some  such  action  had  been  taken  by  an  authorized  govern- 
mental agency.  The  color  which  has  been  given  to  this 
meeting  and  this  resolution  in  the  newspapers  may  well 
mislead  the  public  into  believing  that  the  Council  of 
National  Defense  has  either  undertaken  itself  to  fix  the 
price  of  coal  or  to   sanction   its   being  fixed  by  the   Coal 


Production  Committee,  or  that  committee  in  conjunction 
with  the  coal  operators. 

"I,  therefore,  as  President  of  the  Council  of  National 
Defense,  write  this  to  say  that  the  Council  of  National 
Defense  has  no  legal  power  and  claims  no  legal  power 
either  to  fix  the  price  of  coal  or  to  fix  a  maximum  price 
of  coal  or  any  other  output.  The  Coal  Production  Com- 
mittee is  a  subordinate  committee  of  the  Council  of  Na- 
tional Defense,  purely  advisory  in  its  character,  formed  for 
the  purpose  of  advising  the  council  as  to  steps  which 
might  be  recommended  leading  to  a  stimulation  of  produc- 
tion and  distribution  of  coal. 

"No  power  has  ever  been  attempted  to  be  delegated  to 
it  to  consider  or  deal  with  the  question  of  price,  and  any 
action  taken  by  that  committee,  or  sanctioned  by  that 
committee,  dealing  with  price,  either  fixed  or  maximum, 
for  coal  is  clearly  beyond  the  legal  power  of  the  Coal 
Production  Committee  and  of  the  Council  of  National  De- 
fense, from  which  the  committee  derives  whatever  au- 
thority it  has. 

"As  you  are  aware,  the  Federal  Trade  Commission  has 
teen  directed  by  the  President  to  ascertain  for  his  infor- 
mation the  costs  involved  in  coal  production.  I  am  to 
some  extent  familiar  with  the  progress  made  by  the  com- 
mission. The  information  I  have  from  that  and  other 
sources,  I  think,  justified  me  in  believing  that  the  price 
of  $3  suggested  or  agreed  on  as  a  maximum  is  an  exorbi- 
tant, unjust  and  oppressive  price. 

"The  fact  that  these  conferences  were  attended  by  mem- 
bers of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission  and  by  members 
of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  of  course,  adds  noth- 
ing to  their  legal  powers,  and  I  am  sure  that  none  of  my 
associates  in  the  council  will  dissent  from  the  view  I  have 
herein  expressed  both  on  the  limitations  of  the  powers  of 
the  Council  and  the  Coal  Production  Committee  and  tbe 
effect  of  the  action  alleged  to  have  been  taken. 

"I  write  this  for  the  information  of  the  coal  committee 
and  for  the  guidance  of  all  other  sub-committees  of  the 
Council." 

The  Lever  Act  and  the  Coal  Problem. 

With  the  publication  of  the  Baker  letter  the  coal 
question  was  again  thrown  back  into  the  arena  of  politi- 
cal discussion.  The  coal  men  were  disgusted  and  dis- 
oTimtled.  While  the  Chairman  of  the  Production  Com- 
mittee'and  various  association  officials  urged  them  to 
observe  the  terms  of  the  Lane-Peabody  price  agreement 
despite  the  Baker  repudiation,  many  took  the  position 
that  the  agreement  was  without  binding  force.  Mean- 
while, several  of  the  western  states  were  actively  agi- 
tating the  price  question.  Although  Ohio,  Wisconsin, 
and  some  of  the  trans-Mississippi  states  participated  in 
this  campaign,  the  center  of  the  disturbance  was  in 
Illinois  and  Indiana.  In  these  two  states  public  officials 
made  threats  as  to  what  they  would  do  unless  the  coal 
men  came  to  their  terms.  At  the  same  time  Senator 
Pomerene  had  introduced  an  amendment,  which  subse- 
quently in  substance  became  Section  25  of  the  Food 
and  Fuel  Control  Law  or  the  Lever  Act  then  pending 
in  the  national  Congress.  It  became  a  race  to  see 
whether  government  regulation  of  the  coal  industry 
should  be  a  state  or  federal  matter.     The  coal  men 


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strongly  insisted  that  the  Mlbject  was  one  that  should  he 
controlled 'by  the  federal  government,  while  in  Illinois 
public  officials  were  equally  insistent  that  regulation 
could  Dot  await  action  of  Congress.    Just  as  the  matter 

had  readied  the  most  critical  stage  the  race  was  won  by 
the  federal  government  by  the  passage  of  the  Lever 
Act.    This  provided: 

"Sec.  25.  That  the  President  of  the  United  States  shall 
be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered,  when- 
ever and  wherever  in  his  judgment  necessary  for  the  effi- 
cient prosecution  of  the  war,  to  fix  the  price  of  coal  and 
coke,  wherever  and  whenever  sold,  either  by  producer  or 
dealer,  to  establish  rules  for  the  regulation  of  ar.d  to  reg- 
ulate the  method  of  production,  sale,  shipment,  distribu- 
tion, apportionment,  or  storage  thereof  among  dealers  and 
consumers,  domestic  or  foreign;  said  authority  and  power 
may  be  exercised  by  him  in  each  case  through  the  agency 
of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission,  during  the  war  or  for 
such  part  of  said  time  as  in  his  judgment  may  be  neces- 
sary. 

"That  if,  in  the  opinion  of  the  President,  any  such  pro- 
ducer or  dealer  fails  or  neglects  to  conform  to  such 
prices  or  regulations,  or  to  conduct  his  business  efficiently 
under  the  regulations  and  control  of  the  President  as 
aforesaid,  or  conducts  it  in  a  manner  prejudicial  to  the 
public  interest,  then  the  President  is  hereby  authorized 
and  empowered  in  every  such  case  to  requisition  and  take 
over  the  plant,  business,  and  all  appurtenances  thereof 
belonging  to  such  producer  or  dealer  as  a  going  concern, 
and  to  operate  or  cause  the  same  to  be  operated  in  such 
manner  and  through  such  agency  as  he  may  direct  dur- 
ing the  period  of  the  war  or  for  such  part  of  said  time 
as  in  his  judgment,  may  be  necessary. 

"That  any  producer  or  dealer  whose  plant,  business,  and 
appurtenances  shall  have  been  requisitioned  or  taken  over 
by  the  President  shall  be  paid  a  just  compensation  for  the 
use  thereof  during  the  period  that  the  same  be  requisi- 
tioned or  taken  over  as  aforesaid,  which  compensation 
the  President  shall  fix  or  cause  to  be  fixed  by  the  Federal 
Trade  Commission. 

"That  if  the  prices  so  fixed,  or  if,  in  the  case  of  the 
taking  over  or  requisitioning  of  the  mines  or  business  of 
any  such  producer  or  dealer,  the  compensation  therefor 
as  determined  by  the  provisions  of  this  act  be  not  sat- 
isfactory to  the  person  or  persons  entitled  to  receive  the 
same,  such  person  shall  be  paid  75  per  cent,  of  the  amount 
so  determined,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  sue  the  United 
States  to  recover  such  further  sum  as,  added  to  said  75 
per  cent.,  will  make  up  such  amount  as  will  be  just  com- 
pensation in  the  manner  provided  by  section  24,  para- 
graph 20,  and  section  145  of  the  Judicial  Code. 

"While  operating  or  causing  to  be  operated  any  such 
plants  or  business,  the  President  is  authorized  to  pre- 
scribe such  regulations  as  he  may  deem  essential  for  the 
employment,  control,  and  compensation  of  the  employes 
necessary  to  conduct  the  same. 

"Or  if  the  President  of  the  United  States  shall  be  of  the 
opinion  that  he  can  thereby  better  provide  for  the  com- 
mon defense,  and  whenever,  in  his  judgment,  it  shall  be 
necessary  for  the  efficient  prosecution  of  the  war,  then 
he  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  require  any 
or  all  producers  of  coal  and  coke,  either  in  any  special 
area  or  in  any  special  coal  fields,  or  in  the  entire  United 
States,  to  sell  their  products  only  to  the  United  States 
through   an   agency   to   be   designated    by   the   President, 


such  agency  to  regulate  the  resale  of  such  coal  and  coke, 
and  the  prices  thereof,  and  to  establish  rules  for  the 
regulation  of  and  to  regulate  the  methods  of  production, 
shipment,  distribution,  apportionment,  or  storage  thereof 
among  dealers,  consumers,  domestic  or  foreign,  and  to 
make  payment  of  the  purchase  price  thereof  to  the  pro- 
ducers thereof,  or  to  the  person  or  persons  legally  entitled 
to  said  payment. 

"That  within  15  days  after  notice  from  the  agency  so 
designated,  to  any  producer  of  coal  and  coke  that  his, 
or  its,  output  is  to  be  so  purchased  by  the  United  States 
as  hereinbefore  described,  such  producer  shall  cease  ship- 
ments of  said  product  upon  his  own  account  and  shall 
transmit  to  such  agency  all  orders  received  and  unfilled 
or  partially  unfilled,  showing  the  exact  extent  to  which 
shipments  have  been  made  thereon,  and  thereafter  all 
shipments  shall  be  made  only  on  authority  of  the  agency 
designated  by  the  President,  and  thereafter  no  such  pro- 
ducer shall  sell  any  of  said  products  except  in  the  United 
States  through  such  agency,  and  the  said  agency  alone 
is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  purchase  during 
the  continuance  of  the  requirement  the  output  of  such 
producers. 

"That  the  prices  to  be  paid  for  such  products  so  pur- 
chased shall  be  based  upon  a  fair  and  just  profit  over 
and  above  the  cost  of  production,  including  proper  main- 
tenance and  depletion  charges,  the  reasonableness  of  such 
profits  and  cost  of  production  to  be  determined  by  the 
Federal  Trade  Commission,  and  if  the  prices  fixed  by  the 
said  commission  of  any  such  product  purchased  by  the 
United  States  as  hereinbefore  described  be  unsatisfactory 
to  the  person  or  persons  entitled  to  receive  the  same, 
such  person  or  persons  shall  be  paid  75  per  cent,  of  the 
amount  so  determined  and  shall  be  entitled  to  sue  the 
United  States  to  recover  such  further  sum  as  added  to 
said  75  per  cent,  will  make  up  such  amount  as  will  be  just 
compensation  in  the  manner  provided  by  section  24,  para- 
graph 20,  and  section  145  of  the  Judicial  Code. 

"All  such  products  so  sold  to  the  United  States  shall 
be  sold  by  the  United  States  at  such  uniform  prices, 
quality  considered,  as  may  be  practicable  and  as  may  be 
determined  by  said  agency  to  be  just  and  fair. 

"Any  moneys  received  by  the  United  States  for  the  sale 
of  any  such  coal  and  coke  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the 
President,  be  used  as  a  revolving  fund  for  further  carry- 
ing out  the  purposes  of  this  section.  Any  moneys  not  so 
used  shall  be  covered  into  the  Treasury  as  miscellaneous 
receipts. 

"That,  when  directed  by  the  President,  the  Federal 
Trade  Commission  is  hereby  required  to  proceed  to  make 
full  inquiry,  giving  such  notice  as  it  may  deem  practicable, 
into  the  cost  of  producing  under  reasonably  efficient  man- 
agement at  the  various  places  of  production  the  follow- 
ing commodities,  to-wit:   Coal  and  coke. 

"The  books,  correspondence,  records,  and  papers  in  any 
way  referring  to  transactions  of  any  kind  relating  to  the 
mining,  production,  sale  or  distribution  of  all  mine  op- 
erators or  other  persons  whose  coal  and  coke  have  or 
may  become  subject  to  this  section,  and  the  books,  cor- 
respondence, records,  and  papers  of  any  person  applying 
for  the  purchase  of  coal  and  coke  from  the  United  States 
shall  at  all  times  be  subject  to  inspection  by  the  said 
agency,  and  such  person  or  persons  shall  promptly  fur- 
nish said  agency  any  data  or  information  relating  to  the 
business  of  such  person  or  persons  which  said  agency 
may  call  for,  and  said  agency  is  hereby  authorized  to  pro- 
cure the  information  in  reference  to  the  business  of  such 
coal-mine  operators  and  producers  of  coke  and  customers 


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therefor  in  the  manner  provided  for  in  sections  6  and  9 
of  the  act  of  Congress  approved  September  26,  1914, 
entitled  "An  act  to  create  a  Federal  Trade  Commission, 
to  define  its  powers  and  duties,  and  for  other  purposes," 
and  said  agency  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
exercise  all  the  powers  granted  to  the  Federal  Trade 
Commission  by  said  act  for  the  carrying  out  of  the  pur- 
poses of  this  section. 

"Having  completed  its  inquiry  respecting  any  com- 
modity in  any  locality,  it  shall,  if  the  President  has-  de- 
cided to  fix  the  prices  at  which  any  such  commodity  shall 
be  sold  by  producers  and  dealers  generally,  fix  and  pub- 
lish maximum  prices  for  both  producers  of  and  dealers  in 
any  such  commodity,  which  maximum  prices  shall  be 
observed  by  all  producers  and  dealers  until  further  action 
thereon  is   taken  by  the   commission. 

"In  fixing  maximum  prices  for  producers  the  commis- 
sion shall  allow  the  cost  of  production,  including  the  ex- 
pense of  operation,  maintenance,  depreciation,  and  deple- 
tion, and  shall  add  thereto  a  just  and  reasonable  profit. 

"In  fixing  such  prices  for  dealers  the  commission  shall 
allow  the  cost  to  the  dealer  and  shall  add  thereto  a  just 
and  reasonable  sum  for  his  profit  in  the  transaction. 

"The  maximum  prices  so  fixed  and  published  shall  not 
be  construed  as  invalidating  any  contract  in  which  prices 
are  fixed,  made  in  good  faith,  prior  to  the  establishment 
and  publication  of  maximum  prices  by  the  commission. 

"Whoever  shall,  with  knowledge  that  the  prices  of  any 
such  commodity  have  been  fixed  as  herein  provided,  ask, 
demand,  or  receive  a  higher  price,  or  whoever  shall,  with 
knowledge  that  the  regulations  have  been  prescribed  as 
herein  provided,  violate  or  refuse  to  conform  to  any  of 
the  same,  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  more  than  $5,000  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  more 
than  two  years,  or  both.  Each  independent  transaction 
shall  constitute  a  separate  offense. 

"Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed  as  restricting 
or  modifying  in  any  manner  the  right  the  Government  of 
the  United  States  may  have  in  its  own  behalf  or  in  behalf 
of  any  other  Government  at  war  with  Germany  to  pur- 
chase, requisition,  or  take  over  any  such  commodities 
for  the  equipment,  maintenance,  or  support  of  armed 
forces  at  any  price  or  upon  any  terms  that  may  be  agreed 
upon  or  otherwise  lawfully  determined." 


country,  which  also  conferred  upon  the  Executive  control 
of  the  fuel  supply.  They  are  based  upon  the  actual  cost 
of  production  and  are  deemed  to  be  not  only  fair  and  just 
but  liberal  as  well.  Under  them  the  industry  should  no- 
where lack  stimulation. 

Woolrow   Wilson. 


Run  of  Prepared     Slack  or 

mine  sizes  screenings 

Pennsylvania    $2.00  $2.25  $1.75 

Maryland     2.00  2.25  1.75 

West  Virginia    2.00  2.25  1.75 

West  Virginia   (New  River) .  .   2.15  2.40  1.90 

Virginia    2.00  2.25  1.75 

Ohio  (thick  vein)    2.00  2.25  1.75 

Ohio  (thin  vein)    2.35  2.60  2.10 

Kentucky    1.95  2.20  1.70 

Kentucky  (Jellico)    2.40  2.65  2.15 

Alabama   (Big  Seam)    1.90  2.15  1.65 

Alabama    (Pratt,    Jaeger    and 

Corona)     2.15  2.40  1.90 

Alabama    (Cahaba   and   Black 

Creek)     2.40  1.65  2.15 

Tennessee    (eastern)    2.30  2.55  2.05 

Tennessee    (Jellico)     2.40  2.65  2.15 

Indiana     1.95  2.20  1.70 

Illinois     1.95  2.20  1.70 

Illinois   (third  vein)    2.40  2.65  2.15 

Arkansas     2.65  2.90  2.40 

Iowa    2.70  2.95  2.45 

Kansas     2.55  2.80  2.30 

Missouri     2.70  2.95  2.45 

Oklahoma     3.05  3.30  2.80 

Texas    2.65  2.90'  2.40 

Colorado 2.45  2.70  2.20 

Montana     2.70  2.95  2.45 

New  Mexico    2.40  2.65  2.15 

Wyoming    2.50  2.75  2.25 

Utah    2.60  2.85  2.35 

Washington     3.25  3.50  3.00 

NOTE — Prices  are  on  f.  o.  b.  mine  basis  for  ton  of  2,000 
pounds. 


The  Prices  Fixed  by  the  President. 


Garfield's  Appointment  and  Anthracite. 


This  law  was  approved  by  the  President  August  10, 
1017.  Eleven  days  later  President  Wilson  promulgated 
the  following  maximum  prices  on  bituminous  coal: 

The  White  House. 
Washington,  21  August,  1917. 

"The  following  scale  of  prices  is  prescribed  for  bitu- 
minous coal  at  the  mine  in  the  several  coal  producing  dis- 
tricts. It  is  provisional  only.  It  is  subject  to  reconsidera- 
tion when  the  whole  method  of  administering  the  fuel 
supplies  of  the  country  shall  have  been  satisfactorily  or- 
ganized and  put  into  operation.  Subsequent  measures 
will  have  as  their  object  a  fair  and  equitable  control  of 
the  distribution  of  the  supply  and  of  the  prices  not  only 
at  the  mines  but  also  in  the  hands  of  the  middlemen  and 
the  retailers. 

"The  prices  provisionally  fixed  here  are  fixed  by  my 
authority  under  the  provisions  of  the  recent  Act  of  Con- 
gress regarding  administration  of  the  food  supply  of  the 


Two  days  later  H.  A.  Garfield,  President  of  Williams 
College,  Williamstown,  Mass.,  was  appointed  Fuel  Ad- 
ministrator and  on  the  same  date  the  President  also 
fixed  prices  for  anthracite  on  the  following  basis  and 
jobbers'  margins : 

The  following  regulations  shall  apply  to  the  intrastate, 
interstate  and  foreign  commerce  of  the  United  States,  and 
the  prices  and  margins  referred  to  herein  shall  be  in  force 
pending  further  investigation  or  determination  thereof  by 
the  President. 

jobbers'  margins. 

1.  A  coal  jobber  is  defined  as  a  person  (or  other 
agency)  who  purchases  and  resells  coal  to  coal  dealers  or 
to  consumers  without  physically  handling  it  on,  over  or 
through  his  own  vehicle,  dock,  trestle,  or  yard. 

2.  For  the  buying  and  selling  of  bituminous  coal  a 
jobber  shall  not  add  to  his  purchase  price  a  gross  margin 


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in  excess  of  15  cents  per  ton  of  2,000  pounds;  nor  shall  the 
combined  gross  margins  of  any  number  of  jobbers  who 
buy  and  sell  a  given  shipment  or  shipments  of  bituminous 
coal  exceed  15  cents  per  ton  of  2,090  pounds. 

3.  For  buying  and  selling  anthracite  coal  a  jobber  shall 
not  add  to  his  purchase  price  a  gross  margin  in  excess  of 
20  cents  per  ton  of  2,240  pounds  when  delivery  of  such 
coal  is  to  be  effected  at  or  east  of  Buffalo.  For  buying  and 
selling  anthracite  coal  for  delivery  west  of  Buffalo,  a  job- 
ber shall  not  add  to  his  purchase  price  a  gross  margin  in 
excess  of  30  cents  per  ton  of  2,240  pounds.  The  combined 
gross  margins  of  any  number  of  jobbers  who  buy  and  sell 
a  given  shipment  or  shipments  of  anthracite  coal  for  de- 
livery at  or  east  of  Buffalo  shall  not  exceed  20  cents  per 
ton  of  2,240  pounds;  nor  shall  such  combined  margins 
exceed  30  cents  per  ton  of  2,240  pounds  for  the  delivery 
of  anthracite  coal  west  of  Buffalo.  Provided,  that  a  job- 
ber's gross  margin  realized  on  a  given  shipment  or  ship- 
ments of  anthracite  coal  may  be  increased  by  not  more 
than  5  cents  per  ton  of  2,240  pounds  when  the  jobber 
incurs  the  expense  of  rescreening  it  at  Atlantic  or  lake 
ports  for  trans-shipment  by  water. 

4.  Effective  Sept.  1,  1917,  the  maximum  prices  per  ton 
of  2,240  pounds  free  on  board  cars  at  the  mines  for  the 
grades  and  sizes  of  anthracite  coal  hereinafter  specified 
shall  not  exceed  the  prices  indicated  in  paragraph  5  when 
such  coal  is  produced  and  sold  by  the  Philadelphia  & 
Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co., 
Lehigh  &  Wilkes-Barre  Coal  Co.,  Hudson  Coal  Co.,  Dela- 
ware &  Hudson  Co.,  Scranton  Coal  Co.,  Lehigh  Valley 
Coal  Co.,  Coxe  Bros.,  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co.,  Hillside  Coal 
&  Iron  Co.,  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  R.  R.  Co., 
Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Co.,  Susquehanna 
Coal  Co.,  Susquehanna  Collieries  Co.,  Lytle  Coal  Co.,  or 
the  M.  A.  Hanna  Coal  Co. 

5.  The  grades  and  sizes  for  which  the  maximum  prices 
are  specified  are  as  follows:  White  ash  anthracite  coal  of 
the  grade  that  between  Jan.  1,  1915,  and  Jan.  1,  1917,  was 
uniformly  sold  and  recognized  in  the  coal  trade  as  coal  of 
white  ash  grade.  Red  ash  anthracite  coal  of  the  grade 
that  between  Jan.  1,  1915,  and  Jan.  1,  1917,  was  uniformly 
sold  and  recognized  in  the  trade  as  coal  of  red  ash  grade; 
and  Lykens  Valley  anthracite  coal  that  is  mined  exclu- 
sively from  the  Lykens  Valley  seams,  and  of  the  grade 
that  between  Jan.  1,  1915,  and  Jan.  1,  1917,  was  uniformly 
sold  and  recognized  in  the  coal  trade  as  coal  of  Lykens 
Valley  grade. 

White  ash  grade.         Red  ash  grade.    Lykens  Valley  grade. 

Broken     $4.55      Broken    $4.75      Broken    $5.00 

Egg    4.45       Egg    4.65      Egg    4.90 

Stove    4.70      Stove    4.90      Stove    5.30 

Chestnut    ...   4.80      Chestnut    ...  4.90      Chestnut    ...  5.30 
Pea    4.00      Pea    4.10      Pea    4.35 

6.  Producers  of  anthracite  coal  who  are  not  specified  in 
paragraph  4  shall  not  sell  the  various  grades  and  sizes  of 
anthracite  coal  at  prices  that  exceed  by  more  than  75  cents 
per  ton  of  2,240  pounds  free  on  board  cars  at  the  mines 
the  prices  enumerated  in  paragraph  5.  Provided,  that  any 
producer  of  anthracite  coal  who  incurs  the  expense  of  re- 
screening  it  at  Atlantic  or  lake  ports  for  trans-shipment 
by  water  may  increase  the  price  thereof  by  not  more  than 
5  cents  per  ton  of  2,240  pounds. 

7.  Producers  of  anthracite  coal  specified  in  paragraph  4 
of  these  regulations  shall  not  sell  anthracite  coal  to  pro- 
ducers of  anthracite  coal  not  specified  in  paragraph  4. 

8.  Deaters  and  selling  agents  shall  not  resell  coal  pro- 
duced by  the  producers  included  in   paragraph   4  on   the 


basis  of  the  prices  fixed  at  the  mine  for  coal  produced  by 

producers  not  specified  in  said  paragraph. 

Woodrow   Wilson. 
The  White  House,  23  August,  1917. 

These  margins,  while  acceptable  to  jobbers  in  certain 
parts  of  the  country,  were  bitterly  opposed  by  those  in 
other  sections  and  the  status  of  the  jobber  is  one  of  the 
most  interesting  questions  that  lias  been  at  issue  since 
federal  regulation  became  effective. 

Apportioning  Coal  and  Regulating  Retail  Prices. 

Shortly  after  his  appointment  Dr.  Garfield  announced 
bis  general  scheme  for  the  apportionment  of  the  coal 
supply  and  the  regulations  of  retail  prices.  This  plan 
provided  first,  for  the  appointment  of  a  Federal,  or 
State,  Fuel  Administrator  in  each  state  to  represent  the 
Fuel  Administration,  together  with  a  committee  of 
citizens  to  act  with  the  State  Administrator;  second,  the 
appointment  by  the  .State  Administrator  of  committees 
to  represent  the  Administration  in  each  county  of  the 
state  and  in  each  city  having  more  than  2,500  popula- 
tion, or  such  other  population  as  the.  State  Fuel  Admin- 
istration might  determine.  It  was  provided  that  the 
State  Administrator  and  state  committee  should  be 
chosen  by  Dr.  Garfield,  with  the  approval  of  the  Presi- 
dent, and  that  the  county  and  city  committees  were  to 
be  chosen  by  the  State  Administrators. 

"The  state  committee,"  said  Dr.  Garfield  in  announc- 
ing this  plan,  "will  at  once  ascertain  the  amount  of 
coal  in  the  state  available  for  use  during  the  coming 
winter,  and  the  amount  of  coal  needed  to  meet  any  de- 
ficiency in  the  supply  based  on  last  year's  consumption. 
It  will  be  the  duty  of  the  various  committees  to  ascer- 
tain and  report  to  the  Fuel  Administration  the  reason- 
able retail  margins.  These  margins  when  duly  fixed 
by  order,  together  with  the  cost  at  the  mine,  named  by 
the  President,  the  transportation  charge,  and  the  job- 
ber's commission  when  sold  through  the  jobber,  will 
constitute  the  price  to  the  consumer." 

Against  this  general  plan  no  particular  objection  was 
raised,  but  pointed  exception  was  taken  to  the  provision 
that  "no  person  will  be  appointed  either  as  a  state  rep- 
resentative or  on  any  of  these  committees,  or  on  any 
committees  mentioned  below,  that  is  connected  with  the 
local  coal  industry."  Retail  coal  men  felt  that  this  was 
an  undeserved  slur  upon  the  integrity  of  the  industry 
and  that  the  failure  to  appoint  practical  coal  men.  if 
not  as  Administrators,  at  least  in  an  advisory  capacity, 
militated  against  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  gpVi 
eminent  plan  for  retail  regulation.  These  protests  at 
that  time,  however,  met  with  no  success.., 

On  October  1.  1917,  the  Fuel  Administration  at 
Washington  announced  its  order  {riving  the  maximum 
gross  margins  of  retail  coal  merchants.  This  order 
defined  a  retail  coal  merchant  as  "every  person,  part- 
nership, corporation  or  association  physically  receivimr. 


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handling  and  delivering  coal  or  coke  to  consumers,  as 
a  retail  coal  or  coke  dealer  within  the  meaning  of  this 
order."     Eetail  margins  were  defined  as: 

"First,  The  difference  between  the  price  charged  by 
a  retail  coal  or  coke  dealer  to  the  consumer  and  the  aver- 
age cost  of  coal  or  coke  to  such  retailer,  f.  o.  b.  railroad 
cars  at  his  railroad  siding,  yard,  pocket  or  trestle,  when 
such  coal  or  coke  is  received  by  him  by  rail. 

"Second,  The  difference  between  the  price  charged  by 
a  retail  coal  or  coke  dealer  to  the  consumer  and  the 
average  cost  of  coal  or  coke  to  such  retailer  free  along- 
side his  wharf,  pocket  or  yard  when  such  coal  or  coke  is 
received  by  him  by  water. 

"Third,  The  difference  between  the  price  charged  by 
a  retail  coal  or  coke  dealer  to  the  consumer  and  the 
average  cost  of  coal  or  coke  to  such  retailer  at  whole- 
saler's pockets,  trestles,  railroad  siding,  mines,  tipples, 
dumps,  docks,  yards  and  wharfs." 

First  Method  of  Figuring  Gross  Margins. 

The  order  provided  that  the  maximum  gross  mar- 
gin should  not  exceed  the  average  gross  margin  on  the 
same  size  and  grade  of  coal  or  coke  for  each  class  of 
business  during  the  year  ending  December  31,  1915, 
plus  30  per  cent,  of  such  margin  for  the  year  1915,  with 
the  further  provision  that  this  margin  should  in  no 
case  exceed  the  margin  in  effect  during  July,  1917.  This 
order  created  as  much  discontent  and  dissatisfaction 
among  the  retail  trade  as  had  the  maximum  prices  f.  o. 
b.  mines  among  the  producers  and  the  jobbers'  commis- 
sion regulations  among  the  wholesalers.  It  developed 
that  in  many  sections  of  the  country  1915  had  been  a 
year  of  unusual  competition  between  retail  coal  mer- 
chants, so  that  prices  had  been  depressed  below  their 
normal  levels.  Further  practical  objection  was  inter- 
posed that  in  many  cases  records  of  1915  operations 
had  not  been  preserved  and  that  in  a  great  number  of 
instances  the  records  that  did  exist  were  in  such  shape 
that  they  could  not  fairly  be  used  as  a  basis,  because 
many  retailers  at  that  time  had  not  given  the  subject  of 
cost  accounting  the  attention  it  deserved.  Furthermore, 
the  limiting  proviso  of  July,  1917,  margins  as  a  max- 
imum was  attacked  as  putting  an  additional  unfair  bur- 
den upon  the  retail  trade,  because  it  had  been  the  cus- 
tom of  many  retailers  to  make  a  lower  price  during  the 
summer  months  than  during  the  balance  of  the  year  so 
that  they  might  keep  their  teams  and  men  employed. 

Appeals  to  the  Fuel  Administration  at  Washington 
were  met  with  the  response  that  any  objections  to  the 
October  1st  plan  would  have  to  be  referred  to  the  State 
1  Fuel  Administrations,  all  of  which  had  not  at  that  time 
been  appointed.  Chicago  became  the  center  of  the  piv- 
otal attack  upon  the  October  1st  order.  The  Chicago 
Coal  Merchants'  Association,  representing  the  leading 
retailers  of  that  city,  insisted  that  the  order  was  unfair, 
unjust  and  unworkable.    The  contention  was  made  that 


the  order,  if  literally  enforced,  would  compel  the  re- 
tailers to  accept  margins  that  would  not  be  properly 
remunerative,  for  not  only  had  the  1915  prices  been 
greatly  depressed  in  that  city,  but  it  was  contended 
there,  as  in  many  other  places,  that  the  30  per  cent, 
increase  granted  over  the  1915  margins  did  not  fairly 
represent  the  actual  increase  in  the  cost  of  conducting 
business  as  between  the  two  periods.  The  legal  point 
was  raised  that  the  order  was  contrary  to'  the  section  of 
the  Lever  Act,  from  which  Dr.  Garfield  derived  his 
powers,  in  that  that  section  provided  "that  the  prices  to 
be  paid  for  such  products  shall  be  based  upon  a  fair  and 
just  profit,"  and  that  "in  fixing  such  prices  for  dealers 
the  commission  shall  allow  the  cost  to  the  dealer  and 
shall  add  thereto  a  just  and  reasonable  sum  for  his  profit 
in  the  transaction." 

Chicago  System  Finally  Adopted. 

The  State  Fuel  Administration  of  Illinois,  before 
whom  the  problem  was  placed,  passed  it  on  to  the  con- 
sideration of  the  Cook  County  Advisor,  Raymond  E. 
Durham.  Mr.  Durham  asked  the  coal  men  to  lay  all 
their  facts  and  figures  before  him,  and  as  a  result  of 
his  investigation  of  the  situation  presented  to  him, 
the  30  per  cent,  basis  of  the  October  1st  order  was  cast 
aside  for  the  principle  of  gross  margins  based  upon 
existing  costs  of  doing  business.  This  basis  as  made 
effective  in  Chicago  November  10,  1917,  has  since  been 
generally  adopted  throughout  the  country. 

The  Status  of  the  Jobber. 

As  has  been  indicated,  one  of  the  storm  centers  in  the 
question  of  regulation  has  been  the  status  of  the  coal 
jobber  or  wholesaler.  This  branch  of  the  industry  has 
felt  itself  particularly  circumscribed  with  the  various 
limitations  placed  upon  its  activities,  not  only  by  the 
regulations  of  the  Fuel  Administration,  but  also  by 
the  fact  that  the  great  demand  for  coal  from  all  sides,  a 
demand  where  the  buyer  has  sought,  the  seller,  instead 
of  the  seller  the  buyer,  has  deprived  it  of  a  large  share 
of  the  tonnage  that  was  formerly  distributed  through 
jobbing  channels.  Prior  to  the  Lane-Peabody  price 
agreement,  the  jobber  who  either  represented  the  smaller 
producers  whose  tonnage  did  not  justify  the  mainte- 
nance of  an  independent  sales  organization,  large  pro- 
ducers in  distributing  centers  far  removed  from  the 
mines,  or  handled  surplus  output  of  producing  com- 
panies that  also  maintained  selling  organizations  or 
functioned  in  all  three  cases,  had  received,  in  the  ma- 
jority of  cases  at  least,  his  compensation  out  of  the  mine 
price.  In  other  words,  the  price  to  the  consumer  was 
presumably  the  same,  whether  he  purchased  his  coal 
from  the  operator  or  through  a  jobber.  Indeed  one  of 
the  most  frequent  complaints  of  producing  interests  an- 


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tagonistic  to  the  jobbing  element  of  the  trade  was  that 
consumers  could  buy  their  coal  from  a  jobber  at  a  price 
lower  than  that  made  by  the  operators  in  the  same  field. 
The  I.ane-lVabody  agreement  fixed  maximum  compen- 
sation for  the  jobber  at  25  cents  per  ton  over  and  above 
the  maximum  mine  price. 

From  this  point  the  real  struggles  of  the  jobber  for 
an  existence  began.  The  addition  of  the  commission  to 
tne  mine  price  would,  of  course,  under  normal  condi- 
tions place  the  jobber  at  a  disadvantage  in  competition 
for  trade,  but  under  the  stress  of  wartime  circumstances 
it  operated  to  deprive  him  of  a  portion  of  his  tonnage 
through  the  creation  of  new  sales  companies  affiliated 
with  the  producing  interests.  These  companies  would 
absorb  the  extra  25  cents.  Aside  from  this  the  status 
of  the  jobber  was  made  artificial :  heretofore  it  had  been 
possible  to  draw  a  broad  line  between  the  production 
and  the  distribution  of  coal;  the  two  divisions  were  sep- 
arate and  distinct  and  in  many  cases  were  handled  by- 
two  unrelated  organizations.  The  jobber's  plea  for 
consideration  rested  upon  the  basis  that  he  was  per- 
forming a  service  not  rendered  by  the  producer  from 
whom  he  purchased  his  coal.  It  was  on  this  theory 
presumably  that  such  producers  had  given  him  prices 
below  the  mine  basis  to  the  consumer  or  retailer.  The 
President's  proclamation,  while  recognizing  the  jobber 
as  an  institution,  reduced  his  commission  and  contin- 
ued his  artificial-  status  by  telling  him  to  look  to  the 
purchaser  instead  of  the  seller  for  his  remuneration. 

The  difficulties  of  the  jobber  were  further  increased 
by  a  number  of  restrictive  regulations,  governing  the 
juices  at  which  coal  purchased  from  the  mine  prior  to 
August  21,  1917,  but  not  sold  to  the  consumer,  and  on 
coal  sold  to  the  jobber's  customers  and  the  consumer 
prior  to  that  date,  but  not  purchased  from  the  mine, 
might  be  invoiced.  These  regulations  provided  that  the 
jobber,  who  had  comtracted  to  buy  coal  at  or  below  the 
maximum  government  price,  but  had  no  contract  to 
sell  such  coal,  should  not  dispose  of  it  at  a  price  higher 
than  the  contract  figure  plus  the  jobber's  commission. 
At  the  >ame  time,  the  jobber  who  had  a  contract  for 
delivery  to  his  customer  at  a  price  higher  than  the  gov- 
ernment maximum  plus  the  jobber's  commission  was 
prohibited  from  filling  this  with  coal  purchased  at  the 
government  price,  while  a  jobber  having  a  contract  to 
purchase  coal  at  a  price  in  excess  of  the  government 
maximum  when  not  protected  by  a  contract  with  his 
own  customer  antedating  August  23  was  forced  to  sell 
such  coal  at  the  government  maximum  plus  the  jobber's 
commission. 

Although  certain  modifications  were  later  made  in  a 
portion  of  these  rules,  the  general  restrictions,  both 
because  QI  these  regulations  and  the  sales  conditions  pic- 
tured, showed  no  material  relaxation.  While  it  is  gen- 
erally conceded  by  all  of  the  jobbing  interests  that  an 
ideal  solution  would  have  been: 


First,  to  establish  a  flat  mine  price  to  be  paid  by 
the  ultimate  carload  buyer,  whether  purchase  was 
made  from  an  operator  or  jobbing  company. 

Second,  that  the  jobber  receive  proper  compensa- 
tion from  the  producing  company,  and, 

Third,  that  the  producing  companies  be  required  to 
distribute  through  the  jobbing  channels  the  same  per- 
centage of  their  tonnage  that  they  had  distributed 
prior  to  the  war. 

Assent  of  the  producing  interests  to  such  a  program 
seemed  so  remote  that  when   in  February,   1918,  Dr. 
Garfield  announced  that  beginning  April  1st  jobbers' 
commissions  would  be  abolished  and  a  flat  mine  price 
established,  leaving  the  jobber  to  look  to  the  operator 
for  such  allowances  from  the  government  maximum  as 
the  operator  might  see  fit  to  make,  the  jobbing  interests 
declared   that   their   very   existence  was  at  stake  and 
started  such  a  campaign  against  the  enforcement  of  this 
regulation  that  the  order  was  finally  withdrawn  before 
it  ever  became  effective  and  the  much  criticised  pur- 
chasing agent  scheme  was  substituted  in  its  stead.    This 
plan,    incorporated    in    the    Presidential    proclamation 
under  date  of  March  15,   1918,  required  all  persons, 
firms,  corporations  and  associations,  "except  those  spe- 
cifically exempt  by  the  Lever  Act,  producers  and  miners 
of  coal  and  manufacturers  of  coke,  distributing  exclu- 
sively their  own  product  and  retail  dealers  engaged  in 
the   business  of   distributing  coal   or   coke   as   jobber, 
broker,  seller,  purchasing  agent,  wholesaler,  or  in  any 
capacity  whatsoever"  to  secure  a  license  to  do  business. 
The  regulations  issued  by  Fuel  Administrator  Garfield 
regarding  the   licensing  of   distributors   deprived   a   li- 
censee owning  the  coal  sold  of  the  right  to  charge  in 
excess  of  the  government  price,  except  in  the  case  of 
re-screened  anthracite,  and  allowed  him,  when  acting  as 
a  purchasing  agent  of  coal  for  and  by  authority  of  the 
retail  dealer  or  consumer,  to  charge  15  cents  per  net  ton 
on   bituminous,  5  per  cent,  of  the  delivered   price  on 
smithing,  20  cents  per  gross  ton  on  anthracite  east  of 
Buffalo,  and  30  cents  per  gross  ton  on  deliveries  west 
of  Buffalo,  plus  5  cents  when  licensee  incurred  the  ex- 
pense of  re-screening  at  Atlantic  or  lake  ports  for  trans- 
shipment by  water.     It  also  provided  that  where  more 
than  one  purchasing  agent  licensee  was  involved  in  the 
transaction  the  combined  brokerage  charge  should  not 
exceed  the  figures  above  given.    Special  regulations  have 
since  been  issued  with  respect  to  the  handling  of  lake 
cargo  coal. 

The  practical  effect  of  the  licensing  regulation  has 
been  to  compel  every  jobber  to  act  as  a  purchasing 
agent,  as  the  cases  where  he  has  been  able  to  derive  his 
compensation  from  the  operator  ami  so  sell  at  the  max- 
imum government  price  have  been  exceptional.  Al- 
though various  efforts  have  been  made  to  change  the 
situation,  they  were  unsuccessful. 


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The  Production  Plan  of  1918. 

For  the  first  eight  months  of  its  existence,  aside  from 
its  campaigns  for  conservation,  including  the  lightless 
nights  orders  and  the  restrictions  on  consumption  with- 
in certain  industries,  the  work  of  the  United  States 
Fuel  Administration  was  primarily  one  of  price  regu- 
lation. The  severity  of  weather  conditions  during  the 
winter  of  1917-18  caused  it  to  exercise  a  species  of  piece- 
meal control  over  distribution,  but  the  supervision  was 
largely  confined  to  special  commandeering  of  shipments 
to  meet  local  individual  conditions.  With  the  begin- 
ning of  the  coal  year  of  1918-19,  however,  the  Fuel  Ad- 
ministration, co-operating  with  the  United  States  Rail- 
road Administration,  took  complete  charge  of  distribu- 
tion through  the  promulgation  of  the  zoning  system  for 
the  movement  of  bituminous  coal,  while  the  Anthracite 
Committee  of  the  Fuel  Administration  reached  the 
same  end  with  respect  to  anthracite  distribution  by  the 
allotment  system  first  announced  in  May,  1918. 

As  has  been  indicated  in  a  preceding  paragraph,  be- 
fore the  World  War  the  distribution  of  coal  had  been 
unhampered  by  governmental  regulation.  Economic  and 
transportation  conditions  had  led  to  a  predominating 
westbound  movement  of  tonnage,  but,  except  for  the 
absence  of  favorable  rates,  there  was  no  prohibition 
against  a  reversal  of  this  process.  Indeed,  under  the 
stress  of  the  war  demands  of  the  eastern  states,  Illinois 
coal  moved  to  Connecticut  and  New  York,  to  Michigan 
and  to  Canada.  The  widespread  western  distribution 
of  eastern  coal  and  the  trans-Mississippi  sale  of  Illinois 
coal  had  been  fostered  and  encouraged  by  the  railroad 
companies  serving  the  various  mining  fields.  The  Fuel 
Administration,  following  the  bitter  experiences  of  the 
winter  of  1917-18,  when  the  transportation  breakdown 
and  pronounced  car  shortage  had  intensified  the  coal 
difficulties  of  the  country,  determined  that  production 
could  be  increased  and  transportation  facilities  con- 
served by  limiting,  as  far  as  possible,  the  sale  of  coal 
from  a  particular  district  or  districts  to  the  territory 
most  adjacent  to  such  mining  centers. 

Zone  System  of  Distribution. 

"Heretofore/'  to  quote  the  words  of  the  Fuel  Admin- 
istration in  making  public  this  plan,  "coal  has  been  dis- 
tributed practically  without  regard  to  the  distance  be- 
tween the  mine  and  the  consumer.  Under  the  zone  sys- 
tem coal  will  be  distributed  to  consuming  territory  un- 
der restrictions  that  will  avoid  as  far  as  possible  waste 
of  transportation  facilities,  but  nevertheless  consistent 
with  the  maintenance  of  the  greatest  possible  produc- 
tion and  a  proper  coal  supply  to  all  coal  users.  We 
must  have  adequate  coal  supply  in  order  to  win  the  war, 
for  otherwise  we  can  not  make  munitions  or  other  war 
supplies  or  build  ships  or  use  them  when  built. 


"The  general  effect  of  the  zone  system  is  to  restrict 
eastern  coal  to  eastern  markets  and  to  fill  the  vacancy 
in  the  central  and  western  states  with  near-by  coal  pro- 
duced in  those  states.  In  addition  to  the  saving  in 
transportation,  the  system  will  provide  for  the  possible 
retention  of  something  like  5,000,000  tons  of  coal  for 
the  eastern  states  which  have  heretofore  gone  west,  all 
rail.  As  an  indication  of  the  saving  to  be  effected  by 
the  system,  it  will  eliminate  the  movement  of  more  than 
2,000,000  tons  of  Pocahontas  coal  to  Chicago  and  other 
western  points  over  a  haul  of  about  660  miles.  Chicago 
can  obtain  this  tonnage  of  coal,  and  under  this  system 
must  obtain  most  of  it,  from  southern  Illinois  mines, 
with  an  average  haul  of  312  miles.  Allowing  for  the 
differences  in  quality  in  the  two  coals  there  will  be  thus 
saved  11,400,000  car  miles,  or  very  conservatively  fig- 
ured 285,000  car  days.  This  will  permit  14  additional 
round  trips  of  20  days  each  from  West  Virginia  mines 
to  zone  destinations,  permitting  an  additional  produc- 
tion of  at  least  700,000  tons  of  Pocahontas  coal. 

"Similar  comparisons  show  that  on  the  movement  of 
550,000  tons  annually  from  Kanawha  districts  to  Wis- 
.  consin  points  there  can  be  saved  about  2,500,000  car 
miles,  or  with  a  consequent  increased  production  of 
some  300,000  tons.  On  the  movement  from  southeast- 
ern Kentucky  to  Chicago  the  saving  will  be  about 
800,000  car  miles  and  50,000  tons  production.  The 
elimination  of  the  Indiana  to  Iowa  movement  will  save 
], 600,000  car  miles  and  permit  100,000  tons  additional 
production.  These  are  only  a  few  of  the  instances  of 
transportation  saving  to  be  effected  by  the  system. 

"The  movement  of  bituminous  coal  which  is  regu- 
lated by  the  zone  system  is  about  300,000,000  tons,  or 
60  per  cent,  of  the  total  production.  Based  on  this  pro- 
duction there  will  be  saved  on  the  round  trip  from  and 
to  the  mines  almost  160,000,000  car  miles.  This  will 
permit  the  same  cars  to  make  almost  300,000  addi- 
tional trips  from  the  mines,  equivalent  to  an  increase 
of  five  per  cent,  in  the  production.  The  increase  in 
total  production  in  1917  over  1916  resulting  from  all 
efforts  was  about  eight  per  cent. 

"A  large  part  of  the  coal  which  the  system  will  pre- 
vent from  moving  west  out  of  the  eastern  producing  dis- 
tricts will  be  available  for  use  in  New  England,  inso- 
far as  it  can  be  transported  there.  Production  in  the 
districts  supplying  New  England  via  all-rail  routes  can 
be  increased  somewhat,  but  there  is  difficulty  in  mov- 
ing by  all-rail  routes  the  amount  of  coal  needed  and  the 
capacity  of  the  rail  gateways  to  New  England  has  been 
nearly  reached.  Improvements  now  being  made  will 
increase  the  capacity  of  the  Poughkeepsie  bridge  route, 
but  it  is  impossible  to  escape  the  conclusion  that  pro- 
vision must  be  made  for  a  larger  movement  by  water 
in  1918  than  in  1917  or  New  England  and  its  people 
and  industries  will  suffer. 

"The  restrictions  imposed  upon  the  movement  of  coal 
by  the  zone  system  will  make  necessary  some  readjust- 


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ments  in  fuel  practices  in  various  communities  affected 
by  these  restrictiona.  The  Fuel  Admisistrator  confi- 
dently expects  the  patriotic  co-operation  of  every  coal 
consumer  who  may  be  inconvenienced  by  the  use  of  fuel 
to  which  he  is  not  accustomed.  The  vast  purposes  to  be 
served  by  the  savings  which  the  system  effects  will  un- 
doubtedly command  the  support  of  every  user  of  coal." 
The  zoning  plan  divided  the  producing  districts  and 
Great  Lakes'  docks,  with  the  exception  of  those  in  the 
Rocky  Mountain  and  Pacific  Coast  states,  into  13  dis- 
tricts, each  designated  by  letters.  In  brief,  these  zones 
were  as  follows: 

Zone  A — Producing  districts  in  Arkansas,  Iowa,  Kansas, 
Missouri  and  Oklahoma. 

Zone  B — Lake  Michigan  and  Lake  Superior  Coal  Docks. 

Zone  C — Illinois  mines. 

Zone  D — Indiana  mines. 

Zone  E— Western  Kentucky  mines. 

Zone  F — Virginia  mines  on  Louisville  &  Nashville  R.  R.; 
eastern  Kentucky  mines  on  Louisville  &  Nashville,  the 
Cincinnati,  New  Orleans  &  Texas  Pacific  and  short  line 
connections;  Tennessee  mines  on  the  Cumberland  Valley 
division  of  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  and  on  the  Middles- 
borough  R.  R. 

Zone  G — Tennessee  and  Georgia  mines;  Kentucky  mines 
of  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  main  line  and  branches  con- 
necting at  and  south  of  Corbin  and  on  the  Cincinnati,  New 
Orleans  &  Texas  Pacific  south  of  Somerset;  all  Black 
Mountain  and  Stonega  district  mines  in  Lee,  Wise  and 
western  Russell  counties  in  Virginia,  on  the  Louisville  & 
Nashville,  Virginia  &  Southwestern,  Interstate,  Norfolk  & 
Western,  Carolina,  Clinchfield  &  Ohio  railroads  and  their 
short  line  connections. 

Zone  H — Alabama  mines. 

Zone  K — Ohio  mines. 

Zone  L — West  Virginia  high  volatile  field;  mines  on  the 
Kanawha  &  Michigan,  Kanawha  &  West  Virginia  and  Coal 
&  Coke  (west  of  Dundon)  railways. 

Zone  M—  West  Virginia  high  volatile  and  Kentucky  dis- 
tricts in  the  Thacker,  Kenova  and  Kanawha  fields  on  the 
Norfolk  &  Western  and  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  railways  and 
Kentucky  mines  in  the  eastern  Kentucky  districts  on  the 
Chesapeake  &  Ohio,  Sandy  Valley  &  Elkhorn  and  Norfolk 
&  Western  railways  and  connections. 

Zone  N— Low  volatile  fields  of  West  Virginia  and  Vir- 
ginia, viz.,  mines  in  the  Pocahontas,  Tug  River  and  New 
River  districts  on  the  Norfolk  &  Western,  Chesapeake  & 
Ohio  and  Virginian  railways  and  short  line  connections; 
mines  in  the  high  volatile  Clinch  Valley  district  in  Taze- 
well and  eastern  Russell  counties,  Virginia  along  the  Nor- 
folk &  Western  and  Virginian  railways. 

Zone  N— All  mines  in  northern  West  Virginia,  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Maryland  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio,  Western 
Maryland  and  Coal  &  Coke  railways. 

Except  for  the  movement  of  railroad  fuel,  coal  via 
inland  waterways  other  than  the  Great  Lakes  (move- 
ment to  which,  for  trans-shipment  only,  was  confined 
to  coals  from  mines  in  the  Pittsburgh,  Connellsville, 
Westmoreland,  Altcona,  Meyersdale  or  northern  Penn- 
sylvania districts:  Fairmont,  Kanawha.  Kenova- 
Thaeker.  New  River,  Pocahontas.  West  Virginia  dis- 
trict-;: Ohio;    Hazard   and    Mc  Roberts   fields,  and    L.  & 


N.  and  ('..  \.  <).  &  T.  P.  mines  in  southern  Kentucky) 
and  coal,  moving  under  permit  from  the  United  States 
Fuel  Administration  for  gas,  by-products,  metallur- 
gical and  smithing  purposes,  the  limitations  placed  upon 
the  sources  of  supply  from  which  each  state  could  draw 
by  this  plan  were  as  follows: 

Consuming      State.      Producing  Zones  Open  to  State. 

Alabama    G*,  H. 

Arkansas    A,  C*,  E*,  H*. 

Arizona     S*  *. 

California    S* -\ 

Colorado    S*  *. 

Delaware    P. 

District   of   Columbia.. N,  P. 

Florida    G*,   P. 

Georgia    G.  H. 

Idaho    S*  *. 

Illinois     C,   D*,   E*. 

Indiana    C*,  D*,  E*.  F*,  K*.  L*,  M*. 

Iowa    A*,  B*,  C*. 

Kansas     A. 

Kentucky    C*,  D*,  E*,  F*,  M*,  N*. 

Louisiana    A*,  C*,  E,  H. 

Maryland     P. 

Michigan    B   (upper  peninsula),  D*.  F  (lower 

peninsula),  K*,  L  (lower  penin- 
sula, M  (lower  peninsula). 

Minnesota    B,  C*. 

Mississippi    E,   H. 

Missouri    A,   C*. 

Montana    S*  *. 

Nebraska    A    and     Colorado     and     Wyoming* 

mines. 

Nevada    S*  *. 

New   England   States.. N   (water  movement),  P. 

New  Jersey   N   (water  movement),  P. 

New  Mexico    S*  *. 

New   York    N   (water  movement),  P. 

North    Carolina    G,  N. 

North  Dakota  B,    and    North    Dakota,    Montana 

and  Wyoming. 

Ohio    F*,   K*,   M*,   N*,   P    (Pennsylvania 

and  West  Virginia,  Panhandle 
districts   only). 

Oklahoma     A. 

Oregon    8*  *. 

Pennsylvania    P. 

South  Dakota  B,  C*  and  North  Dakota,  Wyom- 
ing and  Montana. 

Tennessee    C*,  E*,  G*,  H*. 

Texas    A*,  E*.  H*. 

South  Carolina   G,  N*. 

Utah    S*  *. 

Virginia    Q*.  M*,  N. 

Washington    S*  *. 

West  Virginia   L°,  M*,  N*,  P. 

Wisconsin    Q*,   C*,   D*,   E*. 

Wyoming    S*  *. 


"Indicates  that  only  a  portion  of  the  state  is  open  to 
zone  named;  where  territory  has  been  so  limited,  detailed 
boundaries  have  been  defined  by  the  Fuel  Administration. 

■"Arbitrary  designation,  not  listed  in  Fuel  Administra- 
tion order,  but  covering  the  mines  in  Colorado,  Montana, 
New  Mexico,  Oregon,  Utah,  Washington  and  Wyoming,  to 


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which,  under  the  general  order  of  zoning,  the  Rocky 
Mountain  and  Pacific  Coast  states  must  look  for  their 
fuel  supplies. 

While  there  have  been  a  manlier  of  modifications  in 
the  boundaries  of  the  territories  open  to  each  of  the  pro- 
ducing zones  since  the  system  was  first  promulgated, 
in  its  essential  outlines  it  remained  without  alteration. 
The  modifications  effected  have  been  the  result  of  in- 
creased production  within  particular  zones,'  such  as  in 
Zone  C,  necessitating  a  widening  of  the  markets  to 
which  Illinois  coal  could  be  shipped,  or  a  narrowing 
of  the  limits  because  of  increased  demand  in  territory 
more  or  less  contiguous  to  the  mines.  How  radical  the 
steps  taken  have  been  will  appear  from  a  comparison  of 
the  zone  limits  with  the  pre-war  sources  of  supplies 
shown  under  individual  state  headings  later. 

The  United  States  Fuel  Administration. 

At  the  time  the  United  States  Fuel  Administration 
was  first  organized,  in  the  late  summer  of  1917,  the 
sentiment  of  the  coal  trade  towards  it  could  not  be  said 
to  be  overly  cordial.  This  was  traceable  in  part  to  the 
political  criticisms  that  were  indulged  in  prior  to  the 
passage  of  the  Lever  Act  and  to  the  fact  that,  at  the 
outset,  the  personnel,  if  not  anti-coal,  was  largely  made 
up  of  men  who  were  without  practical  experience  in  the 
Tamils  branches  of  the  coal  industry.  This  has  been 
changed.  Eesponsible  positions  have  been  filled  by 
practical  coal  men  with  an  increasing  smoothness  of 
operation  and  a  deepening  respect  for  the  plans  and 
policies  of  the  Administration  on  the  part  of  the  coal 
trade.  This  was  strikingly  emphasized  in  the  results 
obtained  in  the  campaign  to  increase  production  under- 
taken in  the  summer  of  1918,  when  the  bituminous  coal 
increase  for  July,  August  and  September  over  the  cor- 
responding months  in  1917  was  over  17  per  cent. 

Although  federal  regulation  has  touched  almost  every 
phase  of  the  coal  industry,  its  outstanding  features  may 
be  summarized  as  follows: 

1.  Eegulation  of  Prices. 

2.  Eegulation  of  Distribution. 

3.  Eegulation  of  Production. 

1.  Eegulation  of  prices  has  covered  the  sale  of  coal 
from  the  mine  to  the  retailer.  While  the  initial  price 
fixing  for  the  mines  under  the  Lever  Act  was  hastily 
■executed  and  in  the  majority  of  cases  unsatisfactory  to 
the  producers,  subsequent  modifications  made  by  the 
United  States  Fuel  Administration  have  placed  the 
schedules  upon  a  basis  that  is,  for  the  most  part,  ac- 
cepted as  just  and  reasonable  by  the  operators  from  the 
cost  basis.  The  weakness  of  the  government  scheme 
lies  in  a  substantial  disregard  of  figures  from  the  quality 
nasis  of  prices.    Looking  at  the  question  from  the  cost  of 


producing  coal,  rather  than  from  the  intrinsic  quality 
of  the  coal  produced,  it  has  frequently  happened  that 
coals  which  under  normal  times  commanded  higher 
prices  in  the  open  market  because  of  their  superior  qual- 
ities are  subject  to  a  lower  maximum  selling  price  than 
less  attractive  coals  that  may,  because  of  thinness  of 
seam  or  other  mining  conditions,  cost  more  per  ton  to 
produce.  Criticism  has  also  been  made  because  of  the 
narrow  spread  betwen  the  prices  on  prepared  sizes  and 
1  those  applicable  upon  ran  of  mine.  Many  mines  in  the 
past  have  spent  vast  sums  in  building  plants  to  improve 
the  preparation  of  the  coal  mined  and  this  was  not 
taken  into  account  in  the  original  prices.  Some  recog- 
nition has  been  given  to  this  since  that  time,  however, 
in  the  extra  allowance  made  for  special  preparation. 

The  regulation  of  prices  from  the  point  of  view  of  the 
jobber  has  been  less  successful.  While,  upon  certain 
classes  of  business,  the  15-cent  commission  originally 
allotted  would  have  been  ample,  upon  other  classes,  and 
particularly  scattered  domestic  tonnage  in  central  and 
western  states,  it  has  proved  non-compensatory.  The 
artificial  status  of  the  jobber  under  the  first  plan,  as 
well  as  the  purchasing  agency  scheme,  has  been  dis- 
cussed more  in  detail  in  earlier  paragraphs.  To  this, 
as  a  factor,  must  be  added  the  volume  of  tonnage  han- 
dled. This,  as  has  been  pointed  out,  has  been  curtailed 
so  that  commissions  remunerative  under  a  normal  vol- 
ume of  business  have  become  otherwise  with  a  reduction 
in  tonnage. 

Eetail  price  regulation  has,  in  the  long  run,  turned 
out  to  be  a  financial  benefit  to  the  retail  coal  merchant. 
The  basis  first  announced,  130  per  cent,  of  the  1915 
gross  margins,  was  unworkable  and  soon  discredited  for 
the  fixing  of  margins  based  upon  actual,  present  day 
costs.  As  in  the  case  of  mine  prices  this  system  of  reg- 
ulation has  forced  upon  the  coal  men  a  closer  study  of 
the  costs  of  doing  business.  E.  N.  Hurley,  when  chair- 
man of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission,  began  the 
preaching  of  this  doctrine  of  "know  your  costs"  to  the 
business  men  of  the  country;  the  price  fixing  under 
the  Fuel  Administration  drove  home  to  the  coal  men 
the  necessity  of  embracing  this  doctrine. 

2.  Until  the  promulgation  of  the  zoning  scheme,  reg- 
ulation of  distribution  was  piece-meal,  conflicting  and 
confusing.  Although  the  zoning  plan  has  meant  the 
disruption  of  many  long  established  trade  relations,  it 
has  accomplished  its  purpose  of  saving  transportation 
and  thereby  increasing  production.  It  has  not,  however, 
stopped  with  zoning  for  producing  districts  in  the  bitu- 
minous coal  fields  and  the  allotment  to  states  of  definite 
quotas  of  anthracite  for  domestic  consumption,  but  has 
been  augmented  further,  first  by  the  priority  classifica- 
tions of  the  War  Industries  Board,  which  has  determined 
the  relative  right  of  various  industries,  public  utilities 
and  domestic  consumers  to  receive  coal  and,  second,  by 
the  storage  limitation  orders  of  the  United  States  Fuel 
Administration,  which  have  fixed  the  maximum  amount 


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of  coal  industries  in  different  parts  of  the  country  may 
have  in  storage  at  any  one  time.  Anthracite  distribu- 
tion lias  been  further  controlled  by  Washington  in  the 
utterance  of  an  order  requiring  a  dealer  to  make  deliv- 
eries of  two-thirds*  to  all  householders  consuming  four 
tons  or  more  before  any  consumer  receives  his  entire 
quota  of  this  fuel  and  this  scheme  has  been  further 
expanded  in  individual  communities  by  limiting  deliv- 
eries to  consumers  with  specified  types  of  heating  equip- 
ment. In  many  cases,  it  has  been  ordered  that  a  cer- 
tain percentage  of  bituminous  coal  must  he  bought  in 
order  to  receive  anthracite.  In  some  states  communities 
hare  been  deprived  of  anthracite  altogether. 

•'!.  Aside  from  the  aid  to  production  in  the  zoning 
plan  the  United  States  Fuel  Administration  launched 
an  intensive  personal  campaign  among  the  mine  work- 
ers and  mine  managers  to  induce  them  to  boost  output 
as  an  aid  to  winning  the  war.  This  work,  under  the 
direction  of  .lames  B.  Neale,  assisted  by  a  corps  of  prac- 
tical coal  men,  has  been  very  successful.    In  addition  to 


swelling  production,  special  efforts  have  been  made  to 
increase  the  value  of  the  actual  coal  supply  of  the  coun- 
try by  teaching  economy  in  consumption  in  house- 
holders and  industrial  consumers  and,  in  some  cases, 
coal  supplies  to  certain  lines  of  industry  have  been  cur- 
tailed or  entirely  cut  off. 

Although  the  general  powers  of  the  United  State's 
Fuel  Administration,  as  now  constituted  under  the  pro- 
visions of  the  Lever  Act  "shall  cease  to  he  in  effect  when 
the  existing  state  of  war  between  the  United  States  and 
Germany  shall  have  terminated,  and  the  fact  and  date 
of  such  termination  shall  he  ascertained  and  proclaimed 
by  the  President/'  it  seems  probable  that  some  degree 
of  supervision  will  be  exercised  for  some  time  after 
the  President's  proclamation. 

There  are  economic  and  legal  points  involved  in  the 
return  of  coal  to  a  peace  basis  that  are  beyond  the  scope 
of  this  introduction.  Whatever  the  outcome  this  is  cer- 
tain :  The  coal  industry  during  the  Great  War  was  rec- 
ognized for  what  it  is,  the  World's  Greatest  Industry. 


Coal  Industry  Better  Understood 


A  Short  Statement  from  Washington. 


The  most  fateful  thing  that  can  happen  to  an  in- 
dustry is  to  be  generally  misunderstood.  That  un- 
doubtedly was  the  position  of  the  coal  industry  prior  to 
the  war.  As  far  as  the  public  was  concerned,  a  pall  of 
the  densest  ignorance  overhung  the  mining,  the  whole- 
saling and  retailing  of  coal.  With  this  ignorance  went 
the  usual  concomitants — impatience,  dissatisfaction, 
unfairness,  and   community,  yes.  national  anger. 

The  war  itself  brought  on  a  tremendous  strain  on 
every  part  of  the  industry  and  much  suffering  thai 
could  hardly  be  avoided.  Then  came  inquiry,  then 
the  facts,  then  the  light  of  understanding.  The  fierce 
white  light  of  publicity  beat  in  upon  this  industry  which 
is  so  essential  to  civilization.  The  people  began  to  see 
the  difficulties  with  which  the  miners,  the  operators 
and  the  retailers  had  to  contend.  It  suddenly  dawned 
upon  the  public  what  an  important  and  necessary  fac- 
tor coal  was  to  our  very  lives,  our  civilization.  Then 
came   the    magnificent    response   of    the    miners   to   our 


war  needs,  a  thing  unparalleled  in  our  history;  also 
came  the  sacrifice  of  the  individual  so  that  the  war 
could  be  carried  on  successfully  and  to  such  a  glorious 
finish,  and  there  is  no  brighter  page  in  history  than 
this.  Finally  came  the  great  conservation  movement 
with  'its  saving  of  millions  of  tons  through  intelligent 
effort. 

The  result  today  is  that  the  entire  industry  is  better 
understood  than  ever  before;  the  doubt  which  led  to 
misgivings  and  anger  have  disappeared  and  the  peace 
and  content  that  always  ought  to  exist  between  a  great 
industry  and  the  people  has  been  achieved. 

1 1  is  now  your  problem — made  easier  than  ever  be- 
fore after  coming  through  the  fire  of  ordeal.  What  are 
you  going  to  do  about  it? 

Van  H.  MANNING, 

Director  Bureau  of  .Mines. 

Department  of  the    Interior. 


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ALABAMA 


ALABAMA,  which  ranks  high  among  the  Southern 
states  in  the  production  of  coal,  leads  all  of  the 
commonwealths  in  that  section  of  the  country  in 
the  consumption  of  fuel  within  its  own  borders.  Secon- 
darily this  may  he  attributed  to  the  iron  and  steel  enter- 
prises that  have  given  its  principal  city  the  significant 
designation,  "the  Pittsburgh  of  the  South,"  but  primar- 
ily the  home  utilization  of  its  vast  ore  deposits  is  due  to 
the  high  quality  coking  coals  mined  from  the  beds 
within  the  state.  This  is  illustrated  in  striking  fashion 
by  a  comparison  of  the  operations  in  the  three  leading 
iron  ore  states.  Minnesota,  with  no  coal  of  its  own, 
marketed  32,545,236  long  tons  of  ore  in  1916,  but  had 
only  three  blast  furnaces ;  Michigan,  with  a  small  coal 
production,  marketed  13,664,437  long  tons  of  iron  ore 
and  had  12  blast  furnaces  reporting,  while  Alabama, 
with  an  iron  ore  production  of  5,134,995  long  tons — 
third  in  the  list  of  iron  producing  states — reported  47 
furnaces. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  fuel  consumption  Alabama  is 
.self-sustaining  to  a  degree  approached  by  but  one  other 
major  coal  producing  state.  Exclusive  of  railroad  fuel 
and  steamship  bunker  coal,  approximately  49  per  cent, 
of  the  Alabama  production  is  burned  within  the  state. 
Home  consumption  records  are,  it  is  true,  ex- 
ceeded by  half  a  dozen  other  states  upon  a  per- 
centage record,  but  not  upon  actual  tonnage  fig- 
ures. The  remarkable  fact,  however,  is  that  the  49  per 
cent,  of  the  Alabama  production  referred  to  represented 
more  than  97.6  per  cent,  of  the  total  bituminous  coal 
consumed  in  1915  by  general  industrial  and  domestic 
users  in  that  state.  While  Alabama  was  giving  such 
signal  recognition  to  home  products,  15  other  states,  ex- 
tending from  the  Pacific  to  the  Atlantic  coast,  were 
also  testifying  to  the  worth  of  the  Alabama  fuel,  con- 
suming, during  the  period  named,  14  per  cent,  of  the 
Alabama  output.  The  railroads  used  34  per  cent,  and  3 
per  cent,  was  shipped  to  tidewater. 

The  coal  fields  of  Alabama,  covering  an  area  of  ap- 
proximately 6,000  square  miles  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  state,  form  the  southwestern  end  of  the  Appalachian 
coal  region.  The  United  States  Geological  Survey  di- 
vides the  fields  into  four  distinct  coal  producing  basins, 
viz.,  the  Coosa,  Cahaba,  Warrior  and  Plateau.  The 
first  three  are  named  after  the  rivers  that  drain  them, 
while  the  Plateau  field  includes  Blount,  Lookout  and 


Sand  (or  Kacoon)  mountains.  The  general  location, 
area  and  characteristics  of  these  divisions  are  described 
oy  the  Survey  as  follows: 

"The  Coosa  basin  is  a  deep  syncline  forming  the 
southeastern  margin  of  the  Alabama  coal  fields  and  ex- 
tending across  Shelby  and  St.  Clair  counties.  It  is  60 
miles  long  by  six  miles  wide  and  contains  about  350 
square  miles.  This  basin  has  not  been  thoroughly  ex- 
plored and  the  number  and  extent  of  its  coal  beds  are 
not  well  known,  but,  in  different  parts,  two  to  12  beds 
are  reported  having  a  thickness  of  three  feet  or  more. 

"The  Cahaba  basin  is  also  a  syncline  west  of  the 
Coosa  basin,  to  which  it  is  parallel  and  from  which  it  is 
separated  by  a  faulted  anticline.  It  includes  parts  of 
St.  Clair,  Jefferson,  Shelby  and  Bibb  counties.  Its 
length  is  68  miles,  its  average  width  about  six  miles  and 
its  area  394  square  miles.  There  are  many  workable 
beds  and  the  total  quantity  of  coal  in  the  basin  is  large. 

"The  Warrior  basin  is  separated  from  the  Cahaba 
basin  and  Blount  mountains  by  Jones  and  Murphrees 
valleys.  It  includes  all  of  Walker  county,  most  of  Jef- 
ferson, Tuscaloosa  and  Fayette  counties,  and  smaller 
parts  of  Bount,  Cullman,  Winston  and  Marion  counties. 
Its  known  area  is  estimated  at  4,000  square  miles. 

"The  Plateau  field  embraces  parts  of  Blount,  Etowah, 
Dekalb,  Cherokee,  Marshall  and  Jackson  counties  and  is 
upward  of  3,000  square  miles  in  extent.  The  coal  re- 
sources of  this  field  are  not  well  known,  but  they  are 
comparatively  small.  There  are  believed  to  be  from  four 
to  six  beds  that  are  locally  workable." 

Of  the  divisions  named,  the  Warrior  basin  has  been 
and  is  by  far  the  most  important  commercially.  It  con- 
tains the  famous  Blue  Creek,  Mary  Lee  and  Pratt  beds, 
from  which  are  produced  coking  coals  that  have  made 
Alabama  one  of  the  most  important  iron  producing 
states.  Over  60  per  cent,  of  the  total  production  in  the 
Birmingham  district  comes  from  these  three  beds,  their 
percentage  contributions  to  the  total  ranking  in  reverse 
order  to  the  naming  in  the  sentence  preceding.  Eight 
or  ten  other  beds  furnish  the  remainder  of  the  pro- 
duction. 

The  earliest  record  of  coal  production  in  Alabama 
dates  back  to  1834.  Output  was  first  reported  in  the 
United  States  Census  for  1840,  when  the  state,  among 
the  first  to  have  production  recorded,  was  credited  with 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


an  output  of  946  tons.  Figures  between  that  date  and 
I860  are  estimated  in  the  government  reports.  In  1860, 
according  to  Census  figures,  the  production  was  ]  0,200 
tnii>.  Actual  records  are  again  lacking  until  1870,  when 
an  increase  of  only  800  tons  over  1860  was  reported. 
Expansion  of  production  proceeded  at  a  modest  pace  un- 
til 1874,  when  the  output  was  44,800  tons,  against  16,800 
tons  the  year  preceding.  Between  1873  and  1882,  pro- 
duction advanced  to  896,000  tons.  The  development  of 
the  iron  resources  of  the  Birmingham  district,  which 
began  on  a  large  scale  in  1883,  pushed  production  up  to 
1,568,000  tons.  Output  since  that  date  is  shown  in  the 
following  table : 


Year.  Ton. 

1884 2,240,000 

1885 2,492,000 

1886 1,800,000 

1887 1,950,000 

1888 2,900,000 

1889 3,572,983 

1890 4,090.409 

1891 4,759,781 

1892 5,529,312 

1893 5,136,935 

1894 4,397,178 

1895 5,693,775 

1896 5,748,697 

1897 5,893,770 

1898 6,535,283 

1899 7,593,416 

1900 8,394,275 


Year.     *  Ton. 

1901 9,099,052 

1902 10,354,570 

1903 11,654,324 

1904 11,262,046 

1905 11,866,069 

1906 13,107,963 

1907 14,250,454 

1908 11,604,593 

1909 13,703,450 

1910 16,111,462 

1911 15,021,421 

1912 16,100,600 

1913 17,678,522 

1914 15,593,422 

1915 14.927,937 

1916 18,086,197 


Figures  covering  detailed  distribution  for  1915,  the 
only  year  prior  to  the  war  for  which  statistics  are  avail- 
able, show  that  the  total  production  in  Alabama  at  that 
time  was  14,927,937  tons.  Of  this  tonnage,  7,347,886 
tons  were  consumed  within  the  state:  535,340  were 
burned  at  the  mines,  289,239  tons  were  sold  locally, 
1,780,872  tons  were  coked  at  the  mines,  while  4,742,435 
tons  were  shipped  to  points  within  the  state.  The  rail- 
roads purchased  5,072,435  tons.  Tidewater  shipment 
(23.641  tons  for  foreign  export,  319,307  for  foreign 
bunker  and  160,951  tons  for  domestic  bunker)  accounted 
for  503,899  tons. 

Louisiana  was  the  largest  interstate  customer  that 
year,  using  717,437  tons  out  of  the  total  of  2,003.;  11 
tons  shipped  interstate.  Mississippi  came  second  with 
596,218  tons;  Georgia,  third,  363,572  tons.  Arkansas 
received  10,450  tons;  California.  292  ;  Florida,  108,782  ; 
Missouri,  3,519;  the  Carolinas,  475;  Oklahoma,  713; 
Oregon,  190;  Tennessee,  161,754;  Texas,  39,987;  Vir- 
ginia, 307  tons,  and  Washington,  21  tons. 

As  mentioned  in  an  earlier  paragraph,  over  97. (i  per 
cent,  of  the  total  bituminous  coal  consumption  of  Ala- 
bama is  taken  care  of  by  the  mines  in  the  state.  The 
1915  bituminous  coal  consumption  (exclusive  of  railroad 
and'  steamship  business)  totaled  7,524,540  tons.  Ala- 
bama furnished  7,347,886  tons ;  Georgia,  36 ;  Kentucky. 
56,913 ;  Tennessee.  48,942 ;  Virginia,  67,961,  and  West 
Virginia,  2,800  tons.  In  addition,  the  state  called  upon 
Pennsylvania  for  8.100  tons  of  anthracite. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


JESSE   31.    OVERTON,   Nashville,   TenneHHee, 

President  Alabama  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.,  Nashville,  was  born  in 
Pulaski,  Tennessee,  July  25,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-one  years.  He  is  Treasurer  of  the  Rocky 
River  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Mr.  Overton  was  formerly  Vice 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Bon  Air  Coal  &  Iron 
Co.  He  is  one  of  the  prominent  coalmen  in  the  South  and 
has  extensive  financial  interests. 


CHARLES    FAIRCHILD    DE    it  \  it  1 1 1 . 1. 1 3 1!  i a  \ .    Birmingham, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Alabama  Fuel  & 
Iron  Co.,  Brown-Marx  Building,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  is 
also  President  of  the  Margaret  Coal  &  Sales  Co.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He 
was  born  in  Prattville,  Alabama,  July  4,  1874.  He  has 
recently  filled  the  position  of  President  of  the  Birmingham 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  highly  regarded  in  both  civic 
and  coal  trade  circles.  He  is  a  son  of  Col.  H.  F.  De  Bardele- 
ben,  who  located  and  named  the  first  coal  seam  found  in 
Alabama,  and  founded  Pratt  City  and  Bessemer,  Alabama; 
also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  & 
Railroad  Co. 


WILLIAM   CARSON   ADAMS,  Birmingham,   Alabama, 

Manager  of  Sales  Alabama  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  and  Margaret 
Coal  &  Sales  Co.,  1242  Brown-Marx  Building,  Birmingham, 
was  born  in  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky,  November  17,  1881, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Galloway  Coal  Co.,  Memphis, 
Tennessee. 


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JAMES  BOinmURi  Birmingham,  Alabama, 
President  of  the  Bonnyman-Norman  Coal  Co.,  Brown-Marx 
Building,  Birmingham,  Ala.,  was  born  July  9,  1879,  at  Lex- 
ington, Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fif- 
teen years.  Mr.  Bonnyman  is  also  President  of  the  Brook- 
side  Pratt  Mining  Co.  and  the  Supreme  Mining  Co.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Durham  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Stearns  Coal  Co.  and  Birmingham  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  He  is  a 
member  American  Society  Civil  Engineers  and  American 
Institute    Mining    Engineers. 


.Ki-i   I'll     A.    Miinm,    BirmlnKham,    Alabama, 

Vice  President  of  the  Bonnyman-Norman  Coal  Co.,  730 
Brown-Marx  Building,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twelve  years  and  is  Vice  President 
of  the  Supreme  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Norman  was  formerly  Gen- 
eral Sales  Agent  for  the  Birmingham  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  He 
was  born  in  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  February  9,  1875.  The 
Bonnyman-Norman  Coal  Co.  was  organized  in  1911  and  does 
a  general  wholesale  coal  business.  On  April  1,  1918,  Mr. 
Norman  and  others  organized  the  Bonnyman-Norman  Sales 
Co.,  Inc.,  of  which  he  was  elected  Vice  President,  to  conduct 
a    general    sales   agency    and    coal    purchasing   agency. 


JAMBS'     UTAVRn     DATIDSOlfi     I ^iiam.     Alabama, 

Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Alabama  Coal  Operators'  Asso- 
ciation, Birmingham,  Alabama,  Is  also  General  Counsel, 
Secretary  and  Director  of  the  Yolande  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the 
New  Connellsville  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  the  Abernant  Coal 
Co.  Mr.  Davidson  was  born  in  Centreville,  Alabama,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1880.  He  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business 
fourteen  years,  although  the  practice  of  law  is  his  principal 
vocation. 


ASA   LYMAN   HOYT,   IlirmiiiKham,   Alabama, 

President  Cahaba  Red  Ash  Coal  Co.,  Birmingham,  was  born 
April  3,  1878,  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  over  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  H.  O.  Hoyt  &  Son. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


WILLIAM    S.    LOVELL,    Ilirin. nullum,    Alabama, 

President  of  the  Montevallo  Mining-  Co.,  American  Trust 
Building,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  has  been  actively  in- 
terested in  the  coal  industry  for  twenty-five  years.  He  is 
also  President  of  the  Black  Creek  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and 
Director  of  the  Bessemer  Coal,  Iron  &  Land  Co.  Mr.  Lovell 
was   born   at   Natchez,   Mississippi,   October   20,    1861. 


JAMBS    w  .    M.n((l  C.I'.N.   Birmingham,   Alabama, 

Vice  President  and  Sales  Manager  Sloss-Sheffield  Steel  & 
Iron  Co.,  American  Trust  Building,  Birmingham,  Alabama, 
was  born  April  15,  1866,  in  Society  Hill,  South  Carolina. 
He  has  been  connected  with  railroads  and  coal  companies 
continuously  for  thirty-two  years.  Prior  to  his  connection 
with  his  present  company  he  was  with  the  Cahaba  Coal 
Mining  Co.  for  six  years,  from  1885  to  1891.  This  company 
now  produces  over   2,000,000   tons  of  coal  annually. 


ERSKINE  RAMSEY,  Birmingham,   Alabama, 

Vice  President  and  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Pratt  Consolidated 
Coal  Co.,  at  Birmingham,  Alabama,  was  born  September  24, 
1864,  near  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania.  In  1887  Mr.  Ramsay 
became  connected  with  the  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  &  Rail- 
road Co.,  and  in  1901  was  appointed  to  his  present  position. 
In  addition  to  his  mining  interests,  Mr.  Ramsay  is  Director 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Birmingham,  President  of  the 
Bank  of  Ensley  and  is  interested  in  numerous  other  enter- 
prises. He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers  and  was  one  of  four  engineers  appointed  by  the 
U.  S.  Bureau  of  Mines  to  investigate  and  report  on  coal 
mining  conditions   in   European   collieries. 


EDGAR  JAMES    ROWE,  Birmingham,  Alabama, 

Vice  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Yolande  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  of  which  concern  he  was  until 
recently  the  Sales  Manager,  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Sloss-Shemeld  Steel  &  Iron  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  January  15,  1903.  Mr.  Rowe  was  born 
September  24.  1879,  in  Wilkes  County,  Georgia.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Hurricane  Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
Mr.  Rowe  is  very  popular  in  trade  circles  and  has  many 
friends  in  the  coal  business. 


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COAL    MEN   OF   AMERICA 


JAMES     WII.  1,1AM     WHATLEY,     Birmingham,     Alabama, 

Manager  of  Sales  for  the  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  &  Railroad 
Co.  of  the  Coal,  Coke  and  Fertilizer  department,  with  gen- 
eral offices  in  the  Brown-Marx  Building,  Birmingham,  Ala- 
bama. He  is  eleven  years  in  the  coal  business.  He  was 
born  at  Idaho,  Alabama,  July  29,  1874,  and  is  one  of  the 
most  popular  and  progressive  coalmen  in  the  south. 


KNO.Y     A.     COW  11. I.E.     Birmingham. 

Traffic  and  Sales  Manager  Pratt  Con- 
solidated Coal  Co.,  American  Trust 
Building.  Birmingham,  Alabama,  was 
born  May  20,  1873,  in  Clay  County, 
Alabama.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
McCormack  &  Ramsay  coal  mining 
projects  and  is  active  in  the  Alabama 
Coal  Operators'  Association.  He  has 
spent  twelve  years  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness. 


DAVID     ROBERTS,     JR.,    Birmingham, 

President  and  General  Manager  Bril- 
liant Coal  Co.,  American  Trust  Build- 
ing. Birmingham,  Alabama,  has  been 
in  the  business  twelve  years,  having 
served  two  years  as  Engineer  with 
the  Brushy  Mountain  Coal  Co.,  and 
has  been  active  in  the  Alabama  Coal 
Operators'  Association.  He  was  born 
April  10,  1884,  in  Charleston,  South 
Carolina. » 


in      i:  \  ■!  in   I  I    in  !.\     COAL,    CO.,    Birmingham. 

This  company  is  one  of  the  leading  coal 
producers  in  Alabama,  owning  15,000  acres 
Black  Creek  Coal  lands  in  Walker  County, 
forty    miles    northwest    of    Birmingham. 

The  De  Bardeleben  Coal  Co.,  with  a  capi- 
tal stock  of  $600,000  and  6  per  cent  twenty 
year  serial  gold  bonds  of  $600,000,  was  orig- 
inally incorporated  as  the  Maryland  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  but  the  name  was  changed  May 
1.   1915.     The   officers   are: 

President — Henry  T.  De  Bardeleben,  Bir- 
mingham. 

Vice-President  and  Resident  Manager  at 
the  Mines — Milton   H.    Fies.   Sipsey.   Alabama. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer — G.  M.  Bowers, 
Birmingham. 

Directors — I.  N.  Hanson,  Atlanta,  Georgia; 
Eugene  Fies,  Birmingham;  T.  Johnson  Ward, 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania;  G.  M.  Bowers 
and    Henry   T.      De   Bardeleben.    Birmingham. 

The  company  produces  about  300.000  tons 
annually,  which  is  prepared  in  five  sizes. 
The  mine  is  modern  and  electrically  equipped. 

The  coal  is  well  adapted  to  bunker  pur- 
poses and  the  company  owns  the  majority 
interest  in  W.  G.  Coyle  &  Co.  of  New  Or- 
leans. Louisiana,  who  supply  the  bunker 
trade  at  that  port — and  have  had  the  Uni- 
ted States  Navy  contract  for  past  two  years 
on    their    Sipsey    washed    steam    coal. 

The  mines  are  located  at  Sipsey,  Alabama, 
on  the  Warrior  river,  navigable  the  year 
around  and  by  which  means  the  company 
transports  willi  their  own  barges  and  tow- 
boats  a  large  percentage  of  its  coal  by  water 
to  Mobile,  Al;i. 

Henry  T.  De  Bardeleben.  President,  is  the 
eldest  son  of  Henry  F.  De  Bardeleben,  the 
pioneer  and  chief  coal  and  Iron  developer 
of   Alabama. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


ALABAMA  —  Birmingham 


CI.AREJICK  SEARS  BISSELL,  President  Black  Diamond 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  1926  Jefferson  County  Bank  Building,  Bir- 
mingham, Alabama,  was  born  in  Fulton,  New  York,  January 
16,  1S71.  He  is  ^Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Benoit  Coal  Mining  Co.,  President  of  the  Cordova  Fuel  Co., 
and  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Commercial  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years  and  has  filled  the  position  of  President  of  the  Frisco 
Coal  Car  Operators'   Association. 

HAROLD  ELMER  BISSELL,  1926  Jefferson  County  Bank 
Building,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
Black  Diamond  Coal  Mining  Co.,  is  a  native  of  Rochester, 
New  York,  the  date  of  his  birth  being  December  25,  1890. 
He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  during  the  past 
seven  years  and  is  Treasurer  of  the  Cordova  Fuel  Co.  and 
Secretary   of   the   Benoit  Coal   Mining  Co. 

DARBY  HBXAGA\  BROWN  of  D.  H.  Brown  &  Co., 
Brown-Marx  Building,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  was  born 
December  23,  1873,  in  Sumter  County,  Alabama.  His  career 
as  a  coal   merchant   covers   a  period   of   twelve   years. 

JOHN  EDMUND  UILWORTH  of  Birmingham,  Alabama, 
is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Sipsey  Coal  Mining  Co. 
and  is  interested  in  several  retail  coal  yards  in  Birming- 
ham. He  has  been  in  the  business  thirty-seven  years 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  following  companies: 
Cambria  Iron  Co.,  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania;  Abernant  Coal 
Co.;  Virginia  &  Alabama  Coal  Co.;  Yolande  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.     He  was   born  April  23,   1858,   in   Millstone,   New   Jersey. 

EUGENE  A.  HOLMES,  Manager  of  Sales  Roden  Coal 
Co.,  Brown-Marx  Building,  Birmingham.  Alabama,  was  born 
September  6,  1872,  in  Lafayette,  Alabama.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years,  having  been  for- 
merly with  the  National  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Birmingham 
and  with  the  Galloway  Coal  Co.  of  Memphis,  Tennessee. 
Mr.  Holmes  is  now  acting  as  District  Representative  for 
the  United'  States  Fuel  Administration  in  the  Alabama 
District. 

FRANK  W.  HOPKINS,  218  Woodward  Building,  Birming- 
ham, Alabama,  is  President  of  the  Isthmian  Coal  &  Trad- 
ing Co.,  Vice  President  of  the  Dixie  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and 
Vice  President  of  the  Carbon  Hill  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Hopkins 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Palos  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and  has  been  fifteen  years  in  the  business.  He  was  born 
October    23,    1858,    in    Magnolia,    Mississippi. 

GEORGE  BRYANT  McCORMACK  is  President  of  the 
Pratt  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  and 
President  or  Vice  President  of  several  other  coal  companies. 
He  has  been  President  of  the  Alabama  Coal  Operators'  Asso- 
ciation since  its  organization  ten  years  ago.  He  was  at 
one  time  connected  with  the  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  &  Rail- 
road Co.  and  is  extensively  interested  in  coal  mining 
projects.  He  was  born  April  4,  1859,  at  Plattin,  Missouri, 
and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  during  the  past 
thirty-seven  years.  Mr.  McCormack  has  long  been  one  of 
the  most  prominent  factors  among  Alabama  coal  producers. 

JOHN  THOMAS  MORGAN,  late  President  and  Treasurer 
of  the  East  Pratt  Coal  Co.,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  was 
also  largely  interested  as  an  individual  owner  of  valuable 
coal  lands.  Some  of  his  former  connections  in  the  business 
were  with  the  Dora  Coal  Mining  Co.,  the  Palos  Coal  Co., 
and  the  Little  Warrior  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Mr.  Morgan  was 
born  February  6,  1861,  at  Morganville,  Georgia,  and  was 
active  in  the  coal  industry  twenty-seven  years,  dying  De- 
cember 25,  1917.  He  has  been  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 
Thomas  William  Morgan,  as  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Fast  Pratt  Coal  Co. 

JOHN  WILLIAM  PORTER,  Treasurer  and  General  Sales 
Manager  for  the  Alabama  Coal  Co.,  Birmingham,  Alabama, 
has  given  fifteen  years  to  the  coal  business.  Prior  to  his 
present  connection  he  was  with  the  Kansas  &  Texas  Coal 
Co.,  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  and  the  Lacey-Buek  Iron  Co.  of 
Birmingham.  He  was  born  February  17,  1873,  at  Grand 
Ridge,    Illinois. 

EDWARD  POWELL  ROSAMOND,  Birmingham,  Alabama, 
is  General  Superintendent  of  the  Pratt  Consolidated  Coal 
Co.  He  also  is  President  of  the  Powell  Coal  Co.,  as  well 
as  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Jagger  Coal  Co.  For 
twenty-seven  years  Mr.  Rosamond  has  been  interested  in 
the  business,  having  been  for  some  time  with  the  Tennessee 
Coal,  Iron  &  Railroad  Co.  He  was  born  in  Jasper,  Alabama, 
July   31,    1869. 


JOHN  EDWARD  ROSS,  Woodward  Building,  Birmingham, 
Alabama,  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Dixie  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.  He  was  born  August  17,  1888.  in  Poplar  Grove, 
Arkansas.  Formerly  Mr.  Ross  was  interested  as  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Commercial  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  in  the  Al- 
toona  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  being  Treasurer  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  latter  for  some  time.  He  likewise  was  connected 
with  the  Black  Diamond  Coal  Mining  Co.  as  Traffic  Man- 
ager, and  with  the  Gravlee-Lint  Coal  Co.  and  the  West 
Corona   Coal   Co. 

HAROLD  R.  SANSON,  1411  American  Trust  Building,  Bir- 
mingham, Alabama,  is  General  Manager  for  the  Cahaba 
Southern  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  holds  a  similar  position  with 
the  Warrior-Pratt  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness sixteen  years.  Mr.  Sanson  was  born  in  East  Orange 
New   Jersey,   in   1876. 

JOSEPH  S.  SHANNON,  850  Brown-Marx  Building,  Bir- 
mingham, Alabama,  is  President  of  the  Ruby  Coal  Co.  and 
of  the  Diamond  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  twenty-two  years 
in  the  business,  having  organized  and  promoted  the  two 
companies  mentioned,  as  well  as  the  Oak  Leaf  Coal  Co., 
in  1896.  He  also  is  interested  in  the  Mt.  Carmel  Coal  Co' 
Formerly  he  was  with  the  Galloway  Coal  Co.,  Memphis, 
Tennessee.  Mr.  Shannon  was  born  August  19,  1866,  in 
Union   County,  North  Carolina. 

BERNARD  R.  SMITH,  First  National  Bank  Building,  Bir- 
mingham, Alabama,  is  Manager  of  Sales  for  the  Corona 
Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  the  Birmingham  Fuel  Co.  He  formerly 
was  with  the  Roden  Coal  Co.,  Marvel,  Alabama,  and  with 
the  Reid  Coal  Co.  and  Dow  Coal  Co..  Dallas,  Texas  The 
past  fifteen  years  have  been  spent  by  him  in  the  coal 
business.  Mr.  Smith  was  born  September  15,  1876,  in  San 
Augustine,    Texas. 

CARL  FERDINAND  WITTICHEN  is  the  President  of  the 
Wittichen  Coal  &  Transfer  Co.,  12  South  Twentieth  St., 
Birmingham,  Alabama.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Brook- 
side-Pratt  Mining  Co.,  Birmingham,  Alabama.  He  has  been 
five  years  actively  in  the  coal  business.  He  was  born  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland.  He  was  for  thirteen  vears  General 
Manager   of   the    Kirkpatrick   Sand  &   Cement   Co 


ALABAMA 


CHARLES  PELHAM  ANDERSON  is  the  proprietor  of  the 
Anderson  Coal  Co.  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years.  He 
was   born   at  Montgomery   February   11,    1866. 

HUGO  BROWN,  Mobile,  Alabama,  is  the  President  of  the 
Brown-Morgan  Coal  Co.,  and  has  been  in  the  business  five 
years.  Mr.  Brown  is  a  native  of  Germany  and  was  born 
February  11,  1868.  Leo  M.  Brown,  a  well-known  lawyer  of 
Mobile,   is  Secretary  of  the  company. 

CASHIER  PHILIP  CHABERT,  Corona,  Alabama,  is  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  the  Chabert  Coal  Co.  and  has 
been  in  the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  born  April 
6,    1877,  at  Hubbert,  Ohio. 

SAMUEL  J.  CHILDERS  is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  S.  J.  Childers  &  Son  at  Jasper,  Alabama.  With  his  son, 
Thomas  M.  Childers,  he  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  twenty  years.  Mr.  Childers  was  born  at  Jasper 
in   December,    1847. 

MATT  MARTIN  COCHRAN,  Manager  Cochran  Coal  Co., 
1920  Alabama  Avenue,  Bessemer,  Alabama,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1883,  in  Columbia,  Tennessee.  He  has  been  en- 
gaged for  five  years  in  the  coal  business  and  is  making  a 
successful    record    for   his    company. 

THOMAS  JAMES  COCHRAN,  1920  Alabama  Ave.,  Besse- 
mer, Alabama,  is  the  senior  member  o*f  the  Cochran  Coal 
Co.,  which  was  organized  about  five  years  ago.  Mr.  Cochran 
was  born  February  1,   1882,  in  Columbia,   Tennessee. 

ALBERT  C.  BANNER,  50  North  Commerce  St.,  Mobile, 
Alabama,  is  President  of  the  Mobile  Coal  Co.  and  has  been 
in  the  business  for  forty  years.  Formerly  he  was  head  of 
the  firm  of  Danner  &  Co.  He  was  born  at  Winchester, 
Virginia,  March  12,  1843,  and  is  one  of  the  prominent  coal- 
men of  the  south.  His  son.  Paul  Danner.  is  Vice  President 
and  General  Manager. 

FRANK  L.  DAVIDSON  is  the  proprietor  of  a  coal  busi- 
ness at  Selma,  Alabama,  in  which  he  has  been  success- 
fully engaged  during  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Davidson  was 
born    at   Selma   January    12,    1874. 

F\  B.  DUNLAP  is  President  of  the  Montevallo-Shelby  Coal 
Co.,  Straven,  Alabama,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin,  March   17,   1850. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


n\i<ii\  i:\  VNS  KI.KKTWOOI),  General  Manager  Samo- 
s.t  Coal  Co.,  Burn  well  Mines,  Alabama,  is  interested  In 
the  Burnwell  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  formerly  was  con- 
nected with  the  Seaboard  Coa!  &  Coke  Co.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Legislative  Committee  of  the  Alabama  Coal 
Operators'  Association.  His  active  connection  with  the 
coal  industry  covers  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Fleetwood  was  born 
November    34,    1873,    in   Savannah,   Georgia. 

<  II  IHLES  \v.  GRIFFIN  is  the  sole  owner  of  the  business 
of  C.  \V.  Griffin  &  Co..  Lafayette,  Alabama,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Griffin  was 
born  June  14,    18S6,  at  Lafayette. 

I.KOX  H.  HATTKMKR,  1036  South  Court  St.,  Montgom- 
ery. Alabama,  is  President  of  the  Dixie  Coal  Co.  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years.  He  was  born  at 
Fort  Deposit,  Alabama.  November  11,  1899.  Mr.  Hattemer 
is  now  serving  as  an  enlisted  man  with  Battery  E,  118tli 
A.  P.  A.,  stationed  at  Camp  Whalen,  Macon,  Georgia.  Dur- 
ing his  absence  Henry  L.  Hattemer  is  managing  the  busi- 
ness. 

JAMES    D.    Illl.l. Ml    of    Adamsville,    Alabama,    is    the 

President  of  the  North  Pratt  Coal  Co.  and  of  the  Summit 
Coal  Co.  He  Is  a  native  of  Scotland  and  was  born  in  1866. 
Mr.  Hillhouse  has  been  connected  with  different  branches 
of  the  coal  Industry  for  about  forty  years  and  from  1893 
to  1897  he  was  Chief  Mine  Inspector  of  t|je  State  of  Ala- 
bama. 

A.  D.  JKRVIS,  Decatur,  Alabama,  is  the  President  of  the 
Decatur  Ice  &  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for 
four  years.  Mr.  Jervis  is  a  native  of  Wales  and  was  born 
in    1860. 

PERRY  R.  JORDAN  of  Blossburg,  Alabama,  is  President 
of  the  Jordan  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Delta,  Alabama, 
September  29,  1868,  and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Formerly  he  filled  the  posi- 
tion of  Superintendent  of  Mines  with  the  Sloss-Sheffield 
Iron   &   Steel   Co. 

i  nil  -  EDWARD  KANE,  Secretary  Mobile  Coal  Co., 
Mobile,  Alabama,  was  born  in  Mobile  in  1885  and  has  been 
in    the   coal   business  thirteen   years. 

RATWIlli    I,.   MALOXE,   President   Malone  Coal.   Grain    & 

Motor  Co.,  of  Albany,  Alabama,  was  born  February  2,  1874. 
in  Maoon,  Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-six   years. 

ROBERT  J.  MILLING,  Mobile.  Alabama,  is  the  Local  Man- 
ager for  the  Pratt  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at 
Birmingham,  Alabama,  in  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   twelve   years. 

II i:\RY  JOSEPH  MOORE,  Florence.  Alabama,  is  Vice 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Alabama  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.  He  Is  also  interested  in  the  Florence  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.  and  the  J.  Nailen  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-three  years  and  prior  to  his  present 
connection  was  with  J.  A.  Edwards  &  Co.,  miners,  and  with 
the  Long  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Moore  was  born  October 
28.   1874,  at  Florence.  Alabama. 


JOHN  DANIEL  MYHAlfD  has  been  a  retail  coal  merchant 
at  Roanoke,  Alabama,  for  six  years  and  is  the  sole  owner  of 
his  business.  He  was  bom  in  Harris  County,  Georgia,  July 
5,    1856. 

M.  L.  0»NEALE  of  Coal  City,  Alabama,  has  been  Superin- 
tendent of  Mines  for  the  Bird  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  since  July 
1,  1917.  He  was  Superintendent  of  Mines  for  the  Seaboard 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  from  1911  to  1914  and  of  the  Central  Coal 
Co.,  Klmberly,  Alabama,  from  September,  1912,  to  March, 
1913.  He  filled  a  similar  position  with  the  Coal  City  Min- 
ing Co.  from  1914  to  July,  1917.  Mr.  O'Neale  was  born  at 
Chattanooga,    Tennessee,    in    1886. 

A.  li.  PARKER  is  the  Manager  of  the  Sylacauga  Ice  & 
Coal  Co.,  Sylacauga,  Alabama.  R.  H.  Woodward  is  Sec- 
retary  and   Treasurer  and   located   at   Birmingham. 

JAMES  PCGII  PEARSON,  Kimberly.  Alabama,  Is  now 
trustee  of  the  Central  Coal  Co..  of  which  he  formerly 
was  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  Mr.  Pearson  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was  •  born  at  Orlando, 
Florida,    June    15,    1882. 

JOHN  HENRY  PHEYLEX.  Marvel.  Alabama,  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Roden  Coal  Co.,  with  which  he  has 
been  connected  during  the  last  three  years.  Mr.  Pheylen 
was  born  at  Richford,  New  York,  January  19,  1876.  B.  F. 
Roden  is  President  of  this  company  and  C.  C.  Bowman  of 
Pittston,    Pennsylvania,    is   Vice    President. 

FRANKLIN  D.  PIERCE,  M.  D.,  of  Bridgeport,  Alabama, 
is  President  of  the  Pierce  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.,  miners  of 
coal  and  manufacturers  of  lumber.  Dr.  Pierce  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  mining  industry  for  fourteen  years. 
He  was  born  at  Plum,  Venango  County,  Pennsylvania,  Feb- 
ruary   22,    1853. 

ED  PRICKETT  is  the  sole  proprietor  of  a  coal  yard  at 
North  Birmingham,  Alabama,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  ten  years.  He  was  born  October  19,  1872,  at  Rockford, 
Alabama. 

J.  E.  ROSS  of  Jasper,  Alabama,  is  the  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Dixie  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Altoona  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  the  Black 
Diamond  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  the  Commercial  Coal  Mining 
Co.  Mr.  Ross  was  born  at  Poplar  Grove,  Arkansas,  August 
17,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

JOE  A  SEARCY  is  Manager  for  the  Northport  Coal  Co., 
Tuscaloosa,  Alabama.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  six  years.  Mr.  Searcy  was  born  March  28,  1879,  at  Tus- 
caloosa. Frank  Rice  Is  President  of  the  company  and  Joe 
Rice    Is  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

THOMAS  HARRISON  Tl'TWILER  la  Secretary  of  the 
Davis  Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  at  Rock  Castle.  Alabama.  He 
was  born  August  24,  1876,  at  Columbus,  Texas,  and  has 
spent  nineteen  years  in  the  coal  business.  Mr.  Tutwiler 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Alabama  Consolidated 
Coal  Co.,  the  Sloss-Sheffield  Iron  &  Steel  Co.,  and  the  Cor- 
dova Coal  &  Coke  Co..  filling  the  position  of  Secretary  and 
Salesman. 

DANIEL  O.  VAITGHAN,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Geneva. 
Alabama,  has  been  in  the  business  for  fifteen  years.  He 
was  born  at  Geneva  June  13,  1871. 


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ARIZONA 


THE  importance  of  Arizona  in  coal  trade  history  is 
still  a  promise.  Its  present  claims  for  fame  must 
rest  upon  its  climate,  its  silver  mines  and  other 
activities  unconnected  with  the  fuel  industry.  Without 
the  severe  winter  season  to  induce  a  heavy  consumption 
of  coal  for  housp-heating  purposes  and  with  industrial 
demands  low  because  of  limited  commercial  enterprise, 
this  state  is  at  the  bottom  of  the  list  as  a  coal  consumer. 
Its  1915  industrial  and  domestic  consumption  totaled 
only  158,723  tons.  With  the  exception  of  450  tons 
shipped  from  West  Virginia,  New  Mexico  mines  took 
care  of  the  entire  requirements  of  the  state.  No  ship- 
ments of  anthracite  from  the  Pennsylvania  fields  were 
reported. 

Despite  the  minor  place  now  occupied  by  Arizona  the 
state  holds  possibilities  of  taking  rank  among  the  major 
southwestern  producing  fields  if  the  manufacturing  and 
transportation  development  of  that  part  of  the  United 
States  should  reach  the  point  where  the  draft  upon  the 
output  of  existing  mines  should  show  a  heavy  increase. 
Although  mining  upon  a  commercial  scale  has  not  been 
attempted,  the  commonwealth  contains  approximately 
(5,000  square  miles  of  coal-bearing  land,  with  an  esti- 
mated available  recovery  of  8,030,000,000  tons. 


The  most  important  coal  area  is  the  Black  Mesa  re- 
gion, which  underlies  the  Hopi  and  Navajo  Indian  reser- 
vations in  the  northeastern  part  of  the  state.  This  field 
contains  approximately  5,920  square  miles.  As  the  re- 
sult of  a  reconnaissance  study  some  years  ago,  M.  R. 
Campbell,  of  the  United  States  Geological  Survey,  esti- 
mated that  the  field  contained  1-4,082,000,000  tons  and 
that  8,000,000,000  tons  of  this  were  recoverable.  It  is 
thought  that  the  coal  bearing  strata  are  an  extension  of 
the  formation  underlying  the  San  Juan  and  Gallup 
fields  in  New  Mexico. 

While  the  Deer  Creek  field,  lying  north  of  Gila,  about 
midway  between  the  Salt  River  and  the  main  line  of 
the  A.  T.  &  S.  F.  Ry.,  is  much  smaller  in  area — 30 
square  miles — the  existence  of  coal  in  the  basin  has  been 
known  for  about  35  years,  although  no  commercial 
development  has  been  attempted.  The  beds  are  thin,  24 
to  30  inches,  and  it  is  estimated  that  only  half  of  the 
assumed  deposit  of  60,000,000  tons  would  be  available 
for  commercial  recovery.  There  are  at  least  two  beds  of 
workable  thickness  throughout  the  basin.  The  field 
yields  a  hard  block  coal  suitable  for  transportation  and  a 
softer  grade  adaptable  only  for  local  use. 


ARIZONA 


THOMAS  C.  DAVIES,  Douglas,  Arizona,  is  the  proprietor 
of  the  Davies  Fuel  &  Feed  Co.,  being  the  successor  of  Bas- 
sett  &  Frist  in  the  business.  Mr.  Davies  is  a  native  of  Wales 
and  was  born  February  24,  1881,  coming  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
with  his  parents  when  a  boy.  When  he  became  of  age  he 
was   naturalized. 

(  ii  villi's  li  \/.i:  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  at 
Winslow,  Arizona,  for  seven  years  and  represents  the  Dia- 
mond Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Victor 
American  Fuel  Co.  Mr.  Daze  "was  born  in  Canada  February 
16,    1865. 

JACK  B.  MARTIN,  President  of  the  People's  Fuel  &  Feed 
Co.,  Tucson,  Arizona,  was  born  in  Dos  Angeles,  California, 
August  4,  1894,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three 
years. 


JOH.V  MASSING,  proprietor  of  the  coal  business  of  John 
Massing  &  Co.,  Prescott,  Arizona,  has  been  connected 
with  the  industry  for  twelve  years  and  is  the  owner  of  80 
acres  of  coal  lands  near  Gallup,  New  Mexico.  He  was  born 
at   Brlmfield,   Illinois,    December   21,    1866. 

CHARLES  F.  MOSS,  Benson.  Arizona,  is  proprietor  of  the 
Benson  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  and  of  the  Wilcox  Coal  &  Ice  Co. 
He  has  been  in  the  business  for  fifteen  years  and  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Victor  American  Fuel  Co.  Mr. 
Moss  was  born   June   27,   1872,   at  Mossville,   Pennsylvania. 

HESHY  CLAY  HOBIXETTE,  proprietor  of  the  business 
of  the  Robinette  Feed  &  Fuel  Co.,  426  North  Second  St., 
Phoenix,  Arizona,  was  born  in  Flintstone,  Maryland, 
August  16,  1852.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight 
years. 

WALTER  J.  WAKEFIELD  is  President  and  Manager  of 
the  Arizona  Fuel  &  Supply  Co..  at  Tucson,  Arizona,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  three  years.  Mr.  Wakefield  was 
born    in    Tucson    March    22,    1882. 


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ARKANSAS 


PRODUCTION  statistics  considered  alone  give  a 
misleading  index  to  the  part  played  by  Arkansas 
in  the  commercial  coal  trade  history  of  the  coun- 
try. Except  for  Louisiana,  directly  south,  and  Missis- 
sippi, southeast,  Arkansas  must  make  its  distribution 
through  a  wall  of  coal  producing  states.  Superior  trans- 
portation facilities,  both  rail  and  water,  permitting  the 
free  movement  of  coals  from  the  East  and  from  Illinois, 
and  the  proximity  of  the  Alabama  and  Kentucky  coal 
fields,  have  acted  as  an  effective  barrier  against  the  com- 
mercial marketing  of  the  Arkansas  product  in  Louis- 
iana and  Mississippi. 

Despite  these  natural  drawbacks  the  quality  of  coal 
produced  in  the  better  parts  of  the  Arkansas  field  is 
such  that  37  per  cent,  of  the  output  of  the  state  is  dis- 
tributed between  Texas  on  the  south  and  Minnesota  on 
the  north.  The  principal  coal  field  of  the  state  is  an 
extension  of  the  Hartshorne  bed  in  Oklahoma  and  fol- 
lows the  course  of  the  Arkansas  river  to  Russellville, 
aDout  75  miles  east  of  the  Oklahoma-Arkansas  state  line. 
CTear  the  Oklahoma  border  the  bed  contains  coal  of  a 
semi-bituminous  character,  which  closely  approaches 
Pocahontas  and  New  River  on  an  analytical  basis. 
although  the  Arkansas  product  is  of  greater  friability. 
As  the  bed  proceeds  eastward,  the  percentage  of  fixed 
carbon  increases  until  the  coal  enters  the  semi-anthra- 
cite class. 

Two  other  beds,  the  Charleston,  about  700  feet  above 
the  Hartshorne  seam,  and  the  Paris,  about  300  feet 
above  the  Charleston,  are  worked  to  a  limited  extent, 
the  former  in  Franklin  and  the  latter  in  Logan  county, 
but  approximately  99  per  cent,  of  the  Arkansas  product 
comes  from  the  Hartshorne  field.  A  fourth  bed  lies  be- 
low the  Hartshorne,  but  it  is  small  in  area  and  has  not 
been  worked  upon  a  commercial  scale.  The  southeastern 
lowlands  of  the  state  contain  extensive  lignite  beds,  but 
these  are  largely  undeveloped.  The  area  of  the  semi- 
bituminoua  coal  and  the  semi-anthracite  fields  in  the 
state  approximates  1,500  square  miles. 

The  first  official  record  of  production  was  in  1840, 
when  the  Census  credited  Arkansas  with  a  total  output 
of  220  tons.  The  same  year  Missouri  production  was  re- 
ported as  9,972  tons  and  Iowa  as  400  tons.  These  three 
states  were  the  first  west  of  the  Mississippi  river  to  re- 
port coal  production  and  this  condition  continued  until 
1800.    At  that  time  Arkansas  production  was  only  200 


tons,  while  Missouri  had  jumped  to  280,000  and  Iowa 
to  41,920  tons.  Records  are  again  blank  until  1880, 
when  the  Arkansas  production  had  risen  to  14,778  tons. 
Five  years  ago  this  had  increased  to  100,000  tons  and 
from  that  date  to  1903  the  rate  of  increase  has  been 
steady.  Although  the  maximum  production  yet  achieved 
was  in  1907,  when  the  output  reached  2,670,438  tons, 
tonnages  since  1903  have  been  fairly  steady.  Produc- 
tion figures  for  the  past  30  years  are  shown  in  the  tabu- 
lation following: 


Year.  .Ton. 

1887 129,600 

1888 276,871 

1889 279,584 

1890 399,888 

1891 542,379 

1892 535,558 

1893 574,763 

1894 512,626 

1895 598,322 

1896 675,374 

1897 856,190 

1898 1,205,479 

1899 843,554 

1900 1,447,945 

1901 1,816,136 


Year.  Ton. 

1902 1,943,932 

1903 2,229,172 

1904 2,009,451 

1905 1,934,673 

1906 1,864,268 

1907 2,670,438 

1908 2,078,357 

1909 2,377,157 

1910 1,905,958 

1911 2,106,789 

1912 2,100,819 

1913 2,234,107 

1914 1,836,540 

1915 1,652,106 

1916 1,994,915 


Although  only  14  per  cent,  of  the  total  production  is 
consumed  locally  within  the  state,  that  represents  48.14 
per  cent,  of  Arkansas'  bituminous  coal  requirements.  In 
1915,  for  example,  62,175  tons  were  consumed  at  mines, 
46,260  tons  sold  locally  and  129,951  shipped  to  intrastate 
points — a  total  of  238,386  tons  used  within  the  state. 
Shipments  to  other  states  were  as  follows:  Iowa,  16,537 
tons;  Kansas,  114,812;  Louisiana,  93;  Minnesota. 
5,372;  Missouri,  198,768;  Nebraska,  120,376;  Okla- 
homa, 60,791;  Tennessee,  15,258,  and  Texas,  78,418 
tons — a  total  of  610,425  tons.  Railroad  fuel  took  803,- 
296  tons. 

While  Arkansas  drew  upon  nine  outside  sources  for  its 
fuel  supplies  during  the  year  named,  as  before  stated, 
IS. 14  per  cent,  of  the  total  bituminous  coal  consumption 
was  from  state  mines.  The  total  bituminous  coal  con- 
sumption of  495,155  tons  was  divided  as  follows:  Ala- 
bama. 10,450  tons;  Arkansas,  238,386;  Colorado,  14,- 
23 1;  Georgia,  73;  Illinois,  128,950;  Kansas,  13,669; 
Kentucky,  86,966;  Missouri,  1.888  (including  Missouri 
coal  consumed  in  Illinois);  Oklahoma,  453;  Pennsyl- 
vania, 86.  In  addition  approximately  800  tons  of  Penn- 
sylvania anthracite  were  shipped  into  the  state. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


M.    M.   McWULIAlIS,   Spadra,   Arkansas, 

President  of  the  Spadra-Clarksville  Coal  Co ,  also  holds 
interests  in  the  following  concerns:  MeWilliams,  Ward 
&  Co.,  Clark,  MeWilliams  &  Co.,  Southern  States  Coal  Co., 
and  the  Smokeless  Anthracite  Coal  Co.  He  has  filled  the 
position  of  Vice  President  of  the  Southwestern  Coal  Oper- 
ators' Association  for  the  state  of  Arkansas.  Mr.  MeWil- 
liams has  been  in  the  coal  industry  for  twenty-six  years 
and  his  companies  are  the  oldest  mine  operations  in  the 
state.  He  was  born  at  Braddock,  Pennsylvania,  September 
2.    1871. 


SATHAJilEL  R.   CLARK,  Clnrksville.  Arkansas, 

Former  President  of  the  Spadra-Clarksville  Coal  Co..  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  twenty-six  years. 
Other  companies  in  which  he  is  interested  are  Clark,  Me- 
Williams &  Co.  and  MeWilliams,  Ward  &  Co.,  both  of  Spadra, 
Arkansas.  These  are  the  oldest  coal  mine  operations  in  the 
state  of  Arkansas.  Mr.  Clark  was  born  in  Spadra,  November 
9,   1859. 


I ..    Ii.    BEUWELL,   Fort    Smith,  Arkansas, 

President  of  the  E.  D.  Bedwell  Coal  Co.  with  general  offices 
at  Fort  Smith,  Arkansas,  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  over  twenty  years,  having  formerly  been  with  the 
Prairie  Creek  Coal  Co.,  the  Midland  Valley  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  Arkansas  Valley  Coal  Co.  as  General  Sales  Agent.  Mr. 
Bedwell  was  born   in  1862  at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri. 


J.    E.    MCHOLS,    Clarksville,   Arkansas, 

Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General  Man- 
ager Sterling  Anthracite  Coal  Co., 
Vice  President  Arkansas  Anthracite 
Coal  Co.,  and  Southern  Sales  Agent 
Midland  Coal  Co..  is  also  heavily  inter- 
ested in  Arkansas  anthracite  coal  lands 
yet  undeveloped  and  is  a  recognized 
authority  on  Arkansas  coal  lands, 
especially  in  the  anthracite  district. 
Mr.  Nichols  was  born  August  25,  1874, 
in  Judsonia,  Arkansas,  and  has  been 
actively  connected  with  the  coal  busi- 
ness   eighteen    years. 


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COAL   MEN   OF  AMERICA 


ARKANSAS 


K.  P.  AI.i:\  AMIKK,  830  Southern  Trust  Building,  Little 
Rock,  Arkansas,  is  Division  Sales  Agent  for  the  McAlester 
Fuel  Co.,  whose  genera]  offices  are  at  McAlester,  Oklahoma. 
Mr.  Alexander  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years  and  was  formerly  with  the  Midland  Valley  Coal  Co. 
of  Ft.  Smith,  Arkansas.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri,   in    1867. 

X.  C.  AWIIHEY  of  Fort  Smith,  Arkansas,  President  S.  C. 
Awbrey  &  Co.,  Inc.,  with  branches  at  El  Paso,  Dallas,  Fort 
Smith,  Kansas  City,  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  and  Mexico 
City,  was  born  at  Birmingham,  Alabama,  March  22,  1878.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Awbrey 
was  previously  connected  with  the  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron 
Co.  and  Mexican  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  has  built  up  an 
extensive  business. 

ICOBEKT  J.  II A  It  It.  who  is  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Woodson-Barr  Coal  Co.,  Bonanza,  Arkansas, 
has  been  In  the  business  for  thirty  years.  He  was  born 
in  Dairy,  Scotland,  February  12,  1859.  He  formerly  was 
connected  with  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Kansas  City, 
Missouri. 

II.  .1.  best  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Newport,  Arkan- 
sas, where  he  has  been  in  business  for  five  years.  He  was 
born   at   Arkabutla,    Mississippi,    January   7,    1880. 

JAMES  R.  COWOI.E  is  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the 
Camden  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Camden,  Arkansas,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He 
was   born   at   Carrollton,   Illinois,   October    19,    1863. 

WDIIEW  IIKOWN    CIRHEST,  proprietor  of  The  A.  B.  C. 

Flouring  Mills,  Siloam  Springs,  Arkansas,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 11,  1872,  at  Relf's  Bluff,  Arkansas  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal   business  eighteen   years. 

GEORGE  K.  DODSON,  Alix,  Arkansas,  owns  the  business 
of  the  Geo.  E.  Dodson  Coal  Co.  and  is  Vice  President  of  the 
Southern  States  Coal  Co.,  Little  Rock,  Arkansas.  He  for- 
merly was  connected  with  the  Dodson  &  Metton  Coal  Co. 
and  has  been  twelve  years  in  the  coal  business.  Mr.  Dodson 
was  born  September  30,  1873,  at  East  Freedom,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

FRANK  T.  <■■  vriiKit  of  Greenwood,  Arkansas,  Is  the 
Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Greenwood  Coal  Co.  and  is  like- 
wise Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Gunther  Coal  Co.  and 
of  the  Bokoshe  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Gunther  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years  and  was  born  in  New 
York  City  October  1.  1886.  and  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Committee  on  Coal  Production,  Council  of  National  Defense. 

C.  J.  lion  m:h  of  Hot  Springs,  Arkansas,  is  the  owner  of 
the  business  of  the  C.  J.  Horner  Co.  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  during  the  past  eleven  years.  Mr. 
Horner  was  born   in   Hot  Springs  November   22,    1883. 

WILLIAM  B.  Hl'RLEV  is  the  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Newport,  Arkansas,  and  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  firm  of  Dean 
&  Hocking.     He  was  born  at  Newport  August  27,  1882. 

J.  E.  JAMES,  Vice  President  of  the  Heim-James  Coal  Co. 
at  Clarksville,  Arkansas,  Is  a  native  of  Wales,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  industry  in  all  of  its  branches 
for  over  fifty  years.  He  is  now  sixty-two  years  of  age. 
He  is  the  President  of  the  Smokeless  Anthracite  Coal  Co. 
of  Clarksville  and  formerly  was  connected  with  the  fol- 
lowing companies  of  Spadra,  Arkansas:  Eureka  Coal  Co., 
Spadra  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Clarksville  Coal  Co.,  and  Spadra 
Coal    Co. 

JOHX  W.  JASPER  of  Huntington,  Arkansas,  Manager  of 
the  Jasper  Coal  Co.,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  In- 
dustry since  he  was  a  boy  of  twelve  years.  He  has  worked 
up  through  all  departments  and  prior  to  his  present  con- 
nection was  with  the  Kansas  &  Texas  Coal  Co.,  Central  Coal 
A  Coke  Co.,  Prairie  Creek  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Phoenix  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.     He  was  born  at  Rolla,  Missouri,  July  3,  1877. 

Him  TIIOHVI'O.V  JOES  of  Helena.  Arkansas,  is 
Manager  and  one  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Tappan  Coal 
Co.  He  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years.  He  was  born  at  Hernando,  Mississippi,  April  7,  1880. 
This  company  was  established  In  1872  by  Major  James  A. 
Tappan.   who  died  March   6,   1913. 

CASPER  LEXSIXG  of  Scranton,  Arkansas,  holds  the  office 
of  Secretary  of  the  Helm-James  Coal  Co.  and  Is  also  inter- 
ested In  the  Smokeless  Anthracite  Coal  Co.  of  Spadra, 
Arkansas.  Mr.  Lensing  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  or  seven  years.     He  was  born  In  Scranton  January  6,  1888. 

BARON  V.  LEWIS  of  Russellvllle,  Arkansas,  is  Treasurer 
of  the  Oulta  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  was  formerly  Sales 
Agent  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  Mr. 
Lewis  was  born  In  North  Carolina  in  1869. 


W.  D.  LOGl'E  is  Secretary  of  the  Denning  Coal  Co.  at 
Denning,  Arkansas.  Formerly  he  was  with  the  Western 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  has  been  eight  years  in  the  business. 
Mr.   Logue    was   born   at   Odell,   Illinois,    in    1886. 

EAHLK  JAOKMAN  >1ABDIS  of  Clarksville,  Arkansas,  is 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Eureka  Mining 
Co.  and  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Lucas  Mardis  Coal 
Co.  of  Spadra,  Arkansas,  both  coal  operating  companies. 
Mr.  Mardis  was  born  near  Youngstown,  Mahoning  County, 
Ohio,  February  19,  1883,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Spadra 
Creek  Coal  Co. 

PERCY  I'RESTOX  MARDIS  of  Clarksville,  Arkansas,  is 
Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Spadra  Creek  Coal  Co.  and 
Is  also  interested  in  the  Eureka  Mining  Co.  He  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years  and  was  born 
December    19,    1881,   at    Lisbon,    Ohio. 

W.  G.  McGHEE  of  Jenny  Lind,  Arkansas,  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  firm  of  Petty  &  McGhee.  He  was 
formerly  senior  member  of  McGhee  &  Urquhart  and  has 
been  five  years  in  the  coal  business.  He  was  born  in 
Arkansas.  November  24,  1871.  G.  F.  Petty  Is  Manager  of  the 
firm  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

W.  R.  MERHITT  is  a  coal  merchant  at  Clarendon,  Arkan- 
sas, where  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  the 
past    four   years. 

IVAN  R.  PACKARD,  President  Harper  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Bates,  Arkansas,  was  born  March  16,  1878,  at  North  Paris, 
Maine,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 
He  was  formerly  President  of  the  Choctaw  Coal  &  Coke  Co.. 
and  has  been  active  on  various  committees  and  been  an 
officer  of   the    Southwestern    Coal   Operators'   Association. 

IRA  PETTIT,  Hackett,  Arkansas,  is  Secretary  and  Sales 
Agent  for  the  Arkansas  Valley  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in 
the  business  for  three  years.  He  was  born  at  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  July   27,    1884. 

HORACE  F.  ROGERS,  Ft.  Smith,  Arkansas,  is  President 
of  the  Katy  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Anderson  County, 
Tennessee,  August  12,  1863,  and  has  spent  about  twenty 
years  in  the  coal  business.  Mr.  Rogers  was  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Prairie  Creek  Coal  Co.  from  1891  to  1903  and 
of  the  Ouita  Coal  Co.  from  1896  to  1906,  after  which  he 
was  out  of  the  coal  business  for  ten  years,  re-entering  it 
again  in  1917,  taking  the  active  management  of  the  Mid- 
land   Six    mine    for    the    Katy    Coal   Co. 

CHARLES  SCHMIDT,  President  Schmidt-Blakely  Coal  Co., 
Coal  Hill,  Arkansas,  is  a  native  of  Arkansas.  Mr.  Schmidt 
was  a  famous  Major  League  ball  player,  having  helped  to 
win  three  American  League  pennants  for  Detroit  and  caught 
in  three  World  Series  games.  He  lives  at  1200  North  11th 
St.,    Fort   Smith,    Arkansas. 

REIXHARDT  A.  SCHMIDT  -of  Coal  Hill.  Arkansas,  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer  of  the  Schmidt-Blakely  Coal  Co.,  was 
born  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  September  9,  1873,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Formerly  he 
was  connected  with   the  W.  H.  West  Coal  Co. 

THOMAS  HENRY  SHAW,  Midland,  Sebastian  County,  Ar- 
kansas, is  General  Manager  for  the  National  Coal  Mining 
Co.  of  Hackett,  Arkansas,  and  Purchasing  Agent  for  the 
National  Supply  Co.,  Lincoln,  Nebraska.  Mr.  Shaw  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years  and  from 
May  21,  1913,  to  July  8,  1917,  he  was  State  Mine  Inspector 
for  Arkansas.  He  was  born  at  Tyndesley,  England,  June 
28,    1875. 

FREMONT  STOKES  of  Clarksville,  Arkansas,  is  the  Vice 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Fernwood  Mining 
Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty  years  and 
was  formerly  with  the  Erie  Railroad.  He  was  born  at 
Hazleton,   Pennsylvania,   February   18,   1864. 

W.  A.  TIXSLEY  is  Manager  of  the  Dennis  Coal  Co.  at 
Paris,  Arkansas.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-three  years  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Miami  Coal  Co.,  advancing  from  the  position  of  Mine  Boss. 
Mr.    Tinsley    was    born    at    Ozark,    Arkansas,    July    7,    1881. 

I. oris  E.  TDBHia  of  Huntington.  Arkasas,  Is  Presi- 
dent and  Treasurer  of  the  Dallas  Coal  Co.,  and  has  been 
In  the  business  sixteen  years.  He  is  Secretary  of  the  Coal 
District  Power  Co.,  central  station,  supplying  power  and 
light  to  the  Huntington  district,  and  is  the  owner  of  val- 
uable Arkansas  smokeless  coal  acreage  In  the  same  region. 
Mr.    Turner   was    born    at   Hannibal,    Missouri,   May    14,    1869. 

LINUS  W.  WALKER  of  Bates,  Arkansas,  Is  Superintend- 
ent for  the  Bates  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  six  years 
In  the  coal  Industry  and  formerly  was  with  the  Hazleton 
Coal  Co.,  Coalgate,  Oklahoma,  and  with  the  Southern 
Anthracite  Coal  Co.,  Russelville,  Arkansas.  He  was  born 
In   Missouri  February   4,    1891. 


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CALIFORNIA 


CALIFORNIA  possesses  many  claims  to  greatness 
that  have  spread  its  fame  across  the  hemispheres, 
but  coal  plays  a  distinctly  minor  role  in  the  pres- 
ent drama  of  its  achievements.  Although  there  are  a 
number  of  widely  scattered  beds,  ranging  from  black 
lignite  to  true  bituminous  coal,  within  the  state,  petro- 
leum overshadows  the  coal  output  to  a  degree  attained  in 
no  other  commonwealth  enjoying  the  twin  blessings  of 
both  forms  of  fuel  resources.  Not  only  does  petroleum 
control  the  transportation  and  industrial  field,  but  it  also 
enters,  both  directly  and  indirectly,  into  the  domestic 
market. 

The  principal  coal  fields  of  the  state  are  five  in  num- 
ber: (1)  The  Mount  Diablo,  in  Contra  Costa  County; 
(2)  the  Corral  Hollow  field  in  Alameda  County;  (3) 
the  Priest  Valley,  and  (4)  Trafton  fields  in  San  Benito 
County,  and  (5)  the  Stone  Canyon  field  in  Monterey 
County.  In  quality  there  is  a  decided  improvement  from 
north  to  south.  The  more  northerly  fields  are  sub- 
bituminous,  the  middle  district  has  more  of  the  weather- 
ing qualities  of  bituminous,  while  the  coal  found  in  the 
Stone  Canyon  district  is  a  true  non-coking  bituminous 
and,  under  more  favorable  conditions,  would,  in  the 
opinion  of  government  geological  experts,  prove  a  for- 
midable contender  for  the  domestic  trade  of  San  Fran- 
cisco and  other  large  cities. 

The  zenith  of  production  was  recorded  in  1880,  when 
the  output  was  230,950  tons.  Detailed  production  fig- 
ures since  1880  are  shown  in  the  following  table: 


Year. 

1881... 

1882... 

1883... 

1884... 

1885... 

1886... 

1887... 

1888... 

1889... 

1890... 

1891... 

1892... 

1893... 

1894... 

1895... 

1896... 

1897... 

1898.. 


Ton. 

140,000 

112,592 
76,162 
77,485 
71,615 

100,000 
50,000 
£5,000 

119,820 

110,711 
93,301 
85,178 
72,603 
67,247 
75,453 
78,544 
87,992 

145,888 


Year. 
1899.. 
1900.. 
1901.. 
1902.. 
1903.. 
1904.. 
1905.. 
1906.. 
1907.. 
1908.. 
1909.. 
1910.. 
1911.. 
1912.. 
1913.. 
1914.. 
1915.. 
1910.. 


Ton. 

160,915 

171,708 

151,079 

84,984 

104,673 

78,888 

77,050 

25,290 

13,950 

18,755 

45,836 

11,164 

10,747 

10,978 

24,839 

*13,947 

*12,503 

*7,240 


'Includes  Idaho  and  Nevada. 


Production  records  for  the  state  date  back  to  the  Civil 
War.    How  far  the  coal  industry  has  advanced  since  that 
time  can  be  inferred  from  the  statement  that  the  18G1 
production  of  6,620  tons  represented  a  contribution  of 
relative  importance  to  the  output  of  the  16  states  then 
reporting  bituminous  coal  production.    Rapid  and  con- 
sistent gains  were  made  in  every  year  but  two  until  1874, 
when  the  output  had  reached  215,352  tons.  For  the  next 
three  years  production  slumped,  falling  to  107,789  tons 
in   1877.     Since  that  time,  although  subject  to  some 
widespread  variations  as  between  successive  years,  the 
general  tendency  has  been  distinctly  downward.    Devel- 
opments in  the  Stone  Canyon  field  in  1909  promised  a 
revival  of  the  industry,  but  the  promise  was  short  lived. 
From  a  consuming  point  of  view  the  industry  is  also- 
held  back  by  the  preponderating  influence  of  the  petro- 
leum output  of  the  state,  the  total  bituminous  coal  eon- 
sumption  for  1915  being  less  than  500,000  tons.    Com- 
mercially speaking  the  most  interesting  phase  of  the  con- 
sumption is  the  high  percentage  of  imported  coal  used. 
This  coal,  coming  chiefly  from  British  Columbia  mines, 
supplies  the  bulk  of  the  domestic  and  bunker  coal  de- 
mand of  the  state  and  represents  over  46  per  cent,  of 
the  total  local  consumption  and  bunker  loadings.    Cali- 
fornia's output  is  grouped  with  that  of  Idaho  and  Ne- 
vada, as  there  was  but  one  mine  reporting  in  each  state 
during  1915.    According  to  data  available  none  of  this 
combined  output  of  12,503  tons  was  used  by  the  rail- 
roads or  shipped  to  interstate  destinations.     The  Cali- 
fornia consumption  was  divided  as  follows:     Alabama, 
292  tons;  California,  12,503  (including  Idaho  and  Ne- 
vada) ;  Colorado,  5,771 ;  Georgia,  30;  Maryland,  10,244; 
New  Mexico,  75,025;  Pennsylvania,  5,324;  Utah,  161,- 
987;  West  Virginia.  17,250;  Wyoming,  43,546 ;  imports, 
284,225 ;  total,  616,197  tons;  bunker  fuel,  170,000  tons; 
total  state  bituminous  coal  consumption,  446,197  tons; 
Pennsylvania  anthracite,  500  tons. 

Of  the  totals  above  given  442,563  tons,  or  approxi- 
mately 71  per  cent.,  were  received  at  the  port  of  San 
Francisco.  These  receipts  were  divided  as  follows: 
British  Columbia,  164,130;  Australia,  106,768;  Great 
Britain,  3,644;  Japan,  22;  Washington  and  Oregon 
(water),  1,711 ;  eastern  United  States  (water),  103,183; 
all-rail,  63,105  tons.  Of  the  total  before  given,  168,500 
tons  were  used  in  domestic  and  foreign  bunker  trade 
and  479  tons  were  loaded  for  export,  leaving  a  local 
consumption  of  approximately  273,600  tons. 


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CALIFORNIA 


JOHN'  S.  AKERMAX,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Manager 
of  the  Pacific  Wood  &  Coal  Co.,  San  Diego,  California,  was 
born  May  16,  1860,  in  London,  England,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  Mr.  Akerman  is  also  Sec- 
retary of  the  Diamond  Coal  Co.  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Is  one 
of  the  most  prominent  coal  merchants  of  Southern  Califor- 
nia. He  is  President  of  the  Merchants'  Association  of  San 
Diego  and  has  served  as  President  of  Associated  Chambers 
of  Commerce  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  San  Diego  Chamber  of 
Commerce  and  San  Diego  Board  of  Trade. 

O.  E.  ASHAX  is  the  Owner  and  Manager  of  a  coal,  wood, 
hay  and  grain  business  at  Sacramento  and  Oregon  Sts., 
Berkeley,  California.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  six 
years  and  has  held  the  office  of  Vice  President  of  the  Retail 
Coal  and  Wood  Dealers'  Association  of  Alameda  County, 
California.  Mr.  Asman  was  born  in  Germany  December 
13,    1876. 

R.  A.  BAKER  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  R.  A.  Baker 
&  Son,  6050-6064  Pasadena  Ave.,  Los  Angeles,  California. 
He  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1857  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  about  fourteen  years. 

CLAUDE  M.  BARTOX,  Manager  Modesto  Fuel  Co., 
Modesto,  California,  was  born  July  .25,  1878,  at  Merced,  Cal- 
ifornia, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  Dorsey-Parker  Co.,  Fresno, 
California. 

wi.i  in  L.  BRIZZOLARA,  119  Jackson  St.,  San  Fran- 
ciso,  California,  is  President  of  the  coal  firm  of  L.  Brizzo- 
lara  &  Son,  Inc  He  was  born  in  San  Francisco  November 
28,  1869,  and  for  twenty-five  years  has  been  in  the  coal 
business. 

V.  J.  B.  CHEDA,  San  Rafael,  California,  is  Secretary 
and  Manager  of  the  S.  H.  Cheda  Co.,  which  was  organized 
In  1878.  He  has  been  with  the  firm  since  1896  and  was 
born  January  20,  1875,  in  Switzerland. 

WILLIAM  L.  CLACK,  Manager  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  Los 
Angeles,  California,  was  born  July  31,  1876,  at  Boydton, 
Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
twelve  years.  Mr.  Clack  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
popular  merchants  in  Los  Angeles  and  has  served  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Southern  California  Fuel  Dealers'  Association. 

WILLIAM  E.  CLARK  is  Local  Manager  for  the  Pacific 
Wood  &  Coal  Co.  in  Los  Angeles,  at  2144  Bast  Seventh 
St.  He  has  been  in  the  business  twenty-six  years  and 
formerly  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Clark  Bros.  He  was 
born  in  Ohio  August  27,   1868. 

JOSEPH   CLAVO   is   the   proprietor  of   a   coal    business   at 

239    Georgia   St.,    Vallejo,    California.  He    has    been    in    the 

coal  business  for  over  twelve  years.  He   was  born   in  Val- 
lejo September  25,  1868. 

DENNIS  DESMOND  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Red- 
ding Feed  Co.,  Redding,  California.  He  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born  April  7,  1860, 
at   French  Gulch,   California. 

J.  CAL.  EWING,  234  Stuart  St.,  San  Francisco,  California, 
holds  the  positions  of  Vice  President  and  Manager  of  the 
coal  firm  of  W.  G.  Stafford  &  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eighteen  years  and  for  four  years  has  been 
President  of  the  California  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He 
was  born  in  San  Francisco,  June  24,  1876.  Mr.  Ewing  is 
one  of  the  most  popular  and  highly  respected  coalmen  on 
the   Pacific   Coast. 

THOMAS  HILL  is  the  proprietor  of  a  coal  business  at 
1399  Eighth  St.,  Oakland,  California,  and  has  been  in  the 
trade  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born  at  London, 
Ontario,   Canada,   In   1871. 

GEORGE  T.  HOPPER  of  Los  Banos,  California,  is  Man- 
ager of  Merchandise  for  Miller  &  Lux,  Inc.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  business  for  eight  or  nine  years. 
He  is  a  native  son  of  California  and  was  born  in  March, 
1881. 

WILLIAM  K.  HOHAN  is  Manager  of  The  Horan  Co.,  retail 
coal  merchants  at  717  Marin  St.,  Vallejo,  California.  He 
has  spent  twenty-one  years  in  the  business.  He  was  born 
January    29,    1878,   in   Vallejo. 


VALENTINE  JOHN  JACIilKS,  President  and  Manager  of 
the  Jacques  Wood  &  Coal  Co.,  2529  South  Main  St.,  Los 
Angeles,  California,  was  born  February  14,  1869,  at  Doncas- 
ter,  Yorkshire,  England,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty  years.  Retiring  from  the  coal  business,  Mr. 
Jacques  spent  four  years  in  Calcutta,  India,  and  returning 
again  entered  his  favorite  business  two  years  ago.  He  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Fuel  Dealers'  Association.  His  partner  in  business 
is  C.  Bruns,  who  was  formerly  Yard  Manager  for  the  Dia- 
mond  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  B.  Ml  III,  Oakland,  California,  has  been  Secretary 
of  the  Alameda  County  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for 
tin  past  thirteen  years  and  Secretary  of  the  California  Fuel 
Dealers'  Protective  Association  since  its  institution  five 
years   ago. 

EDWARD  A.  NEIUER.  135  North  Fifth  St.,  Alhambra, 
California,  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Alhambra  Feed 
&  Fuel   Co.     He   has  been   in   the  business  for  nine  years. 

O.  L.  NEWTON,  797  Temple  Ave.,  Long  Beach,  California, 
is  a  co-partner  in  the  Consumers'  Feed  &  Fuel  Co.  of  Long 
Beaoh  and  in  the  firm  of  Newton  &  Harding  at  Corona, 
California.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirteen   years.     He   is  a  Canadian   by   birth. 

WILLIAM  SANDERCOCK  is  President  of  the  Sandercock 
Transfer  Co.  at  San  Luis  Obispo,  California.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  more  than  twenty  years  and  owns 
an  interest  in  coal  properties  in  San  Luis  Obispo  County 
which  are  still  undeveloped.  He  formerly  was  with  the 
Pacific  Coal  Co.  at  Rock  Springs,  and  other  points.  Mr. 
Sandercock   was   born    in   Chicago,   Illinois. 

HUGH  R.  SLAYDEN  owns  the  coal  business  of  the  H.  R. 
Slayden  Coal  Co.,  Pasadena,  California.  He  has  been  in  the 
business  twenty-four  years  and  is  filling  the  office  of  Presi- 
dent of  the  Southern  California  Fuel  &  Feed  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation.     He   was   born   in   Kentucky,   May   2,   1867. 

GEORGE  STREBEL  is  Manager  of  the  H.  R.  Slayden  Co., 
Pasadena,  California.  He  has  been  connected  with  this 
company  and  with  Slayden  Bros.  Co.  for  over  twenty  years. 
He  was  born  at  Syracuse,  New  York,  June  24,  1872. 

BENJAMIN  BASIL.  STIIRDIVANT,  423  Fulton  St.,  San 
Francisco,  California,  has  oeen  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-three  years  and  is  the  President  of  the  firm  of 
Sturdivant  &  Co.  He  was  born  October  31,  1869,  in  San 
Francisco. 

A.  W.  SWISHER  is  Manager  for  the  Southern  Pacific 
Grain  Co.,  140  E  St.,  San  Bernardino,  California.  He  went 
west  from  West  Virginia,  where  he  was  born  September  1, 
1866. 

WILLIAM  JAMES  THOMAS,  Proprietor  Thomas  Feed  & 
Fuel  Co.,  326  West  58th  St.,  Los  Angeles,  California,  was 
born  September  2,  1871,  at  Susquehanna,  Pennsylvania,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  Mr. 
Thomas  Is  President  of  the  Southern  California  Fuel  and 
Feed  Dealers'  Association.  He  -started  with  small  capital, 
but  has  built  up  a   successful   business. 

JOSEPH  F\  ULERY,  Pomona,  California,  is  senior  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Ulery  &  Son,  coal  merchants.  He  was  for- 
merly a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hoffman  &  Ulery  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  He  was  born 
in  Ohio  in  1850. 

A.  H.  WHITE  is  the  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal  business 
at  1678  Seventh  St.,  Oakland.  California.  He  has  been  a 
coal  merchant  for  eight  years  and  for  two  years  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Alameda  County  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation.     Mr.    White    was   born    in    Ohio,    October   21,    1861. 

RALPH  EUGENE  WILCOX  of  Stockton,  California,  is 
President  and  Manager  of  Tolland  &  Co.,  and  has  been 
for  twenty-one  years  in  the  coal  business.  He  has  been 
Secretary  of  the  Stockton  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for 
fifteen  years,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the 
California  Fuel  Dealers'  Protective  Association.  He  was 
born  in  the  state  of  Maine  in  1873. 

ROBERT  II.  WINN  of  the  Robt.  H.  Winn  Co.,  San  Diego, 
California,  was  born  in  1874  at  Numa,  Iowa,  and  has  been 
in   the  coal   business  for  nine  years. 

HUGH  M.  WOLFLIN,  407  Underwood  Building,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  or  six 
years.  He  is  also  mining  engineer  for  the  U.  S.  Bureau 
of  Mines  and  Chief  Mine  Inspector  for  the  California  Indus- 
trial Accident  Commission.  He  was  formerly  Secretary  of 
the  Mining  Section  of  the  National  Safety  Council.  Mr. 
Wolflin    was    born    at    Canton,    Missouri,    August    12,    1886. 


33 


THE    CAROLINAS 


CONSIDERED  in  relation  to  the  other  states  in 
the  South  Atlantic  group  and  especially  in  com- 
parison with  other  non-producing  areas  in  the 
southern  district  the  consumption  record  of  the  Caro- 
linas  shows  up  well  from  the  point  of  view  of  aggregate 
tonnages.  In  addition  North  Carolina,  with  its  check- 
ered record  of  intermittent  modest  production  begin- 
ning in  1840  and  ending  after  two  definitely  known 
breaks  of  six  and  five  years  respectively  in  1912,  has 
an  historic  interest  to  the  students  of  American  coal 
statistics.  Whether  the  natural  difficulties  surround- 
ing the  mining  of  coal  in  that  state  are  to  remain  too 
great  to  be  surmounted  by  a  rising  demand  for  fuel  has 
a  not  uninteresting  place  in  the  field  of  economic  spec- 
ulation. 

North  Carolina  contains  two  coal-bearing  areas,  the 
Deep  Eiver  and  the  Dan  Eiver  fields.  These  fields 
are  described  by  the  United  States  Geological  Survey 
as  follows:  "The  coal  in  the  Deep  River  field  is  in 
Triassic  rocks  and  is  of  the  same  geologic  age  as  the 
beds  of  the  Richmond  basin  in  Virginia.  The  Dan 
River  field  in  Stokes  and  Rockingham  counties  is  also 
of  Triassic  age.  The  coal-bearing  rocks  extend  from 
a  point  just  north  of  the  Virginia  line  south- 
ward through  Leaksville,  Madison  and  Walnut 
Cove  to  Germantown,  N.  C.  Black,  slaty,  car- 
bonaceous shale  is  common,  but  coal  occurs  at  only  a 
few  places.  Nowhere  has  a  deposit  of  any  commercial 
value  been  found.  During  the  Civil  AVar  coal  was 
mined  near  Leaksville  and  shipped  by  boat  to  Danville, 
Va.  The  coal  is  semi-anthracite,  but  the  bed  is  so  thin, 
so  broken  by  shale  partings  and  of  so  small  lateral 
extent  that  mining  is  unprofitable.  Considerable,  pros- 
pecting has  been  done  in  the  vicinity  of  Walnut  Cove, 
but  the  semi-anthracite  found,  which  is  nowhere  more 


than  one  foot  thick,  has  no  present  commercial  value. 

The  census  of  1840  gives  the  first  record  of  North 
Carolina  production  as  three  tons.  While  it  is  thought 
probable  that  small  mines  were  in  operation  subsequent 
to  that  time,  no  record  antedating  the  Civil  War  has 
been  found.  Between  18G1  and  1865  the  Confederate 
government  is  estimated  to  have  taken  out  60,000  tons 
from  the  North  Carolina  mines,  but  the  close  of  the 
war  saw  a  steady  decline  until  1874  when  production 
ceased.  Six  years  later  mining  operations  upon  a  very 
small  scale  were  resumed.  In  1889  the  Cummock  or 
•Egypt  mines  in  the  Deep  Eiver  field  were  re-opened  and 
continued  a  moderate  and  fluctuating  production  until 
1906.  During  1911-1912  a  small  production,  320  tons, 
was  reported  from  Moore  County.  The  total  output 
from  1862  to  1912  was  only  477,122  tons. 

Treating  North  and  South  Carolina  as  a  unit  the  per 
capita  consumption  reported  in  1915  was  only  .69  ton 
(.66  bituminous  coal  and  .03  anthracite)  ;  consump- 
tion per  square  mile  was  33  tons.  In  comparison  with 
the  country  averages  of  2.82  and  123  tons,  these  fig- 
ures are,  of  course,  low,  but  allowance  must  be  made 
for  the  general  climatic  conditions  and  the  character 
and  extent  of  the  manufacturing  enterprises  of  the  two 
states.  The  total  bituminous  consumption  for  the  year 
was  2,658,177  tons.  Virginia,  with  shipments  of  1,366,- 
943  tons,  contributed  the  major  portion  of  the  fuel  sup- 
ply of  the  Carolinas;  West  Virginia  came  second  with 
977,782  tons;  Tennessee  third  with  168,512  and  Ken- 
tucky fourth  with  143,660  tons.  Shipments  from  other 
states  were  as  follows:  Alabama,  475  tons;  Georgia, 
500;  Pennsylvania,  305  tons.  Anthracite  shipments 
from  the  Pennsylvania  fields  approximated  124,000 
tons. 


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COAL   MEN   OF   AMERICA 


MAJOIi   JAMBS  s.   I'llVTHItlOSS,  HenderNon,  \orth  Carolina, 

Well-known  retailer  of  Henderson,  North  Carolina,  was 
born  in  Warren  County,  North  Carolina,  on  September  17, 
1871,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  at  Hender- 
son since  1887.  where  he  now  does  the  largest  business. 
Mr.  Poythress  was  Skout  for  North  Carolina  in  the  Order 
EoRoal  and  has  served  in  the  United  States  Army.  He 
entered  the  service  of  the  State  January  2,  1889,  receiving 
many  commissions,  the  last  being  his  promotion  to  Major 
in  the  Quartermaster  Corps  on  March   27,  1917. 


NORTH    CAROLINA 


W.  A.  AVAXT,  proprietor  of  the  Avant  Wood  &  Coal  Co. 
of  Charlotte.  North  Carolina,  was  born  at  Charlotte  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  fifteen  years. 

GEORGE  HIGH  UK  VI. I.,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Durham, 
North  Carolina,  was  born  at  Cumberland,  Maryland,  August 
15,  1867,  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  over 
twenty   years. 

ADRAM  OLIVER  HH  AY,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  North 
Wilkesboro  Roller  Mills  of  North  Wilkesboro,  North 
Carolina,  was  born  in  Wilkes  County,  North  Carolina,  Janu- 
ary 8,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  City  Fuel  Co.  of  Elkin,  North 
Carolina. 

DAVID  o.  BHI.N'Kl.Y,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Plymouth, 
North  Carol  inn,  was  born  in  Gates  County,  North  Carolina. 
April  22,  1853,  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  fifteen 
years. 

CLEVELAND  D.  CARTER,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
Weldon  Ice  Co.  of  Weldon.  North  Carolina,  was  born  in 
Halifax  County,  North  Carolina,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business    two    years. 

II.  K.  CARTLAND,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Arctic 
Ice  &  Coal  Co.  of  Oreensboro,  North  Carolina,  was  born  in 
Guilford  County,  North  Carolina,  March  1.  1878,  and  has 
been   with   this   company   since   its  organization. 

JAMES  WESLEY  CVTES,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Burling- 
ton. North  Carolina,  was  born  in  Orange  County,  North 
Carolina,  September  30,  1347,  and  had  been  In  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years,  where  he  died  January  5,  1918. 
In  March,  1918,  the  business  was  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  J.  W.  Oates,  Bertha  I.  Cates.  who  had  been  asso- 
ciated with  her  father  for  a  number  of  years,  being  elected 
Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

GHOVER  C.  DENTON.  Manager  of  the  Morgantown  Ice 
&  Fuel  Co.  of  Morgantown.  North  Carolina,  was  born  at 
Morgantown,  November  4,  1888,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  twelve  years. 

ARTHI  It  EVANS  DIXON,  General  Manager  of  the  Fay- 
etteville  Ice  &  Mfg.  Co.  of  Fayetteville.  North  Carolina,  was 
born  at  Laurel,  near  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  April  27,  1867. 
and  has  been  In  the  coal   business  twenty  years. 


BEHVAHIl  ■■:■•■  \ s.  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Southern 
Coal  Co.  of  Ashevllle,  North  Carolina,  was  born  at  Franklin, 
North  Carolina,  on  May  29,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   five   years. 

POWELL  K.  GREEN  of  Winston-Salem.  North  Carolina, 
Sales  Agent  of  the  I.ltz-Smith  Fuel  Co.,  whose  main  office  Is 
at  Huntington,  West  Virginia,  was  born  at  Dover,  Delaware, 
in  1861.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Bluefleld  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  of  Bluefleld.   West  Virginia. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  GRIFFIN,  senior  member  of  W.  H. 
Griffin  &  Son,  a  retail  firm  at  Goldsboro,  North  Carolina, 
was  born  at  Goldsboro  on  May  27,  1858,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 

ROJ1ERT  J.  II VI. I,,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Burlington, 
North  Carolina,  was  born  in  Alamance  County,  North  Caro- 
lina. January  8.  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
t  »'i  nty    years. 

JONATHAN'  HAVENS,  wholesale  and  retail  coal  merchant 
at  Washington,  North  Carolina,  a  native  of  Washington, 
has   been    in   the   coal   business   for  thirty-eight   years. 

JAMES  WILLIAMS  MINKS  of  Rooky  Mount,  North 
Carolina,  one  of  the  most  prominent  retail  coal  merchants  of 
North  Carolina,  was  born  at  Farmville,  Pitt  County.  North 
Carolina,  on  July  7,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Hines  is  owner  of  the  North 
State  Ice-  &  Fuel  Co.  of  Rocky  Mount,  Greenville  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.,  Greenville,  Catawba  Ice  &  Fuel  Co..  Spencer,  Salisbury 
Ice  &  Fuel  Co.,  Salisbury,  Monroe  Ice  &  Fuel  Co..  Monroe, 
and  Weldon  Ice  &  Fuel  Co..  Weldon,  all  of  North  Carolina. 
He  also  established  the  Bank  of  Rocky  Mount  and  is  a 
Director  and  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Rocky  Mount  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

WILLIAM  THOMAS  LOVE.  SR.,  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Crystal  Ice  &  Coal  Co.  of  Elizabeth  City, 
North  Carolina,  was  born  at  Elizabeth  City  on  January  26, 
1862,  and   has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

BENJAMIN  A.  MERRITT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Wil- 
mington, North  Carolina,  was  born  in  North  Carolina  Sep- 
tember 24,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  Wm.  E.  Worth  &  Co.  and 
has  been  City  Councilman  for  four  years  and  Mayor  Pro 
Tern  for  two  years,  with  two  years  more  to  serve. 

DANIEL  H.  PENTOJi,  Vice  President  and  Secretary  of 
the  Springer  Coal  Co.,  Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  was 
born  in  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  March  30.  1868,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  This  firm  was 
established    in    1872   and   incorporated    in    1905. 

THOMAS  COX  POWELL,  President  of  Powell  &  Powell, 
Inc.,  a  retail  coal  firm  at  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  was 
born  in  Wake  County,  North  Carolina,  September  26,  1875, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  a  quarter  of  a 
century.     He  was  formerly  connected  with  Jones  &  Powell. 

W.  IL  ROSS,  General  Manager  of  the  Piedmont  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.,  retailers  at  Greensboro,  North  Carolina,  was  born  at 
Pleasant  Garden,  North  Carolina,  in  1876,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  Dixie   Ice  &   Coal  Co.  and  Arctic  Ice  &  Coal  Co. 

CLAIDE  A.  SHELTO.N",  retailer  of  Mount  Airy,  North 
Carolina,  was  born  at  Mount  Airy.  February  27,  1885,  and 
has   been    in    the   coal   business   for   five   years. 

JAMES  AHTHLR  SPRINGER,  President  of  the  Springer 
Coal  Co.  of  Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  was  born  in  Maine, 
December  16,  1847,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost 
half  a  century. 

JOHN  hum  THOMAS,  retail  coal  merchant  doing  business 
at  Winston-Salem.  North  Carolina,  was  born  at  Eller,  North 
Carolina,  on  May  17,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   fourteen   years. 

WILLIAM  II.  THORPE.  President  and  Treasurer  of  W.  B. 
Thorpe  &  Co.,  Inc.,  of  Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  was  born 
at  Rocky  Mount,  North  Carolina,  November  17,  1873,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

HENRY  WAI,TER  TROLLINGEH.  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Burlington,  North  Carolina,  was  born  near  Haw  River,  Ala- 
mance County,  North  Carolina,  July  20,  1862,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  since  1892.  Mr.  Trollinger  has  been 
assisted  for  the  past  ten  years  by  E.  P.  Trollinger,  his 
nephew. 

JAMES  ALLEN  VINSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Golds- 
boro. North  Carolina,  was  born  in  Wayne  County.  North 
Carolina,  April  8,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  five  years.  He  was  formerly  associated  with  W.  H. 
Griffin. 

J.  M.  WAGNER,  Manager  of  the  Newton  Ice  &  Fuel  Co. 
of  Newton,  North  Carolina,  was  born  in  Newton  October 
14,  1887,  and  has  been  In  business  fop  himself  for  ten  years. 


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JOHN  OSCAR  WILLIAMS,  President  of  Williams  & 
Palmer,  Inc.,  a  firm  handling  coal  at  retail  at  Wilson,  North 
Carolina,  was  born  at  Ruffin,  North  Carolina,  May  8,  1885, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  almost  five  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  Jewett,  Bigelow  &  Brooks  at 
Norfolk,  Virginia. 

.101:1,  ALEXANDER  YARBROUGH.  President  and  Treas- 
urer Yarbrough  &  Bellinger  Co.,  Charlotte,  North  Carolina, 
was  born  in  York  County,  Virginia,  on  October  1,  1876,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 


SOUTH    CAROLINA 


HENRY  W.  DA  VIEGLE.  President  and  Treasurer  Chester 
Ice  &  Fuel  Co.,  Chester,  South  Carolina,  was  born  in  1886 
in  Chester,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

GEO.  F.  EPPERSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Sumter,  South 
Carolina,  was  born  December  11,  1857,  in  Pittsylvania  Coun- 
ty, Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty 
years. 

JOHN  ARCHIBALD  FISHER,  Manager  retail  coal  firm  of 
J.  A.  Fisher,  Mullins,  South  Carolina,  was  born  in  1864  in 
North  Carolina,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

W.  B.  HALLETT,  President  Hallett  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  has 
been  in  business,  handling  ice,  coal  and  feed,  in  Spartan- 
burg,  South  Carolina,   for  thirty-three  years. 


ROBERT  A.  LONG,  President  Peoples  Ice  &  Fuel  Co., 
Beaufort,  South  Carolina,  was  born  December  15,  1864,  in 
Rogersville,  Tennessee,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-two  years. 

CHARLES  PEARSON  MIDGLEY,  proprietor  Bennettsville 
Ice  Co.,  Bennettsville,  South  Carolina,  was  born  April  19, 
1879,  in  England,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight 
years. 

AMOS  B.  MORSE,  President  Amos  B.  Morse  Co.,  retail  coal 
firm  of  Abbeville,  South  Carolina,  was  born  in  Anderson, 
South  Carolina,  March  8,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty  years. 

J.  S.  MORSE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Amos  B.  Morse  Co. 
of  Abbeville,  South  Carolina,  was  born  April  9,  1883,  in 
Abbeville,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 

C.  F.  RICE,  JR.,  Sales  Manager  Blackwood  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Spartanburg,  South  Carolina,  was  born  in  Clearmont 
County,  Ohio,  January  26,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  about  eleven  years. 

HERMAN  VON  RODEN  SCHRADER,  Manager  Greenwood 
Ice  &  Coal  Co.  of  Greenwood,  South  Carolina,  was  born  in 
1857  in  Philadelphia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sev- 
enteen years. 

WILLIAM  ARCHIBALD  SHERROD,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer Hallett  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Spartanburg,  South  Carolina, 
was  born  August  2,  1890,  in  Hamilton,  North  Carolina,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

JOHN  R.  TOLLESON  of  the  retail  firm  of  J.  R.  Tolleson  & 
Co.  of  Gaffney,  South  Carolina,  was  born  October  2,  1856,  in 
Cherokee  County,  South  Carolina,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years. 


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COLORADO 


COLORADO  holds  first  place  among  the  coal  pro- 
ducing and  consuming  states  west  of  the  Mis- 
souri river.  In  production  it  stands  among  the 
first  ten  commonwealths  of  the  entire  country,  while 
from  the  consuming  side  it  is  the  most  self-sustaining 
area  in  the  country,  crowding  out  Alabama,  which  has 
that,  enviable  position  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  by 
a  fraction  of  one  per  cent.,  although  the  southern  state 
upon  a  tonnage  basis  is  the  greater  coal  consumer  of  the 
two.  It  is  fair  to  say  that  the  important  place  held  by 
Colorado  in  the  vast  industrial  wealth  of  the  country  is 
due  to  its  rich  coal  deposits,  for  without  these  close  at 
home  the  state  would  have  required  transportation  facili- 
ties greatly  in  excess  of  those  it  has  and  would  have  been 
at  a  disadvantage  in  bringing  in  its  basic  commodity 
that  makes  the  developments  of  its  other  resources  pos- 
sible under  difficult  transportation  conditions  and  high 
freight  charges. 

The  lower  flanks  and  foothills  of  the  Bocky  Moun- 
tains divide  the  coal  fields  of  the  state  into  three  major 
deep  synclinal  basins.  The  eastern  group  contains  the 
Trinidad.  Canon  City  and  South  Platte  fields.  The 
park  group  includes  the  fields  in  the  South.  Middle  and 
Xorth  parks.  The  western  group,  which  is  the  largest 
of  the  three  major  divisions,  covers  the  Yampa,  Dan- 
forth  Hills,  White  River,  (hand  Hogback,  Glenwood 
Springs,  Crested  Butte,  Grand  Mesa,  Book  Cliffs  and 
Duraugo  fields.  Not  only  are  the  fields  extensive — the 
Geological  Survey  estimates  they  contain  over  10,000 
square  miles  of  workable  coal — but  they  offer  the  con- 
sumer a  wide  range  in  quality.  Suh-bituminous  or 
black  lignite  is  found  in  the  South  Platte  field;  the 
Trinidad  and  Glenwood  Springs  beds  yield  a  high  grade 
coking  coal,  while  anthracite  is  mined  in  the  Crested 
Butte  held. 

A-  a  Commercial  proposition  the  principal  develop- 
ments ;ire  in  the  eastern  and  western  groups.  The  loca- 
tion of  the  South  Platte  field  ^i\r~  it  ready  access  to  the 
Denver  market,  t,,  which  the  bituminous  coals  of  the 

Trinidad  and  Canon  City  fields  also  make  important 
contributions.  In  the  western  group,  operations  are 
carried  on  on  a  large  scale  in  the  Glenwood  Springs 
and  Crested  Mutte  fields  and  in  a  lesser  degree  in  the 
vicinity  of  Datango,  Grand  Junction  and  Steamboat 
Springs.     The  further  extension  of  the  MofTatt  railroad 


is  permitting  a  greater  exploitation  of  the  resources  of 
the  Yampa  field  in  MofTatt  and  Routt  counties. 

Colorado  stepped  into  coal  statistical  history  in  1864 
when  an  output  of  500  tons  was  reported.  It  proceeded, 
with  varying  degrees  of  fluctuation,  until  1876,  when 
117,666  tons  were  produced.  For  the  next  six  years  the 
output  increased  rapidly  so  that  the  1882  figures  were 
1,061,479  tons.  At  that  time  there  were  only  ten  other 
states  which  reported  an  output  in  excess  of  1,000,000 
tons.  From  1882  to  1910,  when  a  production  of  11,973,- 
736  tons  was  reached,  there  were  only  five  years  in 
which  the  output  showed  a  decrease.  Unfavorable  gen- 
eral commercial  and  agricultural  conditions  in  1911  and 
1912  caused  a  decline  and  the  rate  of  production  was 
further  pulled  down  by  the  prolonged  strikes  of  1913- 
1911.  Detailed  figures  from  1882  to  1916  appear  in 
the  following  table: 


Year.  Ton. 

1882 1,061,479 

1883 1,229,593 

1884 1,130,024 

1885 1,356,062 

1886 1,368,338 

1887 1,791,735 

1888 2,185,477 

1889 2,597,181 

1890 3,077,003 

1891 3,512,632 

1892 3,510,830 

1893 4,102,389 

1894 2,851,409 

1895 3,082,982 

1896 3,112,402 

1897 3.361,703 

1898 4,076,347 

1899 4,776,224 


Year.  Ton. 

1900 5,244,364 

1901 5,700,015 

1902 7,401,343 

1903 7,423,602 

1904 6,658,355 

1 :»".-, 8,826,429 

1906 10,111,218 

1907 10,790,236 

1908 9,634,973 

1909 10,716,936 

1910 11,973,736 

1911 10,157,383 

1912 10,977,824 

1913 9,232,510 

1914 8,170,559 

1915 8,624,980 

1916 10,484,237 


As  stated  in  an  earlier  paragraph  97.88  per  cent,  of 
the  coal  consumed  within  the  borders  of  Colorado  comes 
from  the  mines  of  the  state.  This  consumption  is  equal 
to  approximately  68  per  cent,  of  the  total  production  of 
Colorado.  A  fraction  over  20  per  cent,  of  this  local 
consumption  is  coked  at  the  mines  and  plays  a  large 
part  in  the  great  smelter  enterprises  for  which  the  state 
is  famous.  The  railroads  are  the  largest  individual  cus- 
tomers of  the  Colorado  mines;  in  191.1  they  took  28  per 
cent,  of  the  total  product,  which  was  double  the  amount 
shipped  to  destinations  in  13  states  lying  between  the 
Mississippi    river   and    the    Pacific    coast.      Outside   of 


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Colorado  itself,  the  largest  individual  market  for  Colo- 
rado coal  is  in  Nebraska,  which  produces  no  fuel  of  its 
awn.  Kansas,  itself  a  coal  producer  of  no  mean  rank 
in  the  Southwest,  has  been  the  second  largest  customer, 
while  Texas,  for  local  uses  and  for  exports  into  Mex- 
ico, comes  third.  Detailed  figures  covering  the  distribu- 
tion of  the  1915  output  of  Colorado  coal  were  as  fol- 
lows :  Consumed  locally  at  the  mines,  294,571  tons ;  sold 
locally,  291,243;  made  into  coke  at  mines,  1,015,346; 
shipped  intrastate,  3,386,315 ;  total,  4,987,475  tons. 

Interstate  shipments  were  as  follows:    Arkansas,  14,- 
234  tons;  California,  5,771;  Iowa,  12,660;  Kansas,  340,- 


779;  Missouri,  535;  Nebraska,  422,320;  Nevada  and 
Utah,  2,526 ;  New  Mexico,  22,948 ;  Oklahoma,  120,298 ; 
South  Dakota,  12,598;  Texas  (including  exports),  273,- 
337 ;  Wyoming,  20,984 ;  total,  1,248,990  tons,  or  14  per 
cent. ;  used  by  railroads,  2,388,515  tons,  or  28  per  cent. 
The  total  consumption  within  the  state  for  the  same 
year — including  600  tons  of  Pennsylvania  anthracite — 
was  5,096,149.  As  shown  in  the  table  preceding  4,987,- 
475  tons,  or  97.88  per  cent,  of  the  bituminous  coal  con- 
sumption, came  from  the  Colorado  mines.  New  Mexico 
furnished  107,877  tons;  Wyoming,  lfll,  and  Pennsyl- 
vania (bituminous),  96  tons. 


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WILLIAM    B.    LEWIS,    New    York   City, 

President  of  the  Oakdale  Coal  Co.  of  Denver,  Colorado,  re- 
sides in  New  York  City,  having  an  office  at  40  Wall  St.  He 
has  had  much  experience  as  a  coal  mine  operator  in  the 
West  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  Colorado  State  School  of  Mines  for  several  years.  He 
is  a   graduate  of   that   institution. 


HARRY   P.   NASH,  Denver,   Colorado, 

Vice  President  and  General  Sales  Agent  for  the  Oakdale 
Coal  Co.,  Denver,  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Primrose  Coal 
Co.  and  the  owner  of  undeveloped  coal  lands  in  Colorado. 
He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years, 
beginning  as  a  mine  clerk  and  advancing  with  different 
companies  to  Vice  President.  He  is  Secretary  of  the  Colo- 
rado Coal  Operators'  Association.  Formerly  he  was  con- 
nected with  the  Primrose  Coal  Co.,  Continental  Fuel  Co- 
National  Fuel  Co.  and  South  Canon  Coal  Co.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the  Employers'  Mutual  Insurance  Co.  He  was 
born   at  Fort  Dodge,   Iowa,   September  21,   1873. 


GRAND  .UNCTION    MNG.  &  FUEL  CO.. 
Denver,    Colorado, 

Has  its'  office  at  1120  First  National 
Bank   Building,    Denver. 

Its  mine  is  located  at  Cameo,  Mesa 
County,  Colorado,  on  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Grande  Railway  and  the  Colorado  Mid- 
land Railway,  and  its  output — 1,000  tons 
daily  capacity — is  used  almost  entirely 
by  the  railroads.     The  officers  are: 

President,  John  McNeil,  Jr. 

Vice   President,    D.   O.   McNeil. 

Secretary-Treasurer.   A.   M.   McNeil. 

General  Manager.   George  W.  McNeil. 

The  McNeil  Coal  Co.,  with  the  execu- 
tive offices  the  same  as  the  above  com- 
pany, has  a  mine  at  MacGregor,  Routt 
County,  Colorado,  on  the  Denver  &  Salt 
Lake  Railway,  producing  domestic  coal, 
carefully  graded  In  four  sizes.  The 
output — 800  tons  daily  capacity — is  sold 
through  the  Coal  Hill  Coal  Co.,  of 
Omaha,    Nebraska. 

John  McNeil,  President,  and  G.  F. 
MacBeth,  Treasurer,  are  the  active  of- 
ficers. Paul  Lanieus  Is  Vice  President 
and  John  S.  MacBeth   Secretary. 


COLORADO  — Denver 

JOSEPH  P.  BRACKETT,  1124  Foster  Building,  Denver, 
Colorado,  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  The  Carbon  Fuel  & 
Iron  Co.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Garfield  Mine  Leasing 
Co.  and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Frederick  Fuel  Co., 
Denver.  He  is  likewise  in  charge  of  credits  for  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Fuel  Co.  Formerly  he  was  with  the  Raton  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  of  Raton,  New  Mexico.  Mr.  Brackett  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born 
March  12,  1879,  at  Riceville,  Tennessee. 

JAMES  DALRYMPLE,  430  Clarkson  St.,  Denver,  Colorado, 
is  Chief  Coal  Mine  Inspector  in  his  state.  He  has  been  mine 
foreman  and  superintendent  for  different  companies  and 
has  been  in  the  business  for  over  forty-two  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Union  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the  Northern 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.  and  the  South 
Canon   Coal   Co.      He   was  born   in   Scotland,   July   13,    1863. 

GEORGE  FRITH,  1001  East  Twelfth  Ave.,  Denver,  Colo- 
rado, holds  the  offices  of  President  and  General  Manager 
with  the  following  companies:  Aztec  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Indian  Creek  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  The  Walsenburg  Coal 
Mining  Co.  He  was  born  at  Mason  City,  West  Virginia, 
April  21,  1867.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  mining  business 
for  over  thirty   years. 

D.  M.  HARRINGTON  of  Denver.  Colorado,  Is  President 
and  General  Manager  of  the  Cedar  Hill  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He 
was  for  some  years  with  the  Victor  Fuel  Co.  prior  to  his 
present  connection.  He  was  born  at  Houghton,  Michigan, 
May    17,    1877. 

G.  W.  HARRIS,  803  First  National  Bank  Building,  Den- 
ver, Colorado,  is  President  of  the  Colorado  &  Utah  Coal 
Co.  and  of  the  Colony  Coal  Co.,  a  Colorado  corpora- 
tion operating  near  Rock  Springs,  Wyoming.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years  and  formerly  was 
connected  with  the  following  companies  in  Iowa:  Excelsior 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Alhia  Coal  Co.  and  Bidwell  Coal  Co..  in 
which  he  still  is  Interested.  He  was  born  In  Oskaloosa. 
Iowa,  May  8,   1876. 

LEWIS  A.  HAYDEN  is  President  of  The  Hayden  Broth- 
ers Coal  Corp.,  Tramway  Building,  Denver.  Colorado. 
The  corporation  operates  two  coal  mines  in  Routt  County, 
Colorado,    on    the    Denver    &    Salt    Lake    Railroad. 


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EDGAR  HOPPER,  Denver,  Colorado,  is  Commissioner  of 
the  Denver  Coal  Merchants'  Association  and  Secretary  of 
the  Colorado  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He  was 
born  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Illinois,  January  14,  1877. 

GUY  R.  HOUGHTELIN  holds  the  position  of  General 
Sales  Manager  for  the  Aztec  Coal  Mining:  Co.,  632  Cooper 
Building-,  Denver,  Colorado.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  ten  years,  having  been  with  the  Rocky  Mountain 
Fuel  Co.  and  the  C,  K.  &  N.  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Houghtelin  was 
born  at  Gettysburg,  Pennsylvania,   December  25,   1874. 

C.  A.  HUNCK,  4160  Irving  St.,  Denver,  Colorado,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born  in  Ger- 
many   September    30,    1846. 

E.  V.  HUTCHINS,  Denver,  Colorado,  is  Sales  Manager  for 
The  Hayden  Bi  others  Coal  Corp.,  Tramway  Building,  which 
is  operating   two   mines   in   Routt   County,   Colorado. 

JOHN  D.  JONES  is  General  Manager  of  the  Oakdale  Coal 
Co.  at  Denver,  Colorado.  He  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years.  He  was  Chief  Coal 
Mine  Inspector  for  Colorado  for  eight  years  and  a  deputy 
inspector  for  eight  years.  He  was  born  in  "Wales  January 
15,    1865. 

GEORGE  D.  KIMBALL  is  General  Manager  of  The  Rugby 
Fuel  Co.,  422-427  Exchange  Building,  Denver,  Colorado,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  is  Treasurer 
of  the  Coal  Mines  Welfare  Association  of  Denver.  He  was 
born  at  Portland,  Maine. 

HENRY  L.  LITTELL  is  the  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger of  The  Littell  Bros.  Coal  Mining  Co.,  200  Cooper  Build- 
ing, Denver,  Colorado.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  born  at  Pleasanton, 
Kansas,   in   1871. 

J.  M.  MARTINDALE,  General  Sales  Agent  of  the  Rugby 
Fuel  Co.,  Denver,  Colorado,  was  born  February  10,  1881,  at 
Tipton,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Sunnyside  Coal 
Mining   Co.   and    the   Western    Coal   &   Mining  Co. 

HARRY  VAN  MATER,  Colorado  Building,  Denver,  Colo- 
rado, is  President  of  The  National  Fuel  Co.  and  of  The 
Royal  Fuel  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twen- 
ty-five years  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  follow- 
ing companies:  Citizens  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Southern  Coal 
Co.,  Alpine  Coal  Co.  and  the  Continental  Fuel  Co.  He  was 
born  September  26,   1860,   in  Monmouth  County,  New  Jersey. 

JOHN  McGOWAN  of  Denver,  Colorado,  is  the  Purchasing 
Agent  for  The  Victor  American  Fuel  Co.,  having  formerly 
filled  the  office  of  Treasurer.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  about  fifteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Louisville, 
Kentucky,    April    5,    1874. 

DOUGLAS  MILLARD,  840  Seventeenth  St.,  Denver,  Colo- 
rado, is  Manager  of  the  retail  department  of  The  Colorado 
Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirteen 
years.  He  was  born  at  Cleveland.  Ohio,  September  29,  1879, 
and  resided  for  several  years  in  Chicago. 

THOMAS  G.  OWEN,  Denver,  Colorado,  is  President  and 
General  Manager  of  The  Cambrian  Coal  Co.,  a  close  cor- 
poration of  which  he  is  the  owner.  He  formerly  was  for 
six  years  Superintendent  of  the  Western  Chemical  Works, 
Denver.  After  coming  to  America  in  1882  Mr.  Owen  was 
connected  with  the  Staten  Island  Chemical  Co.  of  New 
Jersey,  the  Foreste  Powder  Co.,  Lake  Hopatkong,  N.  J., 
and  the  Highland  Chemical  Co.,  N.  Y.,  prior  to  going  to 
Denver.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-four  years 
and  was  born  in  Wales,  September  28,  1856. 

E.  W.  ROBINSON,  201  West  Iowa  St.,  Denver,  Colorado, 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-four  years. 
He   was   born   in   Canada   in    1858. 

WILLIAM  E.  RUSSELL,  1523  Welton  St.,  Denver,  Colo- 
rado, has  been  in  the  coal  business  as  a  retailer  for 
twenty-five  years.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  coal  mine  in  Weld 
County,  Colorado,  and  formerly  was  with  the  Citizens  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  of  Denver.  Mr.  Russell  was  born  at  Dum- 
fermline,  Scotland,  November  13,  1872.  He  is  highly  re- 
garded  and   popular   in    trade   circles. 

ALBERT  P.  SMITH,  President  Rugby  Coal  Co.,  Denver, 
Colorado,  was  born  in  1870  at  Sycamore,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Smith  is 
very  popular  and  highly  regarded  in  trade  circles  and  is 
President  of  the  Colorado  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association 
and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Denver  Coal  Merchants' 
Association. 

GEORGE  N.  SPARLING  of  Denver,  Colorado,  is  President 
of  the  Bear  River  Coal  Co.,  whose  mines  are  located  at 
Bear  River,  Colorado.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years,  and  is  Manager  of  The  George 
N.  Sparling  Coal  Co.,  626  Gas  and  Electric  Building,  Den- 
ver. Gordon  B.  Ashworth  is  General  Sales  Agent  of  the 
company. 


R.  E.  SPENCER,  4000  York  St.,  Denver,  Colorado,  is  Presi- 
dent and  Treasurer  of  The  R.  E.  Spencer  Lumber  Co.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Halleck  Lumber  &  Supply  Co.  and 
has  been  in  the  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was  born 
in  Tennessee   December  31,   1878. 

J.  F.  WELBORN,  Denver.  Colorado,  is  President  of  The 
Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  He  started  as  a  clerk  in  the 
sales  department  of  the  company  twenty-eight  years  ago 
and  advanced  through  the  various  grades  to  Vice  Presi- 
dent and  Sales  Manager,  being  finally  elected  President  in 
March,  1907.  Mr.  Welborn  was  born  in  Nebraska  March 
9,  1870.  Mr.  Welborn  stands  higa  in  the  trade  and  served 
on  the  Committee  on  Coal  Production,  Council  of  National 
Defense. 

NORMAN  A.  WYLIE  is  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
The  Rugby  Coal  Co.,  501  Fifteenth  St.,  Denver,  Colorado. 
He  formerly  was  with  the  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was 
born   at   Clairton,   Pennsylvania,   January  24,  1882. 


COLORADO 


JOHN  J.  J.  ABERCROMBIE,  Trinidad,  Colorado,  is  Sales 
Manager  for  The  Bear  Canon  Coal  Co.  and  owner  of 
the  J.  J.  J.  Abercrombie  retail  coal  yard.  He  has  been  in 
the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  F6  Railroad  and  the  C.  &  S. 
Railroad  as  distributor  of  cars  and  coal  biller.  He  was  born 
in  Georgia  January   27,   1869. 

MISS  RUTH  BANNING  is  the  Owner  and  Manager  of  the 
Union  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  115  West  Vermijo  St.,  Colorado 
Springs,  Colorado.  She  has  been  in  charge  of  the  business 
for  two  years,  or  since  the  death  of  her  brother,  William 
Marion  Banning,  Jr.,  who  died  as  a  result  of  injuries 
received  at  the  training  camp  at  Golden,  Colorado,  before 
Colorado  Battery  C  was  sent  to  the  Mexican  border.  The 
business  was  established  thirty-six  years  ago  by  her  father, 
William  M.  Banning,  who  died  in  April,  1914.  Miss  Banning 
was  born  at  Colorado  Springs,  July   11,   1892. 

REASON  JUDY  BELCHER  is  the  President  and  General 
Manager  of  The  Mountain  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Pueblo,  Colorado. 
He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years 
and  has  served  as  Vice  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Credit  Bureau  of  Pueblo  and  Treasurer  of  the  Colorado  Re- 
tail Coal  Association. 

E.  D.  BOWERS,  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  is  President 
of  The  Monument  Valley  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  has  filled  the 
offices  of  President  of  the  Colorado  Springs  Retail  Coal 
Dealers'  Credit  Association  and  Vice  President  of  the  Colo- 
rado Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He  was  born  July  17, 
1859,   at  Whitewater,  Wisconsin. 

EDWARD  J.  BRADY,  Cripple  Creek,  Colorado,  is  Manager 
of  The  Colorado  Trading  &  Transfer  Co.,  and  is  interested 
in  the  Pike's  Peak  Fuel  Co.  of  Denver  and  Colorado  Springs. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  trade  for  eleven  years. 
He  was  born   in  Pennsylvania   in   1886. 

DAVID  BRIMBLE,  President  Washington  Coal  Co.,  Erie, 
Colorado,  was  born  in  April,  1856,  in  England,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business  fifty  years. 

WILBUR  EDWIN  BROOKS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the   Brooks   Fuel   Co.,   Louisville,   was  born   in   Evans,   Iowa. 

FENTON  W.  BRUINGTON  is  Manager  of  the  Bruington- 
Armstrong  Fuel  Co.  at  Cripple  Creek,  Colorado,  and  has 
been  active  in  connection  with  the  coal  trade  for  twenty 
years.  He  formerly  was  with  the  Colorado  Trading  & 
Transfer  Co.  as  purchasing  agent  and  bookkeeper.  He 
was  born  at  Atlantic,  Iowa,  December  9,  1872. 

A.  E.  CARLTON  is  the  sole  owner  of  the  Colorado  Trading 
&  Transfer  Co.,  Cripple  Creek,  Colorado.  He  was  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years,  as  a  producer 
and  wholesaler.  He  is  likewise  interested  in  the  Pike's 
Peak  Fuel  Co.  of  Colorado  Springs  and  other  coal  concerns. 
He  was  born  in  Indiana  in  1865. 

L.  A.  CLANCY  is  Manager  of  the  Loveland  Mercantile  & 
Ice  Co.,  Loveland,  Colorado,  and  has  been  three  years  in 
the  business.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Loveland  Ice  & 
Fuel  Co.  He  was  born  at  Mattoon,  Illinois,  September  22, 
1871. 

WILLIAM  J.  CLARK,  coal  merchant  at  Monte  Vista, 
Colorado,  for  twenty-four  years,  was  born  at  East  Water- 
ford,  Pennsylvania,  in  August,  1848.  His  brother,  D.  B. 
Clark,   is  associated   with  him. 

FRANK  CONVERSE  is  General  Manager  of  the  Converse 
Coal  Co.  at  Paonia,  Colorado  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  formerly  was  with 
the  Black  Diamond  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  New  London, 
Ohio,    in   1859. 


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WILLIAM  H.  (OLE,  President  and  Manager  Leadville 
Ice  &  Coal  Co.  and  Leadville  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Leadville, 
Colorado,  was  born  October  18,  1861,  at  Mosend,  Scotland, 
and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four  years. 

WALTKH  WHALEY  CI'RTIS,  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado, 
is  President  and  Treasurer  of  The  Curtis  Coal  Co.  and  of  the 
Hapson  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for 
six  years.  He  was  born  at  Klkton,  Maryland,  September  28\ 
1863,  and  is  a  civil  engineer  by  profession,  being  a  member 
of  several   scientific   societies. 

ANTHONY  FIDEL  is  Manager  of  the  Fidel  Coal  Co.  at 
Frulta,  Colorado,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  twenty-five  years.  He  was  with  the  Black  Diamond 
Coal  Co.  formerly  and  is  experienced  in  coal  mining.  He 
was   born    in   Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE  W.  HAIGH.  Trinidad,  Colorado,  is  President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Trinidad  Coal  Co.  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  industry  twenty-eight  years.  He 
was  yardmaster  for  various  Denver  concerns  in  the  early 
'nineties  and  has  opened  up  seven  mines  in  different  coun- 
ties of  Colorado.      He  was  born  in  Yorks,  England,  in  1870. 

ALBERT  XV.  HALL  is  Manager  of  the  Red  Mountain  Coal 
Co.  at  Cedaredge,  Colorado,  and  has  spent  eight  years  in  the 
coal  business.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Surface  Creek  Co-operative  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Daven- 
port, Iowa,  November  7,  1857. 

HAROLD  C.  HARMON,  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years  and  is 
President  of  the  Colorado  Springs  Fuel  Co.  He  was  four- 
teen years  with  the  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.,  advancing 
from  mine  clerk  to  traveling  salesman,  and  later  to  Manager 
of  the  retail  department  at  Denver  and  Assistant  Manager 
of  the  wholesale  department.  Mr.  Harmon  was  the  first 
President  elected  by  the  Rocky  Mountain  Coal  Men's  Asso- 
ciation.    He  was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  June  10,   1868. 

WILLIAM  LOWES,  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Sedgwick, 
Colorado,  has  been  doing  business  in  Sedgwick  nine  years. 
He  was  born   in  England  December  13,  1868. 

JAMES  E.  McLAL'GHLIN,  Trinidad,  Colorado,  is  President 
and  General  Manager  of  The  Black  Diamond  Niggerhead 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  also  is  the  operator  and  owner  of 
the  McLaughlin  wagon  mine  near  Trinidad.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  industry  for  thirty-six  years  and  has  been 
President  of  McLaughlin  Bros.  Coal  Co.  and  of  the  Santiago 
Coal  Co.  In  Utah  he  was  for  two  years  Assistant  to  the  State 
Geologist  and  in  Montana  he  was  Manager  of  the  Clark's 
Fork  Coal  Co..  the  Kuntz  Mining  Co.  and  the  Spring  Rock 
Mine.  He  was  for  six  years  Mine  Superintendent  for  the 
Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  In  Colorado  and  Mine  Boss  and 
Engineer  for  the  Raton  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Mr.  McLaughlin 
is  a  member  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  Mining  Institute.  He 
was  born  at  Glasgow,  Scotland,  In  18611  and  was  raised  in 
Will   County,   Illinois. 

JOHN  XV.  McGOVERN,  Manager  and  Secretary  McGovern 
Coal  Co.,  Pueblo,  Colorado,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness eleven  years.  He  has  served  as  Vice  President  of  the 
Pueblo  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Credit  Bureau.  Mr.  McGovern 
was  born  in  Pueblo  June  23,  1881. 

CHARLES  McMILLAX,  Fort  Collins,  Colorado,  is  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer  of  The  McMillan  Transfer,  Coal  & 
Storage  Co.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  thirteen 
years  and  has  served  a  term  as  Second  Vice  President  of 
the  Colorado  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association.  He  was 
born  January  1,  1885.  In  Columbia  City,  Indiana. 

ANDREW'  J.  MERRITT,  Walsenburg,  Colorado,  is  Audi- 
tor and  General  Office  Manager  for  the  Turner  Coal  Co., 
the  Gordon  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Delcarbon  Coal  Co.,  as  well  as 
President  of  the  Huerfano  Agency  Co.,  which  handles  their 
coals.  He  also  is  Selling  Agent  for  a  number  of  small 
mines  in  the  Walsenburg  district.  He  was  born  in  Ashland, 
Kentucky,  January  9,  1884,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness  ten   years. 

J.  CRIT  MITCHELL,  Manager  Center  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.. 
Center,  Colorado,  was  born  at  Charleston,  Illinois,  in  1858 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years. 

JOHN  J.  NEISH,  Palisade,  Colorado,  Is  Superintendent  of 
The  Palisade  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  about  twenty-seven  years.  Formerly  he  was 
connected  with  the  following  companies:  Rocky  Mountain 
Fuel  Co.,  Grand  Junction  Mining  &  Fuel  Co.,  Colorado  Fuel 
&  Iron  Co.,  and  the  Moffat  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Coal- 
ville,   Iowa,   December   12,    1880. 

C.  I'.  O'NEILL,  Superintendent  Allen  Coal  Co.,  Coal  View. 
Routt  County,  Colorado,  was  born  October  22,  1862,  In 
Kngland,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  many 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  National  Fuel  Co.,  South 
i 'anon  Coal  Co.  and  Minaqua  Coal  Co. 

W.  L.  PATCHEN,  Pueblo,  Colorado,  is  Manager  of  the 
Capers  &  Helwig  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  President  of 
the  Gordon  Coal  Co.  of  Colorado.  He  has  been  In  the  busi- 
ness for  eleven   years. 


SAMUEL  I'ETRY  is  an  individual  coal  operator  and 
retailer  at  Florence,  Colorado,  and  is  owner  of  a  wagon 
mine.  He  has  been  in  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was 
born    in    Italy    January    25,    1876. 

THOMAS  G.  PIERCE  is  General  Manager  of  the  Sunshine 
Coal  Co.  at  Durango,  Colorado,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  October  1,  1869,  at 
Chariton,    Iowa. 

FREDERICK  c.  REMMER,  Victor.  Colorado,  is  Manager 
and  Cashier  for  The  Colorado  Trading  &  Transfer  Co. 
and  was  formerly  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Gold  Belt 
Supply  Co.  He  has  been  in  business  for  eleven  years.  He 
was  born  at   Yorkville,    Illinois,    September   18,    1873. 

C.  W.  RINEHAHT  of  Cedaredge,  Colorado,  Is  Manager  of 
the  Green  Valley  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for 
the  past  three  or  four  years.     He  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1865. 

HENRY  W.  J.  SMITH  of  the  Northern  Colorado  Fuel  Co., 
Coalmont,  Colorado,  was  born  December  10,  1887,  at  Wil- 
liamsport.  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  ten  years. 

C.  R.  STRAIN  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Strain 
Bros.,  Lamar,  Colorado,  being  likewise  interested  in  the 
Lamar  Seed  Co.  and  the  W.  F.  McCue  Mercantile  Co.  Mr. 
Strain  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  twen- 
ty-three years,  formerly  with  M.  Strain.  He  was  born  at 
Bloomington,    Indiana,    August    15,    1871. 

RAY  STRAIN  is  junior  member  of  the  firm  and  Manager 
for  Strain  Bros.,  coal  merchants  at  Lamar,  Colorado. 
He  also  has  coal  interests  at  McClave  and  La  Junta,  Colo- 
rado. He  has  been  in  the  business  twenty  years  and  is  a 
Director  of  the  Colorado  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 
He  was  born  at  Bloomington,  Indiana,  February  11,  1878. 
.Mr    Strain    is  Mayor   of  Lamar. 

WELLING  A.  SIMNER,  Walsenburg,  Colorado,  Sales 
Manager  Huerfano  Agency  Co.  and  Auditor  for  the  Gordon 
Coal  Co.,  is  interested  in  the  Turner  Coal  Co.  Formerly  he 
was  connected  with  the  Niggerhead  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Walsenburg  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  has  served  as  Cashier, 
Auditor  and  Salesman.  He  was  born  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
November   14,    1885. 

ALVA  E.  THOMPSON,  Walsenburg,  Colorado,  is  Deputy 
State  Inspector  of  Coal  Mines  in  Colorado.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  industry  for  over  twenty  years, 
having  formerly  been  with  The  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co., 
The  Choctaw  Coal  Co.,  and  The  Victor  American  Fuel  Co. 
He  was  born  at  Camden,  Missouri,  February  10,   1880. 

R.  CLYDE  TODD,  La  Junta,  Colorado,  is  Secretary  and 
General  Manager  of  The  La  Junta  Trading  Co.  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 
He  formerly  was  with  the  R.  W.  English  Lumber  Co.  at 
La  Junta.  Mr.  Todd  was  born  at  Ft.  Scott,  Kansas,  October 
13,  1878. 

WILLIAM  D.  TL'DOR  is  General  Manager  of  the  Tudor 
Coal  Co.  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado.  He  has  been  in  the 
business  for  over  twenty-five  years.  His  company  carries 
on  a  retail,  wholesale  and  mining  business.  He  was  born 
at  Pine  Run,  Pennsylvania,  September  28,   1873. 

ALBERT  It.  WKINHOLD,  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Evans, 
Colorado,  has  been  in  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was 
born  at  Wilson,  Kansas,  June  7,  1882. 

ERNEST  EDMUND  WITHERS  is  Manager  of  the  Iron 
City  Fuel  Co.  at  Pueblo,  Colorado,  and  has  been  in  the 
business  ten  years.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the 
Pueblo  Retail  Coal  healers'  Association  for  six  years  and  is 
now  First  Vice  President  of  the  Colorado  Retail  Coal  Deal- 
ers' Association.    He  was  born   in  Pueblo   December  16,  1883. 

HOWE  H.  WOODFORD  is  Manager  of  the  Woodford  Coal 
Co..  Trinidad,  Colorado,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
one  year.  He  holds  an  interest  in  an  undeveloped  coal  land 
tract  of  1,000  acres.  He  was  born  at  Philippi,  West  Vir- 
ginia,  December   3,    1875. 

J.  R.  vol  ><;.  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  is  the  Manager 
of  The  Pike's  Peak  Consolidated  Fuel  Co.,  and  has  been  in 
the  business  six  years.  Mr.  Young  is  Vice  President  of 
the  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  of  Colorado  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Colorado  Springs  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion.    He  was  born   at  Topeka.   Kansas,   July   17,  1876. 

TIMOTHY  N.  YOL'NG,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Iron  City  Lumber  Co.,  Pueblo,  Colorado,  was  born  May 
20,  1870,  In  Laclede  County,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    five    years. 

WATSON  7.EIGLEH  is  the  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  The  Grand  Mesa  Fuel  Co.,  Delta,  Colorado,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born 
at  Sigourney,   Iowa.  October   26,  1855. 


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DELAWARE 


DELAWARE,  upon  a  per  capita  basis,  is  the 
greatest  coal  consuming  state  in  the  country.'  Its 
average  per  capita  in  15)15  was  6.69  tons,  against 
an  average  for  the  United  States  as  a  whole  of  approxi- 
mately five  tons.  In  other  words,  although  Delaware 
produces  no  coal  within  its  own  borders,  its  proximity 
to  the  great  coal  producing  states  of  Pennsylvania  and 
West  Virginia — which  under  normal  times  contribute 
over  50  per  cent,  of  the  total  bituminous  output  of  the 
country* — makes  possible  a  concentrated  manufacturing 
enterprise  within  its  relatively  small  area  that  permits 
this  member  of  the  Thirteen  Colonies  to  form  an  im- 
portant unit  in  the  great  Atlantic  Seaboard  workshop 
of  the  United  States. 

If  consideration  is  confined  to  domestic  and  indus- 
trial bitumious  coal  consumption  the  record  for  Dela- 
ware assumes  added  significance.  Upon  this  basis  the 
average  for  the  country  given  above,  five  tons  (inclusive 
of  anthracite,  railroad  and  bunker  consumption),  falls  to 
2.04  tons,  while  Delaware  shows  a  per  capita  bituminous 
coal  consumption  of  5.70  tons — a  record  exceeded  only 
by  the  state  of  Illinois,  where  the  per  capita  consump- 


tion in  the  Chicago  industrial  district  (8.3  tons  in  1912) 
raises  the  general  state  average  to  5.91  tons  per  capita. 
Delaware,  however,  has  a  higher  per  capita  anthracite 
consumption  than  Illinois,  so  that  the  combined  indus- 
trial and  domestic  consumption  for  both  classes  of  fuel 
is  6.69  tons  iu  Delaware,  against  6.45  tons  in  Illinois 
and  2.82  tons  per  capita  for  the  country  as  a  whole. 
Upon  a  per  square  mile  basis,  Delaware  shows  a  con- 
sumption of  anthracite  and  bituminous  coal  for  indus- 
trial and  domestic  purposes  of  597  tons.  In  this  it  is  out- 
ranked only  by  Pennsylvania  (1,968  tons),  the  New 
England  States  (1,525  tons),  New  York  (772  tons) 
and  Illinois  (764  tons).  Even  upon  the  square  mile 
basis  the  Delaware  consumption  is  nearly  five  times  the 
average  for  the  United  States  as  a  whole,  123  tons. 

The  total  bituminous  consumption  for  the  state  in 
1915  was  1,206,197  tons.  Pennsylvania  furnished  the 
greater  part  of  the  fuel  used,  viz.,  951,419.  West  Vir- 
ginia was  second  with  245,451  tons,  while  the  remainder, 
9,327  tons,  came  from  the  neighboring  state  of  Mary- 
land.   The  anthracite  consumption  was  210,000  tons. 


JAMBS  B.  BICE,  retail  coal  merchant,  Dover,  Delaware, 
has  been  in  the  business  twenty-three  years.  He  was  for- 
merly a  member  of  the  firm  of  Slaughter  &  Bice.  Mr.  Bice 
was  born  in  Maryland  September  4,   1858. 

JOHN  CONLY  of  the  firm  of  Conly  Bros.,  coal  merchants  at 
Wilmington,  Delaware,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty- 
six  years.     He  was  born  at  Wilmington  October  27,  1843. 

NEA1.  CONLY  is  a  member  of  the  Arm  of  Conly  Bros., 
Front  and  Madison  Sts.,  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and  has  been 
in  the  business  for  over  twenty-five  years.  He  was  born 
August  25,  1845,  at  Wilmington. 

JOHN  M.  DONOHOE,  Wilmington,  Delaware,  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  for  about  nine  years.  He  was  born 
at  Wilmington  November  2,   1874. 

LUTHER  W.  HURLEY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Seaford, 
Delaware,  was  born  April  13,  1853,  in  Seaford  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-three  years. 

WILLIAM  A.  HYDE  is  Assistant  Treasurer  of  The  Ed- 
ward R.  Pusey  Co.  at  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  for- 
merly was  with  the  following:  Charles  H.  Ten  Weeges, 
Diamond  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Charles  Warner  Co.  He 
was  born  at  Hockessin,   Delaware,  June  14,  1891. 

ANTHONY  P.  INGRAM,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lewes, 
Delaware,  was  born  in  Delaware  in  1859  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years. 

JUST  A  G.  JUSTIS  is  President  of  the  J.  G.  Justis  Co.,  retail 
coal  merchants  at  Newport,  Delaware,  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  business  for  over  thirty  years,  formerly  with  John  M. 
Newbold.     He  was  born  in  Maryland  October  4,  1866. 


HENRY  WARNER  McNEAL,  Newark,  Delaware,  has  been 
operating  a  retail  coal  yard  at  that  place  for  sixteen  years. 
He  was   born   near   Elkton,   Maryland,   March    7,    1870. 

I.   ELMER  PERRY,   coal    merchant   at   Wilmington,   Dela- 
ware, has  been  in  the  business  for  eight  years  and  formerly 
was   with   H.   T.    Sergeant.      He    has   served   as   President   of. 
the  Wilmington  Coal  Exchange.     He  was  born  July  28,  1869. 
in  Wilmington. 

EDWARD  R.  PUSEY  is  the  President  of  The  Edward  R. 
Pusey  Co.  at  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  Formerly  he  was  con- 
nected with  the  Consumers  Ice  &  Coal  Co.  and  the  Hygeia 
Ice  Co.  Mr.  Pusey  has  served  three  terms  as  Director  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association.  He 
was  born  at   Wilmington   March   23,    1878. 

VICTOR  R.  PYI.E  is  President  of  the  Victor  R.  Pyle  Co., 
Market  and  D  Sts.,  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years.  He 
formerly  was  connected  with  Cranston,  Newbold  &  Co.. 
George  W.  McKee  and  McKee  &  Pyle.  He  was  born  at 
Wilmington   April    10,    1865. 

WILLIAM  N.  RADCLIPF  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Bridgeville,  Delaware,  and  has  been  doing  business  there 
for  seven  years. 

WILMER  STRADLEY,  616  West  20th  St.,  Wilmington, 
Delaware,  is  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  Dia- 
mond Ice  &  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Consumers 
Ice  &  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  flfteeen  years  in  the  business. 
He  was  born  at  Wilmington  March  24,  1889. 


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DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA 

Data  on  District  of  Columbia  included  under  Maryland. 

Data  on  Fuel  Administration  included  under  "The  World's  Greatest  Industry  in  Peace  and  War,"  page  7. 


I'llu  I  i".  It  \  I'll    OF  THE   STAFF  OF  THE   UNITED   STATES    FUEL     ADMINISTRATION    TAKEN    OX    THE    STEPS 
OF   THE    1'MTKIl    STATES    TREASURY    BtlLDIXG    AT    WASHINGTON,  IMS. 


DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA— Washington 

JEREMIAH  MURRAY  IIURRELL,  837  14th  St.,  N.  W 
Washington,  D.  C,  is  President  of  The  Allegheny  Coal  Co. 
and  a  stockholder  In  the  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of 
Greensnurg.  Pennsylvania.  He  has  been  identified  with  the 
coal  business  for  over  thirty  years  and  formerly  was  con- 
nected with  the  Corona  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Alabama  and  the 
Austin  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  West  Virginia.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Coal  Merchants'  Association 
of  the  District  of  Columbia.  Mr.  Burrell  was  born  in  Greens- 
burg  June  25.  1854. 

WARD  W.  GRIFFITH,  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  N  and  First  Sts.,  Washington,  D.  C  has  been  a 
retailer  for  twenty  years.  He  was  born  in  Maryland  in 
June,  1873.  Mr.  Griffith  Is  highly  regarded  in  trade  circles 
and  acted  as  adviser  to  the  District  Administrator. 

WILLIAM  F.  HUMMER,  511  A  St.,  N.  K.,  Washington,  D. 
C,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years.  He  has  served  as  Treasurer  and  Director  of  the 
Coal  Merchants'  Association  of  Washington.  He  was  born 
In    Loudoun    County,   Virginia,    March    8,    1867. 

II.  FRANK  JOY,  1112  Ninth  St.,  N.  W..  Washington,  D.  C, 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  four  years.  He 
formerly  was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Akehurst  &  Joy. 
Be   was  born   in  the  city  of  Washington. 

CHARLES  FRANCIS  MILLER,  President  Charles  F.  Mill- 
er &  Co.,  Chevy  Chase,  D.  C,  was  born  December  11,  1888, 
In  Montgomery  County,  Maryland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  six   years. 


JOHN  D.  A.  MORROW,  General  Director  of  Distribution, 
U.  S.  Fuel  Administration.  Washington,  D.  C,  was  born  in 
1881  in  Ohio  and  has  been  closely  identified  with  the  coal  in- 
dustry for  the  past  seven  or  eight  years.  Mr.  Morrow  was 
Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission  when 
it  was  first  organized.  He  was  also  Commissioner  of  the 
Pittsburgh  Coal  Producers  Association  and  General  Secretary 
of  the  National  Coal  Association  before  assuming  his  pres- 
ent  duties. 

OTTO  G.  RAYMOND,  Secretary-Treasurer  John  P.  Agnew 
&  Co.,  Inc.,  of  Washington,  D.  G,  was  born  October  12, 
1882,  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  seven  years.  Mr.  Raymond  is  a  Director  of  the  Coal 
Merchants'   Association   of  the   District   of  Columbia. 

WILLIAM  H.  ROSEWAG,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  was  born  June  28.  1875,  in.  Washington  and  has 
been    In    the    coal    business    for    three    years. 

RODNEY  N.  SMITH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  was  born  January  25,  1876,  in  Maryland  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years. 

WILLIAM  D.  SUTHERLAND,  3126  14th  St.,  N.  W.,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Is  President  and  Manager  of  the  lit.  Pleasant 
Coal  Co.  and  has  been  In  the  business  for  eight  years.  He 
was  born  In  Richmond,  Virginia,  June  11,  1855.  George  H. 
Sutherland,  his  son,  Is  Assistant  Manager  of  the  company. 

JOSEPH  P.  STEPHENSON,  proprietor  of  Stephenson  & 
Bros..  Washington,  D.  C,  was  born  In  Washington  In  1875 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years. 

LUCIEN  N.  WALTERS  of  Walters  &  Co.,  retail  coal  mer- 
chants at  Washington,  D.  C,  was  born  January  10,  1850,  in 
Virginia  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years. 


43 


COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


HARRY    AUGUSTUS    GARFIELD,    Washington, 

President  Williams  College,  Williamston,  Massachusetts, 
was  appointed  United  States  Fuel  Administrator,  with  head- 
quarters at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  August  23, 
1917,  by  President  Wilson.  He  was  born  in  Hiram,  Ohio, 
October  11,  1S63,  the  son  of  James  A.  Garfield,  the  twentieth 
President  of  the  United  States.  By  profession  a  lawyer, 
by  experience  a  business  man,  by  appointment  an  educator, 
he  brought  to  the  position,  a  trying  one  during  the  great 
war,   an    ability   that   made   his   new   duties   a   success. 


GEORGE    OTIS    SMITH,    Washington, 

Director  United  States  Geological  Survey  since  1907,  with 
headquarters  at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  was 
born  in  Hodgdon,  Maine,  February  22,  1871,  and  since  his 
graduation  from  Colby  College  has  been  engaged  in  geo- 
logical work.  He  and  his  department  played  an  important 
part  in  the  Fuel  Administration  during  1917  and  1918. 


VAN  H.  MANNING,  Washington, 

Director  of  the  Bureau  of  Mines,  with  headquarters  at  Wash- 
ington, District  of  Columbia,  was  born  in  Horn  Lake  Depot, 
Mississippi.  For  more  than  twenty  years  he  has  been  en- 
gaged in  technical  and  scientific  work  under  the  Department 
of  the  Interior.  Mr.  Manning  is  a  member  of  leading  mining 
and  scientific  societies  and  the  author  of  a  large  number  of 
topographic  maps  and  special  bulletins,  a  worthy  successor 
of  the  late  Dr.  Holmes. 


)  by  Harris  &  Ewing. 
CARL   EUGENE   LESHER,  Washington, 

Statistician  United  States  Fuel  Administration  and  Geologist 
United  States  Geological  Survey,  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia,  was  born  in  Da  Junta.  Colorado,  in  1885.  He  was 
a  mining  engineer  and  metallurgist  engaged  in  practice  in 
British  Columbia,  Illinois,  and  New  York  previous  to  his 
connection  with  the  Geological  Survey,  four  years  of  his 
connection  with  the  latter  being  in  charge  of  the  valuation 
of  public  coal  lands.  Mr.  Lesher's  work  is  considered  very 
valuable  by  the  coal  industry. 


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FLORIDA 


PONCE  DE  LEON  on  his  record  in  his  search  for 
the  I'alilcd  Fountain  of  Youth  could  hardly  qual- 
ify for  membership  in  Ye  Ancient  and  Honorable 
Order  of  Coal  Knights,  for  his  journeys  led  him  to  a 
garden  spot  where  the  fuel  man  upon  business  bent  finds 
little  to  arouse  his  commercial  instincts.  However, 
those  fortunate  enough  to  have  wrung  wealth  out  of  the 
prosperity  created  by  coal  farther  north,  to  disport  them- 
selves at  Palm  Beach,  to  enjoy  San  Augustine  and  the 
other  attractions  for  which  our  southernmost  state  is 
famous,  will  forgive  the  old  Spaniard  for  his  lack  of 
consideration.  Florida,  with  an  annual  coal  consump- 
tion in  the  neighborhood  of  250,000  tons,  uses  a  smaller 
amount  of  coal  than  any  other  state  in  the  Union  except 
Nevada. 

Upon  a  per  capita  consumption  basis  Nevada  is 
forced  to  yield  even  that  record  to  its  southern  sister. 
The  average  Florida  per  capita  domestic  and  industrial 
consumption  (exclusive  of  railroad  and  bunker  busi- 
ness) is  .20  ton.  The  low  record  for  the  country  is 
found  in  that  other  great  citrus  state  and  national  play- 
ground— California — where  the  per  capita  consumption 
is  .11  ton.  Arkansas  falls  below  the  Florida  record 
by  a  fraction  over  .09  ton.     Upon  the  square  mile  basis, 


however,  Florida  outranks  Arizona  (1  ton),  California 
and  Nevada  (2  tons  each)  and  Oregon  (3  tons)  and  is 
on  the  same  plane  as  Idaho. 

Coming  to  a  concrete  tonnage  basis  it  is  found  that 
Florida  used  225,176  tons  of  bituminous  coal  and  25,000 
tons  of  Pennsylvania  anthracite  in  1915.  The  bitum- 
inous supplies  were  all  drawn  from  southern  states. 
The  neighboring  commonwealth  of  Alabama  led  with 
108,782  tons;  Virginia  contributed  40,230;  West  Vir- 
ginia, 31,980;  Tennessee,  26,880;  Kentucky,  17,268, 
and  Georgia,  30  tons.  During  the  year  a  small  quantity 
of  coal,  422  tons  of  anthracite  and  1,909  tons  of  bitum- 
inous, were  exported  through  the  Florida  customs  dis- 
trict. Imports  of  515  tons  of  bituminous  coal  were  re- 
ported. Bureau  of  Commerce,  Foreign  and  Domestic 
Commerce  figures  show  that  the  district  supplied  117,- 
201  tons  of  bunker  coal  to  vessels  engaged  in  foreign 
commerce  and  30,552  tons  in  1914  to  steamships  en- 
gaged in  domestic  trade. 

According  to  data  published  in  Saward's  "Coal 
Trade,"  the  bunker  business  at  Pensacola,  Florida's  lead- 
ing port,  totaled  110,002  tons  in  1910.  In  addition,  11,- 
582  tons  were  exported  through  the  same  port  to  Mex- 
ico, Cuba,  Brazil  and  Italv. 


FLORIDA 


JOHN  GRAY  ANDKHSON,  JR.,  is  Secretary-Treasurer  and 
Manager  of  the  Tampa  Coal  Co.  at  Tampa,  Florida,  and 
has  been  engaged  In  the  retail  and  bunker  business  for  over 
ten  years.  He  was  born  at  Williamsburg,  Virginia.  Lieut. 
K.  If.  Anderson,  X.  R.  F.,  is  President  of  the  company. 

KIUMIS  MAKKtlli:  AMIKRSOX.  President  of  the 
Tampa  Coal  Co.,  Tampa,  Florida,  was  born  October  11,  1882, 
in  Accomack,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for    twelve    years. 

J.  J.  I.OGAX  of  Jacksonville,  Florida,  Is  President  of  the 
Logan  Coal  &  Supply  Co.  and  has  been  engaged  In  the  coal 
business  fur  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Bradley  Coun- 
ty. Tennessee,   November  30,    1873. 


R.  M.  CARV,  President  of  Cary  &  Co.,  Inc.,  10  South  Pala- 
fox  St.,  Pensacola.  Fla.,  established  the  business  over  thirty 
years  ago.  It  is  the  oldest  coal  concern  in  western  Florida 
and  does  a  large  trade  in  the  bunkering  of  ships,  Pensacola 
being  the  chief  port  of  call  for  steamers  plying  between 
gulf  ports.  Mr.  Cary  was  born  in  Isle  of  Wight  County, 
Virginia,   May   19.   1861. 

JOHN'  MASSKY,  Secretary  of  Cary  &  Co.,  Inc.,  Pensacola. 
Florida,  has  been  associated  in  the  coal  business  with  R.  IS, 
Cary  for  twenty  years.  He  was  born  at  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Station  In  Pensacola  July  4,  1877.  Mr.  Massey  has  a  wide 
acquaintance  in  the  trade  and  is  one  of  the  popular  coal- 
men in  the  south. 

GHOKGB  I'.  MKSKHVE.  retail  coal  merchant  at  St.  Au- 
gustine, Florida,  has  been  in  the  business  for  seven  years. 
He  was  born  at  St.  Augustine  September  13.   1890. 


45 


GEORGIA 


IN  these  clays  when  the  half-billion  mark  in  bitumin- 
ous coal  output  is  history  and  talk  of  an  annual  pro- 
duction of  1,000,000,000  tons  is  no  longer  an  invi- 
tation to  incarceration  in  a  home  for  the  feeble-minded, 
the  output  currently  mined  in  the  state  of  Georgia  does 
not  bulk  large  in  the  statistical  reviews  of  the  coal  year. 
While  the  total  area  of  the  Georgia  field,  estimated  at 
167  square  miles  (not  all  of  which  is  workable),  is  the 
smallest  in  any  of  the  Appalachian  states,  extensive  op- 
erations are  carried  on  in  both  counties.  About  26.2 
per  cent  of  the  coal  in  the  Lookout  Mountain  basin  in 
Walker  county  is  distilled  into  coke  and  finds  a  market 
at  Chattanooga  and  other  furnace  points  in  Tennessee 
and  Georgia.  The  Georgia  coal  also  has  a  high  reputa- 
tion for  bunker  and  general  steam  purposes  and  is  used 
at  Brunswick  and  other  coast  cities. 

The  first  authentic  production  records  for  the  state 
appear  in  the  Census  report  for  1860,  when  the  output 
was  placed  at  1,900  tons.  Figures  for  the  19  years  fol- 
lowing are  upon  estimated  bases.  Reliable  records  re- 
appear in  1880,  when  the  Census  report  credited  the 
state  with  a  production  of  154,644  tons.  Although  sub- 
ject to  marked  fluctuations  there  was  a  general  upward 
trend  until  1903  when  the  peak  production  of  416,951 
tons  was  reached.  From  that  point  there  was  an  un- 
checked decline  until  1912,  when  the  output  rose  from 
165,210  tons  to  227,503  tons.  There  was  a  slight  de- 
crease the  next  year  and  a  pronounced  slump  in  1914: 


Year.  Ton. 

1880 154,644 

1881 168,000 

1882 160,000 

1883 155,000 

1884 150,000 

1885 150,000 

1886 223,000 

1887 313,715 

1888 180,000 

1889 225,934 

1890 228,337 

1891 171,000 

1892 215,498 

1893 372,740 

1894 354,111 

1895 260,998 

1896 238.546 

1897 195,869 

1898 244,187 


Year.  Ton. 

1899 233,111 

1900 315.557 

1901 342,825 

1902 414,083 

1903 416,951 

1904 383,191 

1905 351,991 

1906 332,107 

1907 362,401 

1908 264,822 

1909 211,196 

1910 177,245 

1911 165,210 

1912 227,503 

1913 255,626 

1914 140,243 

1915 134,496 

1916 173,554 


The  uneven  course  in  production  records  for  the  state 
are  attributed  by  the  United  States  Geological  Survey 
to  peculiar  labor  conditions.  Commenting  upon  the  sit- 
uation the  Survey  said: 

"The  production  of  coal  in  Georgia  has  fluctuated 
greatly  from  year  to  year  since  1876,  when  it  first  ex- 
ceeded 100,000  tons.  A  noteworthy  feature  is  that  in 
nearly  every  instance  the  year  following  one  of  the  high 
points  has  recorded  the  minimum  for  the  period,  suc- 
ceeding which  there  has  been  a  steady  building  up  to 
.  the  next  maximum  high  point.  The  fluctuations  have 
been  due  in  the  past  for  the  most  part  to  peculiar  labor 
conditions.  Prior  to  1904  the  principal  labor  employed 
consisted  of  convicts  leased  from  the  state  government. 
An  act  of  the  legislature  prohibiting  the  further  leasing 
of  convicts  to  industrial  enterprises  caused  the  gradual 
withdrawal  from  the  coal  mines  of  this  labor  when  the 
contracts  expired  and  operators  in  the  somewhat  iso- 
lated region  where  the  mines  are  located  were  unable  to 
supply  the  deficiency  by  free  labor." 

Since  1911  there  have  been  only  two  mines  in  opera- 
tion in  the  state. 

The  distribution  of  the  production,  using  the  1915 
total  of  134,496  tons,  was  as  follows:  The  mines  used 
7,200  tons;  35,377  tons  were  coked  and  78,195  tons 
were  shipped  to  local  points,  making  a  total  internal 
consumption  of  120,772  tons.  The  railroads  purchased 
5,000  tons.  Shipments  to  points  outside  of  Georgia 
totaled  8,724  tons  and  were  divided  as  follows:  Ala- 
bama, 38 ;  Arkansas,  73 ;  California,  30 ;  Florida,  30 ; 
Missouri,  538;  the  Carolinas,  500;  Tennessee,  7,359, 
and  Texas,  156  tons. 

While  the  120,772  tons  of  Georgia  coal  consumed 
within  the  state  represented  92.4  per  cent,  of  the  total 
production,  this  tonnage  was  equal  to  less  than  4.5  per 
cent,  of  the  total  bituminous  requirements  of  that  com- 
monwealth. Alabama,  Kentucky,  Tennessee  and  the 
Virginias  were  called  upon  to  contribute  the  other  neces- 
sary 95.5  per  cent,  in  the  following  tonnages :  Alabama, 
363,572  tons;  Kentucky,  800,822;  Tennessee,  481,271; 
Virginia,  368,751,  and  West  Virginia,  41,332.  Penn- 
sylvania anthracite  receipts  for  that  year  approximated 
50,000  tons.  Upon  a  per  capita  basis  the  2,226,520 
tons  of  coal  used  within  the  state  were  .73  ton  bitu- 
minous and  .02  ton  of  anthracite.  The  square  mile  con- 
sumption was  37  tons. 


46 


COAL   MEN   OF  AMERICA 


GEORGIA  — Atlanta 


JOHN'  Bl'LOW  CAMPBELL,  President  of  The  R.  O. 
Campbell  Coal  Co.  at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  has  been  In  the 
business  for  twenty-eight  years.  He  is  Vice  President  of 
the  Westbourne  Coal  Co.  and  Treasurer  of  the  following: 
Campbell  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Sterbourne  Coal  Co.,  Highcliff 
Coal  Co.,  Blue  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  and  Red  Feather  Coal  Co. 
He  was  born  at  Atlanta  December  15,  1870. 

JOHN  C.  DBADY,  Atlanta,  Georgia,  is  Southern  Manager 
for  the  Bewley-Darst  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  about  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  O'Gara  Coal  Co.,  Chicago.  He  was  born  in 
Chicago,  Illinois,  August  17,  1880. 

JIMPSIK  FARMER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  1264  De  Kalb 
Ave.,  Atlanta,  Georgia,  has  been  in  the  retail  business  twelve 
years.  He  has  a  branch  yard  at  Decatur,  Georgia,  and  for- 
merly was  with  the  Georgia  Iron  &  Coal  Co.  for  nine  years, 
holding  positions  from  shipping  clerk  to  Superintendent. 
He  was  born  March  13,  1875,  in  Conyers,  Rockdale  County, 
Georgia. 

1IENHY  MEINERT  of  the  Henry  Meinert  Coal  Co.,  Atlanta, 
Georgia,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  trade  over  twenty  years. 
Grover  N.  Meinert  is  a  member  of  the  firm  and  General  Man- 
ager. 

JOHN  H.  MOORE,  227  McDaniel  St.,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-four  years.  He 
was   born   at   Monroe,   Georgia,   September   18,    1874. 

WILLIAM  LANE  RANDALL,  212  Peters  Building,  At- 
lanta, Georgia,  is  a  member  of  the  retail  coal  firm  of  Ran- 
dall Bros.,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirty-two 
years,  since  its  establishment  in  1885.  He  was  born  at 
Decatur,  Georgia,  July  9,  1861,  and  is  one  of  the  prominent 
coal  merchants   in   the   south. 


GEORGIA 


JAMES  G.  BARRON,  211  Commerce  St.,  Albany,  Georgia, 
is  sole  owner  and  Manager  of  the  Barron  Coal  &  Wood 
Co.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  began  with  the  Gillespie  Coal  Co.  at  Glasgow, 
Scotland,  and  advanced  from  miner  and  wagoner  through 
all  departments.     He  was  born  in  Ireland  October  15,  1856. 

T.  M.  CARTER  is  Manager  for  Carter  &  Co.,  coal  and 
cotton  factors  at  Albany,  Georgia,  and  has  been  identified 
with  the  coal  business  for  forty  years.  He  formerly  was 
connected  with  N.  &  A.  F.  Tift  Co.  and  with  Carter  &  Wool- 
folk.     He  was  born  at  Augusta,  Georgia,  in  1841. 

L.  J.  CASSELS,  President  of  the  Kirkwood  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.  at  Kirkwood.  Georgia,  has  been  in  the  business  for 
sixteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  July  12, 
1874.     He  is  also  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Cassels  &  Fleming. 

LEWIS  FLEMISTER  is  the  Manager  of  the  Fowler- 
Flemister  Coal  Co.  at  Milledgeville,  Georgia.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Cook  Lumber  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  over  ten  years.  He  was  born  March  10,  1884, 
at  Griffin,  Georgia. 

NATHAN  GADLEY  is  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Gad- 
ley  &  Griffin  at  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  business  for  four  years.  He  was  born  at  Walter- 
boro.  South   Carolina,    in   March,   1876. 


ERNEST  C.  GOODWYN  is  proprietor  of  a  wholesale  and 
retail  coal  business  at  Newnan.  Georgia,  and  has  carried 
it  on  for  about  fifteen  years.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Southeastern  Association  of  Coal  Merchants  In  At- 
lanta, Georgia,  1906.  He  was  born  in  Newnan  July  27, 
1875. 

JAMES  D.  GRAHAM  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
at  Dalton.  Georgia,  since  1892,  when  he  succeeded  E.  O. 
Herndon.     He  was  born  June  27,  1837,  in  Ganesville,  Georgia. 

ROBERT  W.  GRAVES  is  President  of  The  Graves-Harper 
Co.  at  Rome,  Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-seven  years.  He  has  served  a  term  as  President 
of  the  Southeastern  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He  was 
born  at  Rome,  Georgia,  in  1871,  and  is  highly  regarded 
in  the  trade. 

JOSEPH  F.  GRIFFIN,  Savannah,  Georgia,  is  a  junior 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Gadley  &  Griffin,  retail  coal  mer- 
chants, and  has  been  in  the  business  for  four  years.  He 
was   born   February    13,    1886. 

WILLIAM  LANE  HANCOCK,  proprietor  W.  L.  Hancock 
Coal  Co.,  Athens,  Georgia,  was  born  December  7,  1870,  at 
Jefferson,  Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years. 

CARL  J.  HERMAN  is  a  member  of  the  Herman  Coal  & 
Wood  Co.  at  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born  In 
Savannah  November  2,  1875. 

WrILLIAM  WOLFF  HERTZ,  360  New  St.,  Macon,  Georgia, 
is  the  proprietor  of  the  business  of  the  Hertz  Coal  Co. 
and  has  been  doing  a  retail  business  for  thirteen  years.  He 
was  born  at  Macon  March  7,  1879. 

JOHN  B.  MILLS  is  General  Manager  and  Secretary-Treas- 
urer of  the   Newton  Coal   &  Lumber  Co.   at  Griffin,  Georgia. 

DANIEL  W.  PEACE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Douglas- 
ville,  Georgia,  was  born  August  29,  1861,  at  Crawford,  Mis- 
sissippi, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 

ETHELRED  PHILIPS,  1400  Third  Ave.,  Columbus,  Geor- 
gia, is  head  of  the  firm  of  E.  Philips  &  Sons.  He  suc- 
ceeded in  1880  to  the  coal  business  established  by  Charles 
Philips  in  1870.  George  B.  and  Ernest  W.  Philips  are  now 
actively  in  charge.  Mr.  Ethelred  Philips  was  born  March 
6,    1851,    at   Mariana,    Florida. 

J.  W.  PHILLIPS  is  a  member  of  the  coal  firm  of  W.  C. 
Wykle  &  Co.  at  Augusta,  Georgia,  and  its  Secretary  and 
Treasurer.  He  is  thirty-nine  years  old  and  was  born  In 
Columbia    County,    Georgia. 

JOSEPH  FELDER  POU  is  proprietor  of  the  coal  business 
of  J.  F.  Pou  &  Co.  at  Columbus,  Georgia,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  business  for  twenty-six  years.  The  title 
of  the  firm  was  changed  from  W.  L.  &  J.  F.  Pou  in  1895, 
when  W.  L.  Pou  died,  his  brother,  J.  F.  Pou,  buying  his 
interest  from  the  widow.  Mr.  Pou  was  born  at  Columbus 
September  16,  1867. 

WILLIAM  JAMES  RYAN  is  President  of  the  Vulcan  Fuel 
Co.,  635  Hull  St.  W.,  Savannah,  Georgia.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Central  of  Georgia  Railway  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  six  years.  He  was  born  in  Savannah 
July    24,    1883. 

ALEXANDER  F.  SMITH  of  Herndon  &  Smith,  Elberton, 
Georgia,  war  born  July  13,  1867,  in  Elberton  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  three  years. 

JOHN  ESTELLE  TARBLEY  is  Cashier  and  Office  Mana- 
ger for  Carter  &  Co.,  coal  merchants  at  Albany,  Georgia, 
and  has  been  in  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  at 
Canton,    Mississippi,    October    3,    1890. 

MITLFORD  P.  WORD,  Manager  LaGrange  Ice  &  Fuel  Co., 
LaGrange,  Georgia,  was  born  November  9,  1877,  at  Rome, 
Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Rome  Ice  Mfg.  Co. 


47 


IDAHO 


IDAHO  entered  the  ranks  of  coal  producing  states  less 
than  15  years  ago.  The  early  developments  centered 
about  scattered  lignite  beds  of  restricted  area,  par- 
ticularly in  the  Salmon  district  in  Lemhi  county,  near 
the  Idaho-Montana  state  line.  In  the  last  two  or  three 
years,  however,  production  has  been  confined  to  one 
bituminous  coal  mine  in  the  St.  Anthony  district  (Te- 
ton Basin  field).  Production  figures  from  1905  to  1913 
were  as  follows : 

Year.  Ton. 

1910 4,448 

1911 1,805 

1912 2,319 

1913 2,143 


Year.  Ton. 

1905 5,782 

1906 5,365 

1907 6,508 

1908 5,429 

1909 4,553 


Statistics  of  production  since  1913  are  not  reported 
separately,  but  are  included  in  the  figures  for  California 
and  Nevada. 

Exclusive  of  this  Idaho  coal,  all  of  which  presumably 
was  consumed  within  the  state,  the  1915  consumption 
of  bituminous  coal  totaled  350,380  tons.  By  far  the 
greater  part  of  this  came  from  adjoining  state  of  Utah, 
which  shipped  in  227,417  tons.  Wyoming  came  second 
with  87,619  tons;  Washington  shipped  25,000  tons; 
Montana  9,311  tons,  and  Pennsylvania  33  tons.  The 
state  also  received  approximately  1,000  tons  of  lake 
cargo  coal  from  the  docks  and  200  tons  of  Pennsylvania 
anthracite.  The  per  capita  consumption  was  slightly 
in  excess  of  .83  ton. 


IDAHO 


HOWARD  E.  CAMPBELL,  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
Union  Seed  &  Fuel  Co.,  Ill  S.  Tenth  St.,  Boise,  Idaho,  and 
has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  seven 
years.  He  was  born  October  8,  1869,  at  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut. 

A.  G.  CHANGNON  is  Manager  of  the  Changnon  Commis- 
sion Co.  at  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho.  Formerly  he  was  with 
Crow  &  Changnon  and  has  been  seven  years  in  the  coal 
business.  He  was  born  at  St.  Anne,  Illinois,  February  4, 
1864. 

ALFRED  H.  CLEVELAND  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Lewis- 
ton  Fuel  &  Implement  Co.  at  Lewiston,  Idaho,  and  has 
been  in  the  business  for  three  years.  He  was  born  at 
Lewiston  July  21,   1892.  i 

M.  B.  DENLINGER,  proprietor  of  the  Denlinger  Coal  & 
Ice  Co.,  of  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho,  was  born  in  1856  in  Rock 
Island  County,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
in  Idaho  Falls  thirteen  years.  His  company  has  the 
reputation  of  being  the  largest  retail  coal  concern  in  the 
state. 


M.  A.  CORNER  is  co-partner  and  Manager  of  the  firm  of 
Corner  &  Fisher,  coal  merchants  at  Wallace,  Idaho.  He 
was  born  in  Ohio  July  23,  1863. 

JOHN  GETTY  is  the  proprietor  and  Manager  of  the  Getty 
Feed  &  Fuel  Co.  at  Lewiston,  Idaho,  and  has  been  in  the  re- 
tail coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born  in  Ireland 
March  14,  1872. 

OSCAR  McCARTOR  is  Manager  of  the  Moscow  Commis- 
sion Co.  at  Moscow,  Idaho.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born  in  Indiana  Janu- 
ary  11,   1860,   and   has   many  warm  friends   in  the  trade. 

E.  W.  MILLER  is  the  owner  of  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Kellogg,  Idaho.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty- 
four  years.  He  has  represented  Idaho  in  the  Western  Fuel 
Dealers'  Association  of  Spokane,  Washington.  He  was 
born   at  Canal   Dover,   Ohio,   April   4,   1872. 

LAWRENCE  POITWIN  is  Manager  of  the  East  Side  Lum- 
ber Co.  at  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  four  years.  He  was  born  in  Norden, 
Nebraska,    April    9,    1886. 

W.  S.  SIMS  is  President  and  General  Manager  of  The 
Sims  Co.,  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
thirteen  years.    He  was  born  at  Lincoln,  Utah,  June  1,   1882. 


48 


ILLINOIS 


ILLINOIS  has  so  many  claims  upon  the  consideration 
of  the  coal  men  of  America  that  it  is  difficult  to 
decide  just  what  particular  feature  of  its  overwhelm- 
ing importance  as  producer  and  consumer  should  be 
given  precedence.  Its  leading  city  shares  with  Pitts- 
burgh the  honor  of  being  the  largest  coal  consuming 
center  in  the  country.  As  a  coal  producer  it  is  out- 
ranked only  by  Pennsylvania  and  West  Virginia.  On 
the  side  of  potential  coal  production  it  contains  the 
largest  commercial  coal  bearing  area  in  the  United 
States.  To  meet  its  fuel  requirements  it  draws  upon 
the  resources  of  ten  other  states  and  in  turn  distributes 
a  substantial  proportion  of  its  own  tonnage  to  17  states 
from  Minnesota  and  North  Dakota  on  the  north  to 
Texas  on  the  south,  Nebraska  on  the  west,  and  Tennes- 
see and  Ohio  on  the  east.  While  Indiana  and  the  south- 
eastern Mississippi  Valley  marks  the  normal  limits  of 
its  eastern  movements,  the  strenuous  times  of  the  past 
three  years  have  seen  Illinois  coal  go  into  Canada,  New 
York  state  and  Connecticut. 

The  coal  fields  of  the  state  form  the  western  part  of 
the  eastern  interior  basin  which  includes  Illinois,  Indi- 
ana and  western  Kentucky.  Technically  the  state  has 
been  divided  into  14  fields  and  six  beds,  but,  as  current 
commercial  matter,  the  mines  of  the  state  have  been 
classified  into  six  major  groups  and  two  important  sub- 
sidiary groups.  The  14  fields  mentioned  by  the  State 
Geological  Survey  are  as  follows:  Rock  Island,  North- 
ern, Wilmington,  Peoria-Fulton,  Grape  Creek,  Spring- 
field, Virden,  Pana,  Central  Illinois,  Centralia,  William- 
son-Franklin, Big  Muddy,  and  Saline.  The  major  com- 
mercial groups  are:  (1)  The  Southern  Illinois  District, 
comprising  Franklin,  Saline,  and  Williamson  counties 
and  portions  of  adjoining  counties,  including  the  Du- 
qnoin  district  in  Perry  County;  (2)  the  Central  Illi- 
nois field,  which  includes  the  Springfield,  Virden,  Pana 
and  Centralia  fields;  (3)  the  Belleville  or  Standard  Dis- 
trict, designated  by  the  State  Survey  as  Central  Illinois. 
which  covers  the  counties  contiguous  to  the  St.  Louis- 
East  St.  Louis  industrial  district;  (4)  the  Danville 
(Grape  Creek)  field  in  Vermilion  County;  (5)  the 
Fulton-Peoria  County  fields,  and  (6)  the  Northern 
field  in  Bureau,  LaSalle.  Grundy,  Will.  Putnam,  Kan- 
kakee. Livingston,  Woodford  and  Marshal]  counties, 
i.  e.,  the  Northern  and  Wilmington  fields  of  the 
State  Survey  classification.    The  Big  Muddy-Murphys- 


boro  field  in  Jackson  county,  while  of  limited  area,  is 
of  considerable  commercial  importance.  The  Duquoin 
subdivision  has  already  been  mentioned.  The  Rock  Isl- 
and field  in  MeTcer  and  Rock  Island  counties  is  of  only 
limited  importance. 

Of  the  tax  seams  mentioned  No.  1  is  of  the  least  com- 
mercial importance  at  the  present  time.  This  bed  is 
worked  most  actively  in  Mercer  and  Rock  Island  coun- 
ties, where  the  output  is  most  readily  accessible  to  the 
Tri-Cities,  which  are  its  chief  market.  It  is  also  found 
in  Brown,  Calhoun,  Greene,  Hancock,  Henry,  Jersey, 
MeDonough,  Schuyler,  Scott  and  Warren  counties. 
No.  2  coal  is  of  greatest  commercial  importance  in  the 
Northern  Illinois-Wilmington  field,  where  it  is  known 
to  the  trade  as  "Third  Vein'"  and  in  the  Big  Muddy  dis- 
trict in  Jackson  county.  The  deposits  in  the  No.  2  bed 
in  the  latter  field  are  said  to  be  more  nearly  akin  to  the 
high  grade  coals  of  the  eastern  states  than  at  any  other 
part  of  Illinois.  The  Jackson  county  coal,  according  to 
Professor  Andros,  "has  less  volatile  matter,  more  fixed 
carbon,  less  ash  and  moisture  and  a  higher  calorific 
value  than  the  coal  in  any  other  (Illinois)  district."  A 
thin  vein  of  No.  2  coal  is  also  found  in  Brown,  Calhoun, 
Cass,  Fulton,  Greene,  Hancock,  Henry,  MeDonough, 
Mercer,  Rock  Island,  Schuyler,  Scott  and  Warren 
counties. 

Between  25  and  30  per  cent,  of  the  coal  mined  in  the 
state  comes  from  the  No.  5  seam  which  underlies  the 
Central  Illinois,  Harrisburg  and  Fulton-Peoria  fields. 
This  bed  is  found  in  Cass,  DeWitt,  Fulton,  Gallatin, 
Knox,  Logan,  Macon,  Mason,  Menard,  McLean,  Peoria, 
Saline,  Sangamon,  Schuyler,  Tazewell  and  Woodford 
counties.  The  Franklin-Williamson  and  Belleville 
groups  are  the  principal  factors  in  the  No.  6  bed,  al- 
though portions  of  the  Central  Illinois  field,  Jackson 
county.  Perry  county  (Duquoin  district)  and  the 
Grape  Creek  (Danville)  district,  contribute  no  mean 
tonnages  to  the  aggregate  that  gives  this  bed  over  half 
of  the  annual  commercial  production  of  the  state.  In 
detail  the  No.  6  bed  is  reported  in  Bond,  Christian, 
Clinton,  Franklin,  Jackson,  Macoupin,  Madison,  Ma- 
rion, Montgomery,  Moultrie,  Perry,  Randolph,  Sanga- 
mon, Shelby,  St.  Clair,  Washington  and  Williamson 
counties.  No.  7  coal  is  found  in  Edgar  and  Vermilion 
counties,  but  the  total  production  is  small. 

What  is  believed  to  be  the  earliest  mention  of  coal  in 


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the  history  of  the  United  States  is  a  reference  to  Illi- 
nois deposits.  Until  a  few  years  ago  credit  for  this  ref- 
erence was  given  to  a  French  missionary,  Father  Hen- 
nepin, for  his  journal  entry  of  1679  of  the  existence  of 
a  "cole"  mine  above  Fort  Crevecoeur,  near  the  site  of 
the  city  of  Ottawa.  Recent  investigation,  however, 
gives  the  first  mention  as  of  the  year  1673,  when  the 
discovery  of  coal  near  the  present  city  of  Utica  was 
made  by  Joliet  and  Marquette.  This  was  mapped  by 
the  first  named  explorer  the  year  following  its  discov- 
ery. The  next  mention,  after  Father  Hennepin's,  was 
by  Father  Charlevoix  in  1720,  when  the  statement  was 
made  that  "many  coals"  were  found  in  the  environs  of 
what  is  now  LaSalle.  Further  reference  to  Illinois  coal 
is  made  in  "Travels  through  the  Interior  Parts  of 
North  America  in  1766,  1767  and  1768  by  J.  Carver, 
Esq."  The  existence  of  coal  in  the  Northern  Illinois 
field^  is  again  recorded  in  Kennedy's  account  of  his 
search  for  a  copper  mine  in  1773  and  in  "Morse's 
American  Gazetteer,"  published  in  1797. 

As  far  as  known  the  earliest  record  of  shipment 
dates  back  to  1810,  when  a  flatboat  load  of  coal  was 
shipped  from  Brownsville,  Jackson  county,  on  the  Big 
Muddy  river,  to  New  Orleans.  Discovery  of  coal  in  this 
part  of  the  country  came  about,  according  to  "Beck's 
Gazetteer  of  the  States  of  Illinois  and  Missouri,"  pub- 
lished in  1823,  in  the  following  manner:  "Coal  exists 
in  abundance  on  this  alluvian  and  the  bluffs  which 
bound  it.  Its  discovery  was  made  in  a  very  singular 
manner.  Many  years  since,  a  tree  taking  fire,  com- 
municated to  its  roots,  which  continued  burning  for 
some  time.  Upon  examination,  they  were  found  to  com- 
municate with  a  bed  of  coal,  which  continued  to  burn 
until  the  fire  was  completely  smothered  by  the  falling  in 
of  a  large  mass  of  incumbent  earth.  About  two  miles 
from  this  place  a  coal  bank  has  been  opened — the  vein 
is  as  thick  as  any  at  Pittsburgh." 

Beck,  in  the  same  publication  quoted  from  above,  also 
refers  to  the  existence  of  coal  deposits  in  Clark,  Greene, 
Jackson,  Pike  and  Sangamon  counties  and  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  Alton,  the  Big  Muddy  river,  Cahokia,  Chi- 
cago creek,  Crooked  creek,  Fox  river,  Bedbud  creek, 
Otter  creek,  Peoria,  Spoon  river  and  Sugar  creek.  As 
early  as  1830  St.  Clair  county  coal  was  used  locally  for 
blacksmithing  purposes.  In  1831  Peck,  in  his  "Guide 
for  Emigrants,"  stated  that  "exhaustless  beds"  of  coal 
exist  in  the  bluffs  of  St.  Clair  county  and  that  large 
quantities  were  being  sold  in  St.  Louis  at  from  10  to 
121/!;  cents  per  bushel.  Another  writer,  three  years 
later,  declared  that  the  St.  Louis  trade  totaled  thou- 
sands of  bushels  annually.  One  record  for  1833  stated 
that  150,000  bushels  had  been  hauled  by  wagon  from 
St.  Clair  county  mines  to  St.  Louis. 

Although  between  1833  and  1850,  the  estimated  pro- 
duction in  the  state  increased  from  6,000  to  300,000 
tons,  it  was  not  until  the  era  of  railroad  development 


began,  in  the  early  '50s,  that  the  industry  began  to 
come  into  its  own.  In  1860  production  had  reached 
728,-iOO  tons  and  at  the  close  of  the  Civil  War  was 
1,260,000.  Until  the  middle  '50s  the  center  of  mining 
activity  upon  a  commercial  scale  appears  to  have  been 
in  St.  Clair  county  in  the  Belleville  district,  and  that 
field  held  the  lead  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1856  the 
LaSalle  county  beds  began  to  assume  importance  and 
nine  years  later  the  discovery  of  coal  in  Will  county 
and  the  organization  of  the  Chicago  &  Wilmington  Coal 
Co.  (the  father  of  the  present  C,  W.  &  F.  Coal  Co.) 
pushed  the  third  vein  field  further  towards  the  front. 
About  the  same  time  development  upon  a  commercial 
scale  was  begun  in  the  Danville  district.  While  the 
Belleville  district  has  always  remained  an  important 
factor  in  the  total  production  of  the  state,  the  center 
of  production,  in  the  Northern  field  (LaSalle  county) 
has  been  gradually  shifting  south.  Between  1886  and 
1905,  both  inclusive,  Macoupin  or  Sangamon  counties 
(Central  Illinois)  led  in  production  13  out  of  20  years. 
Since  1907  the  honors  have  gone  to  the  Williamson- 
Franklin  county  field.  The  production  record  for  the 
state  as  a  whole  since  1860  is  shown  in  the  following 
table : 


Year.  Ton. 

1860 728,400 

1861 670,000 

1862 780,000 

1863 890,000 

1864 1,000,000 

1865 1,260,000 

1866 1,580,000 

1867 1,800,000 

1868 2,000,000 

1869 1,854,000 

1870 2,624,163 

1871 3,000,000 

1872 3,360,000 

1873 3,920,000 

1874 4,203,000 

1875 4,453,178 

1876 5,000,000 

1877 5,350,000 

1878 5,700,000 

1879 5,000,000 

1880 6,115,377 

1881 6,720,000 

1882 9,115,653 

1883 12,123,456 

1884 12,208,075 

1885 11,834,459 

1886 11,175,241 

1887 12,423,066 

1888 14,328,181 


Year.  Ton. 

1889 12,104,272 

1890 15,292,420 

1891 15,660,698 

1892 17,862,276 

1893 19,949,564 

1894 17,113,576 

1895 17,735,864 

1896 19,786,626 

1897 20,072.758 

1898 18,599,299 

1899 24,439,019 

1900 25,767,981 

1901 '  27,331,552 

1902 32,939,373 

1903 36,957,104 

1904 36,475,060 

1905 38,434,363 

1906 41,480,104 

1907 51,317,146 

1908 47,659,690 

1909 50,904,990 

1910 45,900,246 

1911 53,679,118 

1912 59,885,226 

1913 61,618,744 

1914 57,589,197 

1915 58,829,576 

1916 66,195,336 


Under  normal  conditions  about  45  per  cent,  of  the 
total  production  of  the  state  is  consumed  in  local  in- 
dustrial enterprises  and  for  domestic  uses.  The  largest 
individual  customers  of  the  Illinois  mines  are,  of  course, 
the  railroad  companies,  some  of  which  control  extensive 
mining  operations  of  their  own.    While  the  major  rail- 


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road  fuel  consumption  is  by  transportation  companies 
having  direct  connection  with  the  Illinois  mines,  dur- 
ing the  past  two  years  (1916-1917)  Illinois  coal  has 
been  used  as  locomotive  fuel  by  roads  in  Canada  and  the 
Northwest  and  by  carriers  operating  west  of  the  Mis- 
souri river.  Upon  a  general  commercial  basis,  the  Chi- 
cago industrial  district  is  the  heaviest  consumer.  In 
1915  this  district  used  7,852,675  tons  of  Illinois  coal. 
During  that  year  the  output  of  the  state  was  distributed 
as  follows: 

Used  within  the  state,  26,781,713  tons,  divided  as  fol- 
lows :  Consumed  at  mines,  1,533,609  tons ;  sold  locally, 
•J.  170,114  tons;  shipped  to  intrastate  points,  22,778,530 
tons.  Shipped  to  Arkansas,  128,950  tons;  Indiana,  825,- 
601  tons;  Iowa,  3,053,413  tons;  Kansas,  414,467  tons; 
Kentucky,  6,807  tons;  Louisiana,  67,338  tons;  Mich- 
igan, 83,256  tons;  Minnesota,  1,334,330  tons;  Missis- 
sippi, 96,577  tons;  Missouri,  4,391,722  tons;  Nebraska, 
938,905  tons ;  North  Dakota,  106,674  tons ;  Ohio,  3,036 
tons;  South  Dakota,  319,370  tons;  Tennessee,  68,559 
tons;  Texas,  20,648  tons;  Wisconsin,  1,260,188  tons; 
total,  13,119,841  tons;  railroad  consumption,  18,928,- 
022  tons;  grand  total,  58,829,576  tons. 

As  a  consumer  of  coal  for  industrial  and  household 
purposes  Illinois  in  the  aggregate  uses  more  fuel  than 
any  other  state  in  the  Union  but  Pennsylvania.  Its 
normal  consumption  of  bituminous  coal  alone  is  in  excess 
of  the  combined  anthracite  and  bituminous  consumption 
of  the  six  New  England  states,  although  the  intense  con- 
centration of  manufacturing  enterprise  along  the  North 
Atlantic  seaboard  during  1916-1917  suggests  that  this 
record  may  not  have  held  true  during  the  past  24 
months.  As  to  its  status  as  an  individual  consuming 
state,  in  comparison  with  other  states  considering  indi- 
vidually, however,  there  is  no  question. 

Primarily,  this  record  is  made  possible  because  of  the 
heavy  consumption  of  fuel  in  the  Chicago  industrial 
district.  This  consumption  represents  over  50  per  cent, 
of  the  total  fuel  requirements  of  the  state.  It  is  the 
factor  that  brings  the  per  capita  bituminous  consump- 
tion of  Illinois  above  that  of  any  other  state  in  the 
Union.  The  per  capita  bituminous  coal  consumption 
for  1915  was  5.91  tons;  of  anthracite,  .54  ton,  making  a 
total  per  capita  of  6.45  tons — a  record  exceeded  by  but 
one  state.  Delaware.  Upon  a  square  mile  basis,  Illi- 
nois consumption,  764  tons,  ranks  a  close  fourth  to  the 
New  York  record  of  772  tons.  The  greater  density  in 
population  in  the  eastern  states,  however,  permits  higher 
square  mile  consumption  in  Pennsylvania,  the  New 
England  group  and  New  York  state. 

Exclusive  of  railroad  and  steamship  fuel,  the  total 
consumption  in  the  state  for  1915,  as  reported  by  the 
United  States  Geological  Survey,  was  43,268,850  tons. 
Pennsylvania  anthracite  contributed  3,292,000  tons  to 
this  total.  The  bituminous  consumption  was  divided  as 
follows:     Illinois,  26,781,713  tons;  Indiana,  4,044,528 


tons;  Iowa,  17,700  tons ;  Kentucky,  864,047  tons;  Mary- 
land, 20,783  tons;  Ohio,  287,561  tons;  Pennsylvania, 
1,677,186  tons;  Virginia,  120,300  tons;  West  Virginia, 
5,079,032  tons;  lake  coal,  1,084,000  tons;  total,  39,976,- 
850  tons. 

In  addition  a  small  tonnage  was  received  from  Mis- 
souri, but  this  total  is  reported  with  receipts  under  Ar- 
kansas. 

The  only  complete  figures  covering  consumption  at 
Chicago  were  compiled  by  the  Chicago  Association  of 
Commerce  in  1912  in  connection  with  its  report  upon 
"Smoke  Abatement  and  Electrification  of  Eailway  Ter- 
minals in  Chicago."  These  figures  showed  the  follow- 
ing: 

1.       TOTAL     CONSUMPTION     WITHIN     CHICAGO     DISTRICT. 

Percent. 

Ton.  of  total. 

Pennsylvania  anthracite    1,827,158  8.62 

Smokeless   1,230,787  5.80 

Coke    3,435,753  16.20 

Illinois  bituminous 9,184,126  43.31 

Indiana  bituminous   3,084,688  14.54 

Other  bituminous 2,446,374  11.53 


21,208,886         100.00 

II.       CONSUMPTION    WITHIN    CITY    LIMITS    OF    CHICAGO. 

Pennsylvania  anthracite   1,633,002 

Smokeless 1,174,742 

Coke   3,099,302 

Bituminous    11,675,477 


17,582,523 


That  these  figures  have  been  vastly  increased  during 
the  past  five  years  is  a  matter  of  common  knowledge 
and  estimates  upon  current  consumption  range  between 
27,000,000  and  30,000,000  tons.  For  example,  the  fig- 
ures under  Table  I,  supra,  include  2,815,400  tons  of  fuel 
consumed  by  the  railroads.  Of  this  amount  2,786,029 
was  bituminous  coal.  The  percentage  of  this  fuel  origin- 
ating in  states  other  than  Illinois  and  Indiana  is  so 
small  that  it  may  safely  be  ignored.  If  this  be  deducted 
from  the  totals  above  shown,  the  total  Illinois  and 
Indiana  consumption  for  non-railroad  purposes  is  re- 
duced to  9,482,785  tons.  Statistics  for  1915  show  that 
the  non-railroad  consumption  in  the  Chicago  switching 
district  originating  in  Illinois  and  Indiana  was  10,937,- 
395  tons.  Smokeless  consumption  has  greatly  increased 
during  the  past  five  years;  well  considered  estimates 
place  the  1915  consumption  for  domestic  and  other  low 
pressure  plants  at  2,600,000  tons.  The  increased  activ- 
ity in  steel  and  other  manufacturing  enterprises  has  also 
shot  up  consumption  so  that  the  round  figure  estimate 
of  30,000,000  tons  for  1917  does  not  appear  to  be  far 
out  of  line. 


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FRANCIS  STUYVESANT  PEABODY,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

Whose  coal  activities  include  operations  in  Illinois,  Indiana.  Ohio, 
Kentucky,  Virginia  and  Wyoming,  is  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors of  the  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  which  does  a  business  of  12,- 
000,000  tons  a  year. 

Mr.  Peabody  was  born  in  Chicago  in  1859,  and  went  into  the  coal 
business  as  a  retailer  in  his  native  city  in  1884,  three  years  after  his 
graduation  from  Yale.  Since  that  year  he  has  had  practical  business 
experience  from  every  angle  of  the  coal  industry,  and  with  success. 
He  is  prominent  in  the  industrial  life  of  Chicago  and  Illinois. 

In  the  recent  war  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Coal  Pro- 
duction of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  and  the  later  success  of 
the  Fuel  Administration  was  attained  on  those  basic  principles 
which  he  laid  down    with  his  committee. 


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CLIFFORD  DOUGLASS  CALDWELL,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
Sales  Manager  of  the  By-Products  Coke  Corporation,  Vice  Chairman  of 
the  Coke  Committee  of  the  Semet-Solvay  Co.,  Vice  President  of  the 
Black  Mountain  Corporation,  President  of  the  C.  H.  &  S.  E.  R.  R.,  and 
Secretary  of  the  Iroquois  Iron  Co.,  with  officer  in  the  McCormick  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  is  also  a  Director  of  the  following  companies:  Black 
Mountain  Coal  Corp.,  Solvay  Collieries  Co.,  Iroquois  Iron  Co.,  Rogers- 
Brown  Ore  Co.,  C.  H.  &  S.  E.  R.  R.  Co.,  C.  S.  L.  Ry.  Co.  He  was  born 
in  Bristol,  Tennessee,  October  16,  1872.  Mr.  Caldwell  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Jones  interests  of  Pittsburgh  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  has  many  friends  in  the  coal  trade. 


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JAMES  EDMUND  RUTLEDGE,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
Late  President  of  the  Rutledge  &  Taylor  Coal  Co.,  1515  Fisher  Building, 
Chicago,  had  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years  at  the  time  of 
his  death  in  April,  1918.  He  had  also  been  President  of  the  following: 
New  Staunton  Coal  Co.,  St.  Louis;  Nokomis  Coal  Co.,  Chicago;  Security 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Chicago,  and  the  Standard  Briquette  Fuel  Co., 
Kansas  City,  Missouri.  He  formerly  was  connected  with  the  Consoli- 
dated Coal  Co.  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Rutledge  was  born  in  Bloomington, 
Illinois,  October  30,  1861,  and  was  one  of  the  largest  and  most  promi- 
nent of  Illinois  coal  operators. 


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JACKSON  K.  DERING,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
President  J.  K.  Dering  Co.,  332  South  Michigan  avenue,  Chicago,  and 
Dering  Mines  Co.,  has  been  active  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight 
years.  He  formerly  was  connected  with  the  following  coal  concerns: 
C.  U  Dering,  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Riverton  Coal  Co.  and  the  Dering 
Coal  Co.  of  Delaware.  Mr.  Dering  was  born  in  Darlington,  Wisconsin, 
August  1,  1870,  and  Is  one  of  the  most  popular  and  capable  coalmen 
in  the  West. 


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JOSEPH   B.   ROYNOIV,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

Vice  President  and  Secretary  J.  K.  Bering  Coal  Co.,  Chicago, 
and  Secretary  Dering  Mines  Co.,  was  born  in  Chicago  March 
27,  1874,  and  has  been  twenty-five  years  in  the  coal  business. 
all  the  time  with  the  present  company,  an  unusual  record 
for   the  coal  trade. 


JAMES   R.   PAULEY,   Chicago,  Illinois, 

Vice  President  J.  K.  Dering  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  and  Dering 
Mines  Co.,  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Ohio,  August  16,  1875. 
Previously  he  had  a  wide  experience  in  the  implement  in- 
dustry both  in  this  country  and  Europe. 


WILLIAM   H.   D.   GIBSON,   Chicago,  Illinois, 

Of  the  J.  K.  Dering  Coal  Co.,  McCormick  Building,  Chicago, 
was  born  September  1,  1871,  in  Chicago  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Chicago 
&  Eastern  Illinois  Railroad  and  is  exceptionally  well  posted 
on  traffic  questions.  Mr.  Gibson  has  done  a  great  deal  of 
excellent  committee  work  for  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants' 
Association. 


MM  Ml   It    R.    ODELL,    Chicago,    Illinois. 

Manager  of  Country  Sales  for  the  J.  K.  Dering  Coal  Co., 
McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1899,  with  his  present  company  except  from 
1910  to  1912,  when  he  was  with  the  Meeker  Co.  He  was 
born  at  South  Bend,  Indiana,  in  1878.  Mr.  Odell  has  a  wide 
acquaintance  and  is  popular  with  the  retail  trade  through- 
out  the   Northwest. 


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COAL   MEN   OF   AMERICA 


GEORGE    B.    HARHI\GTOX,    Chicago,   Illinois, 

President  of  the  Chicago,  Wilmington  &  Franklin  Coal  Co., 
McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  Mr.  Harrington  is  a 
graduate  of  Princeton  University  and  of  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  where  he  specialized  in  mining 
engineering.  He  was  born  at  Wilmington,  Delaware,  in 
1881.  Under  his  management  this  large  and  old  established 
company  has  had  a  most  successful  growth. 


VMJRI  H  J.  iniiiM  \.  ChlraKO,  Illliiola. 
Vice  President  and  Sales  Manager  Chicago,  Wilmington  & 
Franklin  Coal  Co..  407  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years  and  formerly 
was  with  the  J.  S.  Wentz  Co.  and  the  Royal  Colliery  Co. 
He  was  born  in  Schuylkill  County,  Pennsylvania,  February 
12.  18S4. 


THOMAS    F.    HOLMKS,    Lincoln,    Illlnola, 

General  Superintendent  Chicago,  Wilmington  A  Franklin 
Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  1861, 
and  has  been  a  resident  of  Lincoln  since  1866.  Mr.  Holmes 
started  in  as  a  bookkeeper  at  the  mines  in  1883,  and  since 
that  time  has  filled  every  position  from  day  laborer  to 
superintendent — a  practical  mining  man.  The  record  pro- 
duction sheets  of  the  company  in  1918  tell  of  his  success 
in   his  line. 


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CHARLES     M.     IIODEBWELL,     Chicago,    Illinois, 

President  of  C.  M.  Moderwell  &  Co.,  McCormick  Building, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
five  years.  He  is  interested  in  the  United  Coal  Corp.,  the 
Columbus  Mining  Co..  and  the  Thos.  N.  Mordue  Coal  Co.  He 
was  with  the  Montana  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  from  1892  to  1899, 
with  the  Fairmont  Coal  Co.  from  1899  to  1901  and  with  the 
National  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  from  1901  to  1903.  Mr.  Moderwell 
was  born  May  6,  1868,  at  Geneseo,  Illinois.  Mr.  Moderwell 
is  very  highly  regarded  and  commands  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  the  entire   trade   to  an   unusual  degree. 


I II-:  MM      I-:.    PATRICK,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Vice  President  of  C.  M.  Moderwell  &  Co.,  McCormick  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years.  He  was  born  September  5,  1852,  in  New  York  state 
and  is  well  known   in   the  coal  trade. 


ARTHUR    I..   ALLAIS,   Chicago,   Illinois, 

Vice  President  of  The  United  Coal  Corporation  and  of  C. 
M.  Moderwell  &  Co.,  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Columbus  Mining  Co.  and  the 
Brazil  Collieries  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years  and  formerly  was  connected  with  the  Mecca 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Rock  Run  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at 
Maries,   France,   in  August,   1868. 


JAMBS   BARNES  HILTON,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Columbus  Mining  Co.,  758 
McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  nine  years  and  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  United  Coal  Corporation  as  its  Third  Vice  President.  He 
born    in   Lowell,   Massachusetts,   May   25,    1872. 


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M'liMlii    HALLIDAV  TAYLOR,  Chicago.  Illinois. 

President  of  the  Taylor  Coal  Co.,  1215  Old  Colony  Building, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  twenty  years.  Formerly  he  was  connected  with  the 
New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Columbus.  Ohio, 
August  14,  1877.  Mr.  Taylor  is  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
popular  of  Illinois  coal  operators. 


EDWIN    R.    Itl    I    1.1 :  It.    Chicago.   Illinois, 

Vice  President  and  General  Sales  Manager  of  the  Taylor 
Coal  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born  at 
Rockford,  Illinois,  June  27.  1889.  Mr.  Keeler  served  with 
the  National  Guard  in  Mexico  and  is  at  present  an  officer 
in  the  United  States  Army  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  O.  L.  How- 
ard. Jr.,  commanding  the  161st  Field  Artillery  Brigade. 


■  I  A  lilt  V    JOHN     II  II-.    Chicago,    Illlnol*, 

Treasurer  and  Sales  Manager  of  the  Taylor  Coal  Co.,  Old 
Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  Vice  President  of  the 
Distributors-  Coal  Co.,  was  formerly  with  Guy  G.  Gibson  & 
Co.  and  the  New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Chicago 
August  30.   1888. 


B.    I,.    SHKI'ARD,    Chicago.    Illinois, 

Secretary  Taylor  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  was  born  September  25, 
1868,  in  Fond  du  Lac  County.  Wisconsin.  His  first  business 
ventures  were  In  fire  insurance  and  real  estate  in  Fond  du 
Lac.  In  1897  he  went  into  the  coal  business  in  Chicago, 
continuing  until  1912,  when  he  opened  an  office  as  a  public 
accountant.  Mr.  Shepard  assumed  his  present  position  In 
1918. 


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WILLIAM  F.  WICKHAM,  St.  Louis,  Mo., 

President  Wickham  &  Burton  Coal  Co., 
325  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  also 
President  Wickham  Coal  Co..  412  Pierce 
Building.  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born 
in  St.  Louis,  where  the  Wickham  name 
is  a  most  highly  respected  one  in 
business  circles.  At  Princeton  Uni- 
versity he  was  a  member  of  the  class 
made  famous  by  Woodrow  Wilson,  now 
President.  His  early  business  expe- 
rience was  with  the  Tudor  Iron  Works 
and  the  Republic  Iron  &  Steel  Co.  of 
St.  Louis.  His  first  experience  in 
the  coal  industry  was  with  his  brother, 
E.  F.  Wickham,  when  he  joined  the  old 
St.  Louis  firm,  the  Wickham  Coal  Co., 
and  upon  his  brother's  death  succeeded 
to  the  Presidency.  He  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Johnston  City  Washed  Coal 
Co.,   with  mines   at   Johnston   City,   Illi- 


FREDKRIC    A.    Bl'HTOW    Chicago,    111., 

Of  the  Wickham  &  Burton  Coal  Co.,  325 
McCormick  Building.  Chicago,  exclusive 
sales  agents  of  the  Paradise  Coal  Co., 
a  well-known  Illinois  coal  company, 
was  born  September  12,  1873,  in  To- 
ronto, Canada.  When  he  came  to  Chi- 
cago he  entered  the  law  office  of  Bur- 
ton &  Harris.  As  his  legal  education 
was  developed  court  reporting  appealed 
to  him,  and  he  specialized  along  that 
line,  with  the  result  that  he  became 
known  as  one  of  the  best  in  the  city  of 
Chicago.  This  work  brought  him  in 
contact  with  the  coal  industry,  and  in 
1907  he  turned  to  coal,  beginning  as  a 
jobber  in  Franklin  County  (Illinois) 
coal,  then  a  comparatively  new  field. 
Since  that  time  he  has  devoted  his 
whole  time  to  both  the  operating  and 
selling  ends  of  the  coal  industry.  Mr. 
Burton  is  also  Treasurer  of  the  John- 
ston City  Washed  Coal  Co.,  with  mines 
at  Johnston  City,  Illinois. 


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.1  \  >i  I'.S  FOHKSTKR,  Du  i|»..i».  IllinoU, 
Vice  President  Paradise  Coal  Co.,  Du 
Quoin,  was  born  June  18,  1868,  in  Du 
Quoin  and  in  that  region  of  Illinois 
gained  a  most  practical  knowledge  of 
coal  mining.  He  was  for  thirty  years 
with  the  Muddy  Valley  Mining  &  Man- 
ufacturing Co.  at  Hallidayboro,  Illinois, 
and  when  it  was  sold  to  the  Jackson 
Coal  Co.  he  was  Its  Vice  President  and 
General  Manager.  Mr.  Forester  Is  a 
member  of  the  State  Mining  Board  of 
Illinois,  a  member  of  the  Mine  Inves- 
tigation Committee  of  Illinois,  and  a 
member  of  the  Kxecutive  Board  of  the 
Illinois  Coal  Operators  Association,  and 
stands  high  in  the  coal  operating  cir- 
cles of  the  state. 


R.    J.    FORESTER,    Do    Quoin.    IlllnoU. 

General  Superintendent  Paradise  Coal 
Co.,  Du  Quoin,  was  born  in  1884  in  Du 
Quoin,  and  took  his  degree  in  mechan- 
ical engineering  at  the  University  of 
Illinois.  He  was  first  with  the  Rob- 
erts &  Schaefer  Co.  of  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  while  with  them  designed  the  tip- 
ple of  the  Paradise  Coal  Co.  Then  he 
was  associated  with  The  Jeffrey  Man- 
ufacturing Co.  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  In 
1905  he  installed  the  electric  plant  at 
the  Paradise  mine,  after  which  he  went 
to  Mexico  to  take  charge  of  a  mine  for 
a  syndicate.  Here  he  remained  until 
a  revolution  broke  out,  whereupon  he 
returned  to  Illinois  to  become  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Paradise  Coal  Co. 


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ARTHUR  M.  HULL,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
Editor  and  General  Manager  The  Retail  Coalman,  Chicago, 
was  born  in  Chicago  February  14,  1874,  and  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  coal  trade  for  seventeen  years.  He  organized 
the  Order  KoKoai,  was  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  National 
Coal  Association  and  Field  Secretary  of  the  National  Retail 
Coal    Merchants'    Association. 


MORTON    HISC'OX,   Chicago,    Illinois. 
Business   Manager   The   Retail   Coalman,    Chicago,   was   born 
in  Westerly,   Rhode   Island,   October  3,   1868.    His   connection 
with   the  coal  trade  dates   from   1906   when  he  became  asso- 
ciated   with    The    Retail    Coalman. 


JOHN  GROEN1ER,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  The  Retail  Coalman,  Chicago,  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  trade  for  sixteen  years,  for- 
merly with  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association,  and  since  1907  with  The  Retail  Coalman.  He 
was  born  in  Holland  September  21,  1879. 


WILLIAM    A.   IRELAND,   CoIumbiiN,   Ohio, 

"The  Cartoonist  of  the  Coal  Trade,"  was  born  in  Chilli- 
cothe,  Ohio,  in  1880.  His  cartoon  in  every  issue  of  The 
Retail  Coalman  is  a  feature  that  has  endeared  him  to  the 
hearts  of  all   connected   with   the   coal   industry. 


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BIG  CREEK  COLLIERY  CO. 

Peoples  Gas  Building 

CHICAGO,  ILL. 

One  of  the  largest  and  most  important  of  Illinois  coal  com- 
panies is  the  Big  Creek  Colliery  Co.,  with  headquarters  at  Chi- 
cago. This  company,  of  which  Charles  I.  Pierce  is  President 
and  C.  E.  Karstrom  Secretary  and  Sales  Manager,  is  the  selling 
organization  of  two  large  operating  companies  in  the  Southern 
Illinois  field  as  follows : 

SALINE  COUNTY  COAL  CO..  with  five  operations  in  Sa- 
line County,  Illinois,  operating  since  1906,  and  located  on  the 
Big  Four,  Illinois  Central  and  Louisville  &  Nashville  Railway, 
producing  "Premium*'  Harrisburg  coal. 

BIG  CBEBK  COAL  CO.,  with  three  operations  in  Fulton 
County,  Illinois,  operating  since  1004,  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington 
&  Quincy  Railway  and  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Railway, 
producing  ''Big  Creek"  coal. 

Tliis  company  is  equipped  to  fill  all  kinds  of  contracts.  Its 
products  are  known  as  "Premium"  and  "Big  Creek"  coals. 


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FEN  WICK    C.    ATWILL,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  The  Atwill-Makemson  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  for- 
merly with  The  Marmet  Co.  and  the  Richards-Ambler  Co., 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years.  He  was 
born  June  4,  1878,  in  Burlington.  Vermont,  son  of  the  late 
Rt.  Rev.  Edward  Robert  Atwill,  first  bishop  of  the  Episcopal 
diocese  of  West  Missouri.  Mr.  Atwell  is  a  thirty-second 
degree  Mason,  and  he  has  a  host  of  warm  friends  in  the 
coal  trade. 


JAMES  LEROY  MAKEMSON,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
Vice  President  and  Secretary  of  the  Atwill-Makemson  Coal 
&  Coke  Co..  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  C.  K.  Pittman,  Richards,  Ambler  &  Co. 
and  the  New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  December 
20,  1880,  in  Iowa,  and  has  a  wide  acquaintance  in  the  trade. 


I  lei  n  C.  HONNOLD,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
Secretary-Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Chicago  &  Big 
Muddy  Coal  Co.  and  New  Enterprise  Coal  Co.,  2013  Fisher 
Building,  Chicago.  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twelve  years  and  holds  the  following  offices:  Secretary- 
Treasurer  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association  and  of 
the  Southern  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association;  Secretary 
of  the  Franklin  County  Coal  Operators'  Association;  Direct- 
or of  the  Illinois  Coal  Traffic  Bureau;  Illinois  Director  of 
the  National  Coal  Association.  He  was  born  in  Missouri  in 
1872.  Dr.  Honnold  is  Distributor  of  the  United  States  Fuel 
Administration   for  Illinois,   Indiana  and  Western   Kentucky. 


OSCAR  M.  BURNETT,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

General  Sales  Manager  Chicago  &  Big  Muddy  Coal  Co., 
2013  Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  ten  years,  five  of  which  Were  passed  as  travel- 
ing salesman  for  the  company.  He  was  born  near  Marion, 
Illinois,  July  23,  1871. 


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WILLIAM    D.    miMliini.    Chicago,    Illinois, 

President  of  the  Wm.  D.  Elmstrom  Coal  Co.,  1116  East 
Forty-second  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Association 
and  of  the  Chicago  Track  Coal  Dealers'  Association,  and 
has  served  as  President  and  Director  of  both  organizations. 
He  was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  May  15,  1861. 


VATHANIE1      H.    KENDALL,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Commissioner  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Association, 
Plymouth  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  connected 
with  the  trade  for  six  years.  He  was  born  in  Chicago  Sep- 
tember 14,  1877,  and  was  formerly  in  the  railroad  business. 
Mr.  Kendall  is  well  posted  on  traffic  matters  and  under  his 
management  the  Chicago  association  has  enjoyed  a  splendid 
growth. 


i  l.ll  I  nitli  II.  Ji:\KI\S,  ChlriiKO,  Illinois, 
Late  Manager  The  Domhoff  &  Joyce  Co.,  348  Railway  Ex- 
change Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  had  been  in  the  coal  and 
coke  business  eighteen  years  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Jan. 
9.  1919.  He  was  born  In  Cincinnati  April  10.  1881.  Mr.  Jen- 
kins had  been  uniformly  successful  and  had  many  friends 
in  the  trade. 


K.WMOM)  D.  JENKINS,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

With  the  coke  department  of  the  Atwill-Makemson  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  McCormlck  Bldg.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  fourteen 
years  with  The  Domhoff  &  Joyce  Co.,  located  at  the  Cincin- 
nati office  for  seven  years  and  later  at  Cleveland  and  Chi- 
cago as  the  Assistant  Manager.  He  was  born  in  Cincinnati 
September   18,    1885. 


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GCSTAVE   GOLSEN,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

President  of  the  Golsen-Doan  Coal  Co.,  President  of  the 
Merrimac  Anthracite  Coal  Corporation  and  Vice  President 
and  Director  of  the  Boonville  Mining  Co.,  has  been  in  the 
coal  industry  for  over  thirty  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  United  States  Coal  Co.  as  its  President  and  with  O'Gara, 
King  &  Co.  as  its  Secretary.  He  was  born  in  Chicago  April 
7,   1869. 


(.ion.. i ;    H.   Dii  \  \.    Chicago,  Illinois, 

Treasurer  of  the  Golsen-Doan  Coal  Co.,  Old  Colony  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty- 
eight  years.  He  was  with  the  Grape  Creek  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  of  Chicago  from  1887  to  1890  and  organized  and  sunk 
the  Royal  Colliery  mine  at  Virden,  Illinois.  He  represented 
the  Chicago,  Wilmington  &  Vermillion  Coal  Co.  in  Chi- 
cago from  1896  to  1902.  Mr.  Doan  was  born  at  Danville, 
Illinois,   in    1867. 


CHESTER   A.    HARRIS,   Evanston,    Illinois, 

President  Modern  Coal  Co.,  whose  property  is  located  a  Ses- 
ser,  Franklin  County,  Illinois;  Vice  President  Harris-Dilla- 
vou-Dimond  Co.,  who  distribute  the  coal  from  the  Modern 
Coal  Co.,  the  West  Frankfort  Coal  Co.  and  the  Crown 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Lena,  Illinois,  August  29,  1879. 
He  started  in  business  in  1904  at  Champaign,  Illinois,  and 
was  succeeded  May  10,  1907,  by  Chester  A.  Harris  &  Co., 
which  company  was  later  succeeded  by  Harris-Dillavou  & 
Co.  in  March,  1913. 


JOHN    »i.    iill.l.  \  \  in  .   Evanston,   Illinois, 

President  Harris-Dillavou-Dimond  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building, 
Chicago,  who  distribute  the  coal  produced  by  West  Frankfort 
Coal  Co.,  West  Frankfort,  Franklin  County,  Illinois,  Modern 
Coal  Co.,  Sesser,  Franklin  County,  Illinois,  and  Crown  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Winkle,  Perry  County,  Illinois,  and  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  Modern  Coal  Co..  is  likewise  interested  in 
the  West  Frankfort  Coal  Co.,  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  industry  twelve  years.  He  was  born  in  DeLand, 
Illinois,    November    22,    1883. 


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COL.  MICHAEL  R.  KKLI.Y,  ChlpnKo,  111,,,..,.. 
Partner  and  Manager  tn  the  firm  of  E.  L.  Hedstrom  &  Co., 
.Marquette  Building:,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness since  May  1,  1879,  when  he  started  to  work  for  the 
company  he  now  manages.  He  was  born  in  St.  Johns,  New- 
foundland. Colonel  Kelly  is  highly  respected  in  trade 
circles  and   has   served   on   the  Governor's  personal   staff. 


CLARK    T.    ROBERTS,   (h  lento.    Illinoix, 

Of  the  firm  of  E.  L.  Hedstrom  &  Co.,  140  South  Dearborn 
Street,  Chicago,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  July  1,  1869, 
and  has  been  thirty-eight  years  in  the  coal  trade.  He  is 
one  of  the  Roberts  brothers,  who  have  an  unusually  wide 
circle  of  friends  in  the  coal  trade. 


■nBBHMHBHM 

HF.XRY  J.  it. u  ill  ic.  C'hlraKO.  IlllnoU. 
President  of  Henry  Holverscheid  &  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  is  likewise  President  of  the  following: 
Barker  Coal  Co.,  Albany  Coal  Co.,  Carter  Coal  Co.,  Domes- 
tic Coal  Co.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  thirty  years,  fifteen  of  which  were  with  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Kantishna 
Club,  composed  of  Chicago  coal  men,  and  was  a  Director 
for  three  years.     He  was  born  in  Chicago,  December  30,  1871. 


HENRY    IIOIA  i:i(M  lll'.ll).   Chleiigo,   Illliioin, 

Late  President  of  Henry  Holverscheid  &  Co.,  Chicago,  was 
born  in  Stratford,  Ontario,  Canada,  August  31,  1856,  and  died 
at  Hinsdale.  Illinois.  January  23,  1917.  He  started  In  busi- 
ness with  Blake,  Whitehouse  &  Co..  Chicago,  and  later  was 
with  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co.,  their  successor,  for  twenty- 
five  years.  In  1901  he  organized  his  own  company  and 
gained  a  wide  reputation  as  a  pioneer  in  the  sale  of  Ken- 
tucky coals  in  the  North.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  also  President  of  a  number  of  Chicago  retail  coal 
companies. 


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THOMAS    DAYHOFF    HASKETT,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

President  of  the  Power  Coal  Co.,  616  Fisher  Building,  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirteen  years. 
He  is  Vice  President  of  the  Rowland-Power  Coal  Co.  of 
Indiana  and  of  the  Rowland-Power  Consolidated  Coal  Cq. 
He  formerly  was  connected  with  the  following  concerns: 
H.  W.  Finch,  Chaffln  Coal  Co.,  C.  G.  Blake  Co.,  and  Big  Creek 
Colliery  Co.  He  was  born  at  Kokomo,  Indiana,  May  19,  1884, 
and  enjoys  a  wide  personal  acquaintance. 


ROSS   FREER  MARINE,   i  I,  i.-.-i  -  ...   Illinois, 

Secretary  of  the  Power  Coal  Co.,  616  Fisher  Building, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  Other  firms  with  whom  he  has 
worked  are  the  following:  Federal  Coal  Co.,  Sedalia  Coal 
Co.,  O.  S.  Richardson  Coal  Co.,  White  Oak  Coal  Co.,  Marine 
&  Ward.  Rutledge  &  Taylor.  Mr.  Marine  was  born  in 
Vinton,  Iowa.  November  8,  1878,  and  is  considered  an 
unusually   good   salesman. 


HENRY     P.     POPE,     Chicago,     Illinois, 

Manager  and  proprietor  of  the  busi- 
ness of  George  G.  Pope  &  Co..  Fisher 
Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-three  years.  He  is  a  Director 
of  the  Worth-Huskey  Coal  Co.,  Vice 
President  of  the  Ridge  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  Vice  President  of  the  Knox  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  and  a  Director  of  the 
United  Fourth  Vein  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Pope 
has  filled  the  office  of  President  of 
the  Chicago  Coal  Trade  Golf  Associa- 
tion and  is  Vice  President  of  the  Na- 
tional Coal  Trade  Golf  Association. 
He  was  born  in  New  Bedford,  Massa- 
chusetts, October  7,  1864.  He  was  for- 
merly a  stockholder  in  the  Big  Muddy 
Fuel  Co.  and  is  now  interested  in  the 
Franklin.  Coal  Co.  and  the  S.  W.  Little 
Coal    Co. 


r.i;oiu.i:    <;.   POPE,   Chicago,   Illinois, 

Was  born  in  New  Bedford,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1825,  and  died  in  Chicago 
September  21,  1906.  He  was  one  of 
the  California  pioneers,  going  to 
California  via  the  Isthmus  of  Panama 
in  1850  and  remaining  there  until  1856, 
and  was  Secretary  of  the  Chicago  So- 
ciety of  California  Pioneers  for  many 
years,  holding  that  office  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  first  entered 
the  coal  trade  in  1876,  in  the  employ 
of  E.  L..  Hedstrom  &  Co.,  and  organ- 
ized the  firm  of  Geo.  G.  Pope  &  Co.  in 
1878,   continuing   same   until   his   death. 


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PIERRE  CHARLES  RICHARDS,  Chloaito,  Illinois, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  coal  firm  of  Richards,  Evans 
&  Co.,  417  S.  Dearborn  street,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in 
the  business  since  1887,  formerly  with  The  Marmet  Co., 
as  Manager.  He  was  born  at  Bedford,  Indiana,  January 
15,  1861.  Mr.  Richards  is  unusually  well-posted  on  coke 
and  highly  respected  in  the  trade. 


JOHN    HENRY    EVANS,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Vice  President  and  Secretary  Richards,  Evans  &  Co.,  417 
South  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Chicago  office  of  the  Marmet  Co.  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was 
born  at  Newtown,  North  Wales,  July  11,  1882,  and  Is  well 
acquainted  with  the  Chicago  trade. 


WIIJJAM   P.  WORTH,  ChieaKO,  Illinois, 

President  of  the  Worth-Huskey  Coal  Co.,  Old  Colony  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  twenty  years  In  the  business. 
He  is  also  President  of  the  Franklin  Coal  Co.  and  of  the 
Knox  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Treasurer  and  Oeneral  Manager 
of  the  Ridge  Coal  Mining  Co.  Formerly  he  was  President  of 
the  Garden  City  Fuel  Co.  and  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  LJll-Roblnson  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  Vice  President  of 
the  Chicago  Track  Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  of  the 
Sunset  Club.  He  was  born  in  Chanriahon,  Illinois,  January 
7,   1870. 


HAKLKY    A.    HCSKEY.    ChU-aKO,    Illinois, 

Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  Worth-Huskey  Coal 
Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  trade  for  twenty-two  years,  formerly 
with  the  F.  G.  Hartwell  Co.,  Austin  Coal  Co.,  and  Bedford 
Coal  Co.  He  Is  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Knox  Coal 
Mining  Co.  and  T.easurer  of  the  Franklin  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Huskey  has  served  as  President  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Trade 
Golf  Association.  He  was  born  at  Carllnvllle,  Illinois,  Sep- 
tember   22,    1879. 


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H.    FLOYD    CLINCH,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Member  of  the  coal  firm  of  Crerar,  Clinch  &  Co.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  having  interests  also  in  the  Equitable  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  the  Searls  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Duncan  Coal  Co.,  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He 
was  born  at  Savannah.  Georgia,  July  19,  1865.  Mr.  Clinch 
also  has  large  real  estate  interests  in  Chicago  and  is  one 
of  its  substantial  citizens. 


JOHN     <   nil!  lit.    (hie-ago,    IlllnoiH, 

Senior  member  of  the  coal  firm  of 
Crerar.  Clinch  &  Co.,  645  Rookery 
Building,  Chicago,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-nine  years.  Mr.  Crerar 
was  born  January  7,  1857,  in  Pictou, 
Nova  Scotia,  Canada,  a  seaport  noted 
as  a  shipping  point  for  coal  mines  ad- 
jacent to  it,  and  it  seemed  befitting  tlvit 
he  should  locate  in  Chicago,  one  of  the 
greatest  coal  markets  of  the  world, 
and  should  become  well-known  in  the 
coal  industry.  He  has  other  extensive 
business  interests,  and  is  rated  high 
in  the  business  life  of  Chicago  and  the 
coal    industry   of   the   country. 


EDWIN    CARY    SEARLS,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

General  Manager  Crerar,  Clinch  &  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
and  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  born  December  10,  1866,  in  Buf- 
falo, New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Searls  is  well  known  and  has 
many  warm  friends  in  coal  trade  circles.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Searls  Coal  Co.,  Majestic  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  and 
is   President  of   the   Illinois   Coal   Operators   Association. 


CHARLES    H.    EHHERT,    Chicaeo,    Illinois, 

General  Sales  Manager  for  the  White  Oak  Coal  Co.,  122 
South  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  connected 
with  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  started 
with  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railroad  in  1899  as  Traveling 
Coal  Freight  Agent  and  soon  became  associated  with  F.  D. 
Garrison  in  selling  by-product  coke  from  the  ovens  at  Ham- 
ilton, Ohio.  In  1900  he  became  Sales  Manager  in  Chicago 
for  the  Chicago-Virden  Coal  Co.  and  in  1902  organized  the 
Ogden  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Later  he  was  with  the  Drexel  Coal 
Co.  and  the  Black  Band  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  with  the 
White  Oak  Coal  Co.  since  1908.  He  was  born  at  Columbus, 
Kentucky,  January  4,  1871. 


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HARRY    C.    ADAMS,  Chicago,   Illinois. 

President  The  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.,  1103  Steger  Building, 
Chicago,  was  born  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been 
interested  both  in  mining  and  selling  coal  thirty  years.  His 
former  connections  were  A.  T.  Thatcher  &  Co.  and  The 
Turney  &  Jones  Co.  He  has  been  President  of  the  Central 
Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association,  and  has  been  prominent 
in  the  councils  of  the  operators. 


i.ii.i.m.    AMBLER,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Kugene  Ambler  &  Co.,  343 
South  Dearborn  Street,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  born  at 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  May  23,  1875,  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  formerly 
was  associated  with  the  Richards.  Ambler  &  Co.  He  served 
as  Imperial  Modoc,  Order  KoKoal,  and  is  one  of  the  most 
popular   of   Chicago   coalmen. 


BDWARD    THACHBB    KENT,    Chicago,    HllnoU, 

President  Oglesby  Coal  Co.,  Oglesby,  since  the  death  of  his 
father,  Thacher  T.  Bent,  In  1908,  has  been  active  In  the  coal 
Industry  thirty-eight  years.  He  was  Secretary  of  the  first 
Interstate  Joint  Conference  held  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  in  1886: 
for  many  years  was  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Illinois  Coal 
Operators'  Association  and  was  its  President  in  1916-17.  He 
represented  the  Illinois  coal  operators  on  the  Liability  Com- 
mission. Recently  he  was  Assistant  to  the  President  of  the 
Spring  Valley  Coal  Co.,  Spring  Valley.  Illinois.  He  was  born 
in  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  January  20,  1863. 


WAl.TlsIt    SCOTT    I  I  .    i  iii.-.-iu...    mi,,.. i,. 

President  of  W.  S.  Bogle  &  Co.,  Inc.,  343  South  Dearborn 
Street,  Chicago,  Illinois,  is  one  of  the  largest  Indiana  opera- 
tors. He  is  also  Interested  in  the  Pittsburgh-Belmont  Co.  and 
No.  8  Coal  Co.  of  Ohio.  He  completed  fifty  years'  association 
with  the  coal  business  July  6,  1918,  and  formerly  was 
with  the  following:  D.  Bogle,  D.  Bogle  &  Sons,  King  & 
Bogle.  Delaware  &  Hudson  Canal  Co.  and  Crescent  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.  He  was  born  at  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  April  3, 
1  s r, 2 .  Mr.  Bogle  is  highly  respected  and  considered  the  dean 
of   the   Chicago   coal    trade. 


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ROBERT    C.    CANTEI.OU,   Chicago,   Illntols, 

Western  Manager  for  The  Houston  Coal  Co.,  700  Old  Col- 
ony Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  twenty-six 
years  in  the  coal  business  and  formerly  was  connected  with 
MacFarlane  &  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  Castner,  Curran  & 
Bullitt,  Consolidation  Coal  Co.  and  The  C.  G.  Blake  Co.  He 
was  born  in  Lowndes  County,  Alabama,  July  4,  1866.  Mr. 
Cantelou  is  very  popular  in  the  trade  and  considered  an 
unusually  good  salesman. 


RODERICK  W.  CLASSEN,  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Advertising  Manager  with  the  Taylor  Coal  Co.,  1215  Old 
Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  with  Roberts  & 
Schaefer  Co.  for  six  years  and  for  the  same  period  with 
The  Retail  Coalman  as  Service  and  Advertising  Manager. 
He  was  born  in  Chicago  May  10,  1888,  and  has  a  wide 
acquaintance   in   the  coal  trade. 


THOMAS  HENRY  COCHRAN,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

President  Ender  Coal  Co.,  Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He 
was  with  O'Gara,  King  &  Co.  from  1900  to  1904.  He  was 
born   in   Centerville,   Iowa,   May   15,   1878. 


FRED  H.    II  \  it  u  lion.   Chicago,  Illinois, 

President  of  the  New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.  and  Traffic  Manager 
Illinois  Coal  Traffic  Bureau,  Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
was  born  in  Chicago  January  15,  1863.  He  was  for  twenty- 
two  years  with  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  being  Coal 
Traffic  Manager  from  1904  to  1909.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eight  years  and  has  many  friends  in  the  trade. 


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JAMES   A.  GAI.LIGAJi,  Chicago,   Illinois, 

Sales  Agent  Pickands,  Brown  &  Co.,  McCormick  Building, 
Chicago,  has  been  in  the  business  eleven  years.  He  was  born 
in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  September  28,  1875.  Mr.  Galligan 
was  formerly  Assistant  General  Purchasing  Agent  for  the 
Allis-Chalmers  Co.  In  his  present  connection  he  has  had 
an  active  part  in  the  sales  direction  of  introducing  Solvay 
Coke.  "The  fuel  without  a  fault."  and  has  seen  it  grow  in 
the  West  from  infancy  to  a  substantial  tonnage  in  both 
metallurgical  and  domestic  channels.  Mr.  Galligan  is  Dis- 
trict Coke  Representative  in  the  Middle  West  for  the  United 
States  Fuel  Administration. 


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WILLIAM   CHKSTKH    HI  1,1,,  ChloaKo,  IlUnoU. 

Vice  President  and  General  Sales  Agent  of  the  Thos.  N. 
Mordue  Coal  Co.,  Peoples  Gas  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  Identified  with  the  coal  industry  for  twenty-six  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Chicago  &  Carterville  Coal  Co. 
and  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and 
has  filled  the  office  of  President  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Ex- 
change, President  Chicago  Coal  Trade  Golf  Association  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Chicago  Automobile  Club.  He  was  born 
at   Chester,   Illinois.    December   5,   1868. 


CHARLES    W,   JACKSOX,   Chlcaico.    IlllnoU, 

Has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years,  during  which 
time  he  has  been  with  C.  K.  Plttman.  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Rogers,  Brown  &  Co..  and  the  F.  G.  Hartwell  Co.  He  has 
served  as  Chairman  of  the  Arbitration  Board  of  the  Chicago 
Coal  Merchants'  Association  and  the  Tean.sters'  Union. 
He  was  horn  in  Albia,  Iowa,  September  2,  1868. 


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HOMER    D.    JOM5S,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Western  Fuel  Co.,  Adams 
and  Rockwell  Sts.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-five  years.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Chi- 
cago Coal  Merchants'  Association,  Chairman  of  its  Cost  and 
System  Committee,  and  a  member  of  the  Retail  Advisory 
Committee  of  the  Cook  County  Fuel  Administration.  He 
was  born  in  Columbus.  Ohio,  December  24,  1879.  Mr.  Jones 
is  considered  ah  authority  on  the  cost  of  retailing-  coal. 


CHARLES    EDWIN    KARSTROM,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Vice  President  and  Manager  of  Sales  for  the  Big  Creek  Col- 
liery Co.,  Peoples  Gas  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  in 
Chicago   January   29,    1888. 


J.   I,,    ivl   ll'l,i:i  \.    Chicago,   Illinois, 

Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.,  1709 
Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  formerly  with  the 
Consolidated  Coal  Co.  of  St.  Louis  and  has  been  in  the 
business  twenty-three  years.  He  is  Secretary  of  the 
Williamson  County  Coal  Operators'  Association.  He  was 
born  at  East  St.  Louis,  May  17,  1879. 


MITCHELL   &    DILLO.X    COAL    CO., 
Chicago,    Illinois, 

One  of  the  oldest  and  widely-known 
of  Chicago  coal  firms,  was  founded  in 
1875  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  but  removed 
soon  after  to  Chicago.  They  were  the 
first,  about  1889,  to  make  their  head- 
quarters in  the  Bedford  Building, 
which  afterward  became  the  home  of 
many    of   the   Chicago   coal    trade. 

A.  Mitchell,  the  founder,  died  October 
13,  1913,  and  W.  J.  Dillon,  who  had 
started  as  an  office  boy.  in  the  firm, 
became,  and  still  is,  President  of  the 
company.  A.  Mitchell,  a  son  of  the 
founder,    is    now    Secretary-Treasurer. 

The  firm,  in  specializing  in  certain 
grades  of  bituminous  coal  and  anthra- 
cite, has  gained  a  wide  reputation  not 
only  at  the  mines  but  in  the  West  and 
Northwest. 


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WILLIAM  P.  'i.  Ml'  I  \  n.  Chicago,  lllinolH, 
President  Franklin  Star  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Chicago,  was  born 
in  Canada  August  31,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  operating 
and  selling  ends  of  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  is 
also  Interested  in  coal  operations  in  Perry,  Jefferson  and 
Franklin  counties,  Illinois.  Mr.  McMillan  was  formerly 
with  Guy  G.  Gibson  &  Co..  and  MacBridge,  Simpson,  Mc- 
Millan &  Co.,  and  organized,  developed  and  operated  the 
Ziegler  District  Colliery  Co.,  the  first  mine  in  Christopher, 
Illinois.  He  was  Vice  President  and  General  Manager  until 
he  became  associated  with  the  late  Fred  A.  Busse,  after 
whose  death  he  became  associated  with  a  bond  house  until 
he  organized   his   present   company. 


H.    S.    MIKKSKI,!.,   Chicago,   IllinoiM, 

President  and  Treasurer  Mikesell  Bros.  Co.,  178  North  LaSalle 
Street,  and  Vice  President  and  a  Director  Textile  Convert- 
ing Co.,  Chicago,  was  born  in  Everett,  Pennsylvania,  August 
16,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Choctaw,  Oklahoma  &  Gulf 
Railroad,  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.,  Consolidated  In- 
diana Coal  Co.,  Coal  Valley  Mining  Co.,  and  Rock  Island 
Mining  Co.,  and  has  a  wide  and  varied  experience  in  coal 
matters. 


\  \inti  \\  T.  MI'RPHY,  ChlcaKO,  llllnol*. 
President  and  Publisher  of  The  Black  Diamond,  the  well- 
known  weekly  trade  journal,  published  at  Manhattan  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  Illinois,  was  born  in  Quincy,  Illinois.  Novem- 
ber 21,  1878.  The  Black  Diamond  is  the  second  oldest  coal 
trade  publication  and  under  Mr.  Murphy's  management  has 
shown  steady  progress. 


JOHN  PTNOBON,  i  iiiv«ii.  IlllnolH, 
Western  Sales  Agent  for  the  Crozer-Pocahontas  Co.,  1105 
Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years.  He  has  been  with 
the  following  concerns:  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co.  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, Star  Coal  Co.  of  Illinois,  John  Pynchon  of  Milwaukee 
and  Chicago,  Kanawha  &  New  River  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and  the  F.  G.  Hartwell  Co.,  Chicago.  He  was  born  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  June  11,  1856,  and  is  one  of 
Chicago's  best  known   coalmen. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


HIDGELY    RBA,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Chicago  Manager  for  The  Deep  Vein  Coal  Co.,  343  S.  Dear- 
born St.,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years, 
formerly  with  the  following  concerns:  Consolidated  Coal 
Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  North  Western  Fuel  Co.  and  Hunter 
W.  Finch.  He  was  born  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  February 
17,  1867,  and  is  well-known   in  the  Chicago  trade. 


GEORGE     W.     REED,    Chicago,    Illinois, 

Vice  President  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
O'Gara,  King  &  Co.  and  President  Lincoln-Springfield  Coal 
Co.  Mr.  Reed  was  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Coal  Pro- 
duction, Council  of  National  Defense.  He  has  been  the  rep- 
resentative of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association  and 
the  Indiana  Bituminous  Coal  Operators'  Association  In  a 
number  of  cases  before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commis- 
soin.     He  was  born   in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  September  3,   1878. 


MARK    A.    ROLFE,    Chicago,   Illinois, 

President  of  the  Black  Gem  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Old  Colony 
Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  born  April  9,  1869,  at  Rome, 
New  York.  Mr.  Rolfe  is  well  known  in  the  Chicago  coal 
trade  and  has  been  successful  in  handling  both  steam  and 
domestic  coal. 


LEON  ROMANSKI,  Chicago.  Illinois. 
President  and  Manager  of  the  Atlas  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Old 
Colony  Building,  Chicago,  has  been  connected  with  the  busi- 
ness for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born  November  24,  1876. 
Formerly  he  was  with  the  Eureka  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  the  Lin- 
coln-Springfield Coal  Co.,  the  O'Gara  Coal  Co.  and  the  Luh- 
now  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Romanski  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Order  KoKoal,  the  Chicago  Coal  &  Coke  Exchange  and 
the  National  Coal   Jobbers'  Association. 


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I  ill   li    \\ .    I  I'll  \  >i,    Chicago,    lllinoix, 

President  of  the  Consumers  Co.,  Conway  Building,  Chicago. 
Illinois,  has  been  thirteen  years  in  the  coal  business.  He 
Is  also  interested  in  the  Peabody  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
In  Racine,  Wisconsin,  January  29.  1861.  Mr.  Upham  is  one  of 
Chicago's  prominent  citizens,  has  served  on  the  Board  of  Re- 
view, and  held  many  important  civic  positions. 


CARL    SCHOLZ,  Chicago,  lllinoix, 

General  Manager  Valier  Coal  Co.  and  Consulting  Mining 
Engineer  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway  Co.,  was 
formerly  President  of  the  Rock  Island  Coal  Mining  Co.  and 
Coal  Valley  Mining  Co.  He  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  business  twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Scholz  served  three 
years  as  President  of  the  American  Mining  Congress,  has 
been  on  various  committees  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Mining  Engineers,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Western  Society 
of  Engineers.  He  went  to  Europe  in  1910  to  investigate 
mining  conditions  for  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Mines. 
He  was  born  in  Germany,  at  Slawentzitz,  July  2,  1872. 


STKWART    K.    SMITH,    Chicago,   Illlnolii, 

Receiver  Consolidated  Indiana  Coal  Co.,  Fisher  Building, 
'hicago,  has  been  connected  with  the  business  twenty  years. 
The  following  positions  were  formerly  held  by  Mr. 
Smith:  Chief  Engineer,  Northern  Pacific  Coal  Co.,  Ros- 
lyn,  Washington;  General  Superintendent,  Utah  Fuel  Co., 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah;  General  Superintendent,  Bering 
Coal  Co.,  Chicago.  Illinois;  General  Manager,  Vinton  Col- 
liery Co.,  Vintondale,  Pa.  His  experience  as  a  mining  en- 
gineer and  superintendent  has  practically  covered  the  states 
of  Washington,  Montana,  Utah,  Colorado,  Illinois,  Indiana, 
Oklahoma  and  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Smith  is  the  inventor  of 
the  tilting  type  of  box  car  loader.  He  was  born  In  Somerset, 
Michigan. 


in:   I. OS   HULL,  Oak    Park,   lllinoix. 

Former  retail  coal  merchant,  was  born  near  De  Ruyter, 
New  York,  April  12,  1842.  He  entered  the  coal  business  In 
1893  and  sold  out  to  the  Consumers  Co.  of  Chicago  in  1913. 
For  many  years  he  was  active  in  retail  coal  association 
affairs,  serving  as  President  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin 
Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  of  the  National  Coun- 
cil of  Retail  Coal  Merchants,  as  well  as  being  instrumental 
In  organizing  many  state  and  local  retail  coal  associations. 
He   now   makes   his  home   at   Canon   City,   Colorado. 


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OGLESUY    COAI,    CO.,   Oirlesby,   IUinniH. 

This  company,  with  both  office  and 
mine  at  Oglesby.  LaSalle  County,  Illi- 
nois, was  organized  in  1867  by  Thacher 
T.  Bent,  and  is  one  of  the  oldest  and 
best  known  companies  in  Illinois. 
During  its  existence  of  over  half  a  cen- 
tury it  has  been  owned  and  operated 
by   the   Bent    family. 

The  mine  is  located  on  the  Illinois 
Central  Railway,  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railway  and  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway.  The 
coal  is  the  Third  vein,  thin  seam,  Illi- 
nois, of  a  high  grade  quality  for  steam 
and  domestic  purposes,  the  mine  being 
especially  equipped  to  prepare  most  of 
its  product  of  225,000  tons  annually 
for   domestic   use. 

The  personnel  of  the  company  at 
present   is   as   follows: 

President — Edward  T.  Bent  of  Chi- 
cago. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer — Henry  A. 
Bent    of    Oglesby. 

Superintendent — J.  Raymond  Bent  of 
Oglesby. 

President  Bent  has  been  actively  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  industry  for  thirty- 
nine  years.  His  knowledge  was  relied 
upon  to  a  great  degree  by  the  Illinois 
Coal  Operators'  Association  since  its 
formation  in  1898,  and  in  all  joint  con- 
ferences of  operators  and  miners  he 
took   a   most   active   part. 

Secretary  and  Superintendent  Bent 
are  both  practical  coal  operators,  with 
a  thorough  knowledge  of  conditions 
that  govern  the  conditions  of  thin 
seam  mining  in  the  northern  part  of 
Illinois. 

The  Bent  family,  coming  originally 
from  the  western  part  of  Massachu- 
setts, has  been  so  long  associated  with 
the  coal  mining  industry  of  Illinois 
that  no  movement  for  the  betterment 
of  the  operating  end  of  the  trade  can 
be  touched  upon  without  some  refer- 
ence  to    this    respected    family. 


W.  D.  OBCAMP,  I. in. -Kin.  IllinoiH, 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Citizens  Coal  Mining  Co.  at  Lincoln, 
has  been  connected  with  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-four  years.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Illi- 
nois Coal  Operators'  Association.  He 
was  born  in  Lincoln,  November  8, 
1868. 


E.   C.   OBCAMP.    Lincoln,    Illinois. 

Vice  President  and  Secretary  of  the 
Citizens  Coal  Mining  Co.  at  Lincoln, 
has  been  in  the  coal  industry  twenty- 
eight  years  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association. 
He  was  born  December  13,  1871,  in 
Lincoln. 


E.    H.    BUCKLEY,    Springfield,     Illinois, 

President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Athens-Dawson  Coal  Co.,  Springfield, 
has  been  in  the  business  sixteen  years, 
formerly  with  the  Sangamon  Coal  Co. 
He  was  born  in  Springfield  August  10, 
1884.  Mr.  Buckley  is  also  interested  in 
the    Chicago-Williamsville   Coal   Co. 


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CHARLES  ('.   SWIFT.  I.nSalle.  IllinoiH, 

General  Manager  of  the  LaSalle  County  Carbon  Coal  Co. 
at  LaSalle,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the  company 
for  eleven  years.  Formerly  he  was  with  the  Chicago, 
Wilmington  &  Vermillion  Co.  He  was  born  at  Streator, 
Illinois,  June  14,  1877,  and  has  taken  an  active  interest  in 
the  affairs  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association.  His 
predecessors  were  Franklin  O.  Wyatt  and  Howard  S.  Hazen. 


ill    \  i      H.    ARMSTRONG,    Lincoln,     Illinois, 

General  Manager  of  the  Lincoln  Mining  Co.,  Lincoln,  Illi- 
nois. He  has  been  connected  with  the  business  for  twenty- 
three  years,  formerly  with  The  Decatur  Coal  Co.  at  Niantic, 
Illinois.  He  was  born  September  28,  1873,  at  Macon,  Illi- 
nois. Mr.  Armstrong  has  been  interested  in  the  work  of 
the    Illinois   Coal    Operators'    Association    for   many   years. 


ROBERT    FORSYTH,    Mariana,    Illinois. 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  The  Carterville  & 
Herrin  Coal  Co.  and  President  of  the  Dozo  Valley  Coal  Co., 
has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-three  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Borders  Coal  Co.  and  the  Forsyth  Coal 
«'•)  until  July,  1916,  when  he  obtained  the  controlling 
interest  in  the  Carterville  &  Herrin  Coal  Co.  He  has  been 
a  Director  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association  and 
of  the  Fifth  and  Ninth  District  Association.  He  was  born 
in  Scotland  June  10.  1864. 


OBOROH   V.   I'KWVKI.I.,   Pana,  Illinois, 

President  of  the  Penwell  Coal  Mining  Co.  at  Pana,  Illinois, 
has  been  Identified  with  the  coal  industry  since  1888  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association.  He 
was  born  in  LaPorte,  Indiana.  February  6.  1846,  and  Is  one 
of  the   well-known   coal   operators   of   Illinois. 


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JOHN    H.   BONTJES,  Peoria,   Illinois, 

President  of  The  B.  &  B.  Coal  Co.  and  well-known  coal 
operator  of  Peoria,  Illinois,  was  born  February  15,  1871,  at 
Petersburg,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Bontjes  is  also  President  of 
the  Citizens  Coal  Mining  Co.  of  Springfield,  Illinois,  and  an 
active    member    of   the   Illinois   Coal   Operators'   Association. 


MAURICE  E.  CASE,  Peoria,  Illinois, 

Secretary-Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  Crescent 
Coal  Co.,  Jefferson  Building,  Peoria,  Illinois,  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  nine  years.  He  has  taken 
an  active  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators' 
Association.    He  was  born  at  Peoria  September  29,  1872. 


JAMES  B.  DOOLEY,  Peoria,  Illinois, 

President  of  Dooley  Bros.,  Peoria,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  began  his  career  in 
the  industry  at  the  age  of  nine  as  trapper  in  Canadian  mines. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Eastern  Coal  Co.,  and  has  served 
as  President  of  the  Peoria  Coal  Club  and  of  the  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He  was  born 
in  Nova  Scotia  June   21,   1856. 


ARCHIBALD   T.  McMASTER,   Peoria,  Illinois, 

President  of  the  McMaster  Coal  Sales  Co.,  Lehmann  Build- 
ing, Peoria,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-six  years,  formerly  with  Miles  &  Co.,  Newell  Coal 
Co.  and  Clark  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  has  held  the  office  of 
Secretary  of  the  Peoria  Retail  Coal  Bureau  and  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association.  He  was  born  at  Girard,  Illinois,  August  21, 
1874.  Mr.  McMaster  has  served  as  President  of  the  Central 
Illinois  Republican  Club  and  has  been  active  in  politics.  He 
is  a  Knight  Templar,  Mason  and  Shriner. 


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THOMAS    M1WSAJ1,  Peoria,  Illinois, 

General  Manager  for  Newsam  Bros.,  coal  operators,  has 
been  in  the  business  for  thirty-one  years.  He  was  born  in 
Lancashire,  England,  September  3,  1854.  Mr.  Newsam  is 
one  of  the  well  known  and  highly  respected  coal  operators 
in  his  district. 


WILLIAM  W.  M<  in,.  Peoria,  Illinois. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Peoria  Fuel  Co.,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years.  He  is  President 
of  the  Peoria  Coal  Club  and  is  active  in  the  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He  was  born 
at  Peoria  February  22,  1865. 


RICHARD  o\\  i  \  .SHARON,  Peoria,  Illinois. 
President  and  Manager  of  the  Sharon  Coal  Co.  at  Peoria, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 
He  formerly  was  connected  with  the  East  Cuba  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,  P.  W.  Meehan  and  the  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.  He 
was  born  at  Sciota,  Illinois,  September  24,  1871.  Mr.  Sharon 
Is  an  old  railroad  man  and  since  entering  the  coal  business 
has  been   successful  and  has  a  host  of  friends  in   the  trade. 


KDWI1V  HOLTOIV  KEELER,  Roekford,  Illinois. 
Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Roekford  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co., 
Roekford,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business 
thirty-five  years.  He  is  also  Treasurer  of  the  Taylor  Coal 
Co..  Chicago,  and  Vice  President  of  the  Keeler  Lumber  & 
Fuel  Co.,  Beloit,  Wisconsin.  He  was  born  in  Janesville, 
Wisconsin.  August  13,  1863.  Mr.  Keeler  is  one  of  the 
most  successful  and  highly  rosppcted  retail  coal  merchants 
in  the  west  and  has  always  been  active  in  every  movement 
for  the  betterment  of  the  trade. 


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ILLINOIS  — Chicago 


CHARLES  W.  ALABKCK,  2042  Howe  St.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, is  City  Sales  Manager  for  the  Thomson  Coal  Co.,  with 
which  he  has  been  connected  for  the  past  eight  years.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years  and 
formerly  was  with  Coxe  Bros.  Coal  Co.  and  the  Crescent 
Coal   Mining   Co.      He   was   born   at   Dubuque,   Iowa,   in   1880. 

ANDREWS  ALLEN  is  President  of  the  Allen  &  Garcia 
Co.,  955  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  has 
been  identified  with  engineering  work  in  connection  with 
the  coal  mining  industry  since  1900.  He  was  born  at 
Madison,   Wisconsin,    January    11,    1870. 

FRANK  ARLT,  2658  West  Twenty-first  St.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, is  Manager  of  the  Carter  Coal  Co.  and  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Warren  Park  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Albany  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  eight 
years.     He  was  born  in   Chicago   in   1889. 

SAMUEL  I.  BABCOCK  is  President  of  the  Babcock  Coal 
Co.,  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  was  for- 
merly with  W.  P.  Rend  &  Co.  as  salesman  and  has  been 
In  the  business  for  eight  years.  He  was  born  at  Lowell, 
Indiana,   in   1880. 

JAMES  B.  BEARDSLEE,  Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, is  Assistant  Western  Manager  for  the  Consolidation 
Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen 
years,  formerly  "with  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co.  He  was 
born  at  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  December  19,  1880.  Mr.  Beards- 
lee  is  at  present  Assistant  Distributor  for  the  United  States 
Fuel  Administration  at  Washington,   D.  C. 

CHARLES  A.  BELKE,  Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 
Formerly  he  was  Treasurer  of  the  Federal  Coal  Co.  and 
Assistant  Sales  Manager  for  the  Hart-Williams  Coal  Co. 
He  was  born  in  Chicago  in  1874. 

ALBERT  L.  BERRY,  234  South  LaSalle  Street,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  is  the  head  of  the  firm  of  A.  L.  Berry  &  Co.  and 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four  years. 
He  was  born  at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  but  says  he  is  too  old  now 
to  remember  the  date  of  his  birth.  Mr.  Berry  established 
the  Berry  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  which  has 
become   the   Berry-Bergs   Coal   &   Coke   Co. 

J.  EDWARD  BISHOP  is  President  of  the  Bishop-Hamlin 
Coal  Co.  at  Sixty-first  and  State  Streets,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
He  formerly  was  connected  with  the  New  Kentucky  Coal 
Co.  as  Manager  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirteen 
years.      He  was  born  at  Joliet,   Illinois,   December  4,   1874. 

WILLIAM  BLAIR,  General  Sales  Agent  for  Henry  Hol- 
verscheid  &  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  for- 
merly was  traveling  salesman  for  the  W.  L.  Scott  Co.  and 
Western  Agent  for  the  Susquehanna  Coal  Co.  He  was 
born   at  Gratis,   Ohio,   in   1854. 

EDWARD  J.  BOBBER,  is  President  of  the  Robey  Coal 
Co.,  5012  South  Paulina  Street,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was 
born  in  Chicago,  June  5,  1896. 

WILLIAM  CLEAVELAND  BODMAN,  Peoples  Gas  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  Illinois,  is  Salesman  for  the  F.  G.  Hartwell 
Co.  in  northern  Illinois  and  southern  Wisconsin.  He  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 
He  was  born   in  Milwaukee  in   1858. 

F.  ALFRED  BRAHM  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Piatt  &  Brahm  Coal  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago, 
Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight 
years,  formerly  with  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.  and  The  Lehigh 
Valley  Coal  Co.  in  Chicago.  He  was  born  at  Sheboygan, 
Wisconsin,   July   14,    1874. 

W.  A.  BREWERTOIV  is  President  of  the  Sangamon  County 
Mining  Co.,  140  South  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years,  formerly 
with  the  O'Gara  Coal  Co.  He  was  chairman  of  a  reorgan- 
ization committee  of  the  O'Gara  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Brewerton 
was  born  in  Chicago  May  23, '1883. 

LEONARD  GEORGE  BRUDER  was  Manager  for  B.  Nicoll 
&  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  for  several 
years,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five  years.  Formerly  he  was  with  the  following: 
Peabody  Coal  Co.,  Brazil  Coal  Co.,  Bryan  &  Eberhart  Coal 
Co.  and  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  was  born  at  Granville, 
Illinois,  February  3,  1873,  and  is  a  specialist  on  the  sale  of 
smithing  coal. 

ALBERT  J.  BUNGE  is  President  of  Bunge  Bros.  Coal  Co., 
Lake  and  Paulina  Streets,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  has  been 
in  the  business  for  thirty-six  years  and  has  served  several 
terms  as  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Mer- 
chants Association.  He  was  born  January  17,  1867,  in 
Chicago,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  Chicago's  substantial 
retail  coal  merchants. 


JOSEPH  BUSH  is  General  Manager  of  The  Robey  Coal 
Co.,  5812  South  Robey  Street,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years,  formerly  with  the  Pea- 
body  Coal  Co.  and  the  W.  P.  Rend  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
in   Italy,   June   26,    1884. 

CHARLES  R.  CAMPBELL  is  Vice  President  of  The  Con- 
sumers Co.,  Conway  Building.  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born 
in  Iowa  April  12,  1869. 

ROBERT  H.  CLARK,  35  South  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, is  President  of  the  Clark  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the 
business  for  twenty-six  years,  formerly  with  David  Rutter 
&  Co.,  Inc  ,  as  Secretary.  He  was  born  at  Canajoharie,  New 
York,   January   1,    1866. 

WILLIAM  HUNT  COMSTOCK,  President  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Cross  Creek  Coal  Co.,  6  North  Clark  Street,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  over  thirty  years.  He 
was  formerly  a  member  of  the  firm  of  France  &  Co.  and 
of  Comstock  Bros.  He  was  for  thirteen  years  Manager  of 
the  city  sales  department  for  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.  Mr.  Com- 
stock was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  January  29,   1854. 

JAMES  P.  CONNERY  is  Secretary-Manager  of  the  Miami 
Coal  Co.,  1804  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He 
formerly  was  connected  with  The  Silver  Creek  &  Morris 
Coal  Co.  and  with  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron 
Co.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He 
was  born  in  Chicago  May  17,  1865. 

JOHN  T.  CONNERY,  President  of  the  Miami  Coal  Co., 
1804  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business  for  forty  odd  years.  He  was 
formerly  Secretary  of  the  Silver  Creek  &  Morris  Coal  Co. 
and  of  the  Youghiogheny  &  Lehigh  Coal  Co.,  and  connected 
with  E.  L.  Hedstrom  &  Co.  and  The  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 
He  was  born  in  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  January  10,  1861. 
He  is  interested  in  The  Ohio  Fuel  Co.  and  The  Barney 
Coal   Co.   of  Birmingham,   Alabama. 

JOHN  H.  COULTER  is  Treasurer  of  The  Martin-Howe 
Coal  Co.,  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  Secre- 
tary of  The  Tecumseh  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  for- 
merly "was  connected  with  the  firm  of  George  G.  Pope  & 
Co.     He  was  born  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,   in  1877. 

RAYMOND  E.  DANIELS  is  President  and  Treasurer  of 
Edwin  F.  Daniels  &  Co.,  120  Jackson  Boulevard,  Chicago, 
Illinois.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
seven  years,  prior  to  which  time  he  practiced  law.  He 
was  born  in  Chicago,  August  26,  1883. 

GEORGE  A.  DAVIDSON  owns  the  business  of  G.  A.  Da- 
vidson &  Co.,  353  North  Elizabeth  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-eight  years,  with 
Wm.  E.  Johnson  &  Co.  for  fourteen,  when  he  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  D.  H.  Preston  &  Co.,  and  since  the 
retirement  of  Mr.  Preston  July  1,  1905,  has  carried  on  the 
business  under  his  own  name.  He  was  born  in  Chicago, 
January  27,   1864. 

WHITFIELD  G.  DAVIS  is  President  of  The  W.  G.  Davis 
Coal  Co.,  307  Parkside  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  formerly 
was  with  The  Traill  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  Shabbona,  Illi- 
nois,   in    1875. 

LYE  HARPER  DAYHOFF,  Maywood,  Illinois,  is  Vice 
President  of  the  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.,  1103  Steger 
Building,  Chicago,  and  has  been  in  the  business  fifteen  years. 
He  was  born  in  Chicago  August  22,  1885. 

W.  T.  DELIHANT,  5820  Race  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  is 
Sales  Manager  for  Edwin  F.  Daniels  &  Co.  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-eight  years.  Formerly  he 
was  connected  with  W.  P.  Rend  &  Co.,  New  Kentucky  Coal 
Co.,  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  Chicago  Washed  Coal  Co.,  F.  G. 
Hartwell  Co.,  Reynolds  Coal  Co.,  and  F.  A.  Busse  Coal  Co. 
He  has  been  President  of  the  Standard  Washed  Coal  Co. 
and  the  Commercial  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  was  born  at 
Florissant,    Missouri,    in    1860. 

WILLIAM  J.  DILLON  is  President  of  the  Mitchell  & 
Dillon  Coal  Co.,  203  South  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years 
with  the  same  company.  He  was  born  at  Oshawa,  Canada, 
September  18,  1874,  and  commands  the  respect  of  all  who 
know   him. 

CHARLES  H.  DREISKE,  814  North  Sawyer  Ave.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  who  has  been  in  the 
business  for  twenty-two  years.  He  has  been  connected 
with  the  following  concerns:  W.  D.  Dreiske  &  Co.,  L.  F. 
Dreiske  &  Co.,  William  Dreiske  &  Co.  He  was  born  In 
Chicago,  October  6,  1877.  Mr.  Dreiske  has  served  several 
terms  as  a  Director  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Asso- 
ciation and  on  various  committees  of  that  organization. 
He  has  also  been  President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Sunset  Coal  Club,  composed  of  west  side  coal  merchants 
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WILLIAM  D.  DHEISKE,  3036  Chicago  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, formerly  with  Wm.  D.  Drelske  &  Co.,  retail  coal  mer- 
chants, was  born  September  18,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  for  ten  years. 

ILHERT  PRANK  DRILBY,  Vice  President  of  the  Druley 
&  O'Brien  Co.,  4619  Park  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  formerly 
was  connected  with  the  J.  E.  Decker  Coal  Co.,  Delos  Hull 
.^  Co  mil  the  Consumers  Co.  He  was  born  In  Joliet,  Illinois, 
November    13,    1887. 

PAUL,  DI17.YMAI.SKI,  President  of  the  Polonia  Coal  Co., 
1360  West  North  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged 
in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  has  served  as 
;i  Director  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Association.  Mr. 
I  iizymalskl  was  born  in  Poland  December  16,  1877. 

CHARLES  ALLEN  EASTMAN,  Vice  President  of  the 
Eastman-Barber  Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-six  years  and  is  interested  in  several  retail 
yards  In  Chicago.  He  formerly  was  connected  with  the 
following  concerns:  Southern  Ohio  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  S.  J. 
Patterson  Co.,  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.,  Zellcr,  McClellan  &  Co.,  W. 
L.  Scott  Co.,  Susquehanna  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Eldridge  Coal 
Co.  He  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  California,  in  1863.  Mr. 
Eastman  now  holds  a  commission  as  Major  in  the  Quarter- 
master's Corps.  Major  Eastman  has  taken  part  in  many 
important  actions  before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission. 

CLAUDE  N.  EASTMAN  is  President  of  the  Eastman  Coal 
Co.,  260  West  Sixty-ninth  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born 
at  Plattsville,  Wisconsin,  December  15,  1879. 

ANDREW  ELLISON,  President  of  the  Ellison  Warehouse 
&  Van  Co.,  3047  Sheffield  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
In  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  was 
born   in   Sweden  April   23,   1854. 

LAWHENCE  W.  FERGUSON,  President  of  the  Ferguson 
Coal  Co.,  1123-1129  Ardmore  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was 
formerly  Western  Manager  for  the  Davis  Colliery  Co.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  was 
born  March   22,    1876,   at  Leroy,   Illinois. 

AUGUST  W.  FLECK,  1432  Wells  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years. 
He  formerly  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  J.  Fleck  &  Son. 
He   was   born   in   Chicago,    in   1858. 

WILLIAM  J.  FRECKLETON,  1356  West  Forty-seventh 
St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  twenty-eight  years.  He  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ire- 
land. 

ALFRED  FRERK  AND  OTTO  FRERK  are  partners  in 
the  business  of  Henry  Frerk  Sons,  3135  Belmont  Ave.,  Chi- 
cago, Illinois.  They  have  been  connected  with  the  retail 
trade  for  twenty-six  years.  Both  were  born  in  Chicago, 
the  former  September  17,  1874,  and  the  latter  January  19, 
1877. 

RORERT  L.  GREEN,  salesman  for  Henry  Holverscheid  & 
Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  for  about  twenty-five  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Brazil  Block  Coal  Co.,  Sunday 
Creek  Coal  Co.,  and  Paint  Creek  Collieries  Co.  He  was 
born    at   Shelbyville,    Indiana,   September    6,    1857. 

EUGENE  E.  GRUMBINE,  4445  Greenview  Ave.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  Is  a  salesman  for  the  Interstate  Coal  &  Dock  Co. 
and  is  also  interested  in  a  retail  coal  yard.  He  has  been 
with  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.  and  the  Susquehanna  Coal  Co.,  and 
has  been  in  the  business  as  a  salesman  for  sixteen  years. 
He  was  born  at  Ohio,  Illinois,  April   12,  1874. 

HARRY  MILLARD  HALL  Is  Vice  President  of  the  Fort 
Dearborn  Coal  Co.,  343  South  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois. He  formerly  was  for  six  years  with  the  Chesapeake 
&  Ohio  Railroad  as  Coal  Freight  Agent.  He  has  been  Sec- 
retary of  the  Kantishna  Club  of  Chicago  and  a  Director 
of  the  Chicago  Coal  Trade  Golf  Association.  He  was  born 
at  Marshalltown,  Iowa.  September  16,  1883,  and  is  one  of 
the    most   popular   of   the   younger   coalmen. 

HUBERT  P.  HARMON,  President  and  Treasurer  of  David 
Rutter  &  Co.,  417  South  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  about  twenty-five 
years.  He  was  born  In  Chicago  January  21,  1873,  attended 
the  Chicago  Manual  Training  School  and  the  University  of 
Michigan,  and  started  with  the  above  firm  as  office  boy,  hav- 
ing been  identified  with  them  continuously  to  the  present 
time. 

PRBD  <;.  HARTWELL,  President  F.  G.  Hartwell  Co., 
Chicago.  Illinois,  and  also  President  of  the  Bcrwlnd  Fuel 
Co.,  has  been  Identified  with  the  coal  business  forty-one 
years.  He  was  born  In  Amsterdam,  New  York.  August  1, 
1881.  Mr.  Hartwell  Is  considered  one  of  the  leaders  in  the 
western    coal    trade. 


MORRIS  W.  HARTWELL,  5222  Dorchester  Ave.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  is  Vice  President  of  the  F.  G.  Hartwell  Co.,  and 
has  been  actively  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  over 
twenty-five  years.  He  was  born  at  Joliet,  Illinois,  August 
23.   1865. 

CHARLES  H.  HASSMANN,  Secretary  of  the  Worth-Hus- 
key  Coal  Co.,  2624  North  Sawyer  Avenue,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Martin-Howe  Coal  Co.  and  is  interested  in 
the  Ridge  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  was  born  in  Chicago  Feb- 
ruary 3,   1881. 

DE  FORREST  WEAD  HEATH,  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  The  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.,  Steger  Building,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  A.  T.  Thatcher  and  the  Turney  & 
Jones  Co.     He  was  born  in  Homer,  Louisiana,  May  3,  1853. 

OTTO  H.  HEDRICH,  President  and  Treasurer  of  Otto  H. 
Hedrich  &  Co.,  Monadnock  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 
He  formerly  was  with  Robert  Law,  the  Brazil  Block  Coal 
Co.  and  the  Brazil  Coal  Co.    He  was  born  in  Chicago  in  1869. 

THEODORE  L.  HEDRICH,  Vice  President  of  Otto  H.  Hed- 
rich &  Co.,  Monadnock  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Brazil  Coal  Co.  and  has  been 
eighteen  years  in  the  coal  business.  He  has  filled  the  office 
of  Secretary  of  the  Chicago  Coal  &  Coke  Exchange.  He 
was  born  March  15,  1876,  in  Chicago. 

HARRY  L.  Hill  1/1. lit.  Country  Sales  Manager  Taylor 
Coal  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago.  Illinois,  started  his 
career  in  the  coal  business  with  Fred  A.  Busse  in  1896.  His 
experience  in  the  last  twenty-two  years  has  embraced  every 
phase  of  the  coal  business  from  retailing  to  producing  com- 
panies, having  been  in  business,  wholesale  and  retail,  for 
himself  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  for  several  years.  Mr. 
Hirtzler  was  born  in  Chicago  February  16,  1883. 

HARRY  HOLVERSCHEID,  Hinsdale,  Illinois,  is  Treasurer 
of  the  coal  firm  of  Henry  Holverscheid  &  Co.,  Old  Colony 
Building,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  business 
ten  years  and  is  interested  in  the  following  concerns:  Bar- 
ker Coal  Co.,  Carter  Coal  Co.,  Albany  Coal  Co.  and  Domestic 
Coal  Co.     He  was  born  in  Chicago  March  27,  1889. 

ROBERT  HOLVERSCHEID,  Secretary  Henry  Holverscheid 
&  Co.,  Chicago,  was  born  in  Chicago  July  9,  1887,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  is  also  Secre- 
tary of  the  Albany  Coal  Co.  and  Carter  Coal  Co.  and  Secre- 
tary-Treasurer of  the  Barker  Coal  Co.  and  Domestic  Coal 
Co.     He  resides  at  Hinsdale,  Illinois. 

CHARLES  E.  HOSTLER,  Manager  of  Country  Sales  for 
the  Globe  Coal  Co.,  332  South  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years. 
He  formerly  was  with  the  Hostler  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and 
with  the  Eureka  Coal  &  Dock  Co.  He  was  born  at  Milton 
Center,  Ohio,  February  5,  1867,  and  has  a  wide  acquain- 
tance   throughout    the    West. 

SIDNEY  P.  HOSTLER,  Manager  of  the  S.  P.  Hostler  Coal 
Co..  Ellsworth  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
business  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Winifrede  Coal  Co.  and  the  O.  S.  Richardson  Coal  Co.  He 
has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Trade  Associa- 
tion and  has  been  for  years  a  leading  advocate  for  recipro- 
cal demurrage  laws.  Mr.  Hostler  was  born  in  Ohio  Decem- 
ber  28,   1861. 

PRANK  F.  HYNES  is  one  of  the  proprietors  of  Hynes 
Bros.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  3624  south  State  St.,  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen 
years.      He    was   born   at    Stoughton,   Wisconsin. 

ALEXANDER  S.  IRVINE,  6620  South  Park  Ave.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  is  a  retail  coal  man  who  has  been  in  the  business 
for  twenty-six  years.  He  was  born  April  27,  1867,  at  St. 
John,    New    Brunswick. 

THOMAS  CLEVELAND  IRWIN,  7403  Evans  Ave.,  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 
Prior  to  the  present  he  was  Chicago  Manager  for  Rutledge 
&  Taylor,  and  previous  to  that  with  the  W.  L.  Scott  Co.,  the 
Susquehanna  Coal  Co.  and  the  White  Oak  Coal  Co.  He  was 
born  at   Trenton,   Missouri.   June   23,   1883. 

EDGAR  JAMES.  5821  South  Halsted  St..  Chicago.  Illinois, 
is  President  of  the  James  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  In  the  retail 
business  for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Darlington, 
Wisconsin,   February   8,   1872. 

WILLIAM  T.  JAMES,  6611  Drexel  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
Is  President  of  the  American  Conveyer  Co.  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  machinery  business  for  over  twenty  years, 
formerly  with  the  Link-Belt  Co.  and  the  Howe  Scale  Co. 
as  Sales  Engineer.      He  was  born   In  Wales  July  30,  1866. 

DAVID  JAMIESON  Is  a  member  of  the  coal  firm  of 
Crerar,  Clinch  &  Co.,  646  Rookery  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  has  been  In  the  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He 
was  born  at   Renfrew.   Ontario.   August  22,  1866. 


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JOHN  SUTPHIN  JONES,  Steger  Building,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, is  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal 
Co.,  The  Buckeye  Coal  &  Railway  Co.,  and  the  Ohio  Land 
&  Railway  Co..  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  a  Director  of  the  Jones 
&  Adams  Coal  Co.,  Chicago.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Columbus  &  Hocking  Valley  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  the 
National  Hocking  Coal  Co.  He  has  spent  twenty-eight  years 
in  the  coal  business.  He  was  born  at  Washington  Court 
House,   Ohio,   January   4,   1849. 

THOMAS  D.  JORDAN  is  Western  Sales  Manager  for  The 
Hisylvania  Coal  Co.,  1255  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years.  He  started  as  a  stenographer  with  the  Wilmington 
Star  Mining  Co.  and  rose  through  various  departments  to 
traveling  salesman  in  Illinois  and  Wisconsin,  and  Anally 
Chicago  representative.  He  was  born  in  England,  June 
30,    1878. 

THEODORE  C.  KELLER,  37  West  Van  Buren  St.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  President  and  Treasurer  of  T.  C.  Keller  &  Co.,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  is  also 
President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Franklin  County  Collieries 
Co.  and  the  Sesser  Coal  Co.,  and  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Northern  Central  Coal  Co.  He  is  the  Re- 
ceiver of  Coal  Properties  of  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois 
Railroad,  and  formerly  was  General  Manager  of  the  Grape 
Creek  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Keller  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts,, in   1864. 

H.  H.  KEMPER  is  proprietor  of  The  Baum  Coal  Co.,  343 
S.  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has  been  twelve  years 
in  the  business.  He  also  was  Sales  Manager  for  Bell  & 
Zoller  for  two  and  one-half  years  in  addition  to  conducting 
his  own  business.     He   was  born   in  Ohio. 

CHARLES  R.  KLINE,  Vice  President  of  the  Waubun  Coal 
Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business 
twenty-one  years.  He  formerly  was  connected  with  the 
Mitchell  &  Dillon  Coal  Co.,  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.,  Stonega  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  and  the  Zenith  Furnace  Co.  He  was  born  at 
Byron,  Illinois,  January  26,  1878. 

WILLIAM  J.  F.  KUECHLER  is  in  charge  of  the  jobbing 
line  with  Henry  Holverscheid  &  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five  years.  He  is  one  of  the  Directors  of  the 
Domestic  Coal  Co.  and  formerly  was  with  E.  Puttkammer 
and  the  Cook-Rutledge  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Hamburg, 
Germany,    June    18,    1872. 

H.  B.  LANIGAN,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  R.  B. 
Arnold  Coal  Co.,  2141  S.  Homan  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinios,  has 
been  in  the  business  for  over  thirty  years.  He  was  born 
in    Illinois    in    1858. 

CARL  LEE,  electrical  engineer  with  the  Peabody  Coal 
Co.  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  four  years.  He  formerly  was  Receiver  for 
Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  Railroad  coal  properties.  He 
was  born  at  Comanche,   Texas,  March  12,  1891. 

ALBERT  BERRY  LEMMON,  Resident  Sales  Manager  for 
The  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  Fisher  Building,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  six  years  with  that  concern  and  in  the 
coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
F.  B.  Newell  &  Co.,  Burlington  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  the 
North  Western  Fuel  Co.  He  was  born  in  Clarendon  Hills, 
Illinois,   March    23,    1884. 

"WILLIAM  WEST  LILL,  Vice  President  and  Treasurer  of 
the  George  Lill  Coal  Co.,  1122  Berwyn  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, has  an  experience  of  thirty  years  in  the  retail  coal 
business.  He  was  born  in  Chicago  October  6,  1870.  Mr.  Lill 
is  a  Director  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 

ALBERT  J.  LORR  is  the  senior  partner  in  the  coal  firm 
of  Albert  J.  Lorr  &  Bros.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  2614 
S.  St.  Louis  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the 
business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Bohemia, 
April   23,    1877. 

HARRY  LYTTON,.  Manager  for  the  Chicago  Fuel  Co.,  37 
W.  Van  Buren  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  for  twenty 
years  in  the  coal  business.     He  was  born  in  Chicago  in  1874. 

C.  K.  MADDEROM,  President  of  the  C.  K.  Madderom  Co., 
10940  S.  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years,  formerly  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Prince  &  Madderom.  He  was  born 
in   Chicago,  November   27,    1854. 

EDWARD  C.  A.  MANTHEY  is  joint  owner  with  his  father, 
W.  J.  Manthey,  of  the  coal  business  of  W.  J.  Manthey  &  Son, 
4915  S.  Morgan  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  has  managed  the 
retail  yard  for  four  years  and  has  done  a  wholesale  trade 
for  four  years.  Formerly  he  was  in  the  accounting  depart- 
ment of  the  Peabody  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Chicago 
February  14,   1893. 

ELMER  MARTIN,  Sales  Agent  for  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal 
Sales  Co.,  313  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years,  formerly 
with  the  Bolen  Coal  Co.  and  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
both  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri  He  was  born  near  Quincy, 
Illinois,  July  25,  1865.  Mr.  Martin  is  very  popular  and  has 
a  wide  acquaintance   in  the  trade. 


PRANK  MATES,  Secretary  of  the  J.  J.  Wallace  Coal 
Co.,  4233  N.  Keeler  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born  July  14,  1880, 
at   Barrington,    Illinois. 

JAMES  B.  MoCAHEY  is  Trustee  and  General  Manager  of 
John  J.  Dunn  Estate,  5100  Federal  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years  and  has 
served  as  Director  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Associa- 
tion.    He  was  born  in  Chicago,  April  19,  1888. 

DAVID  EDWARD  McMILLAN,  senior  partner  in  the  coal 
firm  of  D.  E.  McMillan  &  Bro.,  Old  Colony  Building, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-two 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  following  coal  concerns: 
Jas.  W.  Ellsworth  &  Co.,  Montana  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Fair- 
mont Coal  Co.,  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  and  C.  G.  Blake  &  Co. 
He  was  born  in  Montreal,  Canada,  August    6,    1860. 

JOHN  PERCIVAL  MeMILLAN  is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
D.  E.  McMillan  &  Bro.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, and  formerly  was  connected  with  the  Chicago, 
Wilmington  &  Vermillion  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in  the 
business  for  seventeen  years,  starting  with  his  present  firm 
in  July,  1907.  He  was  born  March  2,  1879,  in  Montreal, 
Canada. 

EDMUND  J.  McQ-UAID,  5822  S.  Racine  Ave.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years  and  is  sole  owner.  He  formerly  was  with  the  follow- 
ing: Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Riverton  Coal  Co.,  Dering  & 
McQuaid,  F.  G.  Hartwell  Co.  as  Manager  of  Sales,  and  the 
Worth-Huskey  Coal  Co.,  as  Vice  President.  He  was  born 
at  Irwin,   Pennsylvania,  June   21,   1866. 

GEORGE  E.  MEDIN  was  Western  Sales  Agent  for  Thorne, 
Neale  &  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  having 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  with 
the  Logan  Coal  Co.  and  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  prior 
to  his  recent  connection.  He  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Navy 
April  16,  1918.     He  was  born  November  18,   1888,  in  Chicago. 

GEORGE  HERBERT  MERRYWEATHER,  President  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Waubun  Coal  Co.,  6  N.  Clark  St.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  active  in  the  business  for  twenty-eight 
years.  Formerly  he  was  General  Sales  Agent  for  the 
Pittsburgh,  Ohio  &  Western  Coal  Co.  and  Sales  Agent  for 
Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.  He  served  as  Illinois  Scout,  Order 
KoKoal,  and  as  Vice  President  of  the  Chicago  Coal  & 
Coke  Exchange.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee and  Director  of  the  National  Coal  Jobbers'  Associa- 
tion. Mr.  Merryweather  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
September  24,   1870. 

GEORGE  I.  METHE,  601  S.  Ridgeland  Ave.,  Oak  Park,  Illi- 
nois, is  Retail  Manager  for  the  F.  G.  Hartwell  Co.,  Chicago, 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  seventeen 
years,  formerly  with  the  Busse-Reynolds  Coal  Co.  He  has 
served  as  a  Director  of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Asso- 
ciation.    He  was  born   in  Chicago,  July  5,   1883. 

D.  B.  MIKESELL,  Vice  President  Mikesell  Bros.  Co.,  176- 
178  No.  LaSalle  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  connected 
with  the  coal  industry  thirteen  years,  formerly  with  the 
Franklin  County  Coal  Operators'  Association  and  the  Rock 
Island  Coal  Mining  Co.  as  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  former 
and  Division  Sales  Agent  of  the  latter.  He  was  born  in 
Troy,  Ohio,   in  1879. 

THOMAS  DAVID  MILLER,  Chicago,  Illinois,  gas  coal  ex- 
pert, is  special  representative  of  E.  M.  Mancourt,  Western 
Manager  of  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  Dime  Bank  Building, 
Detroit,  Michigan,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  gas 
business  thirty-five  years.  He  has  been  Engineer  and  Man- 
ager for  the  Ft.  Worth  Gas  Co.,  the  Dallas  Gas  Co.  and  the 
New  Orleans  Gas  Light  Co.,  as  well  as  City  Gas  Inspector 
at  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  Mr.  Miller  was  born  in  Hannibal, 
Missouri. 

ABRAHAM  MITCHELL,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Mitchell  &  Dillon  Coal  Co.,  203  South  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
sixteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Chicago,  May  26,  1887.  Mr. 
Mitchell  is  one  of  the  most  popular  of  the  younger  coalmen. 

ALFRED  JOHN  MOORSHEAD,  President  and  General 
Manager  Madison  Coal  Corp.,  Karpen  Building,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  thirty  years  in  the  business  and  with  the 
same  concern.  He  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1863. 
Mr.  Moorshead  served  as  President  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Op- 
erators' Association  from  1909  to  1911,  and  is  regarded  as 
one  of  the   influential  operators  in  Illinois. 

THOMAS  NEWTON  MORDUE,  President  of  the  Thomas 
N.  Mordue  Coal  Co.,  Peoples  Gas  Building,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  thirty-six 
years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Mordue  Collieries  Co., 
and  interested  in  the  Bowyer  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  He  for- 
merly was  Chicago  Manager  for  Castner.  Curran  &  Bullitt 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  firms  of  George  H.  Hull  & 
Co  ,  Kent,  Macfarlane  &  Mordue,  and  Macfarlane  &  Mordue, 
Louisville,  Kentucky.  He  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
July   14,   1860. 


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FRANK  E.  MIBLLER,  7616  E.  Lake  Ter.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, is  Secretary  and  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Roberts  & 
Schaefer  Co.,  332  S.  Michigan  Ave.,  and  for  sixteen  years 
has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business.  He  was  born 
December   4,    1880.    In  Chicago. 

JAMES  NEEDHAM,  President  of  the  St.  Paul  Coal  Co. 
and  General  Superintendent  of  Mines  Chicago.  Milwaukee  & 
St.  Paul  Hallway  Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  over  twenty  years.  He  formerly  was  connected 
with  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  the 
Kansas  &  Texas  Coal  Co.,  McAlester,  Oklahoma,  and  the 
Union  Pacific  Coal  Co.  at  Cheyenne,  Wyoming.  He  was  born 
at  Collinsville.    Illinois,   August   8,    1871. 

LEOPOLD  OESTERREICHER,  505  Marengo  Ave.,  Forest 
Park,  Illinois,  President  of  the  Chicago  Wood  &  Coal  Co., 
at  1153  N.  Halsted  St.,  Chicago,  has  been  in  the  business 
for  sixteen  years.     He  was  born  in  Hungary,  April  10,  1867. 

WEBSTER  ARNOLD  PATTERSON.  Secretary-Treasurer 
of  the  Harrisburg-Franklin  Coal  Co.,  Steger  Building, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  is  also  Secretary  of  the  Chicago-Car- 
lisle Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine- 
teen years.  His  former  connections  with  coal  concerns 
were  as  follows:  Danville  District  Coal  Co.,  Kellyville  Coal 
Co.,  Westville  Coal  Co.,  J.  K.  Dering  Coal  Co.  and  Mission 
Mining  Co.  He  was  born  in  Watseka,  Illinois,  August  17, 
1877. 

STUYVESANT  "JACK"  PEABODY  is  President  of  the 
Peabody  Coal  Co.,  332  S.  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  nine  years,  formerly  with  the 
Coal  Supply  Co.  Mr.  Peabody  was  born  in  Chicago  August 
7,  1888,  and"  is  a  son  of  Francis  S.  Peabody.  He  is  at  present 
in  the  service  of  his  country. 

FREDERICK  N.  PEASE  is  the  Southwestern  Sales  Agent 
for  Williams  &  Peters,  203  S.  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  has  for  twenty-nine  years  been  connected  with  the 
coal  business.  He  was  born  in  Chicago  and  is  one  of  the 
best   known  anthracite   sales  agents   in   the  West. 

EDWARD  M.  PLATT  is  President  of  the  Piatt  &  Brahm 
Coal  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  business  for  about  twenty-seven  years.  He 
formerly  was  connected  with  the  following  concerns: 
Columbus  &  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Manitowoc  Coal  & 
Dock  Co.,  Pennsylvania  &  Ohio  Fuel  Co.,  Lehigh  Valley 
Coal  Co.  Mr.  Piatt  was  born  in  Manitowoc,  Wisconsin.  Sep- 
tember 4,  1865.  Mr.  Piatt  has  been  President  of  the  National 
Coal   Jobbers'    Association. 

JOSEPH  PALL  REND,  President  of  the  W.  P.  Rend  Co., 
601  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years.  He  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  following:  W.  P.  Rend  Collieries  Co.,  W.  P. 
Rend  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  W.  P.  Rend  Transportation  Co.  and 
the  Standard  Hocking  Coal  Co.  He  is  a  Director  of  the 
Vandalia  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Rend  was  born  September  22.  1870, 
in    Chicago. 

JOHN  J.  ROBERTS,  7716  E.  Lake  Ter.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
is  Treasurer  of  the  Roberts  &  Schaefer  Co.,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Tolona, 
Illinois.  January  3,  1874. 

MAJOR  WARREN  R.  ROBERTS,  1423  Fargo  Ave., 
Chicago,  Illinois,  Is  President  of  the  Roberts  &  Schaefer 
Co.  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  He  was  born  October  20,  1863,  at  Sadorus. 
Illinois.  Major  Roberts  is  at  present  in  charge  of  construc- 
tion  for  the   United  States  War  Department. 

MILTON  E.  ROBINSON,  740  E.  Forty-first  St..  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-three  years 
and  is  President  of  the  Milton  E.  Robinson  Coal  Co.  For- 
merly he  was  President  of  the  Lill-Robinson  Coal  Co.  for 
two  years.  Mr.  Robinson  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Chi- 
cago Coal  Merchants"  Association  and  was  Its  first  President, 
serving  for  three  years.  He  was  born  in  Kenosha,  Wiscon- 
sin,   April    87,    1862. 

CHAKLKS  .1.  roth.  Sales  Manager  for  the  Peabody  Coal 
Co..  332  S.  Michigan  Ave..  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  company  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was 
born  at  Wheeling,    West    Virginia,  April  7,  1879. 

IM>\  VLD  A.  IAGB  Is  President  of  Sage  &  Co.,  Inc.,  600  S. 
Dearborn  St..  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-four  years.  He  was  born  at  Ingersoll, 
Canada,  July  13.   1857. 

FIIKIIKHII'K  Sl'IIIFFEIILE.  Assistant  General  Bale*  Man- 
ager Butledge  &  Taylor  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  born 
September   i">.    1888,   in  St.   Louis,  and   haa   Keen   in   the  coal 

business  twelve  years.  lie  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Interstate  Coal  A  Mining  Co..  Security  Coal  &  Mining 
Co..    and    Nokomls    Coal   Co. 

.lull  \  s<  HWEDA,  Vice  President  of  the  Polonla  Coal  Co., 
1360  W.  North  Ave.,  Chicago.  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  born  In  Chicago, 
May  16,  1875. 


DON  B.  SEBASTIAN,  Vice  President  of  the  Bickett  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  McCormick  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  is  also 
President  of  the  Groveland  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  has  been 
twelve  years  in  the  business.  Formerly  he  was  fuel  agent 
for  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway  Co.  and  has 
filled  the  position  of  Vice  President  and  Secretary  of  the 
International  Railway  Fuel  Association.  He  was  born  May 
1,   1879,  in  Chicago. 

CHARLES  R.  SHABINO,  President  of  the  Keystone  Fuel 
Co.,  343  S.  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Edwards  &  Bradford  Lumber  Co.,  in  the  coal  depart- 
ment, and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Order  KoKoal.  He 
was  born  June  3,  1884,  in  South  Dakota. 

DELAVAN  C.  SHOEMAKER  is  Sales  Manager  In  the  Car 
Load  Sales  department  with  the  Consumers  Co.,  Conway 
Building,  Chicago.  Illinois,  and  in  charge  of  coal  purchases, 
reporting  to  the  Vice  President.  He  has  been  eleven  years 
in  the  coal  business,  formerly  with  City  Fuel  Co..  since  fused 
with  the  Consumers  Co.  He  was  born  at  Monmouth,  Illinois, 
January  5,   1883. 

JAMES  G.  SKIDMORE,  Purchasing  Agent  for  the  Taylor 
Coal  Co.,  1215  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  business  eighteen  years,  formerly  with  the 
Madison  Coal  Corp..  St.  Louis.  Missouri.  He  was  active  in  the 
Order  KoKoal  and  has  held  many  offices  in  coal  trade 
organizations.  He  was  born  June  17,  1880,  at  Charleston, 
Illinois. 

EDWARD  F.  SMITH  is  Manager  of  Car  Sales  for  Edwin 
F.  Daniels  &  Co.,  20  W.  Jackson  Blvd.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  formerly 
was  with  the  New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.,  the  Taylor  Co.  and 
the  Atwill-Makemson  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  has  served  as 
Imperial  Pictor,  Order  KoKoal,  and  as  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Chicago  Coal  Trade  Golf  Association.  Mr.  Smith 
was  born  in  Chicago,  November  19,  1881. 

LOUIS  H.  SMITH,  Manager  of  the  Spring  Valley  Coal  Co., 
915  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  about  eighteen  years  and  formerly  was 
Secretary  of  the  Illinois  Third  Vein  Coal  Co.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Oper- 
ators' Association,  Vice  President  of  the  Coal  Operators' 
Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Co.  and  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Traffic  Bureau.  He  was  born 
May  12,    1871,   in  Ottawa,  Illinois. 

PAUL  N.  SNYDER,  Manager  Car  Sales  O.  S.  Richardson 
Coal  Co..  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago.  Illinois,  has  been 
eight  years  in  the  coal  business.  He  formerly  was  with 
J.  C.  Snyder,  retail  merchant,  at  Fulton,  Illinois.  He  was 
born  at  Fulton,  Illinois,  September  2,  1888. 

EDWARD  B.  SORENSEN  is  proprietor  of  the  retail  coal 
business  of  the  Windsor  Park  Coal  Co.,  7454  Exchange  Ave., 
Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business  seven  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Susquehanna  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Soren- 
sen   was  born  at  Port  Clinton,  Ohio,  November  28,   1886. 

ROLLIN  STAFFORD.  General  Sales  Agent  for  the  Atlas 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  775  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  fifteen  years,  formerly  with 
John  W.  Love  and  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
at  Harvey,   Illinois,  June  23,   1883. 

i.ioiti.i:  FREDERICK  STAHMER,  President  Fort  Dear- 
born Coal  Co.,  Fisher  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Coxe  Bros.  &  Co..  Globe  Coal  Co.,  and  Manager  of  the  Bitu- 
minous department  of  the  Mitchell  &  Dillon  Coal  Co.,  Chi- 
cago. 

LYMAN  OTIS  STANTON  is  owner  of  nie  L.  O.  Stanton  Coal 
Co.,  1335  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  has 
been  in  the  business  for  twenty  years,  formerly  with  Jas.  W. 
Kllsworth  K-  Co.  and  Hull  &  Co.  as  Department  Manager. 
For  the  past  twelve  years  he  has  been  Sales  Manager  for 
the  Clinton  foal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Markesan.  Wisconsin. 
March    13,    1866. 

OHOVEK  W.  STLBBEE,  traveling  salesman  for  the  Old 
Ben  Coal  Corp.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  born  June  2,  1885,  in 
Farnhamville,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years.  Mr.  Stubliee  was  formerly  with  the  Des  Moines 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Coal  Hill  Coal  Co.  He  now  repre- 
sents Old  Ben  In  Southern  Minnesota  and  Northern  Iowa, 
making  his  headquarters  at  the  Chicago  office. 

GEORGE  EDWARD  SUTTON,  Sales  Manager  Geo.  G.  Pope 
&  Co.,  1817  Fisher  Building.  Chicago.  Illinois,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years.  He  formerly  was 
connected  with  the  following  concerns:  Wabash  Coal  Co.. 
Wilmington-Springfield  Coal  Co.,  S.  &  S.  Fuel  Co..  Central 
States  Fuel  Co.  He  was  born  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  March 
8,  1864. 

EDWABD  II.  TAYLOR,  fuel  and  gas  engineer  with  Crerar, 
Clinch  &  Co.,  645  Rookery  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has 
been  In  the  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  at 
Kvanston,   Illinois,   January    13,    1869. 


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HUBERT  CLEMENT  TAYLOR,  President  of  the  Hicks  & 
Taylor  Coal  Co.,  Kedzie  Ave.  and  Taylor  St.,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  twenty-eight  years. 
He  was  born  October  12,  1867,  at  Hudson,  Iowa. 

HENRY  H.  TEBBETTS,  2226  Millard  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
Is  a  retail  coal  merchant  who  has  been  in  the  business  for 
forty-seven  years.  He  was  born  at  Rochester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, June  21,  1840. 

GEORGE  THOMSON,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Thomson  Coal  Co.,  709  Fisher  Building.  Chicago,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years,  formerly  as  a 
member  of  the  Thomson  &  Burton  Co.  He  also  is  Vice  Pres- 
ident and  General  Manager  the  Benton  Coal  Co.  He  was 
born   at   Stirling,    Scotland. 

THOMAS  M.  TOBIN,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  T.  M. 
Tobin  Bros.  Co.,  9326  South  Chicago  Avenue,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  thirty-seven  years. 
His  brother,  Edmond  W.  Tobin,  is  Vice  President,  and  an- 
other brother,  John  A.,  is  Secretary  of  the  company.  Thomas 
M.  Tobin  was  born  December  11,  1863,  in  Huntingdon  County, 
Pennsylvania. 

MARCUS  W.  TURNER,  President  of  the  Turner  Coal  Co., 
1461  Monadnock  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
business  for  about  thirty  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the 
Silver  Creek  &  Morris  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  New  York, 
June  1,  1866. 

WILLIAM  C.  WADDELL,  General  Salesman  for  The  S.  C. 
Schenck  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  trade  for  eighteen  years,  formerly 
with  The  B.  Uhrig  Fuel  Co.  and  the  W.  L.  Scott  Co.  He  was 
born   in   1874  in   Chicago. 

SILAS  ARTHUR  WEST,  Manager  of  the  Soft  Coal  depart- 
ment of  The  S.  C.  Schenck  Co.,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago, 
Illinois,  has  been  seventeen  years  in  the  coal  business,  for- 
merly with  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Consolida- 
tion Coal  Co.     He  was  born  October  5,  1882,  in  Chicago. 

RALPH  CRAWFORD  WHITSETT  is  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  R.  C.  Whitsett  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Chi- 
cago. Illinois,  the  Kentucky  River  Coal  Mining  Co.  of  Haz- 
ard. Kentucky,  and  the  Black  Comet  Coal  Co.  of  Sullivan, 
Indiana.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years, 
formerly  with  the  Rainbow  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Sullivan, 
Indiana.     He  was  born   in  Mingo,  Ohio,  April   7,   1877. 

WILLIAM  E.  WITHALL  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  3456 
W.  Fifty-first  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  who  has  been  in  the 
business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was  born  in  England, 
July   3,    1867. 


ILLINOIS  — Springfield 


F.  J.  DEVLIN,  Springfield,  Illinois,  is  Mine  Superintendent 
for  the  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  industry  for  thirty  years,  formerly  with  the  San 
Toy  Coal  Co..  at  San  Toy.  Ohio,  and  with  the  O'Gara  Coal 
Co.  at  Springfield.     He  was  born  in  Scotland  June  27,  1875. 

CHARLES  V.  HICKOX  of  Springfield,  Illinois,  was  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years,  but  for  many  years  has 
been  Secretary  of  the  Coal  Operators  Mutual  Fire  Insurance 
Co.  of  Springfield,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Springfield  in 
April,    1846. 

CARL  HOLDEN  HOY,  816  Reisch  Building,  Springfield, 
Illinois,  is  President  of  the  White  County  Mining  &  Power 
Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Madison  Coal  Corp.,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He 
was  born  in  Litchfield,  Illinois,  July  2,  1883. 

EVAN  D.  JOHN,  Springfield,  Illinois,  Director  of  the 
Department  of  Mines  and  Minerals  for  the  state  of  Illinois, 
was  born  in  Maestag,  Wales.  October  8,  1861,  and  died  in 
December,   1918. 

ALVIN  S.  KEYS,  207  S.  Sixth  Street,  Springfield,  Illinois, 
Is  President  of  the  Southside  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  business  for  eleven  years,  formerly  with 
the  Tuxhorn  Coal  Co.  at  Springfield.  He  was  born  at 
Springfield  January  30,  1888. 

PHILLIPS  G.  MATHENY,  Secretary  of  the  West  End  Coal 
Co.  of  Springfield,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the 
business  fourteen  years.  He  is  interested  in  the  Niantic  Coal 
Co  and  formerly  was  with  the  Republic  Iron  &  Steel  Co.  as 
Manager  of  their  Springfield  coal  properties.  He  was  born 
In  Springfield  August  3,  1870. 

O.  G.  SCOTT,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  Scott  Coal  Co., 
827  South  Fifth  Street,  Springfield,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  Cashier  of 
the  Springfield  Coal  Association  for  ten  years  and  Secretary 
of  the  Central  Illinois  Coal  Bureau.  He  was  appointed  As- 
sistant District  Representative  by  the  United  States  Fuel 
Administration  for  nine  counties  in  Central  Illinois.  He  was 
born  in  Butler,  Ohio,  December  20,  1865. 


CHARLES  ALEXANDER  STARNE,  311  DeWitt  Smith 
Building,  Springfield,  Illinois,  is  Treasurer  of  the  West  End 
Coal  Co.  of  Springfield  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal 
business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Springfield 
June   4,   1877. 

HOWARD  K.  WEBER  is  President  of  the  Sangamon  Coal 
Co.  of  Springfield,  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  Hagers- 
town,  Maryland,   June   27,   1843. 

GEORGE  A.  WOOD,  501  W.  Capitol  Avenue,  Springfield, 
Illinois,  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Chicago-Springfield 
Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 
He  was  born  in  1858  at  Springfield. 


ILLINOIS 


IRA  D.  ADAMS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Ira  D. 
Adams  Lumber  Co.  at  Lexington,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
business  for  over  twenty  years.  Formerly  he  was  with 
Shade  &  Crothers  and  with  W.  D.  Alexander  &  Co.  He  was 
born    January    19,    1877,    at   Minier,    Illinois. 

CHARLES  AHL,  Superintendent  of  The  Moweaqua  Coal 
Mining  &  Manufacturing  Co.  at  Moweaqua,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  business  twenty-four  years,  with  his  present 
company.     He  was  born  in   1867   at  Cloverport,   Kentucky. 

J.  M.  ALLEN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Eureka,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  business  for  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  born 
at   Eureka  March   3,   1870. 

LEWIS  H.  ALLEN  is  a  partner  in  the  coal  firm  of  Hunter, 
Allen  &  Co.  at  Lacon,  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  business  for  twenty-five  years.  Other  interests  are 
those  of  his  firm  at  Magnolia  and  at  Lostant,  Illinois.  Mr. 
Allen   was  born  at  Tiskilwa,  Illinois,   in  February,   1869. 

HENRY  C.  ANDRES  is  the  sole  owner  of  the  H.  C.  Andres 
Coal  Co.'s  business  at  Aurora,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  trade  for  five  years.  He  was  born  at  Tinley  Park, 
Illinois,  in  1861. 

ANDY  MELVIN  APPLEGATE,  owner  of  the  retail  coal 
business  at  Pearl,  Pike  County,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  there  for  twenty  years.  He  was  born  in  Illinois 
February  22,  1871. 

BEN  T.  AXFORD  is  President  of  the  Axford  Coal  Co.  at 
Petersburg,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  seven 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  South  Mountain  Coal  Co. 
He  was  born  in  Petersburg  February  7,  1890. 

JOHN  NICHOLAS  BACH  has  been  a  retail  coal  mer- 
chant at  Fairbury,  Illinois,  for  seventeen  years.  He  was 
born  in  Alsace-Loraine  July  10,  1871. 

ARTHUR  W.  RADGER,  President  of  the  Badger  Lumber 
Co.,  Morrison,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Amboy,  Illi- 
nois,   April    17,    1880. 

WILLIAM  H.  BAETHKE,  President  of  the  Newton- 
Baethke  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Glen  Ellyn,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born 
at   Maywood,   Illinois,  August   30,   1873. 

W.  T.  BAILY  is  Business  Manager  and  partner  of  the 
National  Fuel  Co.  at  Galesburg,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  two  years.  He  was  born 
in    Illinois    in    1875. 

■WALTER  B.  BALLENTINE  is  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Ballentine  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  at  Toulon,  Illinois, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  thirty  years, 
owning  a  coal  mine  on  his  farm  about  five  miles  from  Tou- 
lon, and  doing  a  shipping  business  in  town.  He  has  as  his 
partner.    Secretary   and   Treasurer,    his   wife,   Mrs.   Margaret 

E.  Ballentine.      Mr.    Ballentine    was    born    in    Stark    County, 
Illinois,  February  16,  1862. 

GERSON  BANKS,  Kirkland,  Illinois,  is  Manager  for  the 
firm  of  Geo.  W.  Banks  &  Son  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  business  three  years.  He  was  born  in  Irene,  Illinois, 
October  6,  1891. 

WILLIAM  ERNEST  BARROUR,  1030  Forest  Ave.,  Evans- 
ton,  Illinois,  District  Manager  for  the  Consumers  Co.  of 
Chicago,  has  been  connected  with  the  retail  coal  business 
for  twenty-three  years.  He  formerly  owned  the  business 
of  W.  E.  Barbour  &  Co.  and  was  President,  Treasurer  and 
Director  of  the  Lincoln  Fuel  Co.  He  was  also  connected 
with  the  following  concerns:  Castner,  Curran   &  Bullitt  and 

F.  G.   Hartwell    Co.      He   was   born   at    St.    Charles,    Illinois, 
April  1,    1874. 

WILLIAM  P.  BARKER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Batavia, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen  years.  He 
was  born  at  Batavia  July  7,  1850.  Mr.  Barker  is  highly 
respected  in  the  coal  trade  and  has  served  as  Treasurer 
of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
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i:n\\  \lll>  E.  II A II li KIT,  333  South  Waiola  Ave.,  LaGrange, 
Illinois,  is  Vice  President  of  the  Roberts  &  Schaefer  Co. 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  business  for  seventeen 
years.  He  was  born  in  Port  Byron,  Illinois,  October  12, 
1870. 

W.  G.  BAKTKI.S.  Carlinville,  Illinois,  is  President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Carlinville  Coal  Co.  He  began  In 
the  employ  of  his  father  in  1869  and  continued  until  1883, 
since  which  time  he  has  operated  in  his  own  behalf.  He 
was  born  at  Carlinville  March  2,  1858. 

ED.  A.  IIMMOII,  Bunker  Hill,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  sixteen  years  and  is  the  lessee  of 
the  Bauser-Truesdale  coal  mine.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,    February   4,    1873. 

LEWIS  M.  BAYXE  is  General  Manager  of  the  L.  M. 
Bayne  Lumber  Co.  at  Ottawa,  Illinois,  and  is  interested  in 
the  company's  yards  at  Ottawa,  Grand  Ridge,  Strawn,  and 
Emington,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  retail  business  for 
over  twenty  years.  He  was  born  at  Wenona,  Illinois,  June 
2,   1869. 

rami!  HECK,  President  of  the  Beck  Coal  &  Lumber 
Co.  at  Harvey,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business 
sixteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Braidwood,  Illinois,  April 
23,  1877.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  has  done 
splendid  work  by  encouraging  coal  merchants  to  install 
better  systems  of  cost  accounting  and  bookkeeping. 

BENJAMIN  BECKENHEIMER,  President  of  the  Smith - 
Lohr  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Pana,  Illinois,  has  been  connected 
with  the  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  formerly  was 
connected  with  the  Central  Illinois  Coal  Bureau  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association.  He 
was    born    at    Baltimore.    Maryland,    September    22,    1845. 

CHAHI.ES  RK.CKER,  Secretary  of  the  Star  Coal  Co., 
Freeburg.  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  ten  years 
and  formerly  was  with  the  Freeburg  Mining  Co.  and  the 
Freeburg  Coal  Co.     He  was  born  in  Germany  June  27,  1848. 

W.  D.  BeDKLI,  of  BeDell  Bros,  at  Mt.  Carmel,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  as  a  retailer  for  over  twenty 
years.  Formerly  he  was  connected  with  the  Saline  County 
Coal  Co.  at  Harrisburg,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Mt.  Carmel 
in  1872.  L.  T.  BeDell,  his  brother,  was  born  in  1880  at  Mt. 
Carmel. 

HERMAN  H.  BEEDE,  Chadwick,  Illinois,  is  owner  of  a 
half  interest  in  the  business  of  the  Chadwick  Supply  Co. 
He  was  formerly  with  Beede  Bros,  of  Chadwick.  He  was 
born  in  New  Hampshire  December  29,  1857. 

HEXRY  A.  BEXT,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Oglesby  Coal  Co.  at  Oglesby,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in 
the  business  for  about  thirty-five  years.  He  was  born  at 
Kenosha,    Wisconsin,    July    2,    1866. 

JOSIAH  RAYMOND  BEXT  is  Vice  President  and  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Oglesby  Coal  Co.  at  Oglesby,  Illinois.  He 
has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  since  1896.  He 
Was  born  in  Oglesby  January  3,  1877. 

ROBERT  V.  BEXTOX,  Decatur.  Illinois,  is  proprietor 
of  the  City  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  eight 
years,  formerly  with  the  Decatur  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
in   Macon    County,    Illinois,    in    1885. 

QBORGE  li.  in  \  m  ii  vim.  retail  coal  merchant  at  Lake 
Forest.  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  ten  years. 
He  has  filled  the  office  of  Vice  President  of  the  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for  two  years 
and  Director  two  years.  He  was  born  in  Ashby,  Massachu- 
setts. 

HEXRY  BLESSMAX  has  been  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Gridley,  Illinois,  for  ten  years  and  was  formerly  with  W.  D. 
Castle  &  Co.     He  was  born  in  Germany  May  5,  1873. 

THEODORE  F.  BOECKER,  JR.,  is  Manager  of  the 
Boccker  Coal  &  Grain  Co.  at  Naperville,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  business  two  years.  The  present  company  is 
successor  to  T.  F.  Boecker,  who  succeeded  B.  B.  Boecker. 
Theodore  F.  Boecker,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Naperville  February  2, 
1896. 

GEORGE  ROGER,  President  of  Geo.  Boger  &  Sons,  Hins- 
dale, Illinois,  coal  merchants,  has  been  in  the  retail  busi- 
ness for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  born  in  Dupage 
County,    Illinois,    near    Hinsdale,    in    1853. 

OSWALD  iioi.i.mw.  Belleville.  111.,  is  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Fullerton  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the 
business  for  eighteen  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Summit  &  Kldnar  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  December  3,  1876, 
at  Belleville. 

KRAXK  H.  IIOSWOHTH,  Manager  of  F.  S.  Bosworth  & 
Son,  Elgin,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
twenty-nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Dundee,  Illinois,  Sep- 
tember   3,     1870. 

William  J.  IIIIADIURY  is  senior  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Bradbury  Bros.,  coal  merchants  at  Areola,  Illinois.  He 
was  born  in  Kngland  February  3,  1848,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  thirty-five  years. 


WALTER  S.  BRA  XT,  Havana,  Illinois,  has  been  connect- 
ed with  the  M.  M.  Clark  Coal  Co.  of  Havana  for  over  twenty 
years.     He  was  born  in  Havana  September  14,  1871. 

HARRY  BRAVER  is  the  owner  of  the  coal  business  of 
Brauer  &  Son.  Olney,  Illinois,  and  is  the  son  of  John  Brauer, 
who  established  the  business  about  twenty  years  ago. 
The  latter  died  September  22,  1916.  Harry  Brauer  was 
born    in   Olney  October   23.    1884. 

GEORGE  A.  BHBCHNITZ,  Belleville,  Illinois,  is  the  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  the  Silver  Creek  Valley  Coal 
Co.  and  is  likewise  interested  in  the  Prairie  Coal  Co.  He 
was  born  at  Belleville  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  for   thirteen  years. 

WALTER  A.  BROWN  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Carroll- 
ton,  Illinois,  who  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-three 
years.  He  was  born  November  11,  1868,  at  Greenfield,  Illi- 
nois. 

CHARLES  C.  BRL'BAKER  is  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  Brubaker  &  Son  at  Robinson,  Illinois.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 
He  was  born  in  Kansas  June  20,  1869.  His  son,  George  A. 
Brubaker,  has  been  the  junior  partner  for  the  past  five 
years.      He  was  born   in   Illinois  May  18,   1893. 

GEORGE  M.  BRYANT,  coal  merchant  for  fourteen  years 
at  De  Pue,  Illinois,  was  born  in  Kendall  County,  Illinois, 
January  26,   1859.  and   is  well  known   in   that  territory. 

WALTER  H.  CALLAHAN  is  the  Owner  and  Manager  of  the 
retail  business  of  the  Callahan  Coal  Co.,  4200  State  St.,  East 
St.  Louis,  Illinois,  with  which  he  has  been  connected  for 
eight  years.     He  was  born  in  Ava,  Illinois,  December  26,  1881. 

JAMES  H.  CALVER,  Decatur,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  five  years.  He  was  born  in  Ross 
County,  Ohio,  June  26,   1858. 

JOHN  H.  < '  V  it  l.l  X .  Utica,  Illinois,  has  been  a  retail  coal 
meichant  for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  born  in  Utica 
October  11,    1853. 

W.  J.  CARLIX,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bowen,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-four  years.  He  was 
born   at  Columbus.   Illinois,   January   29,   1869. 

MELVIX  CAROKER,  proprietor  of  the  coal  business  of 
Caroker  &  Ragsdale  at  Cobden,  Illinois,  has  been  a  retailer 
for  five  years.     He  was  born   at  Cobden. 

WILLIAM  H.  CARPENTER.  Rock  Island,  Illinois,  is  con- 
trolling partner  and  Manager  of  the  Carpenter  Coal  Co. 
He  was  formerly  with  W.  H.  Carpenter  &  Co.  at  Moline, 
Illinois,  and  with  the  Empire  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  at  Rock 
Island.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six 
years  and  was  born  at  Rochester,  New  York,  April  10,  1841. 

ANDREW  K.  CHAPMAN,  President  A.  F.  Chapman  Co.. 
Dundee.  Illinois,  was  born  in  1845  at  Vhrtchsville,  Ohio,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  forty  years. 

WILLIAM  HEXRY  CHAPPLE  is  General  Manager  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Peoples  Coal  Co.  at  Lebanon,  Illinois.  He 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  about  seven  years, 
and  worked  in  coal  mines  for  forty-four  years.  He  was 
born   in   England    in   1861. 

WALTER  HOWARD  CHASE,  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Sullivan,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for 
twenty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  with  The  Alexander 
Lumber  Co.  He  was  born  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  Septem- 
ber 23,   1858. 

JOHN  THOMAS  CHERRY'  is  Superintendent  of  the  B.  F. 
Berry  Coal  Co.  of  Standard,  Putnam  County,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  connected  with  the  coal  industry  for  thirty-three 
years,  starting  as  a  trapper  boy  in  1884  and  filling  all 
positions  in  and  around  coal  mines.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Chicago,  Wilmington  &  Vermillion  Coal  Co.  and  with 
the  St.  Paul  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Braidwood,  Illinois, 
June   8,   1871. 

C.  A.  CHITTENDEN  has  been  conducting  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Mendon,  Illinois,  for  twenty-one  years.  He 
was  born  in  Mendon  April  7,  1857. 

HORACE  CLARK.  General  Manager  of  the  Clark  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Jefferson  Building.  Peoria,  Illinois,  is  also  Inter- 
ested in  the  Logan  Coal  Co.,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
twenty-six  years.  He  was  born  in  Peoria  July  13,  1863.  He 
has  many  friends  in  the  trade. 

MARVIN  M.  CLARK,  born  June  13,  1860.  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years  and  Is  the  owner 
of  the  M.  M.  Clark  Coal  Co.  at  Havana,  Illinois.  He  has 
filled  the  office  of  Vice  President  of  the  Illinois  and  Wiscon- 
sin   Retail    Coal   Dealers'    Association. 

VICTOR  I.  CLARK  is  President  of  The  North  Side  Lum- 
ber Co.  at  Sycamore,  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  was  born  in 
DeKalb    County,    Illinois,    March    22,    1862. 

mi  i  in  i<  E.  CI.EVIDEXCE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Mt. 
Morris,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  since  1901.  He 
was    born    at    Mt.    Morris    in    1870. 


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FRANK  B.  CLINTON  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Paris, 
Illinois,  who  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirty-four  years. 
He  has  been  in  full  charge  since  the  death  of  his  father, 
C.  M.  Clinton,  in  1915.  Mr.  Clinton  was  born  in  Paris  June 
5,  1865. 

WILLIAM  J.  CLIPPERT  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  Warsaw,  Illinois,  for  twenty-five  years,  formerly 
with  the  firm  of  Clippert  &  Diehl.  He  was  born  at  War- 
saw October  17,   1862. 

MORTIMER  M.  CLOUDMAN,  retail  coal  merchant,  166 
Chicago  St.,  Elgin,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for 
sixteen  years,  formerly  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hem- 
mens  &  Cloudman.  He  was  born  at  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
about   forty-five   years   ago. 

GEORGE  C.  COCKRELL  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  Jerseyville,  Illinois,  during  the  past  seven  years. 
He  was  born  at  Jerseyville   in  1882. 

ARTHUR  Z.  COFFMAN,  owner  of  the  South  Side  Coal  Co. 
at  Quincy,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  seven  years. 
He   was   born   at  Newark,   Ohio,   September   11,   1877. 

F.  H.  COLEHOTJR  is  the  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  Mt.  Carroll,  Illinois,  which  he  has  conducted  for 
sixteen  years.  He  formerly  was  with  Colehour  &  Miles. 
He  was  born  in  Mt.  Carroll  September  14,  1866. 

W.  R.  COLEMAN,  Sales  Manager  of  the  Clark  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  at  Peoria,  Illinois,  is  President  of  the  Logan  Coal 
Co.  He  has  been  in  the  business  twenty-three  years, 
formerly  with  the  Newell  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Peoria  Wholesale  Club.  He  was  born  at  Peoria 
November  11,  1876. 

J.  W.  COLLIVER,  Aurora,  Illinois,  is  Secretary,  Director 
and  Sales  Manager  for  the  Old  Ben  Coal  Corp.,  Chicago,  and 
has  been  in  the  business  for  about  twenty-three  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  Railway  Co. 
as  General  Agent  at  Joliet,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Picton, 
Ontario,  Canada,  January  28,  1867. 

WESLEY  ROBERT  COMFORT,  SR.,  Palatine,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years.  He  is 
senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  W.  R.  Comfort  &  Co.  He  was 
born  in  Canada  January  28,  1855.  His  partner,  Henry  F. 
Battermann,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

MATT.  J.  COOGAN,  Lincoln,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  re- 
tail coal  business  for  eight  years  and  previously  worked 
for  eight  years  in  the  mines.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Latham  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  was  born  April  29,  1888, 
at    Lincoln. 

JOHN  J.  CORDES  has  been  in  business  as  a  retail  coal 
merchant  for  nineteen  years  at  German  Valley,  Illinois.  He 
was  born  there  November  27,  1875. 

LYMAN  D.  CORTELYOU,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Abing- 
don, Illinois,  represents  the  Purity  Coal  Co.  He  has  been 
doing  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Trenton, 
New   Jersey,   January   26,   1864. 

H.  B.  COYLE,  Manager  of  the  Coyle  Grain  &  Coal  Co. 
at  Gridley,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  nine  years. 
Recently  he  sold  out  the  grain  business  and  is  now 
handling  coal  exclusively.  He  was  born  at  Gridley  March 
28,    1890. 

JAMES  A.  CREAMER,  Tolono,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  eleven  years,  formerly  with  Edwards  & 
Creamer.     He  was  born  at  Tolono  February  25,  1870. 

JOHN  S.  CRUGAR  is  General  Manager  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Lovington  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Decatur,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  mining  industry  for  sixteen 
years.  He  is  interested  in  the  Phoenix-Jellico  Coal  Co. 
and  was  formerly  with  the  Rock  Springs  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Naugatuck  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Montgomery,  Ohio, 
October    8,    1881. 

J.  W.  CURNUTT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Greenfield, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was 
born  at  Greenfield   in   1850. 

H.  E.  CURTIS,  Manager  for  H.  E.  Curtis  &  Co.,  Tiskilwa, 
Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  thir- 
ty-one years.  He  was  born  at  Sheffield,  Illinois,  sixty 
years  ago. 

CHARLES  F.  DACY  is  Manager  and  half  owner  in  the 
business  of  the  Dacy  Lumber  Co.,  Woodstock,  Illinois,  and 
he  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He 
was  born  in  Woodstock  February  8,  1870. 

M.  E.  DANAHAY  of  M.  E.  Danahay  &  Son,  Eureka,  Illi- 
nois, was  born  in  1861  in  Eureka  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty  years,  succeeding  his  father,  who 
started  the  business  in  1870.  His  son,  D.  M.  Danahay,  is  in 
the   service   of  his   country. 

J.  O.  DANIEL,  Watseka,  Illinois,  is  Manager,  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  The  Peoples  Grain  &  Lumber  Co.  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He 
was   born   at   Judson,   Indiana,   December   25,   1871. 


SAMUEL  DAVIS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Herbert,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  business  over  twenty  years,  formerly  with 
the  firm  of  Reed  &  Davis.     He  was  born  in  England  in  1842. 

L.  B.  DE  FOREST  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  at 
Oneida,  Illinois,  since  1881.  He  was  born  at  Lima,  New 
York,    July    30,    1852. 

HERMAN  DENZEL,  President  of  the  Highland  Park  Fuel 
Co.,  112  North  First  St.,  Highland  Park,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  in  Germany 
March,   1870. 

JOHN  P.  DETIENNE,  Zion  City,  Illinois,  is  Manager  of 
the  fuel  departments  of  Zion  City  Institutions  and  Indus- 
tries. He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years,  having  been  a  retailer  for  ten  years  at  Sherburn, 
Minnesota.     He  was  born  in  Belgium  July   28,   1850. 

ROBERT  DICK  is  President  of  the  Pond  Creek  Coal  Co., 
Herrin,  Illinois,  and  of  the  Robert  Dick  Coal  Co.  For- 
merly he  was  with  the  Sun  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  business  for  over  forty  years.  He 
was  born  in  DuQuoin,  Illinois,  July  20,  1863. 

PETER  R.  DIEDERICH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Rochelle, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  seventeen  years  and 
was  formerly  with  the  Neola  Elevator  Co.  He  was  born 
at  Lostant,   Illinois,   October   11,    1877. 

JOHN  DONER  DIFFENBAUGH  is  the  owner  of  the  Dif- 
fenbaugh  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  at  Monmouth,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
in  the  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  formerly  was  Vice 
President  of  the  Sipher  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  and  was  born 
November  8,  18G5,  at  Monmouth.  Mr.  Diffenbaugh  has  held 
a  number  of  positions  of  trust  and  honor  in  his  community. 

JOHN  SIPHER  DIFFENBAUGH,  Monmouth,  Illinois,  is 
associated  as  Manager  with  his  father,  John  D.  Diffenbaugh, 
in  the  Diffenbaugh  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  with  which  he  has  been 
connected  for  seven  years.  He  was  born  at  Monmouth, 
August  1,    1892. 

OSCAR  L.  DODGSON  is  Manager  for  the  retail  coal  firm 
of  L.  P.  Dodgson  &  Son  at  McLean,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
in  the  business  twenty-two  years.  He  was  born  in  Carroll- 
ton,  Illinois,  September  29,  1886. 

D.  H.  DOLDEN,  General  Manager  of  the  Hinckley  Grain 
Co.  at  Hinckley,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  thir- 
teen years,  formerly  with  the  Neola  Elevator  Co.  He  was 
born    at   Kings,    Illinois,    November   25,    1879. 

STEPHEN  A.  DRAKE,  Canton,  Illinois,  is  President  of 
the  Canton  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  business  for 
thirty   years.     He   was   born   at   Canton,   May   18,   1864. 

JOHN  W.  DUNCAN  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Dun- 
can Bros,  at  Palmyra,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Girard,  Illi- 
nois, October  26,  1865.  His  brother,  Joseph  B.  Duncan,  was 
also  born  in  Girard  July  9,  1867. 

GEORGE  F.  ECKERT,  Manager  and  partner  in  the  coal 
firm  of  Hall  &  Eckert  at  Woodstock,  Illinois,  has  been 
connected  with  the  retail  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 
He  was  born  at  Woodstock   February   14,   1864. 

CLARENCE  F.  EDINGER,  Wilmette,  Illinois,  is  President 
of  Edinger  &  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Wilmette  and 
Evanston,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  eleven 
years,  and  has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Chicago  Coal 
Merchants'  Association.  He  was  born  at  White  Haven, 
Pennsylvania,  July  4,   1877. 

A.  H.  EINHAUS,  Quincy,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Quincy 
October  4,   1870. 

A.  W.  EISENMAYER  is  President  of  the  Granite  City 
Lime  &  Cement  Co.  at  Granite  City,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at 
Claremont,  Illinois,  July  12,  1866. 

EMIL  A.  EKSTRAND,  Ludlow,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born 
in  Illinois   in   1860. 

SAMUEL  W.  ELDRED,  Quincy,  Illinois,  is  a  salesman  of 
the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  industry  for  thirty  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Wabash  Coal  Co.  as  Treasurer  and  Man- 
ager. Mr.  Eldred  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Board  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Association.  He  was 
born   at   Carlinville,    Illinois,   September   26,    1860. 

V.  C.  ELMORE,  Ashland,  Illinois,  manages  his  own  busi- 
ness and  also  that  of  Elmore  &  Lemmon,  coal  merchants. 
Retail  offices  are  maintained  by  the  companies  at  Ashland, 
Sinclair,  Manchester,  Roodhouse,  Barrow,  Hillview,  Grand 
Pass,  Pleasant  Hill  and  Nebo,  all  in  the  state  of  Illinois.  Mr. 
Elmore  was  born  near  Ashland  October  18,  1847.  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years. 

W.  A.  ENGLAND  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Havana  Coal 
Co.  at  Havana,  Illinois,  having  bought  out  Edward  Fields  in 
May,   1917.     He   was  born  at   Havana   in   1875. 


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KM.  K.  KVAXS,  Streator,  Illinois,  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-seven  years,  formerly  with  the  Rich- 
ards &  Brans  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  In  Streator  March  24, 
1874. 

ROBERT  J.  FAIRIIAIRN.  Galesburg,  Illinois,  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Sf»-  Coal  Co.  and  also  of  the  Coal 
Creek  Mining  Co.  Ke  is  interested  in  the  Acme  Coal  Co. 
at  Streator,  Illinois,  and  was  formerly  connected  with  that 
concern,  from  1892  to  1909.  He  was  born  at  Streator  Novem- 
ber 16,   1874. 

ALBERT  F.  FIKLH.  retail  coal  merchant  at  Woodstock, 
Illinois,  has  been  doing  business  there  for  forty-three 
years.     He  was  born  January   20,   1841.   in  Vermont. 

T.  M.  FOLEY,  Kankakee,  Illinois,  Is  President  of  the 
Kankakee  Ice,  Feed  &  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  eight  years.  He  was  born  at  Joliet,  Illinois,  September 
29,   1869. 

JOSKPH  L.  FRKSK  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Riverside 
Coal  Yards  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  there  for  five  years.  He  was  born  in  Quincy  March 
II,   1880. 

MR.  KMGAR  K.  FYKE,  Centralia.  Illinois,  Is  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Marion  County  Coal  Co.  He  also  is  Treasurer 
of  the  Odin  Coal  Co.,  Odin,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  was  born  December  23, 
1868,   at   Odin,   Illinois. 

MARTIN  A.  GARRISON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Enfield, 
Illinois,  has  been  doing  business  for  over  thirty  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Illinois  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  He  was 
born    at    Enfield,    February    20,    1852. 

HKNNIS  S.  GKNT,  Marion.  Illinois,  is  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Crab  Orchard  Coal  Co.  He  is  also  interested 
in  the  Blackburne  Coal  Co.  and  formerly  was  with  Ed- 
wards &  Bradford  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa.  He  was  born  at 
Marion,   January   28,   1891. 

CHARLES  H.  GIBBS,  Princeton,  Illinois,  is  a  salesman 
for  Williams  &  Peters  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  F.  B.  Newell  & 
Co.  and  F.  N.  Pease  &  Co.  He  was  born  in  Chenango 
County,  New  York,  October  9,  1854.  He  has  a  wide  ac- 
quaintance among  Illinois,  Iowa  and  Western  Indiana  re- 
tailers. 

JACOB  R.  GIEBELHAUSEN,  President  and  Manager  of 
the  Glebelhausen  Coal  Co.,  East  Peoria,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  retail  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was  born  in 
Illinois    September  3,   1885. 

RUDOLPH  GODOWSKY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Macomb, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  ten  years.  He  was 
born  in  Russian  Poland  in  1873,  and  was  six  years  old  on 
his  arrival   in   the   United  States. 

SAMUEL  HENRY  GOOMALL  of  Marion,  Illinois,  Is  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Economy  Coal  Co.  and  for  over  twenty 
years  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business.  For- 
merly he  was  with  the  Crab  Orchard  Coal  Co.,  the  Chicago 
&  Big  Muddy  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the  Carterville  District  Coal 
Co.,  and  the  Illinois  Hocking  Washed  Coal  Co.  He  was 
born  at  Marion  February  7,  1866. 

J.  MARK  GRAHAM,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Kirkwood,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  in  the  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was 
born    at    Biggsville,    Illinois,    September    6,    1858. 

LYMAN  M.  GRAHAM,  Bloomington,  Illinois,  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  McLean  County  Coal  Co.  and  has 
general  supervision  of  the  business.  He  opened  the  books 
for  the  company  in  1867  and  except  for  one  year  and  a  half 
he  has  been  connected  with  it  ever  since,  filling  every  posi- 
tion, from  office  boy  to  President.  Mr.  Graham  was  born 
in  Brown  County,  Ohio,  December  27,  1845. 

G.  s.  GHEKR  is  Buyer  and  Manager  for  the  coal  firm  of 
Greer  &  Vance  at  Seaton,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  two  years  and  formerly  was  with  A.  L.  Duncan  & 
Sons.     He  was  born   at   Seaton   July   9,    1893. 

PETER  GRIEVE,  JR.,  Collinsville,  Illinois,  is  District 
Superintendent  for  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  and  has  been 
thirty-three  years  with  his  present  company.  He  was  born 
In  Collinsville  December  27,  1874. 

G.  B.  GRIFFIN  is  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  G.  B.  & 
C  M.  Griffin,  dealers  in  grain,  poultry,  wool  and  coal  at 
Charleston,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  business  twenty-two 
years. 

F.  A.  GRIMES.  Sterling.  Illinois,  is  President  and  Man- 
ager of  the  Moses  Dillon  Co,  one  of  the  oldest  firms 
in  the  county  in  the  lumber,  coal  and  grain  business.  He 
has  been  connected  with  the  trade  for  twenty-eight  years. 
He    was   born   at   Gilman,    Illinois,   November   26,    1870. 

JOHN  GROOM,  Belleville,  Illinois,  is  the  President  of  the 
Groom  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for 
eleven  years,  having  been  connected  formerly  with  the  Con- 
solidated Coal  Co.     He  was  born  in  Belleville  in   1858. 


WILLIAM  PECK  HABBERTON,  Mt.  Carmel,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  about  forty  years.  He 
was  born  in   New   York  City  March   3,   1847. 

WILLIAM  D.  HALL  is  the  proprietor  of  the  W.  D.  Hall 
lumber  and  coal  business  at  Harvard,  Illinois.  He  also  is 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hall  &  Eckert  at  Woodstock,  Illi- 
nois. Mr.  Hall  has  been  in  the  business  for  forty-three 
years.  He  was  born  at  Walworth,  Wisconsin,  September 
3,    1850. 

ROBERT  L.  HALLETT  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Trl-City  Coal  Co..  wholesale  coal  merchants  at  Rock  Island, 
Illinois.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years  and  formerly  was  with  the  following  con- 
cerns: New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.,  Chicago  Fuel  Co.,  Hudson 
Coal  Co.  and  Ender  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  was  born  at 
Wyandotte,   Kansas,    August   11,    1877. 

F.  W.  MAX  HAMMERSCHMIMT,  President  of  the  Ham- 
merschmidt  &  Franzen  Co.  at  Elmhurst,  Illinois,  has  been 
a  retail  coal  merchant  seventeen  years.  He  formerly  was 
with  the  City  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.  at  Wheaton,  Illinois.  He 
was  born  at  Naperville,  Illinois,  December  6,   1864. 

WILLIAM  HAMMERSCHMIMT,  President  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Lombard  Brick  &  Tile  Co.,  Lombard,  Illinois,  was  born 
in  Naperville.  Illinois,  October  10,  1853,  has  been  buying  coal 
in  the  Chicago  market  over  forty  years,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  himself  since  May,  1892.  He  has  served  as 
Treasurer  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation. Mr.  Hammerschmidt  is  a  well-known  and  success- 
ful coal  merchant,  has  been  Supervisor  of  the  County  in 
which  he  resides  twenty-seven  years,  and  is  now  represented 
in  the  Service  by  two  sons. 

CHARLES  HANAN  has  been  a  retail  coal  merchant  for 
nineteen  years  at  Macomb,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  White 
Cloud,   Kansas,   July    28,   1870. 

HENRY  PAUL  HANSEN,  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  nine  years.  He  was  born  in  Ger- 
many In   1881. 

WILLIAM  J.  HARHIS  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  who  has 
been  in  the  business  for  about  sixteen  years  at  Watseka, 
Illinois.  He  was  born  September  12,  1871,  at  Culver,  Indi- 
ana. 

JAMES  HAMRICK  HARSHMAN,  Oregon,  Illinois,  is  the 
proprietor  of  the  J.  H.  Harshman  Coal  Co.  He  has  been 
in  the  retail  business  for  five  years,  formerly  with  the  In- 
diana Coal  Co.  and  H.  D.  Haight  &  Co.  He  was  born  in 
Maryland  April  25,  1857. 

FRKM  WILLIAM  HELLER  is  Secretary-Treasurer  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Jerseyville  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.  at  Jer- 
seyville,  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  business 
for  five  years.     He  was  born  at  Jerseyville,  April  1,   1876. 

J.  A.  HENKHY  is  Manager  for  the  Plainfield  Grain  Co. 
at  Plainfield,  Illinois,  which  has  other  yards  at  Caton 
Farm,  Frontenac,  Normantown  and  Wolfs,  Illinois. 

E.  B.  HERSCI1  of  Hersch  Bros..  Polo,  Illinois,  was  born  in 
Montgomery  County,  Pennsylvania,  April  29,  1852,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  about  twenty  years. 

A.  J.  HERSCH  of  Hersch  Bros.,  Polo,  Illinois,  was  born  in 
Montgomery  County,  Pennsylvania,  November  15.  1866,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  and  lumber  business  since  1893. 

WILLIAM  HKRTMAN,  Mascoutah,  Illinois,  is  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Kolb  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  industry  for  over  thirty-one  years.  He  formerly 
was  with  the  Southern  Coal.  Coke  &  Mining  Co.  and  with 
the  Missouri  &  Illinois  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  State 
Inspector  of  Mines  for  the  Ninth  Illinois  District.  He  was 
born    at    Belleville,    Illinois,    November    18,    1872. 

R.  C.  HILL,  Manager  of  The  Scranton  &  Big  Muddy  Coal 
Mining  Co.  at  Marion,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business 
sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Galatia  Coal  Co.  at 
Galatia,  Illinois.  He  was  born  in  Sallna  County,  Illinois, 
June  25,  1875. 

HKNRY  ANTONK  Mil  I  Hill  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  The  II.  A.  Hillmer  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Freeport, 
Illinois.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the  Hoefer  Coal  Co., 
Dixon,  Illinois,  and  formerly  was  connected  with  Smith 
&  Porter  and  H.  J.  Porter  at  Freeport.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  trade  since  1890  and  passed  practically 
all  his  life  at  Freeport. 

WILLIAM  M.  HIXMAN,  Adair,  Illinois,  is  Manager  for  the 
Farmers'  Elevator  &  Produce  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Chariton.  Iowa, 
January   4,   1866. 

JOHN  A.  HOFFMANN  is  Manager  for  Hoffmann  Bros., 
retail  coal  merchants  at  Wilmette,  Illinois.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born 
January  22,  1865,  at  Gross  Point,  Illinois.  His  partner. 
Philip  Hoffmann,   was  born  at  Gross  Point  October  12,   1862. 

\.  II.  HOLCOMB.  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Holcomb- 
Dutton  Lumber  Co.  and  a  partner  in  Holcomb  Bros.,  Syca- 
more, Illinois,  was  born  in  Sycamore  July  7,  1875. 


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S.  A.  HOLCOMB,  Sycamore,  Illinois,  is  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Holcomb  Bros,  and  President  of  the  Holcomb-Dut- 
ton  Lumber  Co.,  both  of  Sycamore.  He  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-six  years  and  formerly  was  with 
Shurtleff  &  Holcomb.  He  was  born  in  Sycamore  April  11, 
1867. 

C.  O.  urn  11111:111..  223  Highland  Avenue,  Rockford,  Illi- 
nois, is  proprietor  and  Manager  of  the  Highland  Lumber  & 
Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  three  years.  He 
was   born   in   Sweden   April   9,    1873. 

WALTER  EARL  HOOTS  is  General  Sales  Agent  for  the 
Macon  County  Coal  Co.,  Decatur,  Illinois,  and  formerly 
was  with  the  Manufacturers  &  Consumers  Coal  Co.,  as 
Northwestern  Sales  Agent,  with  headquarters  at  Waterloo, 
Iowa.  He  has  been  four  years  in  the  business.  He  was 
born  at  Arthur,  Illinois,  November  10,  1893. 

JOHN  H.  HOWARD,  Sales  Manager  of  the  Decatur  Coal 
Co.,  620  W.  North  St.,  Decatur,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Kenney, 
Illinois,    June    7,    1870. 

FRANK  HUBENET,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Joliet,  Illinois, 
'has  been   in   the   business   for   twenty-seven   years.     He   was 
with   Hunter  &  Curtis  from   1886  to   1890.     He   is  a   native  of 
Sweden  and  was  born  December  30,  1862. 

WILLIAM  11 1  nr.li>  is  President  of  the  Rock  Island  Fuel 
Co.  at  Rock  Island,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirty-eight  years.  He  was  born  in  Germany 
November  5,  1855.  Mr.  Hubers  is  one  of  the  substantial  and 
respected    members    of   the    coal    trade. 

GIT  LANDON  HUMPHREYS  is  Mining  Engineer  and 
Surveyor  for  the  Toluca  Coal  Co.  of  Toluca,  Illinois,  and  is 
doing  similar  work  for  other  concerns.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years,  formerly 
with  the  coal  mining  department  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  & 
Santa  F£  Railroad,  acting  as  Chief  Engineer  for  the  com- 
pany's coal  properties.  He  was  born  at  Auburn,  New  York, 
in  1862. 

ELMER  F.  HUNTER,  Chillicothe,  Illinois,  is  General 
Manager  for  H.  &  E.  F.  Hunter  and  their  affiliated  com- 
panies and  has  been  in  the  coal  and  lumber  business  for 
twenty-five  years.  He  has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Illi- 
nois and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He 
was   born   at   Wheatland,    Illinois,   November   14,    1861. 

E.  M.  HUNGERFORD,  retail  merchant  at  Loda,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  forty  years.  He 
was  born  in  Ohio   in  1848. 

CHARLES  W.  HUSKINSON,  1125  Easton  St.,  Alton,  Illi- 
nois, is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Mississippi  Valley 
Coal  Co.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business 
for  thirteen  years.     He  was  born  at  Alton  July  29,  1869. 

LEONARD  WARD  INGHAM  of  Clinton.  Illinois,  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Durham  Coal  Co.,  Galatia,  Illinois.  He  was  born 
at  Waynesville,  Illinois,  November  25,  1880.  Mr.  Ingham  is 
an   attorney-at-law   by   profession. 

D.  I*.  JACKSON  of  Sesser,  Illinois,  is  Superintendent  of 
the  Sesser  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Livingston  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  February  19,  1875, 
at  Alton,   Illinois. 

J.  H.  JACOBSBX,  Brocton,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  there  for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  born 
in  Macon   County,   Illinois,  December   19,    1871. 

LOUIS  J.  JACQUOT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Warsaw,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  for- 
merly was  connected  with  the  Warsaw  Hay,  Grain  &  Coal 
Co.     He  was  born   February  27,  1865,  at  Warsaw. 

OTTO  JAEGER,  proprietor  of  the  Peoples  Coal  Co.  at 
Chicago  Heights,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  fif- 
teen years,  formerly  with  the  Chicago  Heights  Coal  Co.  He 
was  born  in  Germany  July  14,  1877. 

MORTIMER  M.  JAMES,  owner  of  the  James  Elevator  at 
Greenup,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Ladoga,  Indiana,  November 
18.    1861. 

CHARLES  EMMET  JETER,  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Jeter 
&  Jeter  at  Piano,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nineteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Roanoke,  Illinois,  March  3, 
1875. 

MORGAN  W.  JENKINS  of  Washington,  Illinois,  has  been 
engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was 
born  in  Washington  November  27.   1861. 

WILLIAM  H.  JENKINS  of  Danville,  Illinois,  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  for  the  last  twenty-one  years  and 
for  seventeen  years  previously  he  was  a  coal  miner  in  Ohio, 
Kentucky,  Illinois  and  Missouri.  He  was  born  in  Wales 
March   15,  1855. 

AXEL  JOHNSON,  Kewanee.  Illinois,  is  the  owner  of  the 
Kewanee  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for 
four  years.     He  was  born  in  Sweden  March  5,  1868. 


FRANK  E.  JOHNSON,  owner  of  the  Johnson  Fuel  Co., 
"Heat  Dealers,"  Galesburg,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  for  seventeen  years,  formerly  with  James  C. 
Simpson  &  Co.     He  was  born  at  Galesburg  in  1868. 

GEORGE  HENRY  JOHNSON,  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Consumers  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Peoria,  Illinois, 
has  been  seven  years  in  the  business.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Maplewood  Colliery  Co.  He  was  born  in  Norway 
June   10,   1884. 

VERNER  JOHNSON,  Rockford,  Illinois,  is  Secretary  of 
the  Johnson  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  eighteen  years,  formerly  with  the  Seventh  Street 
Fuel  Co.  at  Rockford.  He  was  born  October  25,  1871,  in 
Sweden. 

A.  C.  JOHNSTON,  senior  partner  of  the  A.  C.  Johnston 
&  Son,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years  at  Joliet,  Illinois.     He  was  born  October  14,  1849. 

L.  D.  JONES,  Secretary  of  the  West  Side  Coal  &  Mining 
Co.  at  Coulterville,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  industry  for  twenty-six  years,  formerly  with  the 
Coulterville  Mining  Co.  He  was  born  in  Coulterville 
February    11,    1869. 

FRANK  F.  JORGENSEN,  Gillespie,  Illinois,  is  Chief  Engi- 
neer for  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway  coal  prop- 
erties and  has  been  connected  with  the  business  for  thir- 
teen   years.      He    was    born    at   West    Side,    Iowa.    September 

29,  1880.  He  formerly  was  Chief  Engineer  for  the  Consoli- 
dated Coal  Co.  at  Buxton,  Iowa. 

JOHN  KALLGREN,  President  of  the  Streeter-Kallgren 
Lumber  Co.  at  Grant  Park,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business 
for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  born  October  2,  1857,  in 
Sweden. 

GEORGE  F.  KARBER,  Rosiclare,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  at  Rosiclare  for  five  years.  He  was  born 
at  Karber's  Ridge,   Illinois,  August  2,   1882. 

FRED  R.  KENT  is  the  owner  of  the  business  of  E.  Kent 
&  Co.  at  Clinton,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  retail  busi- 
ness for  over  thirty  years.     Emmett  Kent,  who  died  March 

30,  1890,  established  the  business  in  1859.  Fred  R.  Kent 
was  born  at  Clinton,  September  30,  1862,  and  is  one  of  the 
well-known    coal    merchants    of   the    state. 

ROY  HARRY  KENTFIELD,  Master  Mechanic  at  Gilles- 
pie, Illinois,  for  the  Superior  Coal  Co.,  has  been  connected 
with  the  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  Givin, 
Iowa,   November   18,   1887. 

WILLIS  D.  KILGORE  is  Manager  of  the  Kilgore  Coal  Co. 
at  Danville,  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected  with  the 
business  since  1902.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Kelly 
Coal  Co.  and  was  born  at  Eugene,  Indiana,  September  18, 
1880.  He  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Grape  Creek  Valley 
Mining    Co. 

WILLIAM  RICHARD  KING  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Keithsburg,  Illinois,  who  has  been  in  the  business  for 
twenty-seven  years.  He  was  born  October  27,  1854,  in  New 
York   City. 

GUSTAF  F.  KIRCHHOFF,  junior  partner  of  Kirchhoff 
Bros,  at  Hampshire,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Deyden, 
Illinois,    November   3,    1869. 

HERMAN  H.  KIRCHHOFF.  senior  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Kirchhoff  Bros,  at  Hampshire,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  since  1886,  formerly  with  C.  A.  Franzen  & 
Co.  at  Pingree,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Leyden,  Illinois, 
January   27,   1861. 

CORNWALL  E.  KIRKPATRICK  is  Manager  of  the  coal 
business  of  C.  E.  Kirkpatrick  &  Co.  at  Anna,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  trade  for  thirty-six  years.  He  was  born  at 
Point   Pleasant,   Ohio,   January   10,   1852. 

JOHN  KLASNER,  111  Henry  St.,  Alton,  Illinois,  is  a  retail 
coal  merchant  who  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen 
years.     He  was  born  October  8,   1874,  at  Alton. 

FRED  R.  KLUCKHOHN  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Fred  R. 
Kluckhohn  Coal  Co.  at  Naperville,  Illinois,  which  he  took 
over  May  31,  1917,  as  successor  to  C.  J.  Keller.  Mr.  Kluck- 
hohn  was  born   at  Reddick,   Illinois,  November   21,   1891. 

F\  KOHL,  Centralia,  Illinois,  is  President  of  the  Marion 
County  Coal  Co.  The  coal  business  is  a  side  line  with  him, 
but  his  father  was  the  pioneer  in  developing  the  coal 
mining  industry  in  that  field.  Mr.  Kohl  was  born  in  Cen- 
tralia in  September,  1865,  and  is  in  the  banking  business. 

WILLIAM  G.  KORRELL,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Mel- 
rose Park,  Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for 
nineteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Proviso,  Illinois,  January 
2,   1872. 

W.  E.  KREIDER  has  been  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Tonica,  Illinois,  for  twenty-six  years.  He  was  born  at 
Wenona,    Illinois,   November   9,    1865. 


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WALTER  C.  KHIECKIIAl'S  is  Superintendent  of  the  Car- 
terville  &  Big  .Muddy  Coal  Co.  at  Herrin,  Illinois,  with  which 
he  has  been  connected  for  two  years.  He  was  formerly 
receiver  for  the  Watson  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,   September    25,   1882. 

TELESPHORE  LAKOM),  senior  member  of  the  firm  of 
T.  Lafond  &  Son,  Kankakee,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born  in  Canada, 
April  22,  1847.  His  son,  Sylva  Lafond,  is  the  junior  mem- 
ber of  the  firm.     The  latter  was  born  December  22,  1874. 

HENRY  LANDEAV  Is  the  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Mendota,  Illinois,  and  has  been  there  for  over 
twenty-two  years.  He  was  born  July  28,  1861,  in  New 
York    City. 

CHARLES  LOtIS  LE1TNER,  Pekin,  Illinois,  is  President 
of  the  German  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  business 
ten  years.     He  was  born  in  Illinois  November  29,  1870. 

R.  ALFRED  LIGHT  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  Christman,  Illinois,  for  twelve  years.  He  was  born 
at  Christman  in  1874  and  is  well  known  in  the  trade. 

WILLIAM  L.  LIMAGE,  Salesman  and  Manager  for  the 
coal  firm  of  Limage  Bros,  at  Hanover,  Illinois,  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was 
born    at    Hanover,    August    25,    1866. 

AL'Gl'ST  C.  LOHMAN.W  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Abbey  Coal  Corp.  at  Collinsville,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
business  for  eleven  years,  formerly  with  the  Collinsville  Ice 
&  Fuel  Co.  He  was  born  September  22,  1883,  in  Madison 
County,  Illinois. 

FRAXCIS  A.  Lfl\(;\K('KER,  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Kinderhook,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  over 
thirty  years.     He  was  born  at  Kinderhook  August  6,  1861. 

C.  H.  LUCAS  is  a  partner  In  the  National  Fuel  Co.  at 
Galesburg,  Illinois,  and  Manager  of  one  of  its  coal  yards. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Spoon  River  Coal  Co. 
and  has  been  in  the  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was 
born   in   Illinois   in   1872. 

A.  J.  LLNDAHL  is  President  of  the  Lundahl  Bros.  Fuel 
&  Contracting  Co.,  Moline,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  nine  years.  He  was  born  In  Moline  April 
14,   1880. 

R.  H.  LUNDAHL  is  Secretary  of  the  Lundahl  Bros.  Fuel 
&  Contracting  Co.,  Moline,  Illinois.  He  has  been  connected 
with  the  retail  trade  for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Mo- 
lino   October   31,    1888. 

W.  E.  LYON,  Carthage,  Illinois,  Is  the  owner  of  the  busi- 
ness of  W.  E.  Lyon  &  Co.  and  has  been  In  the  retail  trade 
for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  April  5,  1872,  at  Burlington, 
Iowa. 

JOHN  R.  MaeFARLAND,  General  Manager  of  Sales  for 
the  O'Gara  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois,  resides  at  Wilmette, 
Illinois.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five'  years,  formerly  with  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.  and  the 
Weaver  Coal  Co.     He  was  born   in   Chicago  June   24,   1874. 

GRANT  MADEN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Winchester, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  eight  years.  He  was 
born   at   Oregon,    Illinois,    February    28,    1865. 

RALPH  C.  MANNING,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Warren- 
vllle,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  eleven  years. 
He  was  born  in  Warrenville  June  5,  1879. 

C.  L.  MARKEE  is  proprietor  of  the  Markee  Fuel  Co.  at 
Moline,  Illinois,  having  purchased  the  Moline  Fuel  Co. 
February  1,  1917.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years,  formerly  with  Butzer  &  Markee 
at  Hillsdale,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Erie,  Illinois,  July 
16,    1876. 

ELI  MASON,  Athens,  Illinois,  began  his  career  in  the 
coal  industry  when  he  was  a  boy  of  eleven  years  in  Eng- 
land, where  he  was  born  in  I860.  He  is  now  General  Super- 
intendent for  the  Athens  &  Dawson  Coal  Co.,  Athens,  Illi- 
nois, and  was  formerly  with  the  following:  Citizens  Coal 
Co.,  Sangamon  Coal  Co.,  Clear  Lake  Coal  Co.  and  Wabash 
Coal  Co.  He  says  that  boys  In  the  mines  of  England  saw 
daylight  only  once  a  week,  when  mother  called  them  for 
Sunday  dinner. 

JOHN  T.  MAt'LE.  sole  owner  of  the  John  T.  Maule  Coal 
Co.,  37  Missouri  Ave.,  East  St.  Louis.  Illinois,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirteen  years,  formerly  with  the  F. 
Maule  Coal  Co.  nine  years.  He  has  served  as  Secretary 
of  the  East  St.  Louis  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He 
was  born  September  3,  1890,  In  Belleville,  Illinois.  He  is 
the  third  generation  of  the  Maule  family  to  be  In  the  coal 
business. 

T.  p.  MAIITZ,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Stewardson,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  doing  business  for  thirty  years.  He  was 
born    In   this  country    in    1860. 

WILLIAM  LEWIS  MrCLOI'D,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Shel- 
don, Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail  trade  for  seventeen 
years,  formerly  as  a  traveling  salesman  for  H.  W.  Lynch 
of  Peoria.  He  was  born  at  Worthington,  Ohio,  September 
19,    1859. 


WILLIAM  J.  McC'OY  owns  a  retail  coal  yard  at  Thom- 
son, Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  fifteen  years. 
He  was  born   at  Princeton,   Iowa,  December   18,   1871. 

JAMES  MeCREDIE.  Aurora,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Wigtonshire, 
Scotland,  October  4,  1859.  His  son,  James  David  McCredie. 
was  born  in  Earlville,  Illinois,  January  22.  1892,  and  formerly 
managed  the  business  at  Aurora.  He  was  graduated  from 
Cornell  University  in  1915,  and  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
Chicago,  after  which  he  learned  the  coal  business,  working 
for  his  father.  He  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  in  May, 
1917,  was  in  training  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  is  now  on  the 
United  States  battleship  New  York  in  foreign  service.  Mr. 
McCredie  is  a  33°  Mason  and  is  Deputy  Grand  Commander 
of  the  Grand  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of  Illinois. 

JOHN  MeDERMAID,  212  N.  Madison  Street,  Rockford,  Illi- 
nois, is  a  retail  coal  merchant  who  has  been  doing  business 
for  twenty-one   years.      He  was  born  in  Scotland   in   1842. 

D.  C.  McDILL,  coal  merchant  at  Biggsville,  Illinois,  has 
been  in  the  business  for  thirty-four  years.  Formerly  he 
was  manager  for  J.  C.  McDill,  but  since  1916  has  been  In 
business  for  himself.  He  was  born  August  9,  1847,  at 
Biggsville. 

LEONARD  IRASON  McFARLING,  President  of  the  firm 
of  McFarling  &  Sons,  Marshall,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  about  two  years.  He  was  born  in  Clark 
County,    Illinois,   January    12,    1868. 

EDWIN  H.  MeKOWN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  1401  Second 
Avenue,  Rock  Island,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for 
twenty-nine  years,  formerly  with  E.  G.  Frazer.  He  was 
born   at   Davenport,    Iowa,   March   17,    1858. 

HARRY  MeMANUS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Kinsman,  Illi- 
nois, has  been  in  the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was 
born    at    Peoria,    Illinois. 

WILLIAM  HENRY'  JlcXEES,  Sidell.  Illinois,  is  a  retail 
coal  merchant  who  has  been  in  the  business  fourteen  years 
at  Hildreth,  Illinois.  He  was  born  in  Vermilion  County, 
Illinois,  July  30,   1860. 

H.  G.  MEIERKORD  is  Manager  of  the  C.  H.  Meierkord 
Coal,  Wood  &  Ice  Co.  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
in  the  retail  business  for  himself  for  eight  years.  He  was 
born   at   LaGrange,    Missouri.    January    27,    1868. 

B.  B.  METCALF,  Manager  for  E.  J.  Metcalf,  retail  coal 
merchant  at  Normal,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for 
five  years.     He  was  born  at  Normal  October  16,   1891. 

HENRY  MEYER  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
three  years  at  Pecatonica,  Illinois.  Formerly  he  was  for 
fifteen  years  with  W.  J.  Bucklin.  He  was  born  at  Nort- 
moor,   Germany,  January  24,  1880. 

EDWARD  MICHAELIS,  Belleville,  Illinois,  is  President 
of  the  Pittsburgh  Mining  Co.  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  industry  for  seventeen  years,  formerly  with  the 
Lenz  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  filling  the  position  of  Superintend- 
ent.    He  was  born  at  Belleville  in   September,   1881. 

NEAL  MIKESELL,  Rock  Island,  Illinois,  is  Sales  Manager 
for  the  Rock  Island  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  born  February  19, 
1883,    at    Troy,    Ohio. 

A.  JLDSON  MILES,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Mt.  Carroll, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  seventeen  years.  He 
was  born  in  Mt.  Carroll   in  1870. 

ALBERT  H.  MILLER.  511  Bonnie  Brae,  River  Forest,  Illi- 
nois, is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Union  Coal  Co.  of  Dan- 
bury,  Connecticut,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Terryville,  Connec- 
ticut, January   23,   1864. 

FRED  A.  Mil. I. km.  Manager  F.  A.  Miller  Lumber  Co., 
Gibson  City,  111.,  was  born  in  Germania  August  7,  1881, 
and   has   been    retailing   coal   for   three   years. 

JOSEPH  E.  MILLER  has  for  twenty-flve  years  conducted 
his  retail  coal  business  at  Mtlledgeville,  Illinois.  He  was 
born   In  Pennsylvania  October  16,  1861. 

RALPH  B.  MITCHELL,  Johnston  City,  Illinois,  is  Gen- 
eral Superintendent  of  the  Ernest  Coal  Co.  and  of  the 
Marlon  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years  and  formerly  was  with 
the  Franklin  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Cambria  Coal  Co. 
He  was  born  at  Plains,  Pennsylvania.  February  5,   1886. 

GEORGE  S.  MONSER  is  President  of  the  Wenona  Coal 
Co.  at  Wenona,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for 
thirty-six  years.  He  was  born  at  Wenona  October  3,  1866. 
The  company  was  established  by  his  father,  Edward  L. 
Monser,  who  sunk  the  mine  about  thirty-six  years  ago. 

WILLIAM  E.  MONSER  is  Vice  President  of  the  Wenona 
Coal  Co.  at  Wenona,  Illinois,  and  has  been  its  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  for  twenty-seven  years.  He  has  been  with  the 
same  company  for  twenty-nine  years.  The  mine  was  sunk 
by  his  father,  Edward  L.  Monser,  In  1882.  He  was  born  In 
Wenona   August    1,   1869. 


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CLAUDE  LEAVBTTE  MOORE,  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  C.  L.  &  H.  C.  Moore,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Kankakee, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He 
was  born  at  Kankakee  May  21,  1859.  Mr.  Moore  is  con- 
sidered an  authority  on  bookkeeping  and  cost  of  handling 
coal  at  retail. 

GILBERT  G.  MOORE  is  Manager  of  the  Lone  Star  Coal 
Co.  at  Carriers  Mills,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  six  years.  He  was  born  in  Dubois  County,  Indiana, 
January  18,   1884. 

DAVID  J.  MORRIS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Big  Rock, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He 
was   born   at   Delafleld,    Wisconsin,   April   27,    1863. 

HOWARD  W.  MORRIS,  President  of  the  Sharon  Coal  & 
Brick  Co.  at  Georgetown,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business 
for  eleven  years  and  is  also  engaged  in  selling  coal  lands. 
He  was  born  at  Colonia,  Indiana,  April   17,   1871. 

FRANK  MOSHER,  senior  partner  in  the  coal  firm  of 
Mosher  &  Embree,  DeKalb,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  for  about  twenty-seven  years.  He  has  served  as 
President  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association.  He  was  born  in  DeKalb  County,  Illinois,  July 
4,  1865,  and  is  well-known  in  both  coal  and  lumber  circles. 

THOMAS  MOWE  is  Superintendent  of  the  Peoples  Coal 
Co.  at  Lebanon,  Illinois,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness for  eight  years.  He  was  born  at  Birkers  Station,  Illi- 
nois,   April    18,    1879. 

EDWARD  MURPHY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Lexington, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He 
was  born  at  Lexington  October  8,  1860. 

GRANVILLE  J.  MURPHY  of  Mound  City,  Illinois,  is  one 
of  the  oldest  retail  coal  merchants  in  southern  Illinois,  hav- 
ing been  in  the  business  for  over  thirty  years  continuously. 
He  is  President  of  the  Mound  City  Ice  Mfg.  &  Coal  Co., 
which  he  organized  about  twenty  years  ago.  He  was  born 
at  New  Madrid,  Missouri,  April  23,  1859.  His  son,  L.  A. 
Murphy,  was  born  at  Mound  City,  July  20,  1880,  and  has 
been  associated  for  twenty  years  in  the  business,  of  which 
he   is   in  active   management. 

ELIZABETH  W.  NEHRHOOD,  106  Sixth  Avenue,  Sterling, 
Illinois,  is  the  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  Peoples  Ice  & 
Coal  Co.  Miss  Nehrhood  has  been  in  the  business  four  years 
and  has  been  very  successful. 

FRED  D.  1VELLIS.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Fred 
D.  Nellis  Coal  Co.,  Cairo,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  business  twenty  years,  formerly  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  McCarthy  &  Nellis.  He  was  born  in  Cairo  July  2, 
1876.  Mr.  Nellis  is  City  Commissioner  and  County  Treasurer 
and  has  extensive  farming  interests. 

THOMAS  ASHCROFT  NICHOLSON  is  the  President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Nicholson  Bros.  Coal  Co.  at  Nash- 
ville, Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  eleven 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Nicholson  Mining  &  Mfg. 
Co.  of  Henderson,  Kentucky.  He  was  born  at  Philipsburg, 
Pennsylvania,   December   25,    1886. 

AUGUST  NOVOTNY  of  LaGrange,  Illinois,  is  the  proprie- 
tor of  the  Spring  Valley  Water.  Ice  &  Coal  Co.  and  has  been 
in  the  business  for  three  years.  He  was  born  in  Bohemia 
August    28,    1873. 

WESLEY  J.  OTT,  Walnut,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  at  Walnut  forty-four  years,  formerly  with 
C.  H.  Adams  &  Co.  and  with  Ott  &  Hockenbury.  He  was 
born   in   Frederick  County,  Maryland,  June   21,   1836. 

CHARLES  V.  PARKER,  President  of  the  Chas.  V.  Par- 
ker Co.,  coal  merchants  at  Harrisburg,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  retail  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  in 
Hardin   County,   Illinois,   March    23,   1872. 

ROBERT  H.  PATCH,  Manager  for  the  coal  firm  of  Patch 
Bros,  at  Glen  Ellyn,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the 
business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born  at  Towanda,  Penn- 
sylvania,   November    17,    1867. 

J.  H.  PATTERSON,  President  of  the  J.  H.  Patterson  Co., 
Marengo,  Illinois,  coal  merchants,  has  been  engaged  in  the 
business  thirty-two  years  and  his  company  now  operates  six 
coal  yards  in  Northern  Illinois.  He  was  born  in  Marengo 
May   6,    1860. 

WARREN  PENWELL,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Penwell 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Pana,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  over  twenty-eight  years.  He  was  born  in  Pana 
February   6,   1869. 

HERMAN  C.  PERRY,  Hillsboro,  Illinois,  is  General  Su- 
perintendent of  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  Railroad  coal 
properties  and  for  thirty-two  years  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  business,  formerly  with  Donk  Bros.  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
He  has  been  Illinois  State  President  of  the  United  Mine 
Workers  of  America.     He  was  born  at  Hunter,  Ohio. 


EDGAR  THOMAS  PETTYS,  507  West  Park  St.,  Urbana, 
Illinois,  is  Commission  Salesman  for  the  Sharon  Coal  & 
Brick  Co.  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business 
for  five  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Moore  &  Pettys 
Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Iroquois  County,  Illinois,  Sep- 
tember 4,   1855. 

FRED  S.  PFAHLE,  Belleville,  Illinois,  is  General  Su- 
perintendent of  the  Southern  Coal,  Coke  &  Mining  Co.  and 
has  been  connected  with  the  industry  for  thirteen  years. 
He  has  served  as  First  Vice  President  of  the  Illinois  Min- 
ing Institute.  He  was  born  August  18,  1883,  at  North  Mc- 
Gregor,  Iowa. 

CHARLES  A.  PIERCE,  owner  of  the  business  of  the  C. 
A.  Pierce  Lumber  Co.  at  Le  Roy,  Illinois,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  born 
at  West  Port,  New  York,   January  14,    1868. 

JOSEPH  C.  PIERCE  has  been  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Malta,  Illinois,  for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  born  April 
23,   1844,   at  Grahamsville,   New  York. 

JOHN  LOUIS  PIPE,  Quincy,  Illinois,  is  a  retail  coal  mer- 
chant who  has  been  connected  with  the  business  for  twenty- 
seven  years.  He  formerly  was  with  E.  W.  Trowbridge  at 
Quincy  and  with  the  Wabash  Coal  Co.  for  eleven  and  six 
years  respectively.  He  was  born  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
August   18,    1877. 

ROBERT  POGUE  is  senior  partner  in  the  Pogue  Lumber 
Co.  at  Paw  Paw,  Illinois,  which  company  has  a  retail  yard  at 
Waterman,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  business  thirty-four 
years,  formerly  with  M.  J.  Pogue  &  Sons  and  with  Pogue 
Bros.  Lurakr  Co.  He  was  born  in  Oswego,  Illinois,  Janu- 
ary 9.   1862. 

CHARLES  POINTON,  1028  North  Richland  St.,  Belleville, 
Illinois,  is  Secretary  and  Sales  Agent  for  the  New  National 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  six 
years.      He  was  born  in  Belleville  July  12,   1884. 

J.  V.  PRICE,  coal  merchant  at  Casey,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  business  for  thirty-one  years,  and  formerly  was  con- 
nected with  the  firm  of  Sanford  Price  &  Co.  He  was  born 
in  Licking   County,   Ohio. 

LEE  W.  RAILSBACK  is  Manager  of  the  coal  firm  of  Rails- 
back  Bros,  at  Weldon,  Illinois.  He  has  been  identified  with 
the  business  for  fifteen  years  and  formerly  was  with  B.  T. 
Railsback  Sons.  He  was  born  at  Hopedale,  Illinois,  August 
13,   1879. 

ROY  J.  RAILSBACK,  Hopedale,  Illinois,  has  been  In  the 
retail  coal  business  all  his  life  and  is  the  President  and 
Manager  of  B.  T.  Railsback  Sons  at  Hopedale.  He  was 
born   at   Hopedale,    December   1,    1877. 

WILLIAM  S.  RANKIN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Windsor, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail  trade  for  twenty  years.  He 
was  born  at  Windsor  in  1866. 

D.  EUGENE  RAYMOND,  Dixon,  Illinois,  is  Manager  of 
the  business  of  D.  B.  Raymond  &  Son,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  trade  since  October,  1903.  He  was  born  at  Tecumseh, 
Michigan,  in  July,  1861.  D.  B.  Raymond,  senior  member 
of  the  firm,  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  in  October,  1915. 

WILLIAM  RISER,  Belleville,  Illinois,  is  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Lattmann-Reeb  Coal  Co.  and  has  like- 
wise been  interested  in  the  Reeb  Coal  Co.,  which  was  re- 
cently sold  to  the  Radium  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Reeb  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years.  He  was  born  at 
Belleville  August  15,  1865. 

CLAUS  F.  REIMERS  is  senior  partner  of  the  Reimers 
Feed  &  Coal  Co.  at  2231  B  St.,  Granite  City.  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  business  for  five  years.  He  was  born  in 
Germany,   March    7,    1855. 

HENRY  W.  REIMERS  is  a  junior  partner  of  the  Reimers 
Feed  &  Coal  Co.  at  Granite  City,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  five  years.  He  was  born  at 
Watertown,  North  Dakota,  October  26,  1888. 

WILLIAM  REINWALD,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Carmi, 
Illinois,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  nine  years. 
He  was  born  at  Burnt  Prairie,  Illinois,  October  27,  1861. 

C.  W.  RENNER,  owner  of  Renner's  coal  yard  at  Mt. 
Pulaski,  Illinois,  has  been  three  years  in  the  business.  He 
was   born   at  Mt.  Pulaski   in   1877. 

EUGENE  E.  RESLER,  Manager  of  the  Heaton  Farmers' 
Grain  Co.  at  Hoopeston,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business 
for  three  years.  He  was  born  at  Odin,  Illinois,  March  4, 
1886. 

FREDERICK  W.  REUTER  is  executive  head  of  the  coal 
firm  of  Hazen  &  Reuter  at  Dewey,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
in  the  business  for  eight  years.  He  was  born  in  Germany 
March    21,    1889. 

O.  H.  RHODES,  Vienna,  Illinois,  is  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Rhodes  &  Son  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  January  19,  1862, 
at  Wabash,  Indiana. 


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H.  CLAIR  HlMil.K  is  Manager  for  William  Ringle  &  Co., 
coal  merchants  at  Cambridge,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the 
business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  in  Cambridge,  July 
3,  1883. 

BEN  D.  ROBERTS,  324  Sumner  Street,  Streator,  Illinois, 
Is  Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Heenanville 
Coal  Co.  Formerly  he  was  connected  with  the  following: 
Starr  Coal  Co.,  Oglesby  Coal  Co.,.  Virden  Coal  Co.,  and 
has  served  as  State  Inspector  of  Mines  in  Illinois.  He  was 
born  In  Wales  in   1858. 

F.  H.  ROCKWELL,  Rock  Island,  Illinois,  is  President  of 
the  Rockwell  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business 
nine  years.     He  was  born  in  Geneseo,  Illinois. 

HERMAN  J.  HOUR,  Alexis,  Illinois,  is  the  owner  and 
Manager  of  Rohr's  coal  mine  and  has  been  in  the  business 
since  1899.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Cook  &  Rohr 
from  that  year  until  1906,  when  Mr.  Cook  retired.  Mr. 
Rohr  was  born  in  Germany  February  8,  1863. 

RALPH  A.  HOLLO,  Murphysboro,  Illinois,  is  a  civil  engi- 
neer for  the  Sunnyside  Coal  Co.  and  other  concerns.  He 
has  been  connected  with  the  coal  industry  for  ten  years. 
He    was    born    at    Streator,    Illinois,    September    21,    1882. 

CLYDE  P.  ROSS,  Kenilworth,  Illinois,  is  Contracting  Man- 
ager connected  with  the  Roberts  &  Schaefer  Co.  of  Chicago. 
He  was  born  at  Rockford,  Illinois,  December  3,  1882. 

HORACE  B.  ROWE,  SR.,  Kenney,  Illinois,  is  President 
of  the  Kenney  Elevator  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  grain  busi- 
ness for  twenty-five  years  and  in  the  coal  business  for 
seven  years.  He  was  born  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  in 
1852. 

HORACE  B.  ROWE,  JR.,  is  Manager  of  the  Kenney  Ele- 
vator Co.  at  Kenney,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twelve  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the 
Hartsburg  Grain,  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.  and  the  Colfax  Grain 
Co.  He  was  born  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  September  10, 
1878. 

CHARLES  ROWLAND,  Belleville,  Illinois,  is  Mine  Boss 
for  the  Oakdale  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  mining  industry  for  fifty-six  years,  starting  in 
England,  where  he  was  born  June  14,  1846.  Formerly  he 
was  Mine  Manager  at  the  Walnut  Valley  mine.  He  also 
served  three  years  as  Mine  Inspector. 

CARROLL  A.  Rl'CKEL  is  the  Owner  and  Manager  of  the 
retail  coal  business  of  A.  D.  Ruckel  &  Son  at  White  Hall, 
Illinois,  and  he  has  been  in  business  sixteen  years.  He  was 
born  at  White  Hall  April  9,  1872.  The  business  was  estab- 
lished about  the  year  1900  by  A.  D.  Ruckel,  his  father,  who 
died  June  7,  1911. 

ERNST  RTEHL  has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  thirty-eight  years,  during  the  past  twelve  years 
at  Chatsworth,  Illinois.  He  formerly  was  connected  with  the 
following  concerns:  E.  Ruehl  &  Co.,  Storm  Lake,  Iowa; 
Crocker  Elevator  Co.,  Decatur,  Illinois;  Shellabarger  Eleva- 
tor Co.,  Decatur,  Illinois,  and  the  Maroa  Lumber  Co.,  Maroa, 
Illinois.     He  was  born  in  Decatur,  Illinois.  September  9,  1863. 

WILLIAM  H.  RUSSELL,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Gillespie, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was 
born    in    Iowa. 

C.  II.  HI  SSI  >l,  a  coal  merchant  at  Heyworth,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  five  years  and  was  at 
one  time  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Casey  &  Russum.  He 
was     born   in  DeWitt  County,   Illinois,  September  28,   1873. 

W.  J.  SACKMAX,  Waukegan,  Illinois.  Is  Secretary-Treas- 
urer of  the  North  Chicago  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was 
born   in  Waukegan  December  7,  1874. 

CASPER  P.  SAI.M  is  Sales  Manager  for  the  Jones  & 
Adams  Coal  Co.,  1028  Jefferson  Building,  Peoria,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  business  for  eight  years.  He  was  born  at 
Peoria,  March  3,  1889.     He  has  many  friends  in  the  trade. 

WILLIAM  M.  SANFOHIJ,  Freeport,  Illinois,  is  senior 
member  of  the  Sanford  &  Zartman  Lumber  Co.  and  is  in 
charge  of  the  fuel  department.  He  has  been  In  the  busi- 
ness for  twenty-three  years,  part  of  the  time  with  the  Taylor 
Coal  '•■)  He  baa  served  as  President  of  the  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for  two  tei-ins 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  for  three 
years.  He  was  born  at  Watertown,  Wisconsin,  April 
17,    1868. 

\I.IU'.I(T  M.  sen  AEKEH.  retail  coal  merchant  at  Marine, 
Illinois,  has  been  In  business  for  seven  years.  He  was 
born  at  Marine   in   1867. 

FRED  T.  SC'IIEHEK.  Ottawa,  Illinois,  Is  the  owner  of 
the  retail  coal  business  which  he  has  been  engaged  in  for 
twenty-eight  years.  Formerly  he  was  President  of  the  La- 
Salle  County  Coal  Bureau.  He  was  horn  at  Ottawa  In 
August,  1865.  His  son,  Fred  Scherer,  Jr.,  has  managed  the 
office  for  six  years. 


BRUNO  SCHETTLKR,  General  Manager  of  the  Benton 
Coal  Co.  at  Benton,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  the  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  Illinois  Collieries  Co.  He  was  born  in  Saxony,  Ger- 
many,  March    25,   1877. 

EILERT  W.  SCHMIDT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  113  Henry 
St.,  Alton,  Illinois,  has  been  identified  with  the  business 
for  eleven  years,  having  formerly  been  connected  with  the 
Dorsey  Fuel  Co.     He  was  born  July  27,  1847,  in  Germany. 

W.  E.  SCOTT  has  for  eight  years  been  a  retail  coal 
merchant  at  Denver,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Denver  July 
3,   1878. 

HERMAN  L.  SEEKAMP,  Chief  Electrician  for  the  Superior 
Coal  Co.,  at  Gillespie,  Illinois,  has  been  connected  with  the 
business  for  fifteen  years.  Formerly  he  was  with  the 
Madison  Coal  Corp.,  the  Staunton  Mt.  Olive  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Black  Diamond  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Alton,  Illinois,  May 
26,  1876. 

LOUIS  W.  SENSENEY  of  Auburn,  Illinois,  is  President 
of  The  Auburn  &  Alton  Coal  Co.  and  also  President  of  the 
Niantic  Mining  Co.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  indus- 
try for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born  at  Bloomington, 
Illinois,   May   31,    1869. 

CLAUDE  H.  SEYMOUR  is  head  of  the  coal  firm  of  C.  H. 
Seymour,  110  Douglas  Ave.,  Elgin,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  retail  business  for  nine  years.  He  was 
born  at  Fredonia,  Kansas,  May  25,  1882.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Sey- 
mour, widow  of  W.  H.  Seymour,  who  for  twelve  years  was 
in  the  retail  coal  business  at  Elgin,  is  a  partner  in  the  firm. 

J.  M.  SEYMOUR,  Benton,  Illinois,  is  President  of  the 
Franklin  County  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Seymour  was  a  pioneer  in 
the  development  of  coal  mines  in  Franklin  County,  Illinois, 
and  has  opened  up  and  equipped  five  large  mines  in  this 
field  since  1903.  The  following  are  the  mines  and  the  com- 
panies with  which  he  has  been  connected:  Dering  Coal  Co., 
No.  11,  at  West  Frankfort,  Illinois;  Benton  Coal  Co.,  Hart- 
Williams  Coal  Co.,  Middle  Fork  Mining  Co.,  now  owned  by 
the  United  States  Fuel  Co.,  and  the  Franklin  County  Mining 
Co.,  mines  all  near  Benton,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Knob- 
noster,  Missouri,   October  21,   1869. 

GLENN  A.  SHAFER  is  Superintendent  of  the  Pana  Coal 
Co.  at  Pana,  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years.  He  has  been  Mining  Engineer 
with  the  following  companies:  Centralia  Coal  Co.  at  Cen- 
tralia.  Bell  &  Zoller  Mining  Co.  at  Zeigler,  Moweaqua  Coal 
Mining  Co.  at  Moweaqua.  and  Assumption  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 
at  Assumption,  all  of  Illinois.  Mr.  Shafer  was  born  in  As- 
sumption September  23,   1888. 

SILAS  AMBROSE  SHAFER,  Assumption,  Illinois,  is  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  the  Assumption  Coal  &  Min- 
ing Co.,  Inc.,  and  holds  similar  positions  with  the  Pana 
Coal  Co.  of  Pana,  Illinois,  and  the  Moweaqua  Coal  Mining 
&  Manufacturing  Co.  of  Moweaqua,  Illinois.  Mr.  Shafer  has 
attended  every  convention  of  the  coal  miners  and  operators 
in  Illinois  and  took  a  leading  part  on  the  side  of  the  opera- 
tors In  settling  the  strike  in  September,  1906.  He  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  industry  for  over  thirty  years. 
He  was  born  near  Lancaster,  Ohio,  November  7,  1851.  He 
lias  been  a  member  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Illinois 
Coal  Operators'  Association  since  its  organization,  repre- 
senting   the    Fourth   District. 

■WILLIAM  F.  SHAMBO,  Aurora,  Illinois,  has  filled  the  posi- 
tion of  Manager  of  the  Fox  River  Supply  Co.  ten  years,  hav- 
ing previously  held  the  office  of  Treasurer  four  years.  He  Is 
a  Director  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association  and  President  of  the  Kane  County  Fuel  Mer- 
chants' Bureau.  Mr.  Shambo  was  born  in  Aurora  September 
25,  1862. 

E.  L.  SHAVER  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Putnam  & 
Shaver,  coal  merchants  at  Martinton,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
in  the  business  for  four  years.  He  was  born  in  Illinois 
August    13,    1886. 

CHARLES  Mill  lit  has  been  in  business  for  about  fifteen 
years  as  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Paxton,  Illinois.  He  was 
born   in  Plattsvllle,  Ontario,   September   17,   1864. 

GEORGE  E.  SHOEMAKER  of  the  Shoemaker-Place  Fuel 
Co.,  at  Freeport,  Illinois,  has  been  for  about  two  years  In 
the  ret  nil  business,  prior  to  which  he  was  engaged  in  coal 
mining,  owning  a  half  interest  in  one  mine.  He  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania  in  1855. 

'  CHARLES  II.  SIMOXIJS  Is  the  sole  owner  of  the  Simonds 
Coal  &  Ice  Co.  at  Momence,  Illinois,  and  has  been  ten  years 
in   the   business.     He  was  born   in  Momence. 

HOI  c.  SMII>so\,  North  Chillicothe,  Illinois,  was  born  in 
Milton,  Iowa,  January  12,  1889,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  three  years. 

ALBERT  FRANCIS  SMITH,  Carbondale,  Illinois,  is  Man- 
ager and  principal  shareholder  in  the  firm  of  A.  F.  Smith 
&  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  eleven 
years.  He  was  born  at  Houston,  Missouri,  November  21, 
1873. 


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EARL  SMITH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Virginia,  Illinois, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  thirteen  years,  formerly  with 
his  father.  He  was  born  February  24,  1881,  at  Jacksonville, 
Illinois. 

J.  W.  SMITH  is  Manager  of  the  Hebron  Lumber  Co., 
Hebron,  Illinois,  which  is  a  branch  of  the  Tibbetts-Cam- 
eron  Lumber  Co.  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was 
born  at  Hebron  February   11,   1879. 

JOSEPH  C.  SNYDER  has  been  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Fulton,  Illinois,  since  1881.  He  was  born  in  Fulton  November 
14,  1857. 

MICHAEL  SPARKS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  St.  Francis- 
ville,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  seven  years  and 
is  forty-six  years  old.     He.  was  born  in  Illinois. 

EDWARD  H.  STASSEN  is  Manager  and  partner  In  the 
coal  business  of  D.  Stassen  &  Son  at  Peotone,  Illinois, 
which  was  established  in  1881.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  in  1902.  He  was  born  at  Peotone  May  28,  1872.  D. 
Stassen,  founder  of  the  business,  passed  away  December 
16,   1916. 

JAMES  STANNERS  STEELE  is  Mine  Superintendent  for 
the  St.  Paul  Coal  Co.  at  Granville,  Illinois.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  mining  industry  for  about  forty-three  years 
and  formerly  was  connected  with  the  Spring  Valley  Coal 
Co.  at  Spring  Valley,  Illinois.  He  was  born  at  Boness, 
Scotland,   January   3,   1866. 

AUGUST  STEINER  of  the  coal  firm  of  Aug.  Steiner  & 
Son,  Homewood,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness between  thirty  and  thirty-five  years,  formerly  with 
Otto  H.  Hedrich  &  Co.  and  the  Mitchell  &  Dillon  Coal  Co- 
Chicago.  He  has  the  honor  of  being  Homewood's  first  retail 
coal  merchant.     He  was  born  April  15,  1832,  in  Germany. 

ALBERT  P.  STEVENS  has  been  the  Owner  and  Manager 
of  a  retail  coal  business  at  Sandwich,  Illinois,  for  nine  years. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  trade  for  twenty-one 
years,  twelve  years  with  the  Alexander  Lumber  Co.  and  E. 
Doan  and  the  last  nine  years  for  himself.  He  was  born  at 
Clinton,   Wisconsin,  August   24.   1866. 

ALLISTER  KNOX  STEWART,  JR.,  1113  Troy  Road,  Ed- 
wardsville,  Illinois,  Northern  Division  Engineer  for  the 
Madison  Coal  Corp.,  was  born  December  1,  1887,  in  Wash- 
ington, Missouri.  Previous  to  his  present  position  he  was 
Mining  Engineer  six  years  for  the  Willis  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 

HENRY  WYLIE  STEWART,  Monmouth,  Illinois,  is  Treas- 
urer of  the  Silver  Creek  Colliery  Co.  and  has  been  in  the 
business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  at  Bloomington,  Indi- 
ana, August  29,  1882.  W.  W.  McCullough  is  Vice  President 
and  General  Manager  of  this  company. 

WILLIAM  AUGUSTUS  STOECKLE  owns  his  retail  coal 
business  at  Sterling,  Illinois,  where  he  has  been  in  business 
ten  years.    He  was  born   in  Sterling  October  6,   1868. 

GEORGE  W.  STOUT  of  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  He  was 
born  near  Jacksonville  February  23,  1858. 

DONALD  STUART  STRATTON,  94  7  South  Boulevard,  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  is  Manager  of  the  local  division  of  the  Con- 
sumers Co.  of  Chicago,  with  offices  at  103  Marion  St.,  Oak 
Park.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
ten  years.  He  was  formerly  Secretary  of  Delos  Hull  & 
Co,  Oak  Park.  He  was  born  at  Conotton,  Ohio,  January 
9,   1877. 

ELROY  C.  STREETER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Streeter- 
Kallgren  Lumber  Co.,  Grant  Park,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the 
business  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Grant  Park  June 
7,  1862. 

EDWARD  SUPPIGER  is  Secretary  and  'ireasurer  of  the 
Helvetia  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.  at  Highland,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  business  for  eight  years.  He  was 
born  at  Highland  January  12,   1872. 

LOUIS  EDWARD  SUTTON,  Canton,  Illinois,  is  Manager 
for  the  coal  firm  of  Sutton  &  Moore.  Formerly  he  was  with 
the  firm  of  J.  L.  Sutton  &  Son  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born  at  Canton  February 
12,   1875. 

WILLIAM  SWORDS,  Director  of  the  Crescent  Coal  Co., 
1100  W.  Washington  St.,  East  Peoria,  Illinois,  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  ten  years  and  is  engaged 
in  handling  stripped  coal.  He  was  born  in  Peoria  Febru- 
ary  8,    1881. 

BENJAMIN  B.  TAYLOR,  Catlin,  Illinois,  is  President  and 
Manager  of  the  Taylor-English  Coal  Co.  and  President  of  the 
Indiana  Semi-Block  Coal  Co.,  the  Danville  Collieries  Coal  Co., 
and  the  Chicago  Collieries  Co.  He  has  been  connected  with 
the  business  eleven  years.  He  was  born  in  Catlin  January  4, 
1878. 

BENTLEY  W.  TAYLOR  is  President  of  the  Farmers 
Grain,  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.  at  Macomb,  Illinois,  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  two  years.  He  was  born 
at   Oxford,   Pennsylvania. 


PRANK  E.  TAYLOR  is  an  Electrical  Engineer  for  The 
Assumption  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  at  Assumption,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  connected  with  the  business  for  fifteen  years. 
He  was  born  at  Mason  City,  Illinois,  November  25,   1873. 

HEBER  L.  TIBBITS  is  President  and  Manager  of  Tibbits, 
Inc.,  retail  lumber  and  coal  merchants  at  Sycamore,  Illinois! 
and  has  been  in  the  business  fourteen  years.  Formerly  he 
was  with  the  Tibbits-Cameron  Lumber  Co.  at  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin.  He  was  born  at  Andover,  New  Brunswick  June 
3,   1872. 

WALTER  B.  TIPPANY,  Cerro  Gordo,  Illinois,  is  Manager 
of  the  Cerro  Gordo  Grain  &  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  re- 
tail coal  business  twelve  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the 
Farmers'  Elevator  Co.  at  Oneida,  Illinois.  He  was  born  in 
Livingston   County,  Illinois,  June  2,   1862. 

MARIEN  P.  TOBERMAN,  Manager  of  the  M.  F.  Tober- 
man  Grain  Co.,  Fillmore,  Illinois,  has  done  a  retail  business 
for  thirty  years.     He  was  born  at  Fillmore  July  15,  1861. 

BEN.  I.  TOBIAS,  Manager  of  the  H.  A.  Robinson  Fuel 
Co.,  601  South  Water  Street,  Peoria,  Illinois,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Peoria 
June    24,    1891. 

PRANK  L.  TORRANCE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Abingdon, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  twenty-six  years.  He  was 
born  in  Warren  County,  Illinois,  August  29,  1869. 

P.  M.  TYLER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Elmwood,  Illinois, 
has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  thirteen  years.  He 
was    born    May    8,    1852. 

EARLE  W.  VANCE  is  a  member  of  the  coal  firm  of  Greer 
&  Vance  at  Seaton,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  two  years.  He  was  formerly  with  A.  L.  Duncan  & 
Sons.     He  was  born  at  Seaton  May  26,  1886. 

HERBERT  J.  VOS  is  the  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the 
Antioch  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  at  Antioch,  Illinois.  He  was 
formerly  Manager  for  the  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.  in  the  yard 
at  Silver  Lake,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  business  nine 
years.     He  was  born  in  Burlington,  Wisconsin,  March  1,  1892. 

JOSEPH  R.  WAGNER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Metamora, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen  years.  He 
was   born    in    1867   at   Spring   Bay,    Illinois. 

RUFUS  WALKER  of  Rufus  Walker  &  Sons.  Moline, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail  business  twenty-nine  years' 
He  was  born  December  10,  1839,  in  Williamstown,  Vermont! 
His  son,  F.  B.  Walker,  has  been  connected  with  the  business 
during  most  of  the  time  since  it  was  established.  He  was 
born  in  Edgington,   Illinois.  November  27,  1865. 

DANIEL  WARD,  Secretary  of  Harrison,  Ward  &  Co., 
Clinton,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three 
years.  He  was  born  at  Bloomington,  Illinois,  September 
28,  1859.  J.  A.  Harrison,  President  of  the  company,  has 
been   in   the   business   for   many   years. 

ROBERT  RUSSELL  WARD,  Benton,  Illinois,  is  Treasurer 
of  the  Franklin  County  Mining  Co.;  is  interested  likewise 
in  the  Benton  Coal  Co.,  of  which  he  formerly  was  the  Sec- 
retary; and  also  assisted  in  the  development  of  the  Middle 
Fork  Mining  Co.,  which  he  sold  to  the  United  States  Steel 
Corporation.     He  was  born  at  Benton  August   9,   1879. 

W.  ALFRED  WEEKS  is  managing  partner  of  The  Weeks 
Coal  Co.  at  Sterling,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  business  fifteen 
years.  Formerly  he  was  with  the  Moses  Dillon  Co.  He  was 
born  in  Lee,  Illinois,  July  10,  1884. 

P.  E.  WEISSENBORN  of  Staunton,  Illinois,  has  been  in 
the  coal  industry  for  forty-eight  years  and  is  the  Super- 
intendent for  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  of  St.  Louis.  He 
was  born  at  Belleville,   Illinois,   in   1860. 

JOHN  WICKLUND  is  Manager  of  the  Plow  City  Fuel  Co., 
253  Second  St.,  Moline.  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  business  for  three  years.  He  formerly  was  with 
the  Twin  City  Coal  Co.  for  ten  years  as  Manager  and  book- 
keeper.    He  was  born  in  Sweden  March  26,  1877. 

D.  D.  WILCOX,  Gillespie,  Illinois,  is  Assistant  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Superior  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  formerly  was  with 
the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  at  Buxton,  Iowa.  He  is  Vice 
President  of  the  Illinois  Mining  Institute.  He  was  born 
at  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  July  12,   1886. 

S.  E.  WILKINSON,  Secretary  of  the  Kankakee  Ice,  Feed  & 
Fuel  Co.  at  Kankakee,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business 
for  eight  years.  He  was  born  May  22,  1886,  at  Sheldon,  Illi- 
nois. 

W.  M.  WILLETT,  36  Lincoln  Way,  Aurora,  Illinois,  is 
General  Manager  of  the  Illinois  Commercial  &  Mining  Co., 
whose  business  is  primarily  gas  and  coke  ovens,  the  latter 
being  located  at  Joliet,  Illinois.  The  company  purchased 
the  Rex  mine  at  Ethel,  West  Virginia,  in  order  to  furnish 
coal  for  the  manufacture  of  coke. 

BENJAMIN  S.  WILLIAMS  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Sheffield,  Illinois,  who  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty- 
six  years,  formerly  with  B.  F.  Williams  &  Son  and  B.  S. 
Williams   &   Co.    He   was   born   at   Sheffield   in   April,   1867. 


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FREDERICK  WILMS  of  Quincy.  Illinois.  Is  President  of 
the  Wabash  Coal  Co.,  which  was  organized  by  him  In  1880 
and  of  which  he  has  served  as  President  and  General  Man- 
ager ever  since.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  In- 
dustry for  forty-seven  years,  and  formerly  was  Cashier  of 
the  Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  be- 
coming the  Manager  In  1875.  He  was  born  in  Prussia, 
October   25,   1842,  and    raised   in   Illinois. 

W.  S.  WILSON,  President  of  the  Ritchey  Coal  Co.  at 
Plnckneyvllle,  Illinois,  is  also  Interested  in  the  Bessemer 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  over 
twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  Vice  President  .of  the  Scott- 
Wilson  Coal  Co.  and  the  New  Ohio  Washed  Coal  Co.  and  has 
been  President  of  the  White  Walnut  Coal  Co.,  the  Carter- 
Tllle  Mining  Co.  and  the  Bessemer  Coal  Co.  He  has  served 
on  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators' 
Association  and  President  of  the  Coal  Operators  of  the 
Seventh  Illinois  District.  He  was  born  at  Brandenburg, 
Kentucky,   October  26,   1852. 

JOHN  \v.  WINE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Mount  Morris, 
Illinois,  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Buser  Concrete  &  Construction  Co. 
1L>  was  born  in  North  Hampton,  Ohio,  December  27,   1873. 

RICHARD  H.  WDn  is  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  Peoples 
Coal  Yard  at  White  Hall,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  six  years.  He  was  born  December  8,  1843,  In 
Greene  County,    Illinois. 

W.  C.  WOLF,  24  First  National  Bank  Building,  Belleville. 
Illinois,  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Radium  Coal 
Co.  and  is  an  expert  in  general  mining  engineering  and 
surveying.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  mining  business  for 
ten  years.  He  was  born  at  Freeburg,  Illinois,  December  17, 
1880. 

BEDER  WOOD,  JR.,  is  Manager  of  the  Beder  Wood's 
Sons  Co.  at  Moline,  Illinois,  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  coal  business  nine  years,  formerly  with  Beder  Wood, 
lie  was  born  at  Moline  September  8,   1889. 

WILLIAM  HEXRV  WOODRUFF  is  a  partner  in  the 
Woodruff-Castle  Co.,  wholesale  and  retail  coal  merchants  at 
Quincy,  Illinois.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen 
years.  He  was  born  at  Quincy  and  is  one  of  the  progressive 
coal  merchants  in  that  city. 

HAROLD  D.  WRIGHT,  Sales  Agent  in  charge  of  the  Lin- 
coln, Illinois,  office  of  the  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.  until  he 
entered  the  United  States  service  in  May,  1918,  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  nine  years,  formerly  with 
the  Latham  Coal  Co.     He  was  born  at  Lincoln  in  1891. 


R.  M.  WRIGLEY,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Cutter- 
Wrigley  Coal  Co.  at  Peoria,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  seven  years.  He  formerly  was  connected  with 
Sprague  &  Wrigley,  Columbus  Junction,  Iowa.  He  has 
served  as  chairman  of  a  special  committee  to  supervise  the 
coal  industry  for  Peoria  and  confer  with  the  Fuel  Adminis- 
tration.    He  was  born  in  Peoria  February  17,  1885. 

WILLIAM  WYKLE  of  Mahomet,  Illinois,  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years 
at  Mahomet.     He  was  born  July  28,   1863,  at  Peoria.  Illinois. 

C.  H.  W^NNE  is  Manager  of  the  Goodell  Ice  &  Fuel  Co. 
at  Beardstown,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  April  21, 
1874. 

LEONARD  II.  YEAST  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  Macomb,  Illinois,  for  nine  years.  He  was  born 
November    12,    1879,    at    Good    Hope,    Illinois 

J.  EDWARD  YOC'H,  President  International  Coal  &  Min- 
ing Co.,  East  St.  Louis.  Illinois,  was  born  in  Belleville, 
Illinois,  March  12,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  Mr.  Yoch  filled  most  acceptably  the  posi- 
tion of  Treasurer  of  the  Fifth  and  Ninth  Districts,  Coal 
Operators'   Association   of  Illinois,   from   1910  to   1916. 

C.  E.  AND  C.  L.  YORK  are  members  of  the  retail  coal 
firm  of  York  Bros,  at  Jacksonville,  Illinois.  They  have 
been  in  the  business  for  eighteen  years,  formerly  with  J. 
W.   York.      Both   were   born    in   Jacksonville. 

HIRAM  M.  YOIYC,  Taylorville,  Illinois,  is  Assistant  to 
the  Vice  President  of  the  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  in  charge  of 
operation.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  industry  for  thirty- 
two  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the  Girard  Coal  Co.  as 
Secretary  and  Treasurer;  Victor  Coal  Co,  Pawnee,  Illinois, 
as  Superintendent;  Bear  Grass  Coal  Co.  of  Jewett,  Texas, 
as  Treasurer;  Peabody  Coal  Co.  of  Ohio,  as  Vice  President. 
He  was  born  at  Mount  Joy,   Pennsylvania,   October  31,   1868. 

EDWARD  A.  ZEISLER.  Rushville,  Illinois,  is  Manager 
and  Secretary  of  the  C.  L.  DeWitt  Coal  Co.,  in  which  he 
owns  a  half  interest.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  two 
years.  He  was  born  at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  January  24, 
1887. 

SAMUEL  THEODORE  KELLER,  member  of  the  coal  firm 
of  Zeller  &  Son  at  Geneva,  Illinois,  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  for  four  years.  He  was  born  at  Lewisburg,  Ohio, 
April    16,    1884. 


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INDIANA,  both  as  a  producer  and  consumer  of  fuel, 
takes  high  rank  among  the  eastern  North  Central 
states  in  the  coal  trade  history  of  the  country.  A 
producer  early  in  the  last  century,  the  development  of 
its  mining  resources  has  encouraged  a  healthy  growth 
of  its  manufacturing  enterprises  until  today  the  state  is 
dotted  with  cities  that  have  made  places  for  them- 
selves in  the  commercial  annals  of  the  times.  While 
the  events  of  the  past  two  and  one-half  years  have 
widened  the  market  for  domestic  consumption  for  In- 
diana coal  within  its  own  borders,  its  use  in  railroad 
and  general  industrial  activities  has  been  its  chief  con- 
tribution to  the  economic  expansion  of  the  state. 

The  Indiana  coal  measures,  underlying  the  south- 
western part  of  the  commonwealth  and  extending  from 
Warren  county  on  the  north  to  the  Ohio  river  on  the 
south  and  eastward  to  Perry  county,  form  the  eastern 
edge  of  the  great  interior  eastern  coal  basin  of  Illinois, 
Indiana  and  western  Kentucky.  The  total  area  of  the 
Indiana  beds  is  estimated  at  6,500  square  miles  and  is 
distributed  through  26  counties,  in  18  of  which  coal 
is  produced  upon  a  commercial  scale.  According  to 
G.  H.  Ashley,  of  the  United  States  Geological  Survey, 
the  Indiana  measures  have  an  approximate  thickness 
of  1,300  feet.  "Of  this  1,300  feet  there  are  600  feet  of 
ban-en  beds  at  the  top,  then  a  500-foot  interval  which 
contains  most  of  the  workable  coals,  followed  in  de- 
scending order  by  200  feet  or  more  of  rocks  consisting 
mainly  of  sandstone." 

As  a  general  commercial  proposition,  the  third, 
fourth,  fifth  and  sixth  vein  coals  come  into  the  great- 
est present-day  prominence.  Fourth  vein,  which  has 
been  exploited  to  a  great  extent  in  the  Clinton  district, 
is  in  high  favor,  not  only  for  general  domestic  and 
steam  purposes,  but  as  a  gas  coal.  Brazil  block  has 
long  held  a  special  place  in  the  esteem  of  coal  con- 
sumers, particularly  in  agricultural  communities, 
while  the  many  uses — both  steam  and  domestic — to 
which  the  other  coals  forming  the  major  workable  de- 
posits in  the  Indiana  coal  measures  are  put  are  very 
well  known  to  the  buying  public.  Cannel  coal  is  also 
mined  in  several  places  in  Indiana. 

While  coal  has  been  found  in  at  least  20  different 
horizons  and  as  many  as  17  beds  have  been  passed 
through    in   one    800-foot   vertical    drill,   exclusive   of 


the  Minshall  and  Brazil  Block  veins,  commercial  op- 
erations are  confined  to  five  horizons.  The  stratigraphy 
of  the  Indiana  measures  may  be  graphically  illustrated 
by  the  following  condensation  of  a  tabulation  appearing 
in  Bulletin  381  of  the  Survey : 


INTERVALS 

AND    THIC 

IKNESS, 

IN     FEET,     OF     PRINCIPAL 

COALS. 

West 

Clinton 

Vigo 

Terre 

Sullivan 

Northern 

District. 

County. 

Haute. 

County. 

Knox. 

Coal  VII 

5 

5 

3-4 

3 

55 

50 

50 

30-55 

40 

Coal  VI 

0 

0 

0 

4.5-7 

5.5 

50 

50 

45 

45 

50 

Coal  Va 

.. ..    1.5 

1.5 

1 

2-3 

3 

20 

35 

30 

30-35 

30 

Coal  V 

6 

5 

5 

5-6 

7 

Space   

60 

60 

63 

65-S5 

75 

1 

2 
35 

2 
45 

1.5-3 
25-45 

1 

30 

25 

Coal  IV 

4 

4 

5 

0-5 

4 

-15 

30-40 

30 

30-45 

Coal    Ilia 

2       ] 

.5-2.5 

2 

1 

Space   

40 

25-40 

25 

20-25 

Coal   III 

6 

6.5-7 

6 

5-7 

Space    

110* 

Minshall    

4» 

Space  

30* 

Upper  Block. . 

3* 

Space   

30* 

Lower  Block. 

4* 

>rn  Vigo   County. 

•• 

•Northeast 

Wash- 

ington- 

Central 

Davies 

Gibson 

Warwick 

Evans- 

Western 

Counties. 

County. 

County. 

ville. 

Kentucky 

Coal  VII 

3.5 

2.5-3 

3 

2-7 

Space   

15 

.5-10 

15 

3-40 

Coal  VI 

0-4.5 

0-3 

0 

0-9 

Space   

80 

65-90 

60 

SO 

Coal    Va 

2 

0-1 

0-1 

0 

0 

Space   

35 

50 

25 

25 

25 

Coal  V 

,      4-7 

6 

4-9 

4 

5 

Space   

90 

90 

45-50 

45 

Coal  IVa 

1.5 

0-1 

.5-1 

0 

20 

45 

40 

Coal  IV 

1 

4 

2.5 

3 

Space   

40 

40* 

Coal  Ilia 

1.5 

0* 

Space   

40 

35* 

Coal   III 

2 

0-3* 

•Central  Warwick   County. 

The  coal  resources  of  the  state  first  began  to  attract 
attention  about  1804,  when  the  public  land  surveys 
showed  a  number  of  outcrops.  Perry  County  coal  was 
part  of  the  first  cargo  taken  by  Bobert  Fulton  in  the 
maiden  trip  of  the  steamer  "Orleans"  down  the  Ohio 
river  in  1811.  It  seems  reasonably  certain  that  coal 
was  mined  for  local  consumption  in  the  state  between 


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1811  and  1837,  when  the  American  Cannel  Coal  Co. 
inaugurated  the  commercial  mining  history  of  the  state 
with  the  ojH'iiing  of  a  mine  at  Cannelton  in  Perry 
county.  This  coal,  mined  on  the  bluffs  along  the  Ohio 
ainl  Wabash  rivers,  was  loaded  directly  into  boats  for 
shipment  down  the  Ohio  during  the  first  decade  of  tho 
company's  operations. 

The  first  official  government  recognition  of  the  Indi- 
ana industry  appears  iii  the  census  for  1840,  when  the 
state  was  credited  with  an  output  of  9,682  tons.  Prog- 
ress for  the  next  ",>.")  years  was  steady,  but  slow,  marked 
increases  in  production  not  appearing  until  towards  the 
close  of  the  Civil  War.  Discovery  that  the  block  coal 
mined  in  the  Brazil  and  Terre  Haute  districts  could  be 
used  in  blast  furnace  work  gave  the  industry  its  first 
big  impetus,  while  the  rapid  expansion  in  railroad  con- 
struction which  began  at  about  the  same  time  made 
possible  a  wider  distribution  of  the  coal  which  encour- 
aged the  operators  to  increase  their  facilities  for  pro- 
duction. Since  that  time  the  advance  of  Indiana  in 
importance  has  been  persistent,  the  upward  swing  tem- 
porarily checked  at  times  only  by  labor  troubles  or  gen- 
eral commercial  depression.  Detailed  production  fig- 
ures since  1883,  the  first  year  in  which  the  output  passed 
the  2,000,000  ton  mark,  are  shown  in  the  following 
table : 


Year.  Ton. 

1883 2,560,000 

1884 2,260,000 

1885 2,375,000 

1886 3,000,000 

1887 3,217,711 

1888 3,140,979 

1889 2,845,057 

1890 3,305,737 

1891 2,973,474 

1892 3,345,174 

1893 3,791,851 

1894 3.423,921 

1895 3,995,892 

1896 3,905,779 

1897 4,151,169 

1898 4,920,743 

1899 6,006.523 


Year.  Ton. 

1900 6,484,086 

1901 6,918,225 

1902 9,446,424 

1903 10,794,692 

1904 10,842,189 

1905 11,895,252 

1906 12,092,560 

1907 13,985,713 

1908 12,314,890 

1909 14,834,259 

1910 18,389,815 

1911 14,201,355 

1912 15,285,718 

1913 17,165,671 

1914 16,641,132 

19ir, 17,006,152 

191b 20,093,528 


The  distribution  of  the  product  of  the  Illinois  mines 
is.  from  the  point  of  view  of  heavy  tonnages,  highly  con- 
centrated. Approximately  07  per  cent,  of  the  total 
1915  output  was  either  consumed  within  the  state,  sold 


to  the  railroads  or  shipped  to  points  in  the  neighboring 
state  of  Illinois.  Of  the  shipments  to  Illinois  over  76 
per  cent,  are  consumed  at  points  within  the  Chicago 
switching  district.  Exclusive  of  the  major  distribu- 
tion above  set  forth  the  Indiana  product  finds  a 
market,  under  normal  conditions,  in  ten  other  western 
and  southern  states.  The  details  of  this  distribution 
are  as  follows: 

Used  in  Indiana  (6,394,019)  :  At  the  mines,  425,- 
362;  locally,  547,761;  shipped  intrastate,  5,420,906. 
Shipped  to  Illinois:  4,044,528;  Iowa,  149,046;  Kansas, 
149;  Michigan,  6,086;  Minnesota,  72,934;  Missouri, 
12,632;  Nebraska,  2,833;  North  Dakota,  3,255;  South 
Dakota,  3,897;  Tennessee,  33;  Wisconsin,  128,190; 
a  total  of  4,423,583 ;  railroad  fuel,  6,188,550. 

The  per  capita  consumption  of  bituminous  coal  with- 
in the  state  is  4.24  per  ton,  against  a  country  average  of 
2.04.  This  per  capita  is  exceeded  only  by  Illinois,  Dela- 
ware and  Montana.  Combining  anthracite  and  bitu- 
minous figures  the  per  capita  for  Indiana  is  the  same  as 
for  Pennsylvania,  4.45  tons,  and  is  exceeded  only  by 
Delaware,  Illinois,  Montana  and  the  New  England 
states.  The  consumption  upon  the  square  mile  basis  is 
460  tons.  Although  as  shown  in  the  distribution  fig- 
ures, 38  per  cent,  of  the  output  of  the  state  is  consumed 
within  its  own  borders,  that  tonnage  represents  less  than 
40  per  cent,  of  the  total  coal  bituminous  requirements 
of  Indiana.  Approximately  55  per  cent,  of  the  coal 
burned  in  Indiana  comes  from  the  eastern  states  of  the 
Appalachian  coal  measures.  West  Virginia  alone  con- 
tributes, under  normal  conditions,  over  25  per  cent,  of 
the  fuel  used  by  Indiana.  Study  of  the  detailed  figures 
following  throws  an  interesting  light  on  the  troubles  ex- 
perienced by  Indiana  under  the  famous  lake  Priority 
Order  No.  1  of  the  summer  of  1917,  showing,  as  they  do, 
that  over  50  per  cent,  of  the  potential  sources  of  supply 
for  the  state  were  affected,  adversely  to  Indiana's  inter- 
ests, by  the  order  in  question.  Detailed  figures  on  the 
consumption  and  origin  of  fuel  consumed  follow: 
Illinois,  825,601;  Indiana,  6,394,019 ;  Kentucky,  2,886,- 
806;  Maryland,  6,947;  Ohio,  350,251;  Pennsylvania, 
855,259;  Tennessee.  22,590;  Virginia.  152,291;  West 
Virginia,  4,072,001;  lake  coal,  551,000;  total,  16,- 
116,765;  Pennsylvania  anthracite,  600,000;  grand  to- 
tal, 16,716,765. 


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WALTER  A.  BLEDSOE,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana, 

President  Walter  Bledsoe  &  Co.,  Terre  Haute,  is  also  Secretary  of  the 
Fayette  Realty  &  Development  Co.,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  New  Pittsburgh  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  and  the  Indiana  Southern  Coal  Co.,  filling  the  position  of 
General  Sales  Agent.  Mr.  Bledsoe  is  one  of  the  best  known  of  Indiana 
operators  and  has  a  wide  and  favorable  acquaintance  in  the  coal  trade. 


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ALFRED  M.  OGLE,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana, 

President  Vandalia  Coal  Co.,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was 
born  at  Stamford,  Connecticut,  September  28,  1882,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  also  or- 
ganized the  Indiana  Coke  &  Gas  Co.,  Vigo  Mining  Co.,  and 
the  Atlas  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Ogle  is  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent of  the  Indiana  coal  operators.  He  is  now  connected 
with   the   United   States  Fuel  Administration. 


Hl.ltN  \ltl>  II.  HATTY.  IniliiinnpollH,  I  milium, 
Vice  President  and  Sales  Manager  of  the  Vandalia  Coal 
Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-three  years,  formerly  as  a  Jobber 
and  with  the  Island  Coal  Co.,  which  was  merged  with  the 
Vandalia  Coal  Co.  In  1905.  Be  was  born  in  IndianapoltB 
h  1,  1879,  and  has  many  warm  friends  In  the  trade. 


HAIIIIY    \V.  RKDMAN,   Chicago,  Illlnol*. 

Northwestern  Sales  Agent  for  the  Vandalia  Coal  Co.,  1500 
Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  formerly  with 
the  Victoria  Coal  Mining  Co.,  the  Shirley  Hill  Coal  Co.  and 
the  Monon  Coal  Co.,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years.     He  was  born  near  Casey,  Illinois.  November  23,   1876. 


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GEORGE    H.    RICHARDS,    Terre    Haute,    Indiana, 

President  of  Richards  &  Sons,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was 
born  at  Bristol,  England,  May  11,  1873,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  General 
Manager  of  the  Lower  Vein  Coal  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the 
Willow  Creek  Coal  Co. 


CLEMENT    J.    RICHARDS,    Terre   Haute,   Indiana, 

Vice  President  of  Richards  &  Sons,  Terre  Haute,  was  born 
in  Shelburn,  Indiana,  December  5,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the 
Willow  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  Treasurer  of  the  Warren  Coal 
Co. 


FRANK    W.    RICHARDS,    Terre    Haute,    Indiana, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  Richards  &  Sons,  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana,  was  born  in  Woodhouse,  England,  November  3, 
1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Lower  Vein  Coal 
Co.,  Secretary  of  the  Willow  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  Secretary 
of  the  Warren  Coal  Co. 


BERNARD    J.   RICHARDS,    Terre    Haute,    Indiana, 

Director  of  Richards  &  Sons,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was 
born  at  Woodhouse,  England,  July  24,  1876,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  is  also  General 
Manager  of   the  Willow   Creek  Coal  Co. 


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EDWARD  SHIRKIE,  I  .11.  Haute.  Indiana. 
Was  born  in  Scotland  January  11,  1859,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  forty-three  years.  Mr.  Shirkie 
is  President  of  the  Bickett-Shirkie  Coal  Co.  He  started 
with  his  father  to  operate  a  coal  mine  and  in  1884  opened 
rhe  first  shipping  mine  in  the  Clinton  field  and  has  been 
in  that  field  ever  since  that  time.  Mr.  Shirkie  is  a  member 
of  the  Indiana  Coal  Operators'  Association  and  the  Inter- 
national   Railway    Fuel    Association. 


JOHN    S.    SHIRKIK,    Terre    Haute,   Indiana, 

President  of  the  West  Clinton  Coal  Co.,  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana,  was  born  in  Carbon,  Indiana,  May  4,  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-thtee  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Retlaw  Mining  Co.  and  W.  S. 
Bogle  &  Co.,  Inc.,  and  has  served  as  member  of  the  Indiana 
Coal   Operators'    Association. 


Ill  (ill    SHIRKIK,  Terre   Haute,  Indiana. 

President  of  the  Shirkie  Coal  Co., 
Terre  Haute,  was  born  in  Elyrshire, 
Scotland,  January  13,  1862,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  forty-three 
years.  He  is  President  of  the  Glendale 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Glenco  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Shirkie  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  firms  of  Shirkie  &  Sons,  Bruletts 
Creek  Coal  Co.,  Dering  Coal  Co.,  Kelly 
mines  and  Oak  Hill  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 
He  served  as  President  of  the  Indiana 
Coal  Operators'  Association  for  two 
years  and  as  Vice  President  for  a 
period    of   eleven    years. 


ITBWABD  SHlKKli:,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana. 
General  MapagT  and  Treasurer  of  the  West  Clinton  Coal 
Co.,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Carbon,  Indiana, 
April  3.  1873.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
seven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Oak 
Hill  Mining  Co.,  Dering  Coal  Co.,  Indiana  Bituminous  Coal 
Co.  and  others  and  with  his  brother  started  the  West 
Clinton  Coal  Co.  in  1912.  He  Is  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
Bituminous  Coal  Operators'  Association. 


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WILLIAM     M.    KELLER,    Brazil,    Inilinua, 

President  of  Zeller,  McClellan  &  Co..  Inc.,  and  also  of  the 
American  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Brazil,  Indiana,  is  also  inter- 
ested In  the  Brazil  Collieries  Co.  and  has  been  in  the 
business  for  thirty-nine  years.  Formerly  he  was  connected 
with  the  following:  Superior  Block  Coal  Co.,  Clay  County 
Block  Coal  Co.,  Zeller  &  Zigler  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Zeller  & 
McClellan  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  was  born  in  1861  at  Har- 
mony,  Indiana. 


WILLIAM    J.    SNYDER,   Brazil,    Indiana, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  American  Coal  Mining  Co. 
and  of  Zeller,  McClellan  &  Co.  at  Brazil,  Indiana,  has 
been  nineteen  years  in  the  coal  business  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Indiana  Coal  Operators'  Association.  He  was  born 
at  Catasauqua,  Pennsylvania,  August  16,  1863.  Mr.  Snyder 
has   a   wide   acquaintance    in    the   coal   trade. 


HOMER  BEESON  TALLEY,  Terre  Haute,   Indiana, 

President  of  the  Coal  Bluff  Mining  Co.,  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana,  was  born  in  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  September  4, 
1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He 
is  also  President  of  the  Coal  Creek  Coal  Co.,  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Fort  Harrison  Mining  Co.  He  has  served  on  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Indiana  Bituminous  Coal 
Operators'  Association  and  Indiana  Coal  Trade  Bureau's 
Executive   Committee. 


ARCHIBALD    D.    SPEARS,  Clinton,   Indiana, 

Secretary-Treasurer  of  The  Ferguson-Spears  Coal  Co.  at 
Clinton,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  was  born  in  Butler  County,  Pennsylvania,  June 
20,  1880.  Formerly  he  was  mining  engineer  for  the  Clinton 
Coal  Co.  and  others.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Indiana  Coal 
Operators  Association. 


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AM)  lUOW    J.    COCHRAN',    IndinnnpoliH,    Indiana, 

.Manager  of  the  Cochran  Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  fourteen  years,  formerly  with 
the  New  Linton  Coal  Co.  He  was  Modoc  for  Indiana,  Order 
of  KoKoal.  He  was  born  at  Macon  City,  Missouri,  May  6, 
1867.     Mr.  Cochran  has  a  host   of  friends   in  the   trade. 


FRANK    L.    I  I    \>  ri.u  \<  iii:k,    Indianapolis    Indiana. 

Well-known  wholesale  coal  salesman  of  Indianapolis,  was 
formerly  Assistant  Manager  of  Sales  with  the  Oliphant- 
Johnson  Coal  Co.  For  five  years  Mr.  Fenstemacher  was 
General  Manager  of  the  Findlay  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.,  Findlay, 
Ohio,  and  for  fifteen  years  Sales  Agent  for  the  Sunday  Creek 
Coal  Co.  in  Ohio  and  at  Indianapolis.  He  was  born  at 
Carroll,  Ohio,  December  3,  1864,  and  has  many  warm  friends 
in   the  coal  trade. 


KM  MA     I   in  I  ii     GATBS,    InJIanunollN,    Indlann. 

Proprietor  of  the  EL  K.  Gates  Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  In- 
diana, has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  twenty  years. 
She  was  formerly  with  the  C.  Ehrllch  Coal  Co.  and  the  Star 
Elevator  Co.  Mrs.  Gates  was  born  at  Mattoon,  Illinois, 
March  26,  1869.  She  has  many  friends  In  the  trade  and  has 
built  up  a  very  successful   business. 


JOHN  A.  GBORGB,  IndliiniinoliH,  Indiana, 
President  and  Treasurer  Indianapolis  Coal  Co.,  234-240 
Newton  Claypool  Building,  Indianapolis,  was  born  in  Colum- 
bus, Indiana.  October  9.  1869.  and  has  been  In  the  retail 
coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  The  first  nine  years  of 
his  business  experience  was  in  Columbus.  He  is  a  Director 
of  the  Vandalla  Coal  Co.,  a  well-known  Indiana  mining 
corporation.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  the  first 
President  of  the  Indianapolis  Ketail  Coal  Merchants'  Credit 
Association,  was  the  first  President  of  the  Indiana  Retail 
Coal  Merchants'  Association,  and  has  been  one  of  the 
Indiana  Directors  of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal 
Association. 


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FRED    GOEPPER,    Indianapolis,    Indiunn, 

A  well-known  Indianapolis  retail  coal  merchant  with  a  yard 
located  at  West  Michigan  Street  and  the  C,  I.  &  W.  Ry., 
was  born  in  Germany  June  2,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  in  Indianapolis  twenty-four  years.  His 
son,  Fred  A.  Goepper,  Jr.,  aged  23  years,  is  associated  with 
him. 


ARCH    GROSSMAN,    Indianapolis,   Indiana, 

President  of  the  Cedar  Creek  Coal  Co.,  414  Merchants'  Bank 
Building,  Indianapolis,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirteen  years,  formerly  with  the  New  York  Coal  Co.  He 
is  a  Director  of  the  National  Coal  Jobbers'  Association  and 
of  the  Indiana  Coal  Jobbers'  Association.  He  has  served  as 
KoKoal  Skout  in  Indiana.  He  was  born  at  Columbus,  Ohio, 
May  31,  1887,  and  is  one  of  the  most  popular  coal  salesmen 
in  Indiana. 


ELLSWORTH   E.   HELLER,  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 

Manager  for  E.  B.  Heller  &  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  served 
for  three  years  as  President  of  the  Indianapolis  Retail  Coal 
Merchants'  Credit  Association  and  is  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Governors.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Seventh  district  of 
the  Indiana  Coal  Merchants  Association.  He  was  born  June 
18,  1863,  in  Fayette  County,  Indiana,  and  is  a  leading  coal 
merchant  of  Indianapolis. 


DONALD  READ   LINDLEV,  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 

Vice  President  of  the  Bicknell  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Pike  County  Coal  Co.,  Merchants  Bank  Building, 
Indianapolis,  Indiana,  was  formerly  connected  with  Lind- 
ley,  Schmid  &  Co.  Mr.  Lindley  was  born  February  16,  1886, 
at  Evansville,  Indiana,  and  is  well  known  in  the  trade. 


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OTI8    ii.    MAI  'It  Kit.    .-....-.,...  1 1  - .    Indiana, 

Manager  of  The  Ehrlich  Coal  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 
has  been  connected  with  tne  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 
He  was  born  August  31,  1876,  at  Brazil,  Indiana,  and  has 
many   friends  in  the  trade. 


A.    II.   IMKYKIt,  IndlanapollH,  Indiana, 

President  of  A.  B.  Meyer  &  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  business  for  forty  years.  He  Is 
a  Director  of  the  United  Fourth  Vein  Coal  Co.  and  formerly 
was  President  of  the  Western  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He 
has  also  been  a  Director  and  Vice  President  in  the  Michigan- 
Ohio-Indiana  Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He  was  born  at  In- 
dianapolis in  1853.  Mr.  Meyer  is  very  highly  regarded  in  the 
trade. 


F.    A.    KKORFF,    Ft.    Wayne,    Indiana, 

Vice  President  of  Xiezer  &  Co.,  Ft. 
Wayne,  and  Manager  of  the  coal  de- 
partment, has  been  connected  with  the 
retail  business  six  years.  The  com- 
pany operates  a  branch  coal  yard  at 
Monroeville,  Indiana.  He  was  born  in 
Sheboygan,  Wisconsin,  October  27, 
1875. 


FRANCIS   II.  RAGAN,   IndlanapollH.   Indiana, 

General  Sales  Agent  and  Manager  Ragan-McAbee  Coal  Co., 
Indianapolis,  has  been  fourteen  years  In  the  business,  for- 
merly as  Indiana  Sales  Agent  of  the  ('.  W.  Johnson  Coal  Co. 
of  Chicago  and  as  General  Sales  Agent  of  the  Consolidated 
Indiana  Coal  Co.  and  the  Red  Jacket  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
at  Greencastle,  Indiana,  December  25,  1866.  D.  H.  McAbee 
is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  company.  He  was  for- 
merly State  Factory  Inspector  for  ten  years. 


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S.  T.    Ill  .1 .11.   Ft.  Wayne,   Indianu, 

Of  Reed  Bros.  Coal  &  Feed  Co.  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  is  an 
equal  partner  In  the  business  with  which  he  has  been  con- 
nected for  eight  years.  He  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the 
Ft.  Wayne  Coal  Club.  He  was  born  May  28,  1883,  at  Ft. 
Wayne. 


JAKED   J.    REED,    Ft.   Wayne,    Inilliinn, 

A  partner  in  Reed  Bros.  Coal  &  Feed  Co.  at  Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  business  nine  years.  He  has 
served  as  Secretary  of  the  Ft.  Wayne  Coal  Club.  He  was 
born   January   10,   1885,  at   Ft.   Wayne. 


HENRY    W.    BERNIXG,    Ft.    Wayne.    Indiana, 

President  and  Manager  of  the  Walton  Avenue  Coal  Co.  at 
Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
four  years,  succeeding  Fred  Goette,  Sr.,  who  formerly  op- 
erated the  business.  Mr.  Berning  was  born  at  Ft.  Wayne, 
August   8,    1890. 


FRED    H.    GOETTE,  JR.,  Ft.    Wayne,   Indiana, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Walton  Avenue  Coal  Co.  at 
Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  four  years 
He  was  born  at  Ft.  Wayne  August  8,  1898.  He  is  a  son 
of  the  previous  owner,  Fred  Goette,  Sr. 


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INDIANA  —  Indianapolis 


KOHKRT  AJLDtAGj  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  F.  W. 
Aldag  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with 
Um  retail  coal  business  nine  years.  He  was  born  in  Indi- 
anapolis  August    12,    1885. 

KHKK  A.  IIEHRENT  of  the  firm  of  Stuckmeyer  &  Co., 
coal  merchants  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  In  tin- 
business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was  born  at  Indianapolis 
October   22,    1873. 

ARTHUR  E.  I1KADSHAW,  407  Odd  Fellows'  Building,  In- 
dianapolis, Indiana,  is  President  of  the  Indianapolis  Mortar 
&  Fuel  Co.,  which  he  established  sixteen  years  ago.  He 
is  a  native  of  Indiana.  He  has  served  as  Treasurer  of  the 
Michigan-Ohio-Indtana  Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Indianapolis  Coal  Merchants'  Credit  Association. 

in  mm  K.  BRIBER,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  owner  of 
the  Bruner  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  seven- 
teen years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Great  Western  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  at  Chicago,  the  Central  States  Fuel  Co.  and 
Sunflower  Coal  Co.,  Dugger,  Indiana.  He  was  born  at  Hope, 
Indiana,    February    6,    1870. 

WALTER  BURROWS,  4260  Cornelius  Ave.,  Indianapolis, 
Indiana,  is  President  of  the  Gem  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in 
business  four  years.  He  was  born  in  Sheffield,  England, 
June  26,  1856.  His  sons,  Walter  Burrows,  Jr.,  and  William 
S.  Burrows,  are  Treasurer  and  Secretary  respectively  of  the 
company. 

HORACE  G.  CASADAY  is  sole  owner  of  the  Casaday  Coal 
Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  acquired  the  interest 
of  Frank  E.  Casady  four  years  ago.  He  was  born  in  June, 
1872,    at    Rushvllle,    Indiana. 

CLIFFORD  CHRISTENA.  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  owner 
of  the  Home  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  business 
for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Garstang  Fuel 
Co.  and  the  F.  E.  Janes  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  July  11, 
1889,    at    Indianapolis. 

HARVEY  COONSE,  Indianapolis.  Indiana,  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Coonse  &  Caylor  Ice  Co.  and  has  been 
In  the  retail  coal  business  sixteen  years,  formerly  with  the 
Aldag-Coonse   Co.     He   was  born   in   Indiana  March   24,   1870. 

ANTHONY  S.  COST  owns  the  Union  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  at 
Indianapolis,  Indiana,  with  offices  in  Merchants'  Bank  Build- 
ing, and  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen  years.  He 
was  born   December    18,    1844,   in  Green  County,  Ohio. 

FHEDEHICK  B,  IMIMIII  is  President  of  the  Dauner  Coal 
Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  is  also  President  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Victor  Colliery  Co.,  Wellston,  Ohio,  and 
Secretary  and  Director  of  the  Sunlight  Coal  Co.,  Indianap- 
olis. He  was  formerly  with  the  Harmon  &  Black  Coal  Co. 
at  Chicago.  He  was  born  February  3.  1873,  at  Grayville, 
Illinois. 

CHARLES  H.  DAVIS,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  the  Man- 
ager and  Owner  of  the  Davis  Coal  &  Block  Co.  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  business  for  eight  years.  He  was  born 
July  30,  1883,  at  Mount  Carmel,  Indiana. 

FRANK  M.  DELL,  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  1001  South- 
eastern Ave.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  He  was  born  at 
Lafayette.  Indiana.  Mr.  Dell  is  the  dean  of  Indianapolis 
coal  merchants  and  is  highly  respected  in  both  the  trade 
and   the  community. 

<.i:oiU,l.  B.  BLKINS  is  Sales  Agent  for  the  Bickett  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years,  for- 
merly with  the  Manufacturers'  Coal  Co.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested In  the  Northwestern  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  In  In- 
diana in   1875. 

<ll  Mill-  If.  ELLIOTT,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Is  Secre- 
tary of  the  Indian  Creek  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  of  the 
S.  W.  Little  Coal  Co.  He  Is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
Knox  County  Fourth  Vein  Coal  Co.  He  Is  likewise  Inter- 
ested In  the  Indiana  Fuel  Supply  Co.  and  the  Peoples  Coal 
A  i  Vment  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen 
years  and  was  born  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  October  4, 
1872. 

ANSEL  FATOUT  is  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Free- 
man-Fatout  Coal  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been 
In  the  business  for  twenty-one  years,  formerly  with  the 
Fauvre  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  February  23,  1872,  at  Indian- 
apolis. 

FRANK  F.  FITCH,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Is  Manager  of 
the  coal  department  of  the  City  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  with  which 
he  has  been  connected  for  twenty  years.  He  was  born  In 
Lexington.   Kentucky,  March   30,   1865. 

JOHN  W.  KRKDKRH  K.  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Is  a  retail 
coal  merchant  who  has  been  doing  business  for  fifteen 
years.  He  was  born  at  Vandenburg,  Germany,  June  14, 
1846. 


A.  C.  GOLL,  General  Manager  of  the  Commercial  Fuel 
Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for 
eight    years. 

MORTON  L.  GOULD,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  President 
and  Manager  of  the  Linton  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  following:  L.  T.  Dickason  Coal  Co.,  Shirley- 
Hill  Coal  Co.,  Gould  Coal  Washing  &  Mining  Co.  He  has 
served  as  Vice  President  of  the  Indiana  Bituminous  Coal 
Operators'  Association.  He  was  born  at  Terre  Haute 
April   8,    1864. 

IRA  J.  KROVER  is  President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Grover  Coal  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  born  at 
St.   Louis,   Missouri,    August    14,    1872. 

SAM  A.  HARRAH,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  the  owner  of 
the  Harrah  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  a  retailer  for  four  years. 
He  was  born   in  Indiana  February  28,  1891. 

JOSEPH  L.  HOGl'K,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  the  owner 
of  the  J.  L.  Hogue  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.  and  has  been  In  the 
retail  business  for  six  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the 
Riverside  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Shelby  County,  Indiana, 
January   18,   1870. 

CHARLES  H.  HORNE  is  Manager  of  the  Casady  Coal  Co. 
at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for 
five  years.  He  was  born  in  Cloverdale,  Indiana,  June  21', 
1874. 

AMOS  B.  KEEPORT  is  President  of  the  A.  B.  Keeport  Co. 
at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  seventeen  years.  Harry  A.  Rogers  is  Secre- 
tary-Treasurer  of    the   company. 

HOWARD  N.  KINGSBURY,  5932  Lowell  Ave.,  Indianapolis, 
Indiana,  is  President  of  the  Kingsbury-Shepherd  Coal  Co. 
He  has  been  seventeen  years  in  the  business,  formerly  with 
the  Marion  Coal  Co.  as  Manager.  He  was  born  at  Indian- 
apolis September  19,  1878.  " 

F.  SMITH  KIRTLEY,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  General 
Manager  of  the  Hoosier  City  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  busi- 
ness eight  years.  He  was  born  September  19,  186S,  at  Mt. 
Auburn,    Indiana. 

FRANK  E.  MALOTT,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  The  Malott  Coal  &  Lime  Co.,  has  been  in  the 
business  for  about  nineteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Bedford, 
Indiana,  April  5,  1867.  He  has  served  a  term  as  Secretary 
of  the   Indianapolis  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 

WILLIAM  I\  MALOTT  is  President  of  The  Malott  Coal  & 
Lime  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  identified 
with  the  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Bed- 
ford, Indiana,   February  16,   1840. 

JOHN  ROBERT  MORRIS  is  General  Manager  of  the  J.  R. 
Morris  Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  Formerly  he  was  In 
the  retail  business  as  the  Morris  Coal  Co.,  and  was  salesman 
for  the  Powhatan  Coal  Co.  and  the  Ohio  &  Michigan  Coal  Co., 
as  well  as  Manager  of  the  Indianapolis  office  of  the  Brothers 
Valley  Coal  Co.  His  present  company  was  organized  No- 
vember 8,  1915.  He  was  born  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  Novem- 
ber 6,   1883. 

SAUL  MINTKR,  340  West  Michigan  St..  Indianapolis,  In- 
diana, is  the  owner  of  the  Central  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  business  seven  years.  He  was  born  at  Attica,  In- 
diana, in  1870.  Mr.  Munter  is  President  of  the  Indiana  Re- 
tail Coal  Merchants'  Association. 

BANUS  E.  VEAL  is  Treasurer  and  Sales  Manager  of  the 
Indian  Creek  Coal  ft  Mining  Co.,  the  S.  W.  Little  Coal  Co. 
and  the  Rivervlew  Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years  and  formerly 
was  with  the  Summit  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  was  born  at 
Karmersburg,  Indiana,  August  1,  1878, 

AKTIII  II  B.  nelson  is  District  Sales  Agent  for  the  Con- 
solidated Indiana  Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Chicago  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the 
business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  In  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, March  6,  1886. 

WALTER  F.  O'HONNELL,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Is  Secre- 
tary of  the  Manley-O'Donnell  Fuel  Co.  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  in  1874. 

ISAAC  B.  I'AIIKIOII,  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  Is  Manager  of 
Bales  for  Indiana  for  the  Worth-Huskey  Coal  Co.  of  Chicago. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years,  formerly  with  the  Carnegie  Coal  Co.  of  Pittsburgh. 
Pennsylvania,  and  the  R.  J.  Kroger  Co.  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
He  was  born  December  7,  1869,   in   Arlm.   Indiana. 

JULIUS  W.  I'INNELL  Is  General  Manager  of  J.  W.  Plnnell 
&  Co.  with  general  offices  at  Indianapolis.  Indiana,  and  op- 
erating a  dozen  lumber  and  coal  yards  throughout  the  state 
of  Indiana.  He  has  been  In  the  business  for  thirty-six  years 
and  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Indiana,  October  30,  1858. 


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CHARLES  ROSCOE  QUICK,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  Man- 
ager of  the  coal  department  of  the  Brannum-Keene  Lumber 
Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  five  years.  He  was  born 
at  Frankton,  Indiana,  September  2,  1882. 

GHOVER  C.  BADER  of  the  Grover  C.  Rader  Co..  whole- 
sale coal,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  twelve  years  in  the 
coal  business.  He  was  born  September  18,  1884,  in  Clay 
City,    Indiana. 

RAY  I..  REED  is  Vice  President  of  Walter  Bledsoe  &  Co., 
Indianapolis,  Indiana.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven  years,  formerly  with  the  Dering  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Brazil  Block  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  November  17,  1888,  in 
Newton,   Illinois. 

ALEXANDER  RIMPLER,  1227  State  Life  Building,  Indian- 
apolis, Indiana,  is  Manager  of  the  Indianapolis  branch  of  the 
Logan  Pocahontas  Fuel  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Madison  Coal  Co..  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  the  Luhrig  Coal 
Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-one  years.  He  was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1874. 

HERMAN  H.  SCHULS5,  formerly  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Balke  &  Strauss  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  has 
served  as  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Credit 
Association  at  Indianapolis.  He  was  born  at  Aurora,  Indi- 
ana, in  June,   1867. 

JAMES  H.  SHEPHERD  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Kingsbury-Shepherd  Coal  Co.  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Marion  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  eight 
years  in  the  business.  He  was  born  at  Ripley,  Ohio,  Septem- 
ber 24,   1884. 

S.  C.  SILCOX,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He  was  born  in  Indiana 
September  13,  1853. 

ENOS  R.  SNYDER,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He  claims  to  have 
made  yellow  paint  famous  by  having  his  wagons  of  that 
color,  and  owns  the  original  yellow  coal  wagon.  He  was 
born  February   29,   1880,   at  Indianapolis. 

FRED  D.  STILZ,  Secretary-Treasurer  Irvington  Coal  & 
Lime  Co.,  5603  Julian  Avenue,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has 
been  engaged  in  the  business  since  April  1,  1916.  He  was 
born  in  Indianapolis  April  23,  1870.  Mr.  Stilz  was  formerly 
engaged   in   the   real   estate    business. 

ARTHUR  E.  STRICKLAND;  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is  In- 
diana Sales  Agent  for  the  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.  He  has 
been  in  the  business  for  eleven  years,  formerly  with  the 
Borderland  Coal  Sales  Co.  and  the  American  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.     He  was  born  October  22,  1883,  at  Greenfield,  Indiana. 

CHARLES  H.  STUCKMEYER,  head  of  the  firm  of  Stuck- 
meyer  &  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 
has  been  connected  with  the  trade  for  seventeen  years.  He 
has  been  a  resident  of  Indianapolis  sixty-six  years  and  was 
born  August  10,  1850,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

E.  J.  SUFFEL  is  Traffic  Manager  and  Salesman  for  the  J. 
R.  Morris  Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  He  has  been  three 
years  in  the  business  and  formerly  was  with  the  Ragan-Mc- 
Abee  Coal  Co.     He  was  born  at  Utica.  Nebraska,  in  1889. 

HARVEY  D.  TRIMRLE  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Dauner  Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  and  has  been  fifteen 
years  in  the  coal  business.  He  also  fills  the  position  of  Sec- 
retary of  the  Victor  Colliery  Co.,  Wellston,  Ohio.  He  was 
born  August  10,   1883,  at  Princeton,  Illinois. 

CHARLES  D.  TROWBRIDGE,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  is 
Southwestern  Sales  Agent  for  the  White  Oak  Coal  Co.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years,  for- 
merly with  the  following  concerns:  C.  D.  Trowbridge  Coal 
Co.,  as  President  and  General  Manager;  American  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.,  as  President  and  General  Manager;  Stone-Brown 
Co.,  as  Sales  Manager;  Bugbee  Coal  Co.,  as  President,  and 
Bonham  Coal  Co.  as  Vice  President.  He  was  born  January 
1,  1863,  at  Utica,  Ohio. 

R.  ROY  YEAGLEY,  Secretary  Indiana  Retail  Coal  Mer- 
ohantr.'  Association,  with  headquarters  at  606  Fidelity  Trust 
Building,  Indianapolis.  Indiana,  was  born  in  Dennison,  Ohio, 
March  19,  1880,  and  has  had  six  years'  coal  experience,  first 
with  the  firm  of  Grant  <fc  Yeagley  at  Logansport,  Indiana, 
and  later  supplemented  by  his  coal  association  work.  The 
association  of  which  Mr.  Yeagley  is  Secretary  is  a  very 
aggressive   organization   of   retailers. 

GEORGE  D.  TEAZEL,  Secretary  of  the  United  Fourth  Vein 
Coal  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Dayton, 
Ohio,  in  1875. 


INDIANA  — Fort  Wayne 


JOHN  JOSEPH  Al'TH  is  President  and  Manager  of  Tha 
Auth  Coal  Co.  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  business  five  years.  He  was  born  at  Ft.  Wayne  Feb- 
ruary   2.    1870. 

CONRAD  RAUSS  is  Managing  Partner  in  the  Maumee 
Valley  Coal  Co.,  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana.  He  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  born  De- 
cember 30,  1863,   in  Germany. 

O.  R.  HROKAW,  Secretary  of  the  Phil.  Gloeckner  Coal  Co., 
Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  was  born  in  1881  at  Ft.  Wayne. 

LYNN  ELLIOTT  HUNTING,  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  salesman 
for  the  General  Hocking  P'uel  Co  ,  was  born  at  New  Castle, 
Indiana,  July  28,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
ten  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  C.  M.  Anderson  Coal 
Co. 

PHILIP  GLOECKNER,  405  Shoaff  Building,  Ft.  Wayne, 
Indiana,  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Phil.  Gloeckner 
Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  Kelly's  Creek  Colliery  Co. 
and  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  has  been 
thirteen  years  in  the  business  and  was  born  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  January  23,  1884.  Mr.  Gloeckner  is  one  of  the  best 
known  coal   salesmen   in  Indiana. 

GEORGE  H.  KRUDOP,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Ft.  Wayne, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  over  thirty  years, 
formerly  with  C.  F.  Krudop,  whom  he  bought  out  in  1890. 
He  was  born  at  Ft.  Wayne  May  12,  1869,  and  has  held  many 
offices   in   retail  coal   associations. 

AUGUST  J.  LASSUS,  President  and  Manager  of  the  Wm. 
Kaough  Coal  Co.  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  re- 
tail business  for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Louisville, 
Ohio,  November  6,  1882. 

SHIRLEY  NELSON  LONGSWORTH,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  The  Auth  Coal  Co.  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Home  Supply  Co.  of  Ft.  Wayne.  He  served 
as  a  Director  in  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Retail  Coal 
Dealers  Association  from  1915  to  1918.  He  was  born  at  Van 
Wert,   Ohio.   December   20,   1877. 

C.  P.  MILLIKIN,  Treasurer  of  the  Phil.  Gloeckner  Coal 
Co.    at    Ft.    Wayne,    Indiana,    was   born    at   Warren,   Ohio,   in 

1885. 

CHARLES  E.  MOELLERING.  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Pioneer  Coal  Co.,  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  was  born 
in  Ft.  Worth  September  12,  1870,  and  started  in  business 
with  his  father  January  26,  1886.  On  May  10,  1904,  they 
took  over  the  coal  yards  and  equipment  of  the  Pioneer  Coal 
Co.  and  have  built  up  this  business  until  it  is  now  the 
largest  and  best  coal  plant  in  their  part  of  the  state.  Mr. 
Moellering  is  the  originator  of  the  plan  of  the  present  suc- 
cessful state  organization  by  districts,  having  introduced 
same  in  the  builders'  supply  line.  He  has  been  interested  in 
public  and  patriotic  affairs  and  untiring  in  association 
work.  He  is  the  President  of  the  Ft.  Wayne  Coal  Club.  He 
is  also  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Moellering  Construc- 
tion Co.,  President  of  William  Moellering  Sons,  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Moellering  Brick  Co. 

EUGENE  H.  OLDS  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Olds 
Coal  Co.  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana.  He  was  born  at  Ft. 
Wayne  January  14,  1873.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ft.  Wayne 
Coal  Club. 

W.  J.  RODENBECK,  Secretary  The  Home  Supply  Co.,  Ft. 
Wayne,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Dayton.  Ohio.  May  12,  1874, 
and  started  in  the  coal  business  this  year. 

C.  A.  SEIBEL  is  proprietor  and  Manager  of  the  Dunn 
Coal  Co.  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  for  four  years.  He  was  born  at  Ft.  Wayne  June 
13,    1883. 

CLIFF  H.  TAYLOR,  Manager  of  the  Evans  Coal  Co.  at 
Ft.  Wayne,  Indiana,  has  been  sixteen  years  in  the  business. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Litz- 
Smith  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Borderland  Coal  Sales  Co.  He  was 
born  in  Muncie,  Indiana,  in  1878.  Mr.  Taylor  has  a  wide 
acquaintance   among   the   Indiana   coal   trade. 

WILLIAM  M.  WELLS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Ft.  Wayne, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirty-four  years,  for- 
merly at  Fredericktown,  Ohio,  from  1885  to  1900.  He  was 
born   February   22,    1859,    in   Fredericktown. 


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INDIANA  —  Terre  Haute 


JOHN  K.  ALVKV,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Smlth-Alvey 
Coal  Co.,  Terre  Haute.  Indiana,  has  been  In  the  retail  busi- 
ness for  six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Alvey  Bros. 
Coal   Co.      He   was  born   April   9,    1887.  at   Terre   Haute. 

lit  \  \\  .  »TK\,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  The  Rowland 
Block  Coal  &  Clay  Co.,  The  Ohio  &  Indiana  Collieries  Co., 
Power  Collieries  Co.  of  Indiana,  and  Rowland-Power  Col- 
lieries I'd.,  and  Secretary  Rowland-Power  Consolidated  Col- 
lieries Co.,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  lias  been  connected  with 
the  coal  industry  for  about  fifteen  years,  formerly  with  the 
Roberts  Coal  Co..  Crescent  Coal  Co.,  and  Glen  Roy  Coal 
Co.,  Jackson,  Ohio.  He  was  born  February  14,  1878,  in  Jack- 
son. 

JOHN  LAKH  IHA1VFORD  Is  President  of  the  Crawford 
Coal  Co..  Terre  Haute.  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born  in  Terre  Haute 
in    1872. 

i  III  liilll)  K.  FOIISYTH,  General  Superintendent  Rock 
Creek  Coal  Co.  and  President  Terre  Haute  Coal  &  Supply 
Co.,  Terre  Haute.  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  coal  industry  sev- 
enteen years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Ehrmann  Coal  Co. 
and  the  Clay  County  Block  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Retail  Coalmen's  Club  of  Terre  Haute.  He  was 
born  August  3.  1882.  in  Vigo  County.  Indiana.  Harry  G. 
Sparks  is  Secretary-Treasurer  and  William  H.  Forsythe 
General  Manager  of  the  Terre  Haute  Coal   &  Supply   Co. 

GEORGE:  H.  GFROEREH,  late  of  Terre  Haute,  Indiana, 
was  Sales  Agent  for  the  United  Fourth  Vein  Coal  Co.  for 
about  thirteen  years.  Formerly  he  was  with  the  Chicago 
&  Kastern  Illinois  Railway  and  with  the  Chicago,  Terre 
Haute  &  Southeastern  Railway.  He  served  as  KoKoal 
Sachem  for  Terre  Haute.  He  was  born  May  9,  1871,  at 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  died  April  10,  1918.  He  had  many- 
friends  in   the  trade. 

OTTO  HKYDKV,  Terre  Haute.  Indiana,  is  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Parke  County  Coal  Co.,  Rosedale,  Indiana, 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  industry  for  thirty- 
four  years.      He  was  born  July  7,  1839,  in  Germany. 

C.  H.  JONES  of  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  is  President  of  the 
Calora  Coal  Co.  and  of  the  LeMoir  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years,  formerly  with  the 
Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  the  Winifrede  Coal  Co.  He  was 
born  October  26,  1859,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  is  well  known 
in  the  coal  trade. 

CHARLES  F.  THORP,  Treasurer  of  the  Sugar  Valley  Coal 
Co.,  West  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was  born  at  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana,  November  22,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Island  Valley  Coal  Co.  and  Victoria  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  L.  WILLIAMSON,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Xeutral  Coal  Producers  Co.,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was 
born  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  in  1873.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

ISAAC  HERBERT  WOOLEV,  General  Manager  of  the 
Interstate  Mining  Co.,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was  born  in 
England  January  24,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Currysville  Coal  Co.,  Dering  Coal  Co.,  Southern  Indiana 
Coal  Co.  and   Kettle  Creek  Mining  Co. 

W.  PAUL  ZIMMERMAN,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Hall-Zimmerman  Coal  Co.,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  was  born 
in  Brazil,  Indiana,  September  14,  1875,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Zimmerman  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Zimmerman  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Otto  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Indiana  Bituminous  Coal  Operators'  Association 
and   the   Indiana  Coal   Trade   Bureau. 


NDIANA 


WILLIAM  AHLBORN  is  the  President  of  Wm.  Ahlborn 
&  Co.  at  Hammond,  Indiana,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
retail  coal  trade  nineteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Germany 
March  25,   1873. 

ROBERT  ALEXANDER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Buck 
Creek,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirteen  years. 
He  was  born   in  Canada  in   1857. 

IUSSELL  C.  ALLEN  owns  the  retail  coal  business  of  J.  L. 
Allen  &  Son  at  Covington,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the 
business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  Covington 
February   22.   1881. 

TOM  A.  ALLEN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Linden,  Indiana, 
has  been  doing  business  for  five  years.  He  was  born  at  New 
Richmond,  Indiana,  July  27,  1876. 

I.IMOLN  e.  AMIKIISOM,  Martinsville,  Indiana,  has  been 
In  the  retail  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born  In 
Monroe  County,   Indiana,   September  21,    1864. 


W.  N.  ANDERSON,  coal  retailer  at  Kouts.  Indiana,  has 
been  In  the  business  thirty-eight  years.  He  was  born  in 
Kouts   December   19,    1849. 

JOSEPH  G.  APPLEGATH  Is  the  Office  Manager  of  the 
Princeton  Coal  Co.  of  Princeton,  Indiana.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty  years,  for- 
merly with  C.  O.  Godfrey,  James  Townsend,  S.  W.  Little 
Coal  Co.  and  Princeton  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  was  born  at 
Albion,   Illinois,  October  10,  1867. 

JOHN  B.  AKCIUIOLD,  President  of  the  John  Archbold  Coal 
Co.  at  Evansville,  Indiana,  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
over  forty  years.     He  was  born  in  England. 

WAID  CARLETON  ARNOLD,  Warsaw,  Indiana,  repre- 
senting the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Co.  and 
the  D.  D.  Schenck  Co.,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Pomeroy, 
Ohio,  October  23.  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  The  Colum- 
bus &  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 

ROBERT  W.  RAILEY  is  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  J.  W.  Bailey  Co.,  coal  merchants  at  Anderson, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
eight  years.  He  was  born  August  22,  1887,  at  Portsmouth, 
Indiana. 

LEWIS  J.  BALDWIN,  proprietor  of  the  Twin  City  Ice  & 
Fuel  Co.  at  Gas  City,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  about  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Consumers  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Sterling  Ice  &  Fuel 
Co.  at  Marion,  Indiana.     He  was  born  at  Marion  in  1875. 

ERNEST  L.  BARBIER  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
New  Jersey  Coal  &  Transfer  Co.,  South  Bend,  Indiana.  He 
has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  ten  years,  for- 
merly with  Loughman  &  Loughman.  He  was  born  in  Cen- 
terville,  Michigan,  June  14,  1887.  The  President  of  the  com- 
pany is  John  H.  Barbier,  born  in  Edwardsburg,  Michigan, 
September    13,    1895. 

JAMES  R.  BARR,  partner  in  the  Richland  Grain  Co.  at 
Earl  Park,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirty-three  years.  Formerly  he  was  with  the 
Wilson-Barr  Co.,  the  Caldwell-Barr  Co.,  the  McCray-Morri- 
son  Co.  and  James  Ross.     He  was  born  in  Canada  in  1863. 

ROBERT  WILLIAM  BARR  is  Manager  of  the  retail  coal 
business  of  Ross,  Ross  &  Barr  at  Chalmers,  Indiana.  He 
has  been  connected  with  the  trade  for  twenty-five  years. 
He    was   born   at   Ormstown,    Quebec,   January    12,    1862. 

\iiM.it  J.  BARRETT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Rochester, 
Indiana,  has  been  In  the  business  thirty-six  years,  selling 
the  first  coal  ever  sold  in  Rochester.  He  was  born  in  1S50 
in  Fulton  County,  Indiana. 

A.  J.  BARRICK  is  Mine  Foreman  for  the  United  Fourth 
Vein  Coal  Co.  at  Jasonville,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  industry  for  thirty-six  years,  formerly  with  the  Jason- 
ville Coal  Co.  and  other  concerns.  He  was  born  in  Clay 
County,  Indiana,  May  21,  1858. 

C.  E.  BASH  is  President  and  Manager  of  C.  E.  Bash  &  Co. 
at  Huntington,  Indiana.  He  was  born  at  Roanoke,  Indiana, 
in  1856.  He  has  been  doing  a  retail  business  for  about  one 
year. 

LUTHER  B.  BEACH,  senior  partner  and  Manager  of  the 
firm  of  Beach  &  Simmers  at  Albany,  Indiana,  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  retail  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  J.  R.  Beach  &  Son.  He  was  born  in  Boone 
County,  Indiana,  July   1,   1881. 

J.  W.  BECKMAN,  Hammond,  Indiana,  is  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  The  Beckman  Supply  Co.  and  has  done  a 
retail  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  in 
Germany  September  II,   1868. 

GEORGE  II.  BE1INKE  is  Manager  for  Ed.  Behnke  &  Son. 
Gary,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  retail  coai 
business  for  ten  years.  He  was  born  December  16,  1887,  at 
Clarke  Station,  Indiana. 

GEORGE  A.  BELL  is  Manager  and  President  of  the  B*I1 
Coal  Co.  at  Marion,  Indiana.  He  has  been  fifteen  years  in 
the  retail  business  and  was  born   in  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

HARRY  J.  IlERNSTEIN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Marion, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  business  fourteen  years,  and  is  owner 
of  the  Ohio  Coal  Co.     He  was  born  in  Russia. 

ALVA  A.  BETTERTON,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  Dale- 
vllle  Grain  &  Coal  Co.  at  Daleville,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
business  four  years.  He  was  born  at  Daleville  in  March, 
1892. 

ALLEN  L.  BOYD.  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  W.  Wil- 
son Lumber  Co.  at  LaPorte,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  thirty-one  years.  He  was  born  September  17,  1869, 
at  LaPorte. 

CHARLES  WESLEY  mi  v liriEl.lt  of  Petersburg.  Indiana, 
is  the  owner  of  "The  Posey  Mine,"  which  he  operates.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years.  He 
was  born  November  4,  1870,  at  Petersburg. 


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JAMES  W.  liiiinw  i.i  i.  is  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  J. 
W.  Bridwell  Coal  Co.  at  Evansville,  Indiana,  and  has.  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  for  four  years.  He  has  been  a 
Director  of  the  Indiana  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association 
and  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Men's  Association  of  Evans- 
ville. He  was  born  at  Evansville  April  28,  1870,  and  was  in 
the   government  service  for  twenty-three   years. 

ISRAEL  BRONSTEIN  is  Manager  for  Peter  Bronstein  & 
Co..  retail  coal  merchants  at  Huntington,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was 
born   in  Russia  November  10,   1890. 

PETER  BRONSTEIN  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  Peter 
Bronstein  &  Co.,  coal  merchants  at  Huntington,  Indiana, 
and  has  been  six  years  in  the  retail  trade.  He  was  born 
August    1,    1866,   in    Russia. 

WILLIAM  BRONSTEIN,  Secretary  of  Peter  Bronstein  & 
Co.,  Huntington,  Indiana,  has  been  five  years  in  the  coal 
business.     He  was  born  in  Russia  March   10,   1895. 

GEORGE  E.  BRUNER  is  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Bruner  Coal  Co.  at  Kokomo,  Indiana,  and  has-  been 
in  the  retail  business  for  twelve  years.  He  has  served  as 
Treasurer  of  the  Indiana  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 
He   was  born   in  Montgomery  County,  Ohio,  July  14,  1863. 

OMER  O.  BULLERDICK,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years, 
formerly  with  H.  C.  Bullerdick  &  Son.  He  was  born  at 
Richmond   May    15,    1886. 

EDWARD  W.  BURT  is  Manager  of  the  Eaton  Coal  Co.  at 
Eaton,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  two 
years.     He  was  born  at  Shideler,  Indiana,  in  1873. 

E.  L.  CARROLL,  senior  member  of  the  coal  firm  of  E.  D. 
Carroll  &  Son  at  Decatur,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  for  thirty-six  years.  He  was  born  at  Huntsville, 
Ohio,  February  8.  1858. 

W.  O.  CARTWRIGHT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Anderson, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  eight  years. 
Formerly  he  traveled  for  the  Taylor  Coal  Co.  of  Lafayette, 
Indiana.  He  was  born  in  Madison  County,  Indiana,  Decem- 
ber  28,  1860. 

GEORGE  N.  CASH  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  El- 
wood  Coal  &  Fuel  Co.  at  Elwood,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  June 
9,   1841,   in   Palmyra,   Wisconsin. 

CLYDE  J.  CASTETTER  of  the  firm  of  Clyde  J.  Castetter 
&  Co.,  Goshen,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
six  years.  He  was  born  in  Goshen  October  29,  1870,  and  is 
a  well-known  retailer  in  that  section. 

JOHN  CHESTERFIELD,  Brazil,  Indiana,  is  Superintendent 
of  the  Otter  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty-six  years,  formerly  with  Zeller, 
McClellan  &  Co.  He  was  born  in  Clay  County,  Indiana,  in 
1867. 

ROY  C.  CLAUSER  is  Manager  of  the  firm  of  W.  H.  Clauser 
&  Son  at  Delphi,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  fourteen  years.  W.  H.  Clauser,  senior  member, 
died  August  30,  1914.  Roy  C.  Clauser  was  born  February  23, 
1886,  in  Carroll  County,  Indiana. 

FRED  C.  CLINE,  Manager  of  the  C.  &  O.  Coal  Co.  at 
Jonesboro,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the  business 
for  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  J.  S.  Neill  and  A. 
H.  Cline.     He   was   born   in   Jonesboro   September   27,   1878. 

CARL  A.  CLOSSON,  Logansport,  Indiana,  is  Manager  of 
the  coal  business  of  the  E.  D.  Closson  Estate,  and  is  also 
interested  in  a  retail  yard  at  Matthews,  Indiana.  He  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years  and 
formerly  was  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Logansport 
Coal  Dealers'  Association.  He  was  born  October  10,  1884,  at 
Logansport. 

E.  T.  COCHRAN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Auburn,  Indiana, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was  born 
May  .13,  1859,  at  Auburn. 

W.  ©..  COLLINS,  President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
W.  Q.  Collins  Grain  &  Lumber  Co.  at  Lake,  Indiana,  has 
been  in  the  retail  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born 
October  18,  1878,   in  Indiana. 

JAMES  H.  CORNELIUS  is  General  Superintendent  of  the 
Panhandle  Coal  Co.  at  Bicknell,  Indiana,  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  business  for  sixteen  years.  Formerly  he 
was  with  the  Cornelius  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  April  24, 
1884,  at  Columbus,  Indiana. 

E.  E.  CORNTHWAITE  of  Cicero,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  July 
11,    1863,   at  Collinsville,   Ohio. 

BUEL  W.  COWLEY,  partner  in  the  firm  of  Wier  &  Cowley 
at  Ligonier,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
forty-eight  years.  He  was  born  in  LaGrange  County,  In- 
diana, in  1844. 

DANIEL  A.  CROMER  is  the  sole  owner  of  the  Sedalia 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  at  Sedalia,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the 
business  five  years.     He  was  born  at  Flora,  Indiana,  in  1882. 


FRANK  P.  DALTON  is  Vice  President  of  the  Dalton  Coal 
Co.  at  Gary,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  eight 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Lill-Robinson  Coal  Co. 
and  the  City  Fuel  Co.  of  Chicago. 

JOSEPH  A.  DALTON,  Secretary  of  the  Dalton  Coal  Co. 
at  Gary,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  seven 
years',  having  formerly  been  connected  with  the  Chicago 
offices  of  the  Globe  Coal  Co.  and  the  Miami  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  A.  DALTON,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Dalton  Coal  Co.  at  Gary,  Indiana,  has  been  eight  years  in 
the  retail  business.  He  was  born  August  25,  1878,  in  Chi- 
cago, Illinois.  Formerly  he  was  with  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
'  Railroad  in  the  coal  traffic  department  and  as  coal  and  coke 
agent  at  Chicago.  He  is  a  District  Chairman  of  the  Indiana 
Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 

G.  C.  DAVIS,  Tipton,  Indiana,  was  born  in  California  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was 
formerly   connected   with   the   Arm   of   Fox  &   Davis. 

J.  M.  DAVIS  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Davis  Coal 
Co.  at  Shelby,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business  foi 
thirteen  years,  formerly  with  the  Davis-Caster  Coal  Co. 
He  was  born  in  Bath   County,  Kentucky,  March   15,   1860. 

J.  O.  DAVIS,  Secretary  of  the  Greenfield  Ice  &  Fuel  Co. 
at  Greenfield,  Indiana,  has  been  five  years  in  the  retail  coal 
business.      He  was  born  January  30,  1881,  at  Greenfield. 

HERBERT  H.  DEAM  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Studebaker  Grain  &  Seed  Co.  at  Bluffton,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  in  the  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  has  served 
as  President  of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Retail  Coal  Deal- 
ers Association  for  two  years.  He  was  born  at  Bluffton  May 
25,  1862,  and  has  been  active  in  the  grain  and  lumber  asso- 
ciations. 

FRANK  D.  DEARING,  retail,  coal  merchant  at  Anderson, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He 
was  born  April  24,  1874,  at  Florida,  Indiana. 

JOHN  E.  DEATON,  senior  partner  of  John  E.  Deaton  & 
Son  at  Sidney,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  October  16,  1862,  in  Clark 
County,  Ohio. 

J.  B.  DECAMP,  Brazil,  Indiana,  is  General  Manager  and 
operator  of  the  DeCamp  Coal  &  Clay  Co.  He  has  spent 
thirty  years  in  the  coal  industry  as  a  miner  and  for  six 
years  has  been  in  the  retail  business.  He  was  born  at 
Brazil   in    1870. 

A.  DECKER,  Manager  of  the  Home  Grain  Co.  at  LaGrange, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  nine  years. 
He  was  born  October  9,   1857,   at  Nottawa,  Michigan. 

G.  L.  DELLINGER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Charlestown, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  three  years.  He  was 
born  at   Jeffersonville,   Indiana,   December   2,   1892. 

WILLIAM  A.  DEPOY  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  four  years  at  Converse,  Indiana.  He  was  born  May  9, 
1872,    in   Ohio. 

EDWARD  M.  DIBOS,  proprietor  of  the  business  of  J.  J. 
Dibos  &  Son  at  Hammond,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with 
the  firm  for  twenty-eight  years  and  has  owned  the  business 
for  thirteen.  He  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the  local  coal 
dealers'  association.  He  was  born  in  Morton  Grove,  Illi- 
nois, November  9,   1887. 

CLAUDE  J.  DILLON,  Secretary  Ohio  Fuel  &  Supply  Co., 
Van  Buren,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Van  Buren,  Indiana, 
October  4,  1895,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six 
years. 

JAMES  L.  DILLON,  Manager  of  the  Ohio  Fuel  &  Supply 
Co.,  Van  Buren,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Indiana  in  1890,  and 
has  been   in   the   coal   business   for  eleven   years. 

"WILLIAM  F.  DINGEL  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Dingel  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.  at  Newcastle,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born 
October   16,   1863,   at  Washington,  D.  C. 

CLEM  E.  DOANE  is  President  of  the  Boonville  Mining 
Co.  at  Boonville,  Indiana,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  for  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Fox  Hill  Coal  Co.  and  the  Ebony  Block  Coal  Co.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Patoka  River  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the 
Cypress  Creek  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Jasper,  Indiana, 
October   13,   1875. 

ROBERT  F.  DUNN  has  been  doing  a  retail  coal  business 
at  Russiaville,  Indiana,  for  seventeen  years.  He  was  born 
at   Fishers,   Indiana,   May   14,   1860. 

EDWARD  R.  DYE  of  Monticello,  Indiana,  is  President, 
Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  United  Fourth  Vein 
Coal  Co.  of  Indianapolis.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eighteen  years,  formerly  with  Hunter  W.  Finch  &  Co., 
Chicago.  He  was  born'  at  Piedmont,  West  Virginia,  October 
31,  1861. 


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I.  S.  ii it  \  ■■■:■!.  Manager  of  the  Draper  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  at 
Sullivan,  Indian*,  has  been  thirty-one  years  in  the  retail 
com]  business,  formerly  with  the  I.  S.  Draper  Co.  and  the 
old  Famous  Fuel  Co.  He  was  born  February  20,  1864,  in 
Sullivan  County.  Indiana.  W.  M.  Draper  is  senior  member 
of   the   company. 

M.  A.  EBEKHAHD,  Troy,  Indiana,  was  born  at  Troy,  In- 
diana, February  10,  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  nineteen  years. 

LAWRGNCK  A.  EII.NER,  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Ebner  Ice  &  Cold  Storage  Co..  Vlncennes,  Indiana, 
was  born  in  Vlncennes,  Indiana,  May  7,  1872,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  is  also 
interested   in   the   retail  coal   business  at   Seymour,  Indiana. 

ERNEST  ELLIS,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  Ellis  Bros.,  retail 
coal  merchants  at  Kokomo,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Hunter  W. 
FiiH'h  &  Co.  of  Chicago.  He  was  born  at  Kokomo  January 
\    1877. 

LEWIS  KKLCH,  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Lewis  Felch 
&  Son  at  New  Harmony,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business 
for  twenty-four  years.  He  was  born  at  New  Harmony  No- 
vember 20,  1851.  Nelson  Felch,  his  son,  is  junior  member 
of  the  Arm  and  was  born  August  12,  1877,  at  New  Harmony. 

m  i  m  u  i  M.  FERGUSON,  President  Clinton  Coal  Co.  and 
Ferguson-Spears  Coal  Co.  at  Clinton,  Indiana,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years,  formerly  with  the 
Khrman  Coal  Co..  where  he  began  as  office  boy.  He  bought  a 
small  mine  in  1894,  which  was  his  first  mining  venture,  and 
organized  the  Clinton  Coal  Co.  in  1901.  He  was  born  in 
Clay  County,  Indiana,  October  3,  1869.  Mr.  Ferguson  has 
served  as  Mayor  of  his  city  and  taken  an  active  interest 
in   all   civic   movements. 

P.  J.  FINGER  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  Finger  Bros. 
P.  &  K.  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  at  New  Albany,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He 
was  born  at  New  Albany  April  25,  1877. 

FRANK  H.  FOE  is  the  owner  of  the  Bourbon  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.  at  Bourbon,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  fifteen  years,  formerly  managing  the  North  Liberty 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  May  8,  1871,  at  Hamilton, 
Ontario. 

N.  B.  FORD,  Manager  of  the  Crabbs  Reynolds  Taylor 
Co.,  West  Point,  Indiana,  was  born  at  West  Point,  Indiana, 
in  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  W.  B.  Foresman. 

ORA  FORSYTH,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Noblesville 
Fuel  &  Supply  Co.  at  Noblesville,  Indiana,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  at 
Franklin,    Indiana,    September    24,    1872. 

C.  Y.  FOSTER  of  the  firm  of  C.  Y.  Foster  &  Son,  retail 
coal  merchants  at  Carmel,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business 
for  nineteen  years. 

WiTIIIIt  E.  FHETAGEOT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  New 
Harmony,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  eighteen 
years,  formerly  with  his  father,  A.  H.  Fretageot.  He  was 
born  December  12,   1873,  at  New  Harmony. 

I,.  E.  FRICKE,  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  L.  E.  Frlcke  & 
Co.,  Kvansville.  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  wholesale  coal 
business  two  years.     He  was  born  May  16.  1866. 

WILLIAM  GALE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Cumberland, 
Indiana,  has  been  In  the  business  for  twenty-three  years. 
He  was  born  at  Cumberland   in  1864. 

AAHON  i;ARI)\KI(  is  an  equal  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Gardner  ,V-  Lewis  of  Cottage  Grove,  Indiana.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Kltehel  Elevator  Co.  at  Kitchel  and  Huston. 
Indiana.  Mr.  Gardner  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
sixteen   years  and   was   born    in   Cedar  County,    Iowa,    March 

I,  1860. 

THOMAS  GILLESPIE,  Mine  Superintendent  at  Bicknell, 
Indiana,  is  also  interested  in  a  mine  at  Edwardsport.  Indi- 
ana, and  formerly  was  connected  with  the  following:  Lynan 
Coal  Co.,  Knox  Coal  Co.,  Knox  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Glen- 
dale  Coal  Co.      He  was   born   at   Lanarkshire,   Scotland,  July 

II.  1878.     Mr.   Gillespie   worked  as  a  miner   In   Scotland   and 
has  been  In  the  business  In  America  for  thirteen  years. 

BENJAMIN  D.  GLASSCOCK,  member  of  the  firm  of  J.  W. 
&  B.  D.  Glasscock,  wholesale  and  retail  coal  merchants  at 
Muncle,  Indiana,  has  been  fifteen  years  In  the  business.  He 
was  born  at  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  September  26.  1872.  Mr.  Glass- 
COOk  is  a  Director  Of  the  Indiana  Retail  Coal  Merchants' 
Association. 

PHILIP  GOETHALS  is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Goethals 
&  Makank,  Mishawaka,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  three  years.  He  was  born  July  18,  1867,  in 
Belgium. 

W.  J.  GOODRICH  has  been  In  the  retail  coal  business  fo: 
eleven  years  at  Royal  Centre,  Indiana,  where  he  was  born 
April   3,   1876. 


CHAS.  V.  GRAFT,  Winchester,  Indiana,  was  born  in 
Miami  County,  Indiana,  in  1877,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years.  He  also  operates  a  retail  coal 
yard    at    Parker. 

C,  W.  GRANT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  1337  Toledo  Street. 
I.ogansport.  Indiana,  was  born  in  Columbia  City,  Indiana. 
November  8.  1873.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six 
years.     The  firm  was  originally  Grant  &  Yeagley. 

WALTER  A.  GREINER  is  Manager  for  Robert  McKim  & 
Co.,  wholesale   coal   merchants  at   Madison,   Indiana. 

D.  E.  GROW,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Rensselaer,  Indiana, 
has  been  doing  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born 
in   Rensselaer  May  4,  1874. 

CHARLES  M.  HAM,  Manager  of  the  C.  M.  Ham  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.  at  Paoli,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  six- 
teen years.     He  was  born  at  Paoll  February  6,  1863. 

H.  MONROE  HARDMAN,  President  and  General  Manager 
of  Staples  &  Hardman,  South  Bend,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  January  16, 
1869,  at  South  Bend.  Isaac  W.  Staples  is  a  silent  member 
of  the  firm.  He  was  born  November  27,  1873,  at  Kingsbury, 
Indiana. 

S.  B.  HARLAN,  Manager  of  the  Concrete  Fuel  Co.  at  And- 
erson, Indiana,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  four 
years.  He  was  born  October  19,  1884,  at  Alexandria,  Indi- 
ana. 

ABRAHAM  HARSH,  owner  of  A.  Harsh  Coal  &  Supply  Co. 
and  President  and  Manager  Tiger  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  was  born  in  Wooster,  Ohio,  October  6,  1856. 
He  is  Vice  President  of  The  Cliff  Wood,  Coal  &  Supply  Co., 
Lima,  Ohio.  He  was  formerly  with  Parry  &  Harsh  at  Lucas, 
Qhio,   and  Howe  &  Harsh  at  Lima. 

JOSEPH  HARTLEY  is  the  proprietor  of  the  retail  coal 
business  of  Jos.  Hartley  &  Son  at  East  Chicago,  Indiana, 
which  he  has  conducted  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  in 
Sheffield,  England,   in   1861. 

LLOYD  HAWKINS  is  owner  of  the  Culver  City  Grain  & 
Coal  Co.  at  Culver,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
four  years.     He  was  born  February  18,  1884,  at  Culver. 

HARVEY  HAWLEY,  Manager  of  the  Miami  County 
Lumber  Co.  at  Peru,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for 
sixteen  years.  He  was  born  February  16,  1876,  in  Miami 
County. 

CONRAD  S.  HEET,  Richmond,  Indiana,  is  Secretary, 
Treasurer  and  Manager  of  Hackman,  Klehfoth  &  Co.,  and 
has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two 
years.     He  was  born  September  19,  1876,  at  Hamilton,  Ohio. 

ED.  M.  HEISE  is  President  of  Heise  Bros.,  Orleans,  In- 
diana. He  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty 
years.  He  was  born  in  Indiana  March  8,  1858.  Albert  "Heise 
Is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  concern. 

JOHN  MARSHALL  HENDERSON,  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Idaville,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen  years, 
formerly  with  the  firm  of  Joseph  Henderson  &  Son.  He 
was  born   in  White  County,  Indiana.  March  5,  1875. 

ORON  M.  HENDRICKSO.N,  Manager  of  O.  M.  Hendrickson 
&  Co.,  Rochester,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Kewanna,  Indiana, 
February   19,   1877. 

J.  C.  HENDRIX,  Manager  of  Hendrix  &  Son,  retail  coal 
merchants  at  Tangier,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for 
eight  years.  He  was  born  February  18,  1867,  at  Putnam- 
ville,   Indiana. 

A.  VERNON  HENRY  is  Manager  of  the  East  Side  Fuel 
Co.,  Connersville,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  at  Connersville,  Feb- 
ruary  11,    1888. 

D.  HERBERT  HERBSTER.  Elkhart.  Indiana,  is  Secretary 
and  Manager  of  the  Isbell  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  He  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born 
at  Beavertown,  Pennsylvania.  April  9,  1887. 

VICTOR  D.  HERRENBHLC'K,  Treasurer  of  the  John  Arch- 
bold  Coal  Co.  at  Evansvllle,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Evans- 
vllle. 

J.  J.  HIGGINS  is  President  of  the  Higgins-Martln  Coal 
Co.  at  Clinton,  Indiana,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness for  thirteen  years,  formerly  with  the  Oak  Hill  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.       He  was   born    In   Ohio   in    1849. 

L.  A.  HILLIGOSS  is  the  owner  of  the  retail  business  of 
Hilligoss  &  Son  at  Shelbyville,  Indiana,  and  has  been  en- 
KiiKi'il  in  the  coal  trade  for  twenty-five  years.  He  owns  a 
small  yard  at  Morrlstown,  Indiana.  He  was  born  In  1863 
In  Rush  County,  Indiana,  and  is  one  of  Indiana's  best  known 
retailers.  His  son,  Russell  B.  Hllllgos,  is  associated  with 
him. 

RICHARD  M.  HINSHAW,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Monti- 
cello,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  nine  years.  He 
was  born   in   \\  bile   County,    Indiana,   April  2,   1861. 


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DANA  HOCH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Mulberry,  Indiana, 
has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  seven  years.  He  was 
born  at  Hamilton,  Indiana,  May  15,   1882. 

SAMUEL,  HOLDEN,  Brazil,  Indiana,  is  Superintendent  of 
stripping  pit  for  the  Clay  Products  Co.  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four  years.  For- 
merly he  was  with  the  following  concerns:  Mcintosh  Coal 
Co.,  Weaver  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Continental  Clay  &  Mining 
Co.,  American  Sewer  Pipe  Co.  He  was  born  April  21,  1870, 
at   Knightsville,   Indiana. 

WILLIAM  E.  HOICK  is  proprietor  of  the  Newcastle  Coal 
Agency  at  Newcastle,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  six  years.     He  was  born  July  4,  1880,  in  Illinois. 

GAINS  LINCOLN  HOWELL,  Westville,  Indiana,  was  born 
in  La  Porte  County,  Indiana,  January  24,  1860,  and  has  been 
engaged   in   the   coal   business   for  four   years. 

DAVID  INGLE,  President  of  the  Ayrshire  Coal  Co.,  Evans- 
ville,  Indiana,  has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  business  for 
over  twenty  years  and  is  also  interested  in  the  following: 
Glen  Ayr,  Green  Valley  and  Tecumseh  Coal  &  Mining  com- 
panies. He  was  born  in  Evansville,  October  5,  1875.  David 
Ingle,  Sr.,  who  founded  the  Ayrshire  Coal  Co.,  died  October 
18,   1909,   at  Oakland  City,  Indiana. 

WILL  W.  IRELAND  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Browns- 
town,  Indiana,  and  has  been  doing  business  for  five  years. 
He   was   born   at   Brownstown,   September   19,    1885. 

ROY  H.  JACKSON  is  a  mining  engineer  for  the  Ayrshire 
Coal  Co.  at  Oakland  City,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  industry  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  June  11. 
1886,  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana. 

RICHARD  M.  JOHNSON,  816  South  Michigan  St.,  South 
Bend,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  four- 
teen years.  He  was  born  at  Grovertown,  Indiana,  April  21, 
1871. 

CHASTINE  JOHNSTON,  proprietor  and  Manager  C.  John- 
ston Coal  Co.,  Auburn,  Indiana,  was  born  in  St.  Joe,  Indiana, 
November  8,  1879,  and  has  been  two  years  in  the  retail  coal 
business.  Mr.  Johnston  also  opened  a  coal  yard  in  Garrett, 
Indiana,   in   October,    1918. 

C.  H.  JOHNSTON  of  the  firm  of  C.  B.  Johnston  &  Son  at 
Remington,  Indiana,  is  the  senior  partner  and  half  owner. 
He  has  been  in  the  business  for  forty-two  years.  He  was 
born  June  16,  1848,  at  Branch  Hill,  Ohio.  His  son,  W.  E. 
Johnston,  has  been  associated  in  the  business  for  twenty- 
six  years.  He  was  born  December  7,  1874.  The  business 
was  formerly  carried  on  at  Washburn,  Illinois,  and  Arrow- 
smith,    Illinois. 

DAVID  JONES,  Gas  City,  Indiana,  is  sole  owner  of  the 
David  Jones  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  trade 
for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  Llanelly,  Wales,  January 
29,  1863. 

LEWIS  KANOUSE  is  senior  member  of  the  retail  coal 
firm  of  Kenouse  &  Phillips  at  South  Bend,  Indiana.  He 
has  been  in  the  business  for  thirty-nine  years,  formerly 
with  the  Powell  Coal  Co.  and  Buckley,  Kanouse  &  Co.,  at 
Paris,  Illinois.     He  was  born  in  1852  at  Shelbyville,   Indiana. 

IRA  KAUFFMAN  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Con- 
sumers Coal  &  Supply  Co.  at  Elkhart,  Indiana,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  retail  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was 
born  at   Nevada,  Missouri,   in   1872. 

HARRY  WILLIAM  KELLEY  is  the  owner  of  the  Linder 
Coal  Co.  at  Angola,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  busi- 
ness for  nine  years.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Board 
of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion and  formerly  was  connected  with  the  New  York  Central 
Railroad.  He  was  born  October  21,  1872,  in  Kilkeel,  County 
Down,   Ireland. 

JOHN  E.  KELLY  is  Superintendent  and  Manager  of  the 
Big  4  Coal  Co.  at  Boonville,  Indiana.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-six  years,  formerly  with  Kelly  &  Nestos. 
He  was  born  at  Boonville  February  2,   1870. 

M.  A.  KENNER,  Huntington,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years,  with  the  firm  of  C.  E.  Bash  &  Co. 
He   was  born  at  Huntington  January   14,  1877. 

HUGO  F.  KEPPEN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Michigan  City, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was 
born   in  1876  in  Iowa. 

THEODORE  S.  KERNS  is  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the 
coal  business  of  Kerns  &  Healey,  Logansport,  Indiana.  He 
has  been  in  the  trade  for  fifty  years  and  was  formerly  with 
the  Indiana  Coal  &  Fuel  Co.  He  was  born  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  July  5,  1843.  B.  W.  Healey  is  President  and  Treasurer 
of  the  concern. 

ELI  W.  KIMBROUGH,  partner  in  the  C.  &  O.  Coal  Co., 
Jonesboro,  Indiana,  is  thirty  years  of  age  and  was  born  in 
Grant  County,   Indiana. 

EDWIN  KIRKPATRICK  owns  the  Kirkpatrick  Grain  Co. 
at  Shirley,  Indiana,  and  has  been  Ave  years  in  the  coal 
business,  formerly  with  the  Haywood  Grain  Co.,  Cyclone, 
Indiana.  He  was  born  at  Sugar  Grove,  Indiana,  February 
10,   1873. 


"WALTER  E.  KLEHFOTH  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Klehfoth-Niewoehner  Co.  at  Richmond,  Indiana.  He 
has  been  connected  with  the  retail  coal  business  for  eight 
years,  formerly  with  Hackman,  Klehfoth  &  Co.  He  was  born 
February  5,  1886,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Lewis  C.  Niewoehner 
Is  President  of  the  company. 

GEORGE  KLITCH  of  Ewing,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  re- 
tail coal  business  for  eight  years.  He  was  born  at  Sey- 
mour, Indiana,  March  15,  1856.  He  formerly  was  with  the 
United  Fourth  Vein  Coal  Co.  and  the  Davis  Coal  Co. 

CHRISTIAN  KNOEPFLE-  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Bremen,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  six  years. 
He  was  born  April  23,   1855,   in  Germany. 

JOHN  G.  KRATLI,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Knox,  Indiana, 
was  born  in  Switzerland,  February  21,  1842,  and  has  been  In 
the  business  most  of  his  active  life. 

JOHN  P.  KRIEGHAUM,  Treasurer  of  Kriegbaum  Bros., 
Inc.,  at  Huntington,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  born  at  Cedar- 
ville,   Ohio,   August   13,    1865. 

W.  S.  LASLEY,  senior  member  of  W.  S.  Lasley  &  Son, 
Gessie,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  six 
years.  He  was  born  March  15,  1856,  in  Scott  County,  Ken- 
tucky. 

EDWARD  LEE,  SR.,  is  head  of  the  firm  of  E.  Lee  &  Son 
at  Crawfordsville,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirty  years.  He  was  born  in  New  York  City 
March   1,   1850. 

WILLIAM  H.  LEE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  New  Albany, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Winslow  Gas  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
in  Floyd  County,   Indiana. 

OTTO  LEFFORGE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Rossville,  In- 
diana, has  been  seven  years  in  the  business.  He  was  born 
in  1880  at  Oaklandon,  Indiana. 

W.  A.  LEWIS,  Manager  of  the  Central  Coal  Co.  at  Elwood, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  three  years.  He  was 
born  June   22,   1869,  at  McKeesport,   Pennsylvania. 

DR.  W.  A.  LINE,  French  Lick,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years,  supplying  the  home  trade.  He 
was  born  In  Orange  County,  Indiana,  January  12,  1844. 

J.  F.  LINGEMAN  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Linge- 
man,  Adams  &  Co.,  coal  merchants  at  Brownsburg,  Indiana. 
He  was  born  in  Indiana  in  1854  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  for   twenty-six  years. 

HARRY  W.  LITTLE,  510  Old  State  Bank  Building.  Evans- 
ville, Indiana,  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  S.  W.  Little 
Sons  &  Co.  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  of  the  Southern  Indiana 
Coal  Bureau  and  Assistant  District  Representative  of  the, 
United  States  Fuel  Administration  for  Southern  Indiana. 
He  was  born   in   Evansville   in   1875. 

ORLANDO  HENRY  LITTLE,  President  of  the  O.  H.  Little 
Fuel  Co.,  Richmond,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  in  1865  in  Ran- 
dolph County,   Indiana. 

JOSEPH  E.  LLOYD  is  Manager  of  and  partner  in  the  E.  T. 
Slider  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  with  offices  at  New  Albany, 
Indiana.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years,  formerly  with  E.  T.  Slider,  I'ew  Albany.  He 
was  born  December  18,  1871,  at  New  Albany. 

W.  A.  LORD  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  at  Mays, 
Indiana,  since  November,  1907.  On  March  13,  1918,  he  and 
his  son,  Fred  S.  Lord,  formed  the  firm  of  W.  A.  Lord  &  Son. 
Both  are  natives  of  Rush  County,  Indiana,  the  father  born 
in    1857. 

ELI  A.  i.i  <:  i  \  ill  i.i.  is  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Berne 
Grain  &  Hay  Co.  at  Berne,  Indiana,  and  has  done  a  retail 
coal  business  for  ten  years. 

HARRY  BALDWIN  LYMAN,  coal  merchant  at  LaFayette, 
Indiana,  was  engaged  in  the  business  for  about  thirty  years, 
succeeding  his  father,  E.  B.  Lyman,  who  established  it  over 
fifty  years  ago.  Mr.  Lyman  was  born  in  LaFayette  Septem- 
ber 24,  1868,  and  died  December  19,  1916.  The  present  owner 
is  G.  Edwin  Lyman,  who  has  been  connected  with  the  trade 
for  six  years.  He  was  born  June  3,  1893,  at  LaFayette,  and 
his  associate  is  Charles  Patton,  who  has  been  with  the  firm 
for  twenty  years. 

JOHN  LYNCH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Highland,  Indiana, 
has  been  doing  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was 
born   in   Wood  County,    Ohio,   September   25,    1861. 

R.  L.  MAGEE,  Manager  for  H.  Kittinger.  Winamac, 
Indiana,  was  born  at  Winamac,  Indiana,  March  28,  1860, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years. 

HARRY  A.  MARTIN,  Owner  of  the  coal  business  of  Martin 
&  Martin  at  Newcastle,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with 
the  retail  coal  trade  eighteen  years.  He  was  born  October 
20,   1858,   in  Mt.   Vernon,   Ohio. 


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JOSEI'HUS  MART1X  is  Manager  of  the  retail  coal  firm  of 
Hardison  &  Martin  at  Geneva,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the 
business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Geneva  June  17, 
1881. 

GEORGE  MATHAS,  head  of  the  firm  of  Geo.  Mathas  & 
Son  at  Montezuma,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  born  July  25,  1864,  at 
Montezuma. 

HARRY  W.  MATTERS  is  Vice  President  and  Secretary  of 
the  J.  Woolley  Coal  Co.  at  Evansville,  Indiana.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  was  born 
December  5,  1863,  at  Vincennes,  Indiana.  He  is  interested 
also  in  the  Warrick  Coal  Mining  Co. 

SAMUEL  J.  MATTHEWS,  Manager  of  Elliott  &  Co., 
Tipton.  Indiana,  was  born  at  Peru,  Indiana,  in  1870,  and 
has  been  engaged  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  firm  of  Wees- 
ner,   Matthews  &   Co. 

LAKE  PUNCH  MAUCK  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Owensville  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  at  Owensvllle,  Indiana,  and 
has  been  in  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  April 
19,  1894,  at  Owensville. 

JAMES  H.  Mc<  I.KI.I, AM)  of  Brazil,  Indiana,  is  Treasurer 
of  the  Sunbeam  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  President  of  the 
Brazil  Block  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  In  Poland  In  1855  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  forty  years.  Mr. 
McClelland  Is  one  of  the  best  known  operators  in  the  block 
field  of  Indiana. 

H.  S.  McCOY  is  the  owner  of  the  Osgood  Grain  Co.  at  Os- 
good, Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
four    years. 

w  1 1  I  I  \M  F.  McCURDY  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Ridge- 
ville,  Indiana,  who  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for 
twenty-one  years.     He  was  born  in  1867. 

JOHN  M.  McGUIRE  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  LaFayette, 
Indiana,  who  has  been  in  business  for  himself  thirteen  years 
and  has  spent  thirty-five  years,  all  told,  In  various  connec- 
tions with  the  trade.  He  was  formerly  with  Wm.  Taylor  & 
Co.  and  William  Taylor  &  Son,  Brockenbrough  &  Murphy, 
Martin  &  McGuire  and  Parke  County  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
at  LaFayette  July  26,  1859. 

J.  E.  McILWAIN  is  owner  of  the  coal  business  of  Ed.  Mc- 
Ilwain  at  'Kirklin,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with  the 
retail  trade  for  six  years.  He  was  born  at  McCords,  Indiana, 
March   1,   1875. 

E.  B.  McQUADE,  General  Superintendent  Indian  Creek  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.,  Vincennes,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Indiana  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He  also 
has  coal  interests  in  Westphalia,  Indiana. 

C.  D.  MEEKER  is  Secretary  of  the  Monticello  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.  at  Monticello,  Indiana.  He  served  as  President  of 
the  Indiana  Retail  Lumber  Dealers'  Association  in  1913.  He 
was  born  at  Dayton.  Ohio,  August   31,   1857. 

LOUIS  H.  MEYER,  Manager  of  the  Meyer  Coal  Co.  at 
New  Albany,  Indiana,  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  six- 
teen years,  formerly  with  the  New  Albany  Coal  Co.  He 
was  born  February   22,  1869,  at  New  Albany. 

ARTHUR  L.  MILLER  is  owner  of  the  Miller  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.  at  Nappanee,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Elkhart 
County,  Indiana,  in  August,  1877.  His  partner  Is  Lenus 
Miller. 

VERN"  M.  MILLER,  Manager  of  the  Veedersburg  Lumber 
Co.,  Veedersburg,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Veedersburg, 
Indiana,  October  18,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   eleven    years. 

■WALTER  J.  MOMIIUVK  Is  Manager  of  the  Butler  Mill- 
ing Co.  at  Butler;  Indiana,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for  eight  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the  Platte  City 
Milling  Co.  at  Platte  City,  Missouri.  He  was  born  in  Lan- 
caster,  Ohio.    September   23,    1876. 

WILLIAM  LOVELL  MORRIS,  Secretary  and  Manager  of 
the  Citizens  Coal  &  Supply  Co.  at  Logansport,  Indiana,  has 
been  in  the  retail  business  for  ten  years  and  was  formerly 
with  Walter  J.  Scully,  owner  of  the  United  Coal  Yards.  He 
was  born  at  New  London,  Indiana,  in  1862. 

J.  W.  MORRISON  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Hunting- 
ton Lumber  Co.  at  Huntington,  Indiana,  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  N.  P.  Sailing  at  Anderson,  Indiana.  He  was 
born    in    Ohio   November   3,    1880. 

A.  B.  MOSHER,  Manager  of  A.  B.  Mosher  &  Co.,  coal  mer- 
chants at  Columbia  City,  Indiana,  has  been  engaged  In  the 
business  for  sixteen  years,  formerly  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Mosher  &  Oranll.  He  has  served  on  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Third  District  of  the  Indiana  Coal  Oper- 
ators Association.  He  was  born  In  Whitley  County,  Indiana, 
October  3,   1853. 


CLAY'  E.  MOSS  is  General  Superintendent  of  the  United 
Fourth  Vein  Coal  Co.  at  Linton,  Indiana.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  industry  for  twenty-three  years.  He 
was  born  in  Indiana  April  16,  1878. 

ARCHIBALD  K.  MURRAY'  of  Muncie,  Indiana  is  partner 
and  Manager  of  the  firm  of  Stafford  &  Murray,  who  have 
yards  at  Medford  and  Raymond,  Indiana.  He  has  been  ten 
years  in  the  coal  business.  He  was  born  in  Scotland  De- 
cember 20,   1876. 

WILLIAM  J.  MYERS,  Decatur,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  in 
Wayne  County,  Ohio,  May  21,  1839. 

JAMES  N.  Mini  lit  is  Manager  of  the  Willman  Lum- 
ber Co.  at  Hartford  City,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  retail  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was 
born  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  May  29,   1876. 

FRANK  B.  NEESE,  Mine  Superintendent  for  the  J.  K. 
Dering  Coal  Co.  at  Clinton,  Indiana,  has  been  connected 
with  the  coal  industry  for  over  twenty  years,  formerly 
with  the  Miami  Coal  Co.  and  the  O'Gara  Coal  Co.  He  was 
born  at  Brazil,   Indiana. 

MATHIAS  NEUDORF,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Merrillville, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  five  years.  He  was 
born  at  St.  John,  Indiana,  November  15,  1864. 

CALVIN  NICEUM,  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Niceum  & 
Harlan  at  Swayzee,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Niceum 
Milling  Co.  and  with  Wright  &  Niceum.  He  was  born 
January  19,  1851,  in  Darke  County,  Ohio. 

ORREN  M.  NICEUM,  General  Manager  of  the  Grant 
County  Dumber  Co.,  Swayzee,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  re- 
tail coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Niceum-Henley  Co.  and  the  Niceum  Milling  Co.  He 
was  born   in   1867   in  Wabash  County,  Indiana. 

A.  C.  NICHOLSON,  Treasurer  of  the  Washington-Wheat- 
land Coal  Co.,  Wheatland,  Indiana,  was  born  In  Knox 
County,  Indiana,  in  December,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fifteen   years. 

LEWIS  C.  NIEWOEHNER  is  President  of  the  Klehfoth- 
Niewoehner  Co.,  222  Kinsey  St.,  Richmond,  Indiana.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two  years.  He  was  born 
January  27,  1886,  at  Richmond. 

C.  H.  OMSTEAD,  President  of  C.  H.  Omstead  &  Son  at 
LaGrange,  Indiana,  has  been  five  years  in  the  retail  coal 
business.  He  was  born  at  LaGrange.  M.  H.  Omstead  is  the 
other  member  of  the  firm. 

CHARLES    A.    OPP,    proprietor    of    The    Opp    Coal    Co.    at 

Aurora,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business 
for  twelve  years.  He  formerly  was  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Bosse  &  Opp.  He  was  born  at  Farmers  Retreat,  Indiana, 
January   16,   1866. 

J.  J.  OVERMEY'ER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Kouts,  In- 
diana, has  been  in  business  for  six  years.  He  was  born 
at  Somerset,  Ohio,   In  1874. 

WILLIAM  OVERMIRE,  Yorktown,  Indiana,  is  a  native 
of  Indiana,  having  been  born  at  Yorktown,  September  4, 
1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven   years. 

GEORGE  H.  PALMER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Sheridan, 
Indiana,  has  been  doing  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was 
born  in  Indiana  in  1860. 

JOHN  H.  PANABAKER,  General  Manager  of  the  firm  of 
Sam  Panabaker  &  Son  at  Kokomo,  Indiana,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  has 
served  as  a  Director  of  the  Indiana  Retail  Coal  Merchants' 
Association.  He  was  born  February  19,  1882,  in  Cass  County, 
Indiana. 

WARREN  W.  PEARSON,  Upland,  Indiana,  was  born  in 
Fisher,  Illinois,  July  27,  1880,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years. 

JAMES  H.  PERSONS,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Queen  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  at  Jasonville,  Indiana,  has  been 
in  the  coal  Industry  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  July 
27,  1858.  at  Wellston,  Ohio. 

HENRY  <:.  PETERS,  "The  Coal  Man"  at  Crown  Point, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  business  for  nine  years.  He 
was  born   In  Chicago,  Illinois,  October  1,   1876. 

HARI.EY  PHEND,  Manager  Phend  Bros.,  Nappanee.  In- 
diana, was  born  In  N&ppahee  January  3,  1870.  and  has  been 
In  the  ciiiil  business  a  quarter  of  a  century.  William  Phend, 
his  partner,   was  born  Jun«  13.   1868. 

<  IIARLES  MONROE  PIERCY,  Kokomo,  Indiana,  has  been 
In  the  retail  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born 
February   11,    1853,    In    Ohio. 

TEMPLE  G.  PIERSON.  Manager  of  the  J.  L.  Plerson  Lum- 
ber Co.  at  Spencer,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the 
r«tatl  coal  business  for  eight  years.  He  was  born  Febru- 
ary 3,   1875,  at  Freedom,  Indiana. 


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JACOB  FRANKLIN  PLICE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Markle, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-three  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  Sharick  &  Plice  at  Nankin,  Ohio,  but 
bought  out  his  partner.  He  was  born  at  Polk,  Ohio,  January 
15,  1859. 

MARTIN  LUTHER  PLOTT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Leb- 
anon, Indiana,  has  been  doing  business  there  for  fifteen 
years,  selling  strictly  for  cash.  He  was  born  August  3, 
1853,  at  Roanoke,  Virginia. 

ELIJAH  POWERS  is  General  Manager  of  the  Peacock  Coal 
Co.  at  Boonville,  Indiana.  He  has  been  connected  with  the 
business  for  sixteen  years,  formerly  with  the  T.  D.  Scales 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Cypress  Creek  coal  mines.  He  was  born 
February   3,   1886,   in  Warrick  County,   Indiana. 

o.  H.  RABE  is  a  Director  of  the  Beckman  Supply  Co.  at 
Hammond,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  retail 
coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  born  May  2,  1875, 
at  Chicago   Heights,   Illinois. 

ALFRED  P.  RANDOLPH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  LaFay- 
ette,  Indiana,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  sixteen 
years.     He  was  born  at  Newburg,  Pennsylvania. 

WILBUR  LIAL  RAWLINGS  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Michigan  City,  Indiana,  who  has  been  doing  business  for 
thirty-seven  years.  He  was  born  at  Jeffersonville,  Indiana, 
January  12,  1858,  and  is  the  pioneer  coal  merchant  of  his 
city. 

MALCOLM  REED,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Rose  Hill 
Coal  Co.  at  Linton,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  six 
years,  formerly  with  the  Twin  Oaks  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
at  Brazil,  Indiana,  March  29,  1874.  He  worked  in  the  mines 
at  Morris  Run,  Pennsylvania,  when  fourteen  years  old. 

DAVID  H.  REESE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Angola,  Indi- 
ana, has  been  in  the  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  born 
in  Williams  County,  Ohio,  September  13,   1866. 

OSBORNE  G.  REILLY,  clerk  in  the  office  of  E.  T.  Slider 
at  New  Albany,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five  years.  He  was  born  August  11,  1872,  at  New 
Albany. 

THOMAS  W.  RICHARDSON  is  President  of  the  Rose  Hill 
Coal  Co.  at  Linton,  Indiana.  He  "was  formerly  President  of 
the  Twin  Oaks  Coal  Co.,  which  he  organized.  He  was  born 
near  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  in  1871.  He  began  working 
in  the  coal  mines  at  Washington,  Indiana,  at  the  age  of 
nine  years. 

SCHUYLER  ROSE,  South  Bend,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the 
Powhattan  Coal  Co.  at  Toledo,  the  Pittsburgh-Buffalo  Coal 
Co.  at  Detroit  and  the  Commercial  Coal  Co.  at  Detroit,  as 
Sales  Manager,  and  Hunter  W.  Finch  &  Co.  at  Chicago.  He 
was  born  at  South  Bend  February  22,  1868. 

J.  N.  RUSSELL,  Tipton,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Warren 
County,   Ohio,    February   25,    1859,   and  has   been   in  .the   coal 

business  eighteen  years. 

HUGH  E.  RUTLEDGE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Martins- 
ville, Indiana,  has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  sixteen 
years.  He  was  born  in  Morgan  County,  Indiana,  September 
19,  1870. 

ALBERT  R.  SAILOR,  Manager  and  President  of  A.  R. 
Sailor  Coal  Co.,  coal  merchants,  Elkhart,  Indiana,  has  been 
eight  years  in  the  retail  business.  He  was  born  January  1, 
18S0,   in   southwestern   Indiana. 

JAMES  W.  SALE,  President  of  the  Studebaker  Grain  & 
Seed  Co.  at  Bluffton,  Indiana,  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Studebaker-Sale  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  twenty-eight  years.  He  was  born  August  1, 
1858,   at   North   Manchester,   Indiana. 

NIELS  P.  SALLING,  Anderson,  Indiana,  has  been  engaged 
in  the  retail  coal  business  at  Anderson  nineteen  years.  He 
is  also  interested  in  yards  at  Huntington  and  Muncie,  In- 
diana.     He   was   born   in   Denmark. 

EUGENE  G.  SARGEANT  is  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Sargeant  Coal  Co.  at  Newburgh,  Indiana,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years. 
He  is  a  Director  of  the  Evansville  Coal  Exchange.  He  was 
born  at  Newburgh  July  18,  1870. 

H.  E.  SCHEID,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Covington,  Indiana, 
has  been  doing  business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  Decem- 
ber  1,   1878,   at  Eaton,   Ohio. 

J.  B.  SCHLOOT,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Purchasing 
Agent  of  the  Ayrdale  Coal  Co.  at  Linton,  Indiana,  has  been 
connected  with  the  business  for  six  years.  He  was  born  at 
Linton  in  1871. 

NICHOLAS  SCHREPFERMAN  is  President  of  the  Schrep- 
ferman  Coal  Co.  at  Brazil,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  industry  for  twenty-six  years.  He  was  born  in  Ger- 
many December  1,  1861. 


WILLIAM  SCONCE  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  four  years  at  Crawfordsville,  Indiana,  and  is  the  pro- 
prietor of  the  South  Side  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  He  formerly 
was  with  the  Burnet-Lewis  Lumber  Co.  of  Indianapolis.  He 
was  born  in  Bartholomew  County,  Indiana,  February  4,  1864. 

FINLEY  T.  SEMON,  Vernon,  Indiana,  was  born  in  Ripley 
County,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past    fourteen    years. 

FOREST  SHACKELFORD,  associated  with  Mark  Shackel- 
ford in  the  ownership  of  the  Ladoga  Coal  Co.,  Ladoga,  In- 
diana, was  born  in  Montgomery  County  in  1868.  He  has 
been   in   the  coal   business   four  years. 

MARK  SHACKELFORD,  associated  with  Forest  Shackel- 
ford in  the  ownership  of  the  Ladoga  Coal  Co.,  Ladoga,  In- 
diana, was  born  in  Montgomery  County,  Indiana,  in  1865. 
He  has  been   in  the  coal  business  four  years. 

LYMAN  E.  SHAW  is  the  Owner  and  Manager  of  the 
Bloomington  Coal  Co.  at  Bloomington,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  business  for  seven  years.  He  "was  born 
in  1869  in  Indiana.  Ray  E.  Fultz,  his  assistant,  is  now  in 
the   service   of  his  country. 

WILLIAM  R.  SHAW  is  Manager  of  the  Urmston  Grain  Co. 
at  Orestes,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  in  business  for 
himself.     He  was  born  September  1,  1874,  at  Orestes. 

SHAW  &  SHAW,  Crawfordsville.  Indiana,  is  composed  of 
James  O.  and  Melville  F.  Shaw,  who  have  been  in  the  re- 
tail coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  Both  were  born  at 
Battle  Ground.  Indiana,  the  former  in  1854  and  the  latter 
in   1856. 

IRVIN  SHEAKS,  Indiana  Harbor,  Indiana,  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  for  five  years.  He  was  born  at 
Walkerton,    Indiana,    October    8,    1879. 

DORA  W.  SHERRY  is  General  Manager  of  W.  H.  Sherry 
&  Son,  coal  merchants  at  Connersville,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association 
and  the  Indiana  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association.  He 
was    born    March    18,    1878,    at   Connersville. 

J.  E.  SHIELDS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Hope,  Indiana,  has 
been  in  the  business  for  about  forty  years.  He  was  born  in 
North    Carolina   in    1854. 

ANSON  R.  SHIREMAN,  President  and  Manager  of  A.  R. 
Shireman  &  Son,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Martinsville,  In- 
diana, has  been  in  business  forty  years.  He  was  born  at 
Martinsville  February  4,  1854.  Howard  F.  Shireman,  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer,  was  born  November  15,  1881. 

GEORGE  W.  SHUPP,  retail  coal  merchant  at  North  Man- 
chester, Indiana,  has  been  twenty-six  years  in  the  business, 
formerly  with  Young  Shupp  and  S.  P.  Young.  He  was 
born  at  Bucyrus,   Ohio. 

ROSCOE  T.  SIMMERS,  junior  partner  of  Beach  &  Simmers 
at  Albany,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  five  years.  He  was  born  January  17,  1885,  in  Allen 
County,   Indiana. 

EDWARD  T.  SLIDER,  New  Albany,  Indiana,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business,  wholesale  and  retail,  for  twenty-eight 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  a  plant  at  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky. He  was  born  March  4,  1866,  at  New  Albany.  Mr. 
Slider  is  one  of  the  most  successful  of  retail  coal  merchants. 

EPHRAIM  K.  SMITH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Middle- 
town,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  eleven  years,  for- 
merly with  Daniels  &  Pickering  Co.  He  was  born  near 
Newcastle,  Indiana,  June  5,  1875. 

O.  O.  SMITH,  Richmond,  Indiana,  is  Western  Manager  for 
the  Bewley-Darst  Coal  Co.  of  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years,  formerly  with  the 
Marmet  Coal  Co.  and  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  He  was  born  November  5,  1876,  at  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  and 
is   widely   known   in   the   coal   trade. 

W.  B.  SMITH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Jolietville.  Indiana, 
has  been  in  the  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  born 
November  14,   1870,  at  Jolietville. 

WILLIAM  M.  SMITH,  Manager  for  W.  M.  Smith  &  Co., 
Logansport,  Indiana,  has  been  fifteen  years  in  the  retail 
coal  trade.  He  was  born  August  23,  1849,  in  Pulaski  County, 
Indiana. 

WILLIAM  SNAVELY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Syracuse, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen  years.  He 
was  born  April  15,   1868,  at  Syracuse. 

MYRON  B.  SNYDER,  Waynetown,  Indiana,  was  born  in 
Franklin  County,  Indiana,  November  30,  1889,  and  has  been 
engaged   in   the   coal  business  for  six  years. 

GEORGE  W.  SPENCER  is  the  owner  of  the  G.  W.  Spencer 
Coal  Co.  at  Garrett,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  busi- 
ness for  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  Somerset,  Ohio,  June  8, 
1859. 


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ri-:i(KY  It.  SPRAGEFB  is  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Man- 
ager of  the  Syracuse  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  at  Syracuse,  In- 
diana, having  an  Interest  in  the  Home  Lumber  &  Coal  Co. 
at  Buchanan,  Michigan.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
tin-  Terry-8prag"ue  Co.,  and  lias  been  in  the  business  for 
eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  Fremont,  Indiana,  Decem- 
ber  11,    1870. 

LA  KUY  SPRING,  South  Bend,  Indiana,  is  a  traveling 
salesman  for  the  Philadelphia  &  Heading  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  business  for  six  years.  He 
was  born  at  Geneva,  Ohio,  June  1,  1876. 

\\  .  D.  SPRINGER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Foitville,  Indi- 
an;'.,   lias   been    two   year*   In   the   business. 

PltVNK  STAFFORD  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bluffton, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  seven  years.  He 
was  born   June   7,    1879,   in   Wells  County,    Indiana. 

ELLSWORTH  II.  STUCK,  Manager  for  E.  B.  Steck  &  Son, 
Muncie,  Indiana,  has  been  In  the  retail  coal  business  for 
fifteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Newcastle,  Indiana,  August 
15,    1864. 

ll\\s  ST01,I,KV,  West  Lebanon,  Indiana,  was  born  in 
Illinois  January  5,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   three    years. 

KHVIX  STICKY,  Manager  of  the  Berne  Lumber  Co.  at 
Monroe,  Indiana,  has  been  six  years  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness.    He  was  born  June  12,  1889,  at  Berne,  Indiana. 

s\MUEL  ('.  STULTZ,  Secretary  Clinton  Coal  Co.,  Clinton, 
Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  seventeen 
rears.  He  was  born  October  23,  1868,  in  Clinton  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance   Co. 

ARTHUR  G.  TAYLOR,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Creston, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  fourteen  years.  He 
was  born  July  26.   1880,  at  Creston. 

A.  O.  TOWNSLEY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Burnetts  Creek, 
Indiana,  has  been  in  the  business  for  eleven  years.  He 
was  born   In  Carroll  County,   Indiana,   March   17,   1882. 

CHARLES  ARTHUR  TOWSLEY  is  Secretary,  Treasurer 
and  Manager  of  the  Claypool  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  at  Clay- 
pool,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  business 
for  two  years.  He  was  born  February  20,  1871,  at  White 
Pigeon,  Michigan. 

CLARENCE  F.  TROYER  is  Manager  of  the  Mlddlebury 
Grain  Co.  at  Middlebury,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  business  eight  years.  He  was  born  in  LaGrange 
County,  Indiana,  December  16,  1886. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  TUTHILL  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Crown  Point,  Indiana,  who  has  been  doing  business  for  ten 
years.     He  was  born  at  Crown  Point,  March  11,  1878. 

J.  F.  TWEEDY'  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  at 
Carthage,  Indiana,  for  two  years.  He  was  born  July  7, 
1866,   In   Rush  County,  Indiana. 

CHARLES  HARRY'  UHL,  proprietor  of  the  Independent 
Coal  Co.  at  Logansport,  Indiana,  has  been  In  the  retail  coal 
business  four  years.  He  was  born  February  25,  1875,  In 
Logansport. 

JULIUS  A.  UNDERWOOD,  Manager  of  the  Jamestown 
Lumber  Co.  at  Jamestown,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born  at  Austin, 
Texas,  November   16,    1875. 

i  \  iiiii:ht  M.  VAN  HART,  Manager  of  L.  M.  Van  Hart  & 
Co.,  Connersville,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  wholesale  and 
retail  coal  business  twenty-three  years,  formerly  with  the 
C.  G.  Blake  Co.  He  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  Wolf  Creek 
Coal  Co.  and  of  the  Altro  Coal  Co.,  and  Vice  President  of  the 
Colvan  Mining  Co.  He  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  July 
19,    1877. 

CHARLES  W.  VERNON,  Anderson,  Indiana,  is  the  owner 
of  the  retail  coal  business  of  E.  G.  Vernon  &  Son  and  has 
carried  it  on  since  1895.  It  was  established  in  1868  by  E. 
G.  Vernon.  Charles  W.  Vernon  was  born  at  Anderson  Aug- 
ust 2,  1872. 

JOSEPH  L,  VICKERY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Sheridan, 
Indiana,  was  born  in  Sheridan  December  31,  1865,  and  has 
been  in  the  business  sixteen  years. 

S.  c.  WALLACE  is  a  partner  In  the  coal  firm  of  Wallace 
&  Painter  at  IMwardsport,  Indiana.  He  has  been  in  the 
business  for  thirteen  years,  formerly  with  Ruby  &  Wallace. 
He   was  born   In  Orange  County,  Indiana. 


SAMUEL  W.  WALTS,  General  Manager  of  the  River  Coal 
&  Supply  Co.,  New  Albany,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  eleven  years  and  is  well  known  in  the 
trade. 

ARTHUR  D.  WASMUTH,  Manager  for  A.  Wasmuth  &  Sons 
Co.  at  Andrews,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the  retail 
coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  The  company  also 
operates  a  yard  at  Roanoke,  Indiana.  Mr.  Wasmuth  was 
born  at   Roanoke. 

CECIL  C.  WELLS,  Manager  of  the  Scottsburg  Elevator 
at  Scottsburg,  Indiana,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-three  years,  formerly  with  the  Scotts- 
burg Grain  Exchange.  He  was  born  in  Indiana  Novem- 
ber  22,   1875. 

A.  C.  WILKERSON..  President  and  Manager  of  the  Wllker- 
son  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.  at  Huntington,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the 
retail  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  in  1847  in 
Allen    County,    Indiana. 

JOHN  T.  WILSON  is  the  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  Larwill,  Indiana,  and  has  conducted  it  for  seventeen 
years.  He  was  born  at  Larwill  October  16,  1852,  and  was 
the  first  coal  merchant  in  the  town. 

HARRY  D.  WINNIE  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Russia- 
ville  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  at  Russiaville,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  company  for  six  years.  He  re- 
ceived a  commission  August  15,  1917,  at  Fort  Benjamin 
Harrison,   as   Lieutenant    in    the   Officers-   Reserve   Corps. 

W.  H.  WINNIE  is  President  of  the  Russiaville  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.  at  Russiaville,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  coal  business  over  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  New  Richmond  Lumber  Co.,  Stockwell  Lumber  Co. 
and  the  Sedalia  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Jack- 
son, Michigan,   May  2,   1863. 

"in  i  \  WOLF  is  Manager  for  J.  G.  Wolf  &  Sons,  Marlon, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
fifteen  years.  He  is  a  son  of  J.  G.  Wolf,  formerly  head  of 
the  firm,  who  died  April  6,  1912.  Orien  Wolf  was  born  In 
1869  at  Morristown,  Indiana. 

B.  li.  WOODS  of  Cicero,  Indiana,  is  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Cicero  Lumber  Co.  and  has  been  eleven  years 
in  the  retail  coal  business.  He  was  born  at  Michigan  City, 
Indiana,    December   19,    1869. 

JOHN  C.  WHKiHT,  Boonville,  Indiana,  has  been  connected 
with  the  coal  industry  for  nineteen  years,  formerly  as  a 
miner.  For  six  and  a  half  years  he  was  a  mine  inspector  for 
the  Indiana  Industrial  Board,  but  is  at  present  employed  as 
mine  boss.  He  was  born  in  Hamilton  County.  Illinois,  No- 
vember 9,  1874. 

LEWIS  S.  WRIGHT  is  senior  member  and  buyer  of  the 
firm  of  Wright  &  Niceum,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Swayzee, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  eight  years.  He 
was  born  at  Swayzee  September  28,  1866. 

E.  J.  WYATT  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Wyatt 
Coal  Co.  at  Auburn,  Indiana,  and  has  been  connected  with 
the  retail  trade  for  fifteen  years,  formerly  with  the  firm 
of  Wyatt  &  Baker.  He  was  born  April  26,  1862,  In  DeKalb 
County,  Indiana. 

ARTHUR  WYL1E,  Manager  of  the  Elwood  Lumber  Co. 
at  Elwood,  Indiana,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
sixteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Stellarton,  Nova  Scotia, 
November  13,   1874. 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON  YARNELLE,  Manager  of  the 
Yarnelle  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Wabash,  Indiana,  was  born 
in  Wabash,  Indiana,  August  5,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    for   eleven    years. 

FREDERICK  J.  YESBERA  is  the  owner  of  the  Yesbera 
Coal  Co.  at  Auburn,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  business 
for  about  nine  years.  He  was  born  at  West  Unity.  Ohio, 
October  25.  1858. 

A.  J.  ZIMMERMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Remington, 
Indiana,  was  In  the  coal  business  fourteen  years,  recently 
selling  out  to  the  Citizens  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Ward  Lewis, 
proprietor.  Mr.  Zimmerman  was  born  In  Woodford  County, 
Illinois.   April    22.    1852. 

W.  PAUL  ZIMMERMAN  is  President  of  the  Zimmerman 
Coal  Co.  at  Brazil,  Indiana.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Hall-Zimmerman  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Zimmerman 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He 
was   born    at    Brazil   September   14,   1874. 


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IOWA 


ALTHOUGH  Iowa  was  among  the  earliest  pioneer 
states  in  the  production  of  coal  west  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi river,  the  ready  absorption  of  its  out- 
put by  interests  within  its  own  borders  and  its  geo- 
graphic location  with  respect  to  other  coal  producing 
areas  have  combined  to  localize  its  distribution  to  such 
an  extent  that  only  a  very  small  percentage  of  its  an- 
nual coal  product  reaches  the  general  channels  of  in- 
terstate commercial  fuel  distribution.  The  wealth  and 
resources  of  the  state  have  made  it  a  most  tempting 
field  to  producers  in  other  states  and  its  ready  accessi- 
bility from  the  point  of  view  of  transportation  has  drawn 
domestic  coal  from  every  major  producing  state  east 
of  the  Mississippi,  except  Alabama,  and  from  Colorado 
and  Wyoming.  At  the  same  time  the  industrial  de- 
mand has  proven  a  strong  attraction  for  Illinois  and, 
to  a  lesser  degree,  Indiana  and  other  states  lying  in 
proximity  to  the  King  of  the  Corn  Belt. 

The  Iowa  coal  fields,  located  in  the  central  and  south- 
ern portions  of  the  state,  form  the  northeastern  section 
of  the  western  interior  coal  region.  The  coal  bearing 
area  within  the  state  covers  approximately  20,000 
square  miles,  "of  which  13,000  may  be  considered  po- 
tentially productive  under  present  conditions  and  con- 
siderably more  in  future  periods  when  the  fuel  sup- 
plies of  the  world  shall  have  suffered  greater  depletion." 
The  coal  measures  of  the  state  are  separated  into  the 
Missouri  and  the  Des  Moines  groups.  The  upper,  or 
Missouri  group,  is  of  little  present  importance.  The 
greater  part  of  the  coal  production  of  the  state  comes 
from  the  lower  part  of  the  Des  Moines  group,  where  the 
beds  average  about  five  feet  in  thickness.  Included  in 
the  Des  Moines  group  is  the  well  known  Mystic  or  Cen- 
terville  bed.  With  the  exception  of  the  Nodaway  thin 
vein  in  Adams,  Page  and  Taylor  counties,  which  enjoys 
a  local  market  of  some  value,  the  upper  Missouri,  or 
upper  group,  yields  little  coal  of  present-day  impor- 
tance. 

"The  more  important  producing  areas  of  Iowa,"  says 
the  United  States  Geological  Survey,  "are:  (1)  The 
northern,  including  Webster,  Boone  and  neighboring 
counties,  and  yielding  four  per  cent,  of  the  total  output ; 
(2)  the  north  central,  including  Polk,  Jasper  and 
Dallas  counties,  and  producing  29  per  cent,  of  the  out- 
put, chiefly  from  Dallas  county;  (3)  the  south  central, 
including  Marion,  Mahaska,  Monroe  and  adjacent  coun- 


ties, and  producing  43  per  cent,  of  the  total  output ;  (4) 
the  southeastern,  including  Wapello,  Van  Buren,  and 
adjacent  counties,  and  yielding  four  per  cent,  of  the 
total — in  all  of  these  areas  practically  all  of  the  coal 
mined  comes  from  the  lower  part  of  the  Des  Moines 
group;  (5)  the  south  central,  including  Appanoose  and 
Wayne  counties,  and  producing  19  per  cent,  of  the 
state's  total — the  coal  mined  is  from  the  Mystic  or 
Centerville  bed;  (6)  the  southwestern,  including 
Adams,  Taylor  and  Page  counties  and  yielding  one-half 
of  one  per  cent,  of  the  total — this  product  is  from  the 
Nodaway  bed  of  the  Missouri  group." 

The  first  record  of  Iowa  production  appears  in  the 
United  States  Census  for  1840,  when  the  state  was  cred- 
ited with  a  total  output  of  400  tons.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  an  insignificant  loss  in  1860,  the  production 
showed  a  slow  but  steady  increase  until  1873  when  the 
output  had  reached  336,000  tons.  There  was  a  jump  to 
799,936  tons  the  following  year  and  in  1875  the  total 
was  1,231,547  tons.  The  record  continued  upon  a 
fairly  even  tenor  until  1881,  when  the  output  totaled 
1,960,000  tons.  The  next  year  saw  a  rapid  increase,  the 
tonnage  being  3,920,000  tons.  Production  figures  since 
that  date  are  shown  in  the  following  table:    . 


Year.  Ton 

1883 4,457,540 

1884 4,370,566 

1885 4,012,575 

1886 4,315,779 

1887 4,473,828 

1888 4,952,440 

1889 4,095,358 

1890 4,021,739 

1891 3,825,495 

1892 3,918,491 

1893 3,972,229 

1894 3,967,253 

1895 4,156,074 

1896 3,954,028 

1897 4,611,865 

1898 4,618,842 

1899 5,177,479 


Year.  Ton. 

1900 5,202,939 

1901 5,617,499 

1902 5,904,766 

1903 6,419,811 

1904 6,519,933 

1905 6,798,609 

1906 7,266,224 

1907 7,574,322 

1908 7,161,310 

1909 7,757,762 

1910 7,928,120 

1911 7,331,648 

1912 7,289,529 

1913 7,525,936 

1914 7,451,022 

1915 7,614,143 

1916 7,260,800 


The  proximity  of  Iowa  to  the  Illinois  fields  and  its 
general  accessibility,  as  before  mentioned,  to  other  pro- 
ducing areas  to  the  east,  and  the  coal  producing  states 
to  the  west  and  south  on  the  one  hand  and  the  state  and 
railroad  market  for  the  Iowa  coal  on  the  other,  serve  to 


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confine  the  distribution  of  the  Iowa  product  to  outside 
markets  to  a  limited  area.  In  1915  the  railroads  and 
Iowa  users  consumed  approximately  95  per  cent,  of  the 
total  output,  leaving  only  about  five  per  cent,  for  ship- 
ment to  markets  into  the  six  states  bordering  upon 
Iowa.  In  detail  these  distribution  figures  are  as 
follows:  Used  in  Iowa — Mines,  148,159;  local,  502,- 
886;  intrastate,  2,136,125;  total,  2,78(5,570,  or  37  per 
cent.  Interstate— Illinois,  17.700;  Kansas,  40,092; 
Minnesota.  12,557;  Missouri.  174,164;  Nebraska,  143,- 
108;  South  Dakota.  24,120;  total,  411,741,  or  5  per 
cent.  Railroads,  4,415,832,  or  58  per  cent.  Grand  total, 
7,614,143. 

Iowa's  per  capita  consumption  is:  Bituminous  coal, 
2.83  tons;  anthracite.  .13  ton:  total  per  capita,  2.96 
tons;  consumption  per  square  mile,  128  tons. 


During  the  year  in  question,  44.5  per  cent,  of  the  coal 
consumed  in  Iowa  came  from  the  neighboring  state  of 
Illinois.  The  37  per  cent,  of  the  production  used  of 
Iowa  coal  within  the  state  represented  40.6  per  cent,  of 
the  coal  fuel  requirements  of  the  state.  Eleven  states 
were  called  upon  to  contribute  the  remaining  18  per 
cent.  In  addition,  310,000  tons  of  Pennsylvania  an- 
thracite were  shipped  into  Iowa.  The  sources  of  supply 
called  upon  to  meet  the  bituminous  requirements  to  be 
as  follows:  Arkansas,  16,537  tons;  Colorado,  12,660; 
Illinois,  3,053,413;  Indiana,  149,046;  Iowa,  2,786,570; 
Kentucky,  335,431;  Maryland  (includes  Maryland-Ken- 
tucky consumption),  5,898;  Missouri,  22,729;  Ohio, 
1,666;  Pennsylvania,  66,973;  Virginia,  1,500;  West 
Virginia,  159.444;  Wyoming,  16,418;  lake,  248,000; 
total,  6,876,285. 


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IOWA 


ELMER   A.   BUTLER,   Sioux   City,   Iowa, 

Proprietor  of  the  Day  Coal  Co.,  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  was  born 
in  Fort  Atkinson,  Wisconsin,  January  25,  1863,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  firm  of  L.  G.  Everist  for  eleven  years. 


H.    E.    HAAKINSON,    Sioux    City,    Iowa, 

President  of  the  H.  E.  Haakinson  Coal 
Co.,  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  was  born  in 
Christiania,  Norway,  April  5,  1861,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thir- 
teen years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Re- 
tail Coal  Dealers'  Association  of  Minne- 
apolis. 


W.  W.  ALBRIGHT,  Lewis,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1850. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years. 

B.  B.  ANDERSON,  Estherville,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Wyom- 
ing County,  New  York,  October  2,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  himself  for  the  past  twenty-six  years. 

WM.  C.  ARTHUR,  Davenport,  Iowa,  who  for  the  past 
twenty-five  years  has  been  a  well  known  coal  salesman  in 
Iowa,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  March  17,  1861.  He  has 
been  connected  with  the  Atlas  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  The  White- 
breast  Fuel  Co.,  Williams  &  Peters,  Fowler  &  Wilson,  Won- 
derland Coal  Co.,  and  Mitchell  &  Dillon  Coal  Co.  During 
1917  he  joined  the  sales  force  of  the  Lincoln  Highway  Tire 
Co.  of  Fulton,  Illinois. 

T.  I.  BACHUS,  Manager  of  The  Eagle  Lumber  &  Coal  Co., 
Fayette,  Iowa,  was  born  at  New  Windsor,  Illinois,  February 
3,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six 
years. 

M.  M.  BARISH,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Barish  Bros.  Coal 
Co.,  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Russia  July  25,  1887,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  E.  Barish  is 
President  of  this  company. 

WALTER  BARRON,  Pit  Foreman  and  part  owner  of  the 
Hopkins  Coal  Co.,  Colfax,  Iowa,  has  worked  in  different 
capacities  in  Iowa  mines  for  thirty-six  years. 

WILLIAM  J.  BECKWITH,  Manager  of  Beckwith  &  Inglis, 
Wyoming,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Delaware  County,  New  York, 
June  1,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven 
and  a  half  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  firm 
of  Inglis  Bros. 

W.  M.  BEGGS,  Manager  of  the  Beggs  Coal  Co.,  Mystic, 
Iowa,  is  a  native  of  Scotland,  having  been  born  there  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
four  years. 

SMITH  B.  BELLAMY  of  the  S.  B.  Bellamy  Lumber  Co., 
Nashua,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Nashua,  April  6,  1871,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for  fourteen  years  and 
previous  to  that  was  associated  with  his  father.  His  brother, 
J.  B.  Bellamy,  has  also  been  connected  with  them  most  of 
the  time. 

GEO.  H.  BICKEL,  member  of  the  firm  of  Bruner  &  Bickel, 
Vinton,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Norway,  Iowa,  November  18,  1884, 
and   has  been  engaged  in   the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

W.  H.  BLAKE  of  Grout  &  Blake,  Winterset,  Iowa,  was 
born  at  Cisnie,  Illinois,  January  6,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  five  years. 

W.  H.  BLAKELY,  Norway,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Wyoming, 
Iowa,  July  10,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  twenty-one  years. 

FRED  O.  BLOCK,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  of  the 
W.  G.  Block  Co.,  Muscatine,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Muscatine, 
Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years, 
associated  with  his  father,  operating  several  successful 
yards  in  various  cities. 

GEORGE  H.  BRUNER,  member  of  the  firm  of  Bruner  & 
Bickel,  Vinton,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Lee  County,  Illinois,  No- 
vember 26,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years. 

OSCAR  F.  BURKLAND,  Creston,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Lan- 
caster, Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen 
years,  having  been  formerly  connected  with  the  Cline  & 
Shaw  Fuel  Co.,  St.  Louis  Coal  Co.  and  the  Prairie  Block  Coal 
Co. 

JAMES  CAMERON,  Keokuk,  Iowa,  member  of  the  firm  of 
James  Cameron  Sons,  is  a  native  of  Keokuk,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 

GEORGE  CAPEL,  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Frost- 
burg,  Maryland,  December  19,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
Bennett  &  Capel  and  the  Central  Coal  Co. 

CYRIL  T.  CARNEY,  General  Superintendent  of  the  Wright 
Coal  Co.  and  Scandia  Coal  Co.  at  Carney,  Iowa,  was  born  in 
Grinnell,  Iowa,  March  3,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  six  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Carney  Coal 
Co.,  Carney  Cherokee  Coal  Co.,  The  Saylor  Coal  Co.  and  John 
A.  Logan  Coal  Co.,  and  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Board  of  Iowa  Coal  Operators'  Association. 

KRIEGH  GERALD  CARNEY,  Manager  of  The  Saylor  Coal 
Co.,  Carney,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Grinnell,  Iowa,  February  23, 
1891,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  six 
years.     He  is  also  interested  in  the  Wright  Coal  Co. 

A.  W.  CARLSON,  JR.,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Dallas  Coal  Co.,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  May  8,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the  past  thirteen  years,  having  formerly  been  connected 
with  the  Maple  Block  Coal  Co.,  Delaware  Coal  Co.  and  Zim- 
belman  Coal  Co. 


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\inill;KV  C.  CAVINESS,  Manager  of  the  Spahn  &  Rose 
Lumber  Co.,  Afton,  Iowa,  was  formerly  In  the  coal  business 
for  three  years  at  Fairfield,  Iowa.  He  was  born  August  28, 
1892. 

CLARK  E.  CHALKKK,  Clinton,  Iowa,  son  of  George  N. 
Chalker,  was  born  in  Clinton,  Iowa,  July  1,  1873,  and  has 
been  associated  with  his  father  for  thirty-two  years  and 
has  been   managing  the   business  during  recent  years. 

GEO.  V.  «'IIA1.KER.  Clinton,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Michigan 
July  14.  1842.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-three 
years.  He  has  been  a  successful  as  well  as  one  of  the  best 
known   retail   coal    merchants   in   his  section   of   the  country. 

C.  S.  C'OLBI'HN,  Manager  of  Colburn  Bros.,  Waverly,  Iowa, 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

GEO.  o.  colli  KN,  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Mar- 
shalliowti  December  3,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirteen  years,  succeeding  the  Brown  Fuel  &  Lime 
Co.  in   1910. 

ORRIN  W.  COLLINS.  Ft.  Dodge,  Iowa,  was  born  In  Mus- 
catine. Iowa,  December  4,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  He  is  well  and  favorably  known 
In  the  trade  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Sam  Mc- 
Clure  Coal  Co.   for  three  years. 

CHAS.  J.  CONNELL,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Con- 
nell-Cowan  Lumber  Co.,  Cedar  Falls,  Iowa,  was  born  in 
Cedar  Falls  November  28,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  the   past   six  years. 

LANGDON  J.  CI'MMINIJS,  Clinton,  Iowa,  was  born  in 
Caledonia  County,  Vermont,  November  16,  1845,  and  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years,  succeeding 
W.  Q.  Cummings,  who  died  May  10,  1911. 

UII.I.IAM  II.  Cl'HNES  of  the  Curnes  Grain  Co.,  Osceola, 
Iowa,  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  having  been  born  there  February 
11,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  eight 
years. 

A.  W.  DAHL,  Clinton,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Denmark  in  the 
year  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen 
years.  He  has  also  taken  an  active  part  in  civic  affairs  and 
has  been  Councilman  in  the  Sixth,  now  serving  his  second 
term.      He   is  Past   President  of  the  Lyons  Commercial  Club. 

C.  II.  DALBEY  of  F.  Dalbey  &  Sons,  Churdan,  Iowa,  was 
born  in  Olin.  Iowa,  September  18,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  the  past  six  years. 

J.  K.  DAI  BEMIERGER,  McGregor,  Iowa,  was  born  In 
McGregor,  Iowa.  March  3,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  nineteen  years. 

MAKK  F.  DERBY,  President  of  The  Derby  Mills  Co.,  Bur- 
lington, Iowa,  was  born  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  February  5, 
1852,  and  has  had  a  successful  career  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness for  the  past  twenty-one  years. 

NJBWTON  M.  DERBY,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  The  Derby 
Mills  Co.,  Burlington,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Burlington,  Iowa, 
August  23.  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
the  past  thirteen  years. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  DESSEL,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
Manager  of  the  Dessel  Lumber  Co.,  Holstein,  Iowa,  was 
born  at  Holstein,  Iowa,  September  14,  1887,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

CLEMENT  H.  DEl'R.  Missouri  Valley,  Iowa,  was  born  in 
Onondaga  County.  New  York,  October  18,  1856,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-eight  years. 

D.  J.  KBEKHART.  Newton.  Iowa,  was  born  at  Catasauqua, 
Pennsylvania,  January  29,  1853,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  forty  years. 

I.  C.  EDMONDS  President  of  the  Kdmonds-Londergan 
i'ii.  Marcus,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Clinton,  Iowa,  in  1878,  and  is 
Interested  In  yards  at  Matlock,  Marcus,  Edna,  Hinton. 
Archer,  Iowa,  and  Steen,  Minnesota.  He  also  owns  three 
banks  and  a  considerable  amount  of  real  estate. 

A.  II.  m  \  H  "*.  owner  and  Manager  of  the  A.  H.  Evans 
Co..  Keokuk.  Iowa,  was  born  In  New  Jersey  August  28, 
1840.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 
Mr.  Evans  is  one  of  the  most  favorably  known  retailers  In 
his  section.  The  firm  was  formerly  The  Chisholm  &  Evans 
Co.,  which  was  succeeded  by  himself,  although  there  was  no 
change  in   management. 

O.  K.  EVANS,  Manager  of  the  City  Fuel  Co.,  Clarinda. 
Inwa.  was  born  at  Huntsville,  Missouri.  July  28,  1889,  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  Is  also 
interested  in  the  Connelsvllle  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Manufacturers  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.    He  Is  now  in  the  service  of  his  country. 

ISAAC  EVA>s.  President  Blount-Evans  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Des  Moines,  Iowa,  was  born  In  Llandovery,  Wales,  March  4, 
1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years. 
The  Binunt-Kvans  Co.  has  been  in  the  wholesale  and  retail 
coal  business  in  Des  Moines  for  twenty-eight  years.  Mr. 
Kvans  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Evans  Coal  Mining 
'■•.  Iowa  Coal  Mining  Co.,  West  Riverside  Coal  Mining  Co., 
and  Center  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 


SARAH  HARRIS  EVANS.  President  of  the  Central  Coal 
Co.,  Lockman,  Iowa,  was  born  In  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  January 
31,  1870,  and  is  the  wife  of  T.  L.  Evans  of  the  same  com- 
pany. 

THOMAS  LINCOLN  EVANS.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Central  Coal  Co.,  Lockman,  Iowa,  was  born  In  Pomeroy, 
Ohio,  April  14,  1865,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
American  Coal  Co.,  Smoky  Hollow  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Iowa  State  Board  of  Mine  Examiners. 

GEORGE  J.  FINCK,  Branch  Manager  of  the  firm  of  Harris 
&  Dillavou,  Burlington,  Iowa,  was  born  at  San  Francisco, 
California,  January  13,  1875.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Hosford  Coal 
Co.  and  with  James  Frame  at  Burlington,  and  was  located 
at  Denver,  Colorado,  two  years.  He  also  is  President  of  the 
Cave  Coal  Co.  and  a  stockholder  in  the  Modern  Coal  Co. 
at  Sesser.   Illinois. 

JOHN  WESLEY  FLEMING.  Manager  and  Secretary  of  the 
Osceola  Lumber  Co.,  Osceola,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Osceola, 
Iowa,  February  23,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the  past  twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  W.  B.  Ballew  Lumber  Co.  and  Hawkeye  Lumber  Co. 

C.  S.  FOWLER  of  the  Fowler  Coal  Co.,  Clinton,  Iowa,  was 
born  at  Sturgis,  Michigan,  March  17,  1890,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  six  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  firm  of  Fenlon  &  Fowler. 

R.  A.  FRAZIER,  Manager  of  R.  A.  Frazier  &  Son,  Nevada, 
Colorado,  and  Morrison,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Zanesville,  Ohio, 
September  22,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty- 
four  years,  having  been  formerly  connected  with  the  firm 
of  Walton   &  Frazier,  Thomasboro,  Illinois. 

GEORGE  A.  FRENCH  of  the  George  A.  French  Co.,  Chero- 
kee, Iowa,  was  born  in  Buchanan  County,  Iowa,  March  17, 
1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years, 
having  been  formerly  connected  with  the  Western  Elevator 
Co. 

AUGUST  C.  FREUND.  Lowden,  Iowa,  principal  of  the  firm 
of  A.  Freund  &  Co.,  was  horn  July  7,  1860,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  since  1883. 

OTIS  ALBERT  GABLE.  Manager  of  John  E.  Gable  &  Co- 
Oxford  Junction,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Lost  Nation,  Iowa,  June 
16,  1879,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

J.  H.  GILCHRIST  of  the  Gilchrist  Coal  &  Feed  Co.,  Ames, 
Iowa,  was  born  in  Ames,  Iowa,  February  8,  1886.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years  and  was  formerly 
with   B.  A.   Lockwood  Co.,    Des  Moines,   Iowa. 

FRANK    LEE  GITCHELL     of    Gitchell     Bros.,     Arlington, 

Iowa,    was    born  at    Center    Point,    Iowa,   May    24.    1870,    and 

has    been    in    the  retail    coal    business    for   the    past   twenty- 
eight  years. 

THOS.  GORDEN  of  the  Gorden-Elder  Fuel  Co.,  Mason 
City,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Mt.  Horeb,  Wisconsin,  November, 
1859,  while  his  partner,  G.  N.  Elder,  was  born  in  Blairsville, 
Pennsylvania.  August  20,  1859.  They  are  successors  to  the 
Wallace    Williams    Coal   Co. 

J.  T.  GRANT,  successor  to  C.  A.  Grant  &  Son,  Rolfe, 
Iowa,  was  born  In  Gilman,  Iowa,  February  11,  1873,  and  has 
been    in   the  coal   business   twenty-seven   years. 

EDWARD  M.  GRAY,  Vice  President  and  Manager  of  the 
Des  Moines  Coal  Co.,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Coal 
Valley.  Illinois,  August  31,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  forty-one  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Des 
Moines  Sand  &  Fuel  Co.  and  was  formerly  associated  with 
the  Keystone  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Iowa  Coal  Operators'  Association. 

GEORGE  GREGORY.  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  proprietor  of 
the  Gregory  Coal,  Coke  &  Lime  Co.,  was  born  In  Marshall 
County,  Iowa,  November  8,  1862,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-six  years.  Mr.  Gregory  is  one  of  the 
most  prominent  dealers  in  Iowa  and  has  also  been  active  In 
promoting  every  movement  that  was  for  the  benefit  of  the 
coal  trade  or  his  city.  He  has  also  taken  an  interest  In  coal 
association  affairs  and  was  President  of  the  Iowa  and  Ne- 
braska Coal  Dealers'  Association,  also  the  Northwestern 
Retail  Coal   Dealers'  Association. 

CHAS.  E.  GRIFFITH  of  Griffith  Bros.,  Red  Oak,  Iowa,  was 
born  In  Burlington,  Iowa,  In  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fourteen  years. 

WILLIS  G.  HASKELL.  President  of  W.  G.  Haskell  Co.. 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  was  born  In  Iowa,  June  5,  1857,  and  has 
been  actively  identified  with  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
five  years,  being  one  of  the  best  known  coal  men  In  the 
West.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Northwestern  Coal 
Dealers'  Association,  Postmaster  of  Cedar  Rapids,  State  Sen- 
ator, and  In  addition  many  other  offices  of  honor  in  both  the 
trade  and   community. 


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FRED  H.  HENRY,  Belle  Plaine,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Belle 
Plaine  June  2,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  thirteen  years,  being  one  of  the  best  known  retail- 
ers in  that  section. 

RALPH  E.  HOPKINS,  General  Manager  of  the  Hopkins 
Coal  Co.,  Colfax,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Pueblo,  Colorado,  July 
27,  1881,  and  has  been  with  the  present  company  for  the  past 
four  years. 

MELVILLE  P.  HUGHES,  Clear  Lake,  Iowa,  salesman  for 
the  Chicago,  Wilmington  &  Franklin  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
in  Chicago,  Illinois,  September  4,  1891,  and  is  a  son  of  Wm. 
H.  Hughes,  one  of  the  best  known  coal  salesmen  in  the 
West.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  seven 
years  and  formerly  traveled  for  the  Pittsburgh  &  Ashland 
Coal    &    Dock    Co.    and    the   Monon   Coal   Co. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  HUGHES,  Des  Moines.  Iowa,  Iowa  rep- 
resentative of  the  Chicago,  Wilmington  &  Franklin  Coal  Co., 
was  born  at  Hamilton,  Ontario,  November  7,  1861,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Hughes 
is  one  of  the  best  and  most  favorably  known  coal  salesmen 
in  the  Northwest  and  formerly  represented  the  General  Wil- 
mington Coal  Co.  and  the  Monon  Coal  Co.  as  Northwestern 
Sales  Manager. 

W.  B.  INGVOLDSTAD,  President  of  the  Ingvoldstad  Lum- 
ber Co.,  Inc.,  Decorah,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Decorah,  Iowa, 
June  21,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
eleven  years. 

HENRY  C.  JEFFERS  of  the  City  Fuel  Co.,  Shenandoah, 
Iowa,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1850,  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

LARS  JOHNSON,  Exline,  Iowa,  Manager  of  the  Iowa  Block 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Sweden  September  13,  1880,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Caldwell  Coal  Co.  of  Exline,  Iowa. 

JOHN  L.  JONES,  President  of  the  Regal  Coal  Co.,  Oska- 
loosa,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Wales  June  1,  1872,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Lost  Creek  Fuel  Co.,  The  Fraker  Coal  Co., 
and  the  LaKonta  Coal  Co.,  and  is  also  interested  in  the 
Sheriff  Coal  Co. 

V.  V.  KECK,  Manager  of  the  Citizens  Lumber  Co.,  Washta, 
Iowa,  was  born  in  Benton  County,  September  5,  1880,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years,  also  handling 
lumber  and  cement. 

EVAN  H.  KELLY,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Kelly  Lumber 
Co.,  Sigourney,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  March 
9,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  Mr. 
Kelly  was  formerly  connected  with  A.  M.  Neas  &  Son. 

ARCHIBALD  C.  KESSLER,  Waterloo,  Iowa,  was  born  in 
Dodgeville,  Wisconsin,  March  14,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  eleven  years.  Mr.  Kessler  is  also  Vice 
President  of  the  Friend  Lumber  Co.,  Waverly,  Iowa,  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  C.  W.  Chapman  Lumber  Co.,  Cedar 
Falls,  Iowa,  for  four  years. 

C.  E.  KITTLESON,  Manager  of  The  Lumber  &  Grain  Co., 
St.  Ansgar,  Iowa,  was  born  at  St.  Ansgar,  Iowa,  December  5, 
1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

HARRY  H.  KRUMMANN,  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Brown  Coal  Co.,  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Sioux 
City,  Iowa,  February  17,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Krummann  was  formerly  en- 
gaged in  the  banking  business  for  about  twelve  years. 

JOSEPH  PERRY  LANGPORD,  Sales  Manager  of  the  W.  G. 
Block  Co.,  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Albany,  Illinois, 
August  2,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Purity  Coal  Co., 
Chicago,  and  is  favorably  known  in  that  territory.  Mr. 
Langford  enlisted  in  the  United  States  Navy  May  15,  1918. 

T.  W.  LARGE,  DeWitt,  Iowa,  was  born  at  DeWitt,  Iowa, 
March  7,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  firms  of 
Small  &  Large  and  T.  W.  Large  &  Bro. 

WM.  LINNEVOLD,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Nordness 
Creamery  Co.,  Decorah,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Decorah,  Iowa, 
December  13,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past  twenty-one  years. 

WALTER  A.  LINTON,  President  and  Manager  of  the  Rose- 
land  Fuel  Co.,  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Ainsworth,  Iowa, 
October  25,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six- 
teen years.  Mr.  Linton  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  local 
coal  associations,  having  held  several  offices,  and  has  acted 
as  a  Director  in  the  Northwestern  Association. 

ROY  G.  LIVINGSTON,  President  and  Manager  of  the  Shen- 
andoah Fuel  Co.,  Shenandoah,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Alta,  Illi- 
nois, July  31,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  A.  T.  McMaster 
Coal  Co.,  Peoria,  Illinois. 


DAVID  LODWICK,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Dia- 
mond Block  Coal  Co.,  Mystic,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Wales  in 
1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years,  asso- 
ciated with  his  brother. 

LEWELYN  LODWICK,  Diamond,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Wales, 
August  20,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nearly 
thirty  years.  Mr.  Lodwick  is  a  well  known  Iowa  operator 
and  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Appanoose  Coal  &  Fuel 
Co.,  Diamond,  Iowa,  Treasurer  of  the  Lodwick  Bros.  Coal 
Co.,  and  President  of  the  Winifred  Coal  Co.,  Mystic,  Iowa. 

J.  J.  MATHEWS,  Cherokee,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Lyons,  Iowa, 
December  17,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-six  years.  He  is  one  of  the  best  known  retail  coal 
merchants  in  his  section  of  the  state. 

FRANK  AMBROSE  McCOLE,  Manager  of  the  W.  G.  Block 
Co.,  Mason  City,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Chilton,  Wisconsin,  May 
11,  1880,  and  is  one  of  the  most  active  and  popular  coal 
salesmen  in  the  Northwest.  He  formerly  traveled  in  Iowa, 
representing  the  Johnston  City  Coal  Co.  and  the  Hart-Wil- 
liams Coal  Co. 

JOHN  H.  McKLVEEN,  Manager  and  partner  in  the  firm  of 
J.  H.  McKlveen  &  Co.,  Prairie  City,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Chari- 
ton, Iowa,  September  10,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  eleven  years.  Samuel  McKlveen,  Chariton,  Iowa, 
is  also  a  partner  and  has  been  a  retailer  in  Chariton  for 
about  twenty-six  years. 

D.  A.  MILLER,  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  Milton 
Lumber  Co.,  Milton,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Milton  June  3,  1872, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years. 

THOMAS  JAMES  MULGREW,  President  and  Manager  of 
the  Thomas  J.  Mulgrew  Co.,  Dubuque,  Iowa,  was  born  in 
Dubuque  May  8,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  started  with  Hansen  &  Linehan  of 
Dubuque  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  twenty-five 
years,  and  is  one  of  the  best  known  coal  men  in  his  section. 

HENRY  W.  NESLER,  Manager  of  the  Equity  Shipping 
Association  of  Dyersville,  Iowa,  was  born  in  New  Vienna, 
Iowa,  October  29,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
two  years. 

BENJAMIN  SEDGWICK  NOBLE,  Ida  Grove,  Iowa,  was 
born  in  Iowa  February  17,  1864,  and  was  formerly  connected 
with  W.  A.  Noble  &  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-four  years. 

CARL  E.  NORTON,  Manager  of  the  Farmers  Elevator  & 
Supply  Co.,  Nora  Springs,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Waukon,  Iowa, 
September  1,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past  six  years. 

OAKES  nuns,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Iowa  City,  Iowa, 
is  composed  of  John  P.  Oakes,  who  was  born  in  Iowa  City, 
Iowa,  April  9,  1866,  and  Perry  C.  Oakes,  born  at  Iowa  City 
July  15,  1870.      The  firm  has  been   in  business  fifteen  years. 

THOMAS  W.  OAKES,  partner  in  the  firm  of  Smith  & 
Oakes,  Clinton,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Ireland,  December  25, 
1851,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifty-two  years, 
having  been  connected  with  several  firms  before  organizing 
the  present  company. 

W.  W.  OLIVER,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Centerville  Block  Coal  Co.,  Centerville,  Iowa,  was  born  at 
Crookham,  England,  October  30,  1843,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  forty-three  years.  In  1880  he  organized 
the  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  which  was  consolidated  in  1894  with 
the  Centerville  Coal  Co.,  which  was  later  merged  into  the 
present  firm. 

EUGENE  PAINE,  Iowa  City,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Orange 
County,  Vermont,  March  6,  1839,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  half  a  century.  He  opened  a  yard  in  Iowa 
City  in  1868  on  the  present  site  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington 
&  Quincy  Railroad's  passenger  station.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac   1861-1865. 

JOHN  W.  PLONALP,  Storm  Lake,  Iowa,  was  born  in  In- 
diana in  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
six  years.  He  formerly  was  connected  with  Plonalp  &  Wil- 
son. 

LUCIUS  RANDALL  ROSEBROOK,  Manager  of  the  Excel- 
sior Coal  Co.,  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  is  one  of  the  pioneer  coal 
men  of  Iowa.  He  was  born  at  Lancaster,  New  Hampshire, 
March  7,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
thirty-six  years.  During  that  time  he  has  been  identified 
with  several  leading  companies  and  has  made  many  friends 
throughout  the  trade. 

A.  C.  SAX,  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Sax 
Bros.,  was  born  at  Saratoga,  New  York,  March  9,  1840.  and 
has   been   in  the  retail  coal  business  for  the  past  ten  years. 

F.  A.  SAX  of  Sax  Bros.,  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  was  born  May 
30,  1875,  in  Iowa  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years. 

GEORGE  H.  SAX  of  Sax  Bros.,  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  was  born 
October  16,  1877,  in  Iowa  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  ten  years. 


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H.  H.  SHERIFF  of  the  Sheriff  Coal  Co..  Oskaloosa,  Iowa, 
was  born  at  Muscatine,  Iowa,  in  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  the  past  twenty-six  years.  He  was  one  of 
the  stockholders  and  directors  of  the  Maple  Coal  Co.,  Oska- 
loosa, Iowa,  and  one  of  the  stockholders  and  directors  of 
the  Greenridge  Fuel  Co. 

SAMUEL  T.  SLADE,  Secretary  of  the  Des  Moines  Coal  Co., 
Des  Moines,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Alden,  New  York,  in  1853, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  Saylor  Coal  Co.,  Scandla  Coal 
Co.  and  the  Maple  Block  Coal  Co. 

CHAS.  E.  SMITH,  Western  Sales  Manager  of  the  Carter 
Coal  Co.,  Marshailtown,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Whitewater,  Wis- 
consin, February  19,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Gregory  Coal,  Coke  &  Lime  Co.  and  the  Clark  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  of  Peoria. 

EDGAR  A.  SMITH,  junior  partner  of  the  firm  of  E.  J. 
Smith  &  Son,  Whiting,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Iowa  April  15, 
1869,  and  has  been  associated  with  his  father,  Edmund  J. 
Smith,  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years  at  Whit- 
ing,   Iowa. 

EDMUND  J.  SMITH,  senior  partner  of  the  firm  of  E.  J. 
Smith  &  Son,  Whiting,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Wisconsin  April 
27,  1844,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  firms  of  Wil- 
liams &  Peters,  Reiss  Coal  Co.,  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  Bell  & 
Zoller  and  Old  Ben  Corp. 

IRA  HERBERT  SMITH,  member  of  the  firm  of  Smith  & 
Oakes.  Clinton.  Iowa,  was  born  in  Clinton  January  23,  1863, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years. 
The  firm  is  well  and  favorably  known  in  the  trade. 

EDWARD  M.  SOBODA  of  the  Cedar  Rapids  Fuel  Co., 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  is  a  native  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  having 
been  born  there  February  18,  1867.  For  seventeen  years  he 
has  been  connected  with  the  E.  E.  Pinney  Coal  Co. 

E.  A.  TAPPAN,  Belle  Plaine,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Tama 
County,  Iowa,  November  17,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
and  grain  business  for  the  past  thirteen  years. 

CHAS.  E.  TAYLOR,  Manager  of  the  Emmetsburg  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.,  Emmetsburg,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Wisconsin  In 
1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years, 
being  formerly  connected  with  the  firm  of  Moore  Bros. 

T.  W.  TRIMBLE  of  Trimble  &  Van  Reenen,  Bedford,  Iowa, 
is  a  native  of  Illinois  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness for  the  past  two  years. 

JACOB    JOHN    VAN    EIZENGA,   Orange    City,    Iowa,    was 
born   in  The  Netherlands  August  24,   1864,   and   has  been   In 
business  for  himself  for  the  past  three  years.     Previous  to  . 
that  he  was  for  twelve  years  with  Van  Pelt  &  Van  Eizenga 
and  seven  years  with  F.  M.  Slagle  &  Co. 


GEO.  F.  'WAGNER,  Storm  Lake,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Cal- 
vary, Wisconsin,  March  28,  1877,  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

FRANK  J.  WARD,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Eclipse  Lumber  Co.,  Clinton,  Iowa,  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  hav- 
ing been  born  at  Waukon.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  for  a  period  of  twenty-one  years. 

JAMES  K.  WEART,  President  of  the  Weart  &  Lysaght 
Co.,  Cherokee,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Hopewell,  New  Jersey,  May 
7,  1870,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-four  years,  being  widely  known  throughout  the 
West. 

WALTER  R.  WEBB,  President  of  Webb  Bros.  Co.,  Sioux 
City,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Quebec,  Canada,  August  31,  1846, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years. 

WM.  A.  WHITING,  Washington,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Cale- 
donia, Illinois,  August  3,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
Chas.  Whiting,   Roscoe,   Illinois. 

GEORGE  F.  WICKHAM.  Manager  of  the  Fenlon-Wickham 
Coal  Co.,  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Council  Bluffs, 
Iowa,  July  23,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  Mr.  Wickham  is  one  of  the  best  known 
and  most  popular  coal  men  in  the  Missouri  River  territory. 

R.  W.  WILLIS  of  the  Citizens  Coal  Co.,  Mason  City,  Iowa, 
was  born  in  Iowa  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
five   years. 

NATTIE  WILSON,  LeClaire,  Iowa,  was  born  in  LeClaire 
December  22.  1858,  and  has  handled  farm  implements  and 
hardware,  adding  coal  some  four  years  ago. 

W.  W.  WILSON,  Washington,  Iowa,  was  born  at  Washing- 
ton, Iowa,  December  18,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eleven  years. 

H.  M.  YOUNG,  member  of  the  firm  of  Young  Coal  Co., 
Waterloo,  Iowa,  was  born  in  Waterloo,  Iowa,  February  18, 
1888,  and  has  been  associated  with  his  brother  in  this  com- 
pany for  five  years. 

J.  A.  YOUNG  of  the  Young  Coal  Co.,  Waterloo,  Iowa,  was 
born  at  Waterloo,  Iowa,  June  7,  1883,  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Young  has  been 
a  Director  In  the  Northwestern  Coal  Dealers'  Association. 

EDGAR  JONES  VREELAND,  Manager  of  the  Coal  Hill 
Coal  Co.,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  having 
been  born  in  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past  eighteen  years. 


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KANSAS 


KANSAS,  from  the  point  of  view  of  production, 
ranks  second  of  the  three  states  underlaid  with 
the  coal  measures  of  the  western  interior  region 
and  recent  figures  (1910)  show  that  it  is  pressing  Iowa 
closely  for  first  honors  in  this  field.  Serious  labor  trou- 
bles during  the  past  decade  have  operated  to  interfere 
seriously  with  the  natural  increase  in  production  in 
Kansas,  whereas  the  competing  state  of  Iowa  has  been 
singularly  free  from  prolonged  shutdowns  arising  from 
that  cause. 

The  Kansas  coal  measures  are  in  the  eastern  portion 
of  the  state  and  underlie  approximately  20,000  square 
miles,  75  per  cent,  of  which  is  estimated  by  the  United 
States  Geological  Survey  to  be  "probably  more  or  less 
productive."  There  are  three  fields  of  major  impor- 
tance. Cherokee  and  Crawford  counties,  in  the  south- 
eastern corner  of  the  state,  constitute  the  most  impor- 
tant district.  The  coal  in  this  field  varies  from  three 
to  10  feet,  with  an  average  thickness  of  40  to  42  inches. 
The  output  of  these  two  counties  represents  over  90 
per  cent,  of  the  total  production  of  the  state. 

The  second  field  of  major  commercial  importance  is 
in  the  northeastern  part  of  the  state  adjacent  to  Leav- 
enworth and  Atchison.  This  is  the  only  district  in 
which  deep  mining  is  carried  on  in  the  western  interior 
coal  region.  Shafts  in  this  field  are  sunk  to  depths  of 
from  700  to  1,150  feet.  Production  in  the  Leaven- 
worth-Atchison district  represents  approximately  six  per 
cent,  of  the  total  output  of  the  state.  The  third  field 
of  note  is  the  Osage  in  Osage  and  adjacent  counties. 
This  bed,  lying  stratigraphically  2,000  feet  above  the 
Cherokee  coal,  has  a  vein  20  to  22  inches  thick  and 
yields  approximately  three  per  cent,  of  the  total  output 
for  the  state.  Although  all  of  the  production  in  the 
Leavenworth-Atchison  district  is  credited  to  Kansas, 
the  workings  at  Leavenworth  extend  under  the  Mis- 
souri river  into  Missouri  and  it  is  estimated  that  75 
per  cent,  of  the  coal  hoisted  at  the  Leavenworth  tip- 
ples is  actually  mined  in  Platte  county,  Missouri. 

Kansas  made  its  entrance  into  the  ranks  of  coal  pro- 
ducing states  in  1869,  when  its  output  totaled  36,891 
tons.  Actual  production  statistics  between  1870  and 
1880  have  not  been  published,  but  the  reports  as  gath- 


Year.  Ton. 

1900 4,467,870 

1901 4,900,528 

1902 5,266,065 

1903 5,839,976 

1904 6,333,307 

1905 6,423,979 

1906 6,024,775 

1907 7,322,449 

1908 6,245,508 

1909 6,986,478 

1910 4,921,451 

1911 6,178,728 

1912 6,986,182 

1913 7,202,210 

1914 6,860,988 

1915 6,824,474 

1916 6,881,455 


ered  by  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  since  1882 
show  the  following  yearly  output: 

Year.  Ton. 

1882 .750,000 

1883 900,000 

1884 1,100,000 

1885 1,212,057 

1886 1,400,000 

1887 1,596,879 

1888 1,850,000 

1889 2,221,043 

1890 2,259,922 

1891 2,716,705 

1892 3,007,276 

1893 2,652,546 

1894 3,388,251 

1895 2,926,870 

1896 2,884,801 

1897 3,054,012 

1898 3,406,555 

1899 3,852,267 

In  1915  46  per  cent,  of  the  total  production  was  used 
by  the  rail  carriers.  Approximately  28  per  cent,  of  the 
production,  or  over  59  per  cent,  of  the  consuming 
requirements  of  the  state  was  used  locally.  Four  neigh- 
boring states  took  26  per  cent.  In  detail  the  distribu- 
tion was  as  follows:  Used  in  Kansas — Mines,  184,071; 
local,  105,531;  Kansas.  1,591,123:  total,  1,879,725,  or 
28  per  cent.  Interstate — Arkansas.  13,669 ;  Missouri, 
986,480;  Nebraska,  774^37;  Oklahoma,  75,162;  total, 
1,790,248,  or  26  per  cent:  railroads,  3,154,501,  or  46 
per  cent. ;  total,  6,824,474. 

The  per  capita  consumption  of  bituminous  coal  for 
the  year  was  1.65  tons;  anthracite,  .01  ton;  total,  1.66 
tons.  Upon  a  square  mile  basis  the  figure  was  39  tons. 
Some  coal  from  the  strip  pit  fuel  of  the  Cherokee- 
Crawford  field  is  in  demand  by  the  zinc  smelting  inter- 
ests about  Pittsburg  because  of  its  non-coking  quali- 
ties. A  small  portion  of  the  shaft  mine  coal  has  been 
manufactured  into  coke  for  use  at  local  smelters.  In 
detail  the  fuel  requirements  and  sources  of  supply  are 
as  follows:  Arkansas,  114,812;  Colorado,  340,779; 
Illinois,  414,467;  Indiana,  149:  Iowa,  40,092;  Kansas, 
1,879,725;  Kentucky,  54,871;  Missouri,  167,483;  New 
Mexico,  98,103;  Oklahoma,  12,038;  Pennsylvania, 
1,333;  West  Virginia,  390;  Wyoming,  38,540;  total, 
3,162,782;  Pennsylvania  anthracite,  25,000;  grand  to- 
tal. 3.187,782. 


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COM.    MKX    OF    AMKRICA 


mi  i  n  i  K  II.  FHESCH,  Pittsburg,  Kansas, 
General  Manager,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  J.  J. 
Stephenson  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  was  born  In 
Cherokee  County,  Kansas,  November  6,  1880,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  Is  also  Inter- 
ested in  the  Pittsburg-Scammon  Coal  Co.,  of  which  he  is 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and  the  J.  J.  Stephenson  &  Son 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  of  which  he  is  Secretary.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Wear  Coal  Co., 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Southwestern  Interstate  Coal 
Operators'  Association  and  Kansas  Employees  Association. 


JAMES   HAMILTON,  Weir,  Kansas, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Hamilton  Coal  &  Mercantile 
Co.,  was  born  in  Beith,  Scotland,  March  5,  1864,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years.  This  firm  is  the 
oldest  coal  producer  in  Kansas,  having  been  organized  by 
William  Hamilton,  father  of  James  Hamilton,  forty  years 
ago.  Mr.  Hamilton  is  also  President  of  the  Southern  Kansas 
Coal  Co.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the  Hamilton  & 
Braidwood  Coal  Co.  and  at  one  time  was  Superintendent  of 
the  Kansas  state  mines  at  I>ansing.  He  has  an  individual 
membership  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United 
States  of  America. 


KANSAS 


B.  D.  BENNETT,  Ottawa,  Kansas,  was  born  in  the  state 
of  Illinois  April  11,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six   years. 

O.  S.  CIMMIXGS,  Manager  of  the  Florence  Grain  &  Coal 
Co.,  Florence,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Lyndon,  Kansas, 
February  11,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Aves 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Florence,   Kansas. 

FLOYD  E.  DOIBLEDAY,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the 
Doubleday  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  was  born  In  Penn 
Y'an,  New  York,  June  23,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Oswego  Coal  Co.,  Rogers  Coal  Co.,  Kansas  & 
Texas  Coal  Co.  and  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

(aiLFOKU  DUDLEY,  President  of  the  McCleery-Dudley 
Lumber  Co.,  Topeka,  Kansas,  was  born  In  Topeka,  Kansas, 
February  9,  1879,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  three 
and  a  half  years. 

T.  P.  FAIK  of  the  T.  P.  Fair  Lumber  Co.,  Great  Bend, 
Kansas,  wai  born  In  Pennsylvania  August  11,  1837,  and 
was  engaged  In  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years. 
II.  u:is  formerly  I  mimbir  of  the  firm  of  Edwards  *  Fair 
for  thirty  years  and  for  five  years  prior  to  his  death  in 
1916  was  located  at  Great  Bend  with  the  company  bearing 
his    name. 

J.  D.  FELL,  Manager  of  the  Chicago  Lumber  &  Coal  Co., 
Concordia.    Kansas,   was   born   in   Prescott,   Ontario,  January 
»,   1861,   and   has   been    In   the   coal   business   for   thirty-three 
lie   was  formerly  connected  with   Howell  Bros. 

B.  E.  I'Hl/./.l'.l.l.  of  the  firm  of  Frlzzell  &  Smith,  Halstead, 
Kansas,  has  been  engaged  In  the  coal  business  for  six 
years. 

A.  M.  GKIPFF.TH,  Manager  of  the  Barnard  Lumber  Co., 
Barnard,  Kansas,  was  born  in  the  state  of  Illinois,  Septem- 
ber 19,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Baker  Bros. 
Lumber  Co. 

F.  HAVKHASiN,  Manager  of  the  Treat  &  Shaffer  Co., 
Hays.  Kansas,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six 
years.  •    ■ 


WILLIAM  \.  HAWLKY  of  the  Hawley  Lumber  Co., 
Herington,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Pekin,  Illinois,  August  26, 
1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 

E.  F.  HENNEY,  Horton,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Dover, 
Illinois,  November  7,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for    twenty-two    years. 

ADOLPH  HIMBIRG,  Bison,  Kansas,  Manager  of  The 
Humburg  Lumber  Co.,  was  born  at  Hermann,  Missouri, 
November  27,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirteen   years. 

CASSIITS  MONT  JACKSON  of  the  Southwestern  Coal  Co., 
Wichita,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Clyde,  Kansas,  April  9.  1883. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Swastika  Fuel  Co.  The  Southwestern 
Coal  Co.  maintains  division  offices  at  Wichita.  Dallas,  Mc- 
Alester,   Hastings,   and  Amarlllo. 

LEO  G.  JOHNSON,  Superintendent  The  Western  Fuel  Co., 
Osage  City,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Osage  City,  Kansas, 
August  14,  1891,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  six 
years.  He  Is  a  member  of  the  General  Scale  Committee  of 
South    Western    Interstate    Coal    Operators'    Association. 

HUGH  I,  \  u  ion  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Material  Co.,  To- 
peka, Kansas,  was  born  In  Wakarusa,  Kansas,  April  9,  1864, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years. 

RALPH  J.  LAWRENCE.  General  Manager  of  the  Carney- 
Cherokee  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Fair- 
view,  Pennsylvania,  November  13,  1877,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  six  years.  He  formerly  was  connected 
with   the  Carney  Coal  Co. 

HENRY  E.  LEONHORDT,  General  Manager  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Kiowa  Lumber  Co.,  Kiowa,  Kansas,  was  born 
in  Germany'  August  21.  1881.  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with   the  J.  W.  Metz  Lumber  Co. 

THOMAS  J.  MACREDIE,  Clearwater,  Kansas,  was  born 
in  Scotland,  April  18,  1843,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-four  years. 

J.  T.  MARTIN,  La  Cygne,  Kansas,  was  born  In  England 
November  6,  1842,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
about  twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Martin  Is  the  owner  of  the 
Martin   coal    mine. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


JOHN  McALEER,  Wichita,  Kansas,  salesman  for  the  West- 
ern Coal  &  Mining-  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  in 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  June  24,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  South  Omaha  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Bolen  Coal  Co.,  Cen- 
tral Coal  &  Coke  Co,,  the  Fidelity  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  and 
Mackie-Clemens  Fuel  Co.,  making  his  headquarters  at 
Wichita,  Kansas,  for  twenty-three  years  and  covering  Ne- 
braska, Southwestern  Missouri,  Oklahoma  and  Kansas.  He 
is   well    known    throughout    the    trade. 

HENRY  L.  McCURDY,  Stafford,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Inde- 
pendence, Missouri,  November  3,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  covering  a  period  of  eighteen  years. 

GEO.  T.  MeGRATH,  President  of  the  Geo.  T.  McGrath 
Coal  Co.,  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  was  born  in  the  state  of 
Pennsylvania  in  the  year  1860  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Kansas  City.  Mr. 
McGrath  has  acted  as  State  Mine  Inspector  and  has  filled 
many  positions  of  trust  and  has  done  much  to  build  up 
the  mining  industry,  and  while  in  the  State  Legislature 
used  his  influence  to  help  enact  safety  mining  laws.  He  is 
a  well-known  and  highly  respected  citizen  in  the  com- 
munity  as   well  as   throughout   the   trade. 

GEO.  C.  MOSES  of  Geo.  C.  Moses  &  Son.  Junction  City, 
Kansas,  was  born  at  Canton  Center,  Connecticut,  November 
29,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  twenty- 
six  years. 

J.  P.  J.  NELSON,  Scott  City,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Lake 
Geneva,  Wisconsin,  June  27,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eighteen  years  at  Scott  City,  Kansas. 

E.  NETTLEBLADE  of  the  Black  Diamond  Coal  Co.. 
Osage  City,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Sweden,  September  19, 
1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

PRANK  C.  NICHOLS,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Nevius 
Coal  Co.,  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Emporia,  Kansas, 
December  28,  1S77,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Kansas  & 
Texas  Coal  Co. 

JACK  W.  NICHOLSON  of  the  firm  of  Nicholson  Bros., 
Ellis,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Ellis,  Kansas,  July  18,  1887.  This 
firm  has  been   in  the   coal  business  for  thirty-six  years. 

RALPH  A.  NICHOLSON,  member  of  the  firm  of  Nicholson 
Bros.,  Ellis,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Ellis,  Kansas,  November 
13,  1888,  and  with  his  brother,  Jack  W.  Nicholson,  owns 
the  firm   of  Nicholson  Bros. 

A.  F.  NIEMOLLER,  Manager  of  H.  Niemoller  &  Sons, 
Wakefield,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Holland,  Dubois  County,  In- 
diana, June  17,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirteen  years. 

JAMES     S.     PATTON,    President  of     the     Patton     Coal     & 

Mining    Co.,    Frontenac,      Kansas,  was     born     in     Livonia, 

Indiana,    December     22,     1863,    and  has    been    In     the    coal 
business   for   twenty-one   years. 

HERMAN  LOUIS  POPPMEYER  of  the  Topeka  Coal  Co., 
Topeka,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Topeka,  Kansas,  July  20,  1874, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

WALTER  S.  HANDLE  of  W.  S.  Randle  &  Son,  Hutchinson, 
Kansas,  was  born  in  Illinois  in  May,  1857,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He  acted  as  Treasurer 
and  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Kansas  and 
Missouri  Association.  Frank  S.  Randle,  a  son.  is  Manager 
of  the  company. 

JOHN  H.  RUST,  Altamont,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Cam- 
bridgeshire, England,  December  19,  1851,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirty-three  years. 

LEWIS  S.  SCHWAB,  President  Weir  Junction  Coal  Co., 
Cherokee,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Henry  County,  Illinois,  June 
27,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
two  years. 

E.  B.  SHAFFER,  Madison,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Sedgwick, 
Kansas,  March  2,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  nine  years. 

CHARLES  E.  SHAW,  Salina,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Owego, 
New  York,  June  3,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-four  years. 

DON  I.  SHEPHERD,  St.  John,  Kansas,  was  born  in  St. 
John,  Kansas,  in  August,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  ten  years. 

JAMES  C.  SHIMER,  Manager  of  J.  C.  Shimer  &  Son, 
Topeka,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Septem- 
ber 26,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  McNeely  &  Shimer 
for  a  year. 


BOYD  V.  SLOAN,  Hiawatha,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Huron, 
Kansas,  August  29,  1876,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business   for   seven   years. 

C.  A.  SMITH,  partner  in  the  firm  of  Frizzell  &  Smith,  Hal- 
stead,  Kansas,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  six 
years,   associated   with   B.   E.   Frizzell. 

CHARLES  FRANCIS  SPENCER,  President  of  the  Pitts- 
burg &  Midway  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  and  the 
Spencer-Newlands  Coal  Co.,  operating  in  Mulberry,  Kansas, 
also  General  Manager  of  the  Columbus  Coal  Co.,  of  Colum- 
bus, Kansas,  was  born  in  Columbus  in  1873,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  twenty-six  years. 

CHARLES  EDMUND  STEVENS,  Junction  City,  Kansas, 
was  born  in  Madison  County,  Illinois,  September  21,  1872, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

N.  O.  SWANSON,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Leidigh  &  Havens  Lumber  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
was  born  at  Stanton,  Iowa,  September  7,  1878,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for  twenty-one   years. 

CHARLES  F.  TULLOCH,  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Tulloch  Coal  Co.,  Topeka,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Westphalia, 
Kansas,  October  29,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  ten  years,  associated  with  his  father,  John  C.  Tulloch. 

JOHN  C.  TULLOCH  of  the  Tulloch  Coal  Co.,  Topeka,  Kan- 
sas, was  born  in  Iowa  in  1859.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  about  twenty-eight  years..  He  previously  was 
with  the  firms  of  Webster-Tulloch  Co.  and  the  Green  Coal 
Co. 

J.  H.  TURNER,  Wichita,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Norwich, 
England,  in  the  year  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  sixteen  years. 

CLIFFORD  W.  WATERMAN,  President  and  General 
Manager  The  Barton  Ridge  Coal  Co.,  Mulberry,  Kansas, 
was  born  in  Mulberry,  Kansas,  February  12,  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Western  Coal  Mining  Co.,  The 
Fleming  Coal  Co.,  and  branches  of  the  Fleming  Coal  Co. 

N.  O.  WAYMIRE,  Garfield,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Saybrook, 
Ohio,  September  20,  1849,  and  was  in  the  coal  business  for 
about  eleven  years.  For  several  years  he  served  in  the 
capacity  of  Director  in  the  Missouri  and  Kansas  Coal  Deal- 
ers' Association.  Mr.  Waymire  has  now  retired  from  active 
business. 

JOHN  WEBER,  General  Manager  of  the  retail  yards  of 
Weber  &  Co.,  Salina,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Dubuque,  Iowa, 
December  10,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Weber 
&  Peirano  Co.  and  is  now  President  of  the  Kansas  Retail 
Coal  Dealers'  Association. 

JAS.  B.  WELCH  of  J.  Welch  &  Sons,  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  Mr.  Welch  is 
a  well-known  coal  merchant  in  Leavenworth  and  vicinity. 

WALTER  W.  WESSEN  of  the  Wessen  Coal  Co.,  Topeka, 
Kansas,  was  born  in  Topeka.  Kansas,  August  22,  1880,  and 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years.  He 
was  previously  connected  with  the  A.  F.  Wessen  Coal  Co., 
and  has  also  acted  as  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Topeka 
Coal   Dealers'  Association. 

JOHN  U.  WHILLANS,  Manager  of  Whillans  &  Co.,  Linds- 
borg,  Kansas,  was  born  in  Wisconsin,  August  1,  1859,  and 
has   been   in   the   coal   business  for  eleven   years. 

JAMES  HUFFORD  WOLFE,  Lewis,  Kansas,  was  born  in 
Fremont,  Ohio,  October  31,  1863,  and  was  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  His  death  occurred  March 
29,  1917.  For  a  period  of  two  years  James  R.  Wolfe,  a  son, 
was  associated  with  his  father  in  the  coal  business. 

CHAS.  A.  WRIGHT,  Atchison,  Kansas,  has  been  engaged 
in   the   coal   business   for   twenty-five   years. 

HARRY  W.  YOUNG,  Manager  of  Young  &  Sons,  Hutchin- 
son, Kansas,  was  born  at  Moulton,  Iowa,  October  12,  1883, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

H.  H.  ZIEGENBUSCH,  member  of  the  firm  of  Edwards  & 
Ziegenbusch,  Ellinwood,  Kansas,  was  born  at  Ellinwood, 
Kansas,  in  the  year  1878.  W.  R.  Edwards  and  B.  K.  Ed- 
wards are  also  members  of  this  company,  which  succeeded 
the   old  firm  of  Edwards  &  Fair. 

CLAYTON  M.  ZIMMERMAN,  Newton,  Kansas,  was  born 
in  Newton,  Kansas,  in  the  year  1882,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected  with   M.   M.   Zimmerman   Coal  Co. 


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KENTUCKY 


WHILE  Kentucky  was  among  the  first  states  to 
enter  the  American  coal  producing  ranks,  it 
is  during  the  last  decade  that  it  has  made  its 
most  marked  strides.  From  1906  to  1916  its  total  out- 
put rose  from  9,653,647  to  25,393,997  tons.  While, 
from  a  tonnage  point  of  view,  this  is  exceeded  by  certain 
of  the  larger  coal  producing  regions,  measured  upon  a 
percentage  basis,  the  increase  of  over  260  per  cent, 
establishes  a  record  approached  by  no  other  state.  In 
fact,  during  the  same  period  but  three  other  states, 
North  Dakota,  Utah  and  Virginia,  were  able  to  double 
their  production  and  the  increases  in  the  states  just 
named,  both  from  the  percentage  and  from  the  actual 
tonnage  basis,  do  not  begin  to  measure  up  with  the 
Kentucky  achievements. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  the  annual  wealth  con- 
tributed by  Mother  Earth  to  Kentucky's  material  ad- 
vancement and  prosperity,  coal  is  outranked  only  by 
tobacco.  While  from  a  monetary  point  of  view  the  value 
of  the  coal  production  in  1915  was  only  77  per  cent,  of 
that  of  the  tobacco  crop,  the  real  significance  of  the 
contribution  made  by  coal  appears  when  it  is  shown 
that  the  per  ton  value  of  the  fuel  was  only  a  fraction 
over  $1,  while  that  of  the  tobacco  was  slightly  under 
$156. 

Even  this  record,  remarkable  as  it  might  seem  to  the 
outsider  who  has  not  fully  appreciated  the  major  part 
played  by  the  coal  industry  in  upbuilding  the  commer- 
cial greatness  that  has  made  the  United  States  the  lead- 
ing nation  of  the  world,  does  not  tell  the  entire  tale. 
The  wonderful  strides  made  during  the  past  decade  do 
not  mark  the  zenith  or  begin  to  approach  it  of  the  coal 
possibilities  of  the  Blue  Grass  State.  The  great  eastern 
field,  which  has  been  the  scene  of  the  greatest  commer- 
cial activities  •during  the  past  seven  years,  still  awans 
expanded  transportation  facilities  to  fully  test  its  values. 
Greater  plans  for  the  further  early  exploitation  of  the 
coal  resources  of  Kentucky  are  under  way  than  in  any 
other  state  east  of  the  Mississippi  river.  During  the 
first  quarter  of  1918  announcement  was  made  of  the 
purchase  of  25,000  acres  of  undeveloped  lands  in  the 
state  and  a  few  days  after  this  news  had  been  made 
public,  the  further  announcement  was  made  that  other 
interests  were  planning  large  expenditures  for  the  im- 
mediate development  of  another  tract  of  30,000  acres. 

Geologically  speaking  Kentucky  is  unique.     It  is  the 


only  state  in  the  Union  "which  has  within  its  borders 
areas  belonging  to  any  two  of  the  great  coal  fields." 
The  eastern  field,  which  has  been  the  scene  of  the  great- 
est exploitation  during  the  past  ten  years,  is  underlaid 
with  the  coal  measures  of  the  great  Appalachian  region. 
The  western  field  forms  the  southeastern  part  of  the 
eastern  interior  coal  basin  of  Illinois,  Indiana  and  west- 
ern Kentucky.  The  coal-bearing  areas  of  this  part  of 
the  state  are  estimated  to  contain  6,400  square  miles, 
while  those  of  the  eastern  field  are  estimated  to  contain 
10,270  square  miles.  The  chief  characteristics  of  the 
two  fields  are  thus  described  by  the  Geological  Survey: 

"From  a  practical  standpoint,  the  eastern  Kentucky 
coal  field  is  a  unit,  unless  the  Middlesboro-Harlan  field, 
cut  off  by  the  Pine  Mountain  fault,  be  excepted.  The 
coals  belong  to  the  Allegheny  formation  and  to  the 
Pottsville  group.  The  Pottsville,  which  at  the  Ohio 
river  has  a  thickness  of  only  a  few  hundred  feet  and 
carries  five  coals,  is  in  the  southeastern  corner  of  the 
state,  about  5,000  feet  thick  and  carries  nearly  50  coals, 
of  which  a  dozen  or  more  are  locally  of  workable  thick- 
ness and  quality.  The  eastern  Kentucky  coals  are  most- 
ly high-grade  gas  or  coking  coals,  with  some  cannel 
coal.  In  the  Jellico  coal  field,  the  Jellico  and  the  Blue 
Gem  beds  are  both  thin,  the  latter  being  successfully 
mined  where  averaging  only  22  inches.  On  the  other 
hand  some  of  the  beds  show  eight  and  nine  feet  or  more 
of  workable  coal. 

"The  workable  part  of  the  western  district  of  Ken- 
tucky is  confined  for  the  most  part  to  two  beds,  desig- 
nated as  Nos.  9  and  11  by  the  Geographical  Survey  of 
Kentucky.  Of  these  No.  9  (equivalent  to  No.  5  of  the 
Illinois  field)  is  the  more  persistent  and  furnishes  prob- 
ably 75  per  cent,  or  more  of  the  total  production  of  the 
western  counties  of  the  state.  It  underlies  the  whole 
or  portions  of  eight  counties,  including  all  of  the  field 
except  its  eastern  portion  and  the  southern  or  south- 
western edge  and  a  few  other  places  where  it  has  been 
cut  out  by  irregularities  in  the  structure  which  near  the 
west  and  south  borders  of  the  field  is  seriously  affected 
by  faults.  The  bed  has  an  average  thickness  of  about 
five  feet  and  only  rarely  thickens  out  to  more  than  five 
feet  six  inches  or  thins  down  to  less  than  four  feet  six 
inches.  Over  a  broad  zone  it  lies  within  300  feet  below 
the  surface  and  the  mining  is  done  by  shaft.  Bed  No. 
11  lies  from  40  to  100  feet  above  No.  9  and  is  the  next 


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important  bod  in  western  Kentucky.  It  is  much  more 
regular  than  No.  9,  but  usually  where  worked  has  a 
thickness  of  six  feet  or  over.  Another  bed  lying  about 
25  feet  above  No.  11  is  known  as  No.  12.  It  is  mined 
in  Webster,  Hopkins,  McLean  and  Muhlenberg  coun- 
ties. In  the  central  portion  of  this  field  this  bed  attains 
a  thickness  of  from  three  to  six  feet.  Other  beds  be- 
sides these  three  are  mined  at  several  localities  in  the 
district,  notably  what  is  supposed  to  be  No.  6  and  also 
No.  5." 

The  earliest  records  of  Kentucky  production  date 
back  to  1827  and  state  that  coal  was  mined  "on  the 
right  side  of  the  Cumberland  river  below  the  mouth 
of  Laurel."  While  the  exact  location  of  this  operation 
is  not  known,  it  was  evidently  in  either  Laurel  or 
Pulaski  counties  in  the  eastern  field.  A  report  of  the 
State  Geological  Survey,  published  in  1838,  also  is 
authority  for  the  statement  that  these  mines  shipped 
five  boat  loads  of  coal  to  Nashville  in  1828  and  prob- 
ably from  25  to  35  boat  loads  per  annum  between  1829 
and  1834.  Between  1834  and  1837  shipments  ran  be- 
tween 75  to  100  boat  loads,  "or  about  3,500  bushels  a 
year.  The  coal  was  for  the  most  part  consumed  in  the 
salt  works  and  iron  furnaces  convenient  to  the  rivers, 
the  only  means  of  transportation."  During  the  early 
period  under  review  the  production,  according  to  esti- 
mates based  upon  available  data,  ranged  from  2,000  to 
10,000  tons.  The  1840  Census  placed  the  output  for 
that  year  at  23,527  tons.  The  next  authentic  figure  ap- 
pears in  the  Census  for  1860,  when  production  had 
reached  285,760  tons.  Ten  years  later  the  after-effects 
of  the  Civil  War  were  reflected  in  the  drop  to  150,582 
tons,  but  by  1880  the  output  was  approaching  the 
1,000,000-ton  mark,  the  actual  figures  being  946,288 
tons.  Production  since  that  date  is  shown  in  detail  in 
the  following  table: 


Year.  Ton. 

1881 1,232,000 

1882 1,300,000 

1883 1,650,000 

1884 1,550,000 

1885 1,600,000 

1886 1,550,000 

1887 1,933,185 

1888 2,570,000 

1889 2,399,755 

1890 2,701,496 

1891 2,916,069 

1892 3,025,313 

1893 3,007,179 

1894 3,111,192 

1895 3,357,770 

1896 3,333,478 

1897 3,602,097 

1898 3,887,908 


Year.  Ton. 

1899 4,607,255 

1900 5,328,964 

1901 5,469,986 

1902 6,766,984 

1903 7,538,032 

1904 7,576,482 

1905 8,432,523 

1906 9,653,647 

1907 10,753,124 

1908 10,246,553 

1909 10,697,384 

1910 14,623,319 

1911 14,049,703 

1912 16,490,521 

1913 19,616,600 

1914 20,382,763 

1915 21,361,674 

1916 25,393,997 


The  diversified  uses  to  which  the  product  of  the  Ken- 
tucky mines  may  be  put  has  given  the  producers  of  the 
state  a  wide  market  for  the  distribution  of  their  output. 
Despite  the  fact  that  Kentucky  coals  are  welcomed  in 


over  half  the  states  of  the  Union,  next  to  the  total  of 
the  other  states,  the  home  territory  remains  the  second 
largest  customer,  using  21  per  cent,  of  the  total  output. 
This  home  consumption  satisfies  over  85  per  cent,  of  the 
bituminous  coal  requirements  of  the  commonwealth. 
The  railroads  absorb  22  per  cent,  of  the  production. 
Shipments  to  the  Great  Lakes,  which  accounted  for  only 
three  per  cent,  of  the  output  in  1915,  have  been  and  are 
a  growing  factor  in  the  marketing  of  the  coal  from  the 
southeastern  field. 

Tn  the  interstate  distribution  "the  best  developed 
markets  for  the  coal  from  western  Kentucky  are  to  the 
south  and  southwest,  particularly  in  the  Mississippi 
Valley,"  but  recent  changes  in  the  currents  of  coal 
traffic  have  also  permitted  a  heavier  movement  north- 
bound to  Chicago  territory  and  operators  in  the  west- 
ern Kentucky  field  have  been  contending  for  a  readjust- 
ment of  rates,  which  they  claim  would  permit  a  wider 
distribution  of  coal  from  their  field  into  northern  and 
northwestern  territory.  Into  these  markets  the  eastern 
field  has  been  a  shipper  of  importance,  the  movement 
at  and  through  Chicago  during  the  calendar  year  of 
1915  alone  amounting  to  1,738,915  tons,  against  760,- 
108  tons  in  1914.  In  1916  this  particular  movement 
had  risen  to  2,513,403  tons,  an  increase  of  over  230  per 
cent,  over  1914,  and  it  was  only  persistent  car  shortages 
and  embargoes  that  interfered  with  the  march  of  prog- 
ress in  1917.  In  detail,  the  distribution  of  the  product 
of  the  state  as  a  whole  for  1915  is  shown  in  the  table 
following.  During  that  particular  year  about  65  per 
cent,  of  the  production  of  the  state  was  from  the  eastern 
field,  which  first  exceeded  the  western  field  in  total 
production  in  1911 : 

Used  in  Kentucky:  Ton. 

Used  at  mines 495,313 

Sold  to  local  trade 586,864 

Made  into  coke  at  mines 458,105 

Shipped  to  Kentucky  points 2,888,773 

Total  used  in  Kentucky 4,429,055 

Shipped  to  other  States: 

Alabama    86,966 

Arkansas  56,913 

Florida   17,268 

Georgia 800,822 

Illinois    864,047 

Indiana    2,886,806 

Iowa    335,431 

Kansas  54,871 

Louisiana    215,007 

Michigan   1,061,640 

Minnesota   345,333 

Mississippi    630,518 

Missouri    478,164 

Nebraska  92,091 

North  and  South  Carolina 143,660 

North  Dakota 418 

Ohio    1,359,813 

Pennsylvania *79,125 

South  Dakota 89,220 


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Tennessee   1,560,776 

Texas  40,112 

Virginia 2,064 

West  Virginia   87 

Wisconsin   379,644 

Total  shipped  to  other  States 11,580,796 

Shipped  to  Great  Lakes  for  cargo 702,000 

Used  by  railroads 4,649,823 

Total   production    21,361,674 

♦Includes  Kentucky  coal  exported  by  rail  to  Canada. 

The  per  capita  consumption  in  the  state  (1.64  tons 
bituminous  coal  and  .01  ton  anthracite),  while  by  no 
means  at  the  bottom  of  the  list,  is  considerably  under 
the  average  for  the  country  as  a  whole.    On  the  other 


hand  its  square  mile  consumption  of  128  tons  exceeds 
the  national  average  by  a  margin  of  five  tons.  The 
anthracite  consumption,  20,000  tons,  although  above 
that  in  a  number  of  other  states,  is  small.  Kentucky 
looks  to  bituminous  coal  for  its  major  fuel  requirements 
and,  as  before  stated,  calls  upon  its  own  mines  for  more 
than  85  per  cent,  of  its  total  consumption.  Exclusive  of 
a  small  tonnage  of  Maryland  coal,  reported  from  Iowa, 
the  total  bituminous  consumption  of  the  state  for  1915 
was  0,19(5,321  tons,  distributed  as  follows:  Illinois, 
B,807  :  Kentucky.  4,429,058]  Ohio.  371*  which  includes 
some  coal  consumed  in  South  Dakota ;  Pennsylvania, 
131,101;  Tennessee.  185,580;  West  Virginia.  443,407; 
total.  5,196.231. 


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JUSTUS  S.  STEARNS,  l.iiiliiiuKin.  Michigan, 
President,  Stearns  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.,  Stearns.  Kentucky, 
making  his  home  and  headquarters  at  Ludington,  Michigan, 
was  born  April  10.  1845,  in  Chautauqua  County,  New  York, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  ten  years. 
Mr.  Stearns  has  had  for  many  years  extensive  interests  in 
the  salt  and  lumber  trade  and  his  company  is  now  taking 
an   equally   prominent   place   in   the   coal   industry. 


JOHN    E.   BUTLER,   Steams,   Kentucky, 

President  and  General  Manager  Fidelity  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Stearns,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Canada  August  1,  1873, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Butler 
is  also  General  Manager  of  The  Stearns  Coal  &  Lumber  Co. 
and  of  the  Kentucky  &  Tennessee  Railway  Co.  He  served 
as  President  of  the  Kentucky  Mining  Institute  for  the  years 
1916-1917. 


ROBERT   U.   STEARNS,   Stearns,   Kentucky, 

Managing  Director  of  the  Stearns  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.  of 
Stearns,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Conneaut,  Ohio,  March  14, 
1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 
Under  Mr.  Stearns'  management  this  company  has  made 
rapid  growth  and  is  one  of  the  important  producers  of 
Kentucky  coal. 


K.   W.  DYAS,   Stearns,  Kentucky, 

Sales  Manager  of  the  Stearns  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.,  Steams, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Crittenden,  Kentucky,  September  19, 
1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 
He  is  also  a  Director  in  the  Fidelity  Coal  Mining  Co.  of 
Exodus,   Kentucky. 


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WILLIAM   AHKINGTON  WICKLIFPB,  Greenville,  Kentucky, 

Born  in  South  Carrollton,  Kentucky,  February  16,  1860,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  is  President 
of  the  Greenville  Coal  Co.,  also  President  of  the  W.  A.  Wick- 
liffe  Coal  Co.,  which  company  he  organized  in  1904,  and  a 
large  stockholder  in  the  Nelson  Creek  Coal  Co.  He  is 
President  of  the  Ohio  Valley  Coal  Operators'  Association, 
also  a  member  of  the  West  Kentucky  Conservation  Associa- 
tion. Mr.  Wickliffe  is  well  known  in  banking  circles  in 
Kentucky,  being  President  of  the  First  National  Bank, 
Greenville,  which  is  one  of  the  largest  banks  in  the  state. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law 
with   the  firm  of  Jonson,  'Wickliffe  &   Jonson. 


<I.\HK\<I,    >i\u\i\    MAUI  IN,  QrceavUIe,  Kentucky, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Greenville  Coal  Co., 
Greenville,  Kentucky,  also  General  Manager  W.  A.  Wick- 
liffe Coal  Co.,  was  born  In  Greenville  July  111.  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  has  served  mi 
the  Executive  Hoard  of  the  Western  Kentucky  Coal  <  ipera- 
tors'  Association,  Ohio  Valley  Coal  Operators'  Association. 
and    the    West    Kentucky    Conservation    Association. 


MAT     LBB    WldOIFFB,    <...-.  nvlll.  .     Kentucky, 

S. ii  retary-Treasurer  Greenville  Coal  Co.,  Greenville,  Ken- 
tucky, also  Secretary-Treasurer  W.  A.  Wickliffe  Coal  Co., 
was  born  In  Greenville  August  9,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the 
OCA]  business  ten  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Western 
Kentucky  Coal  Operators'  Association,  Ohio  Valley  Coal 
Operator*'  Association,  and  the  West  Kentucky  Conserva- 
tion   Association. 


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WILLIAM    S.   SPEED,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 

President  North  Jellico  Coal  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  September  10,  1873,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  is  also 
Vice  President  of  the  Pioneer  Coal  Co.  and  President  of  the 
Beaver  Dam  Coal  Co. 


FREDEHICK  M.   SACKETT,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 

Vine  President  North  Jellico  Coal  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
was  born  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  December  8,  1868, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He 
is  also  President  of  the  Pioneer  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President 
of  the  Beaver  Dam  Coal  Co. 


F.  D.  WOOD,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 

President  and  General  Manager  Kentucky  Rock  Asphalt  Co., 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Sauk  Rapids,  Minnesota, 
May  5,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four 
years.  He  was  until  recently  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Wallins  Creek  Coal  Co.,  and  was  interested  in 
the  Wallins  Creek  Sales  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Elk  Coal  Co.,  Terry's  Fork  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
Straight  Creek  Mineral  Co  ,  and  others.  He  has  held  posi- 
tions of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of  his  state. 


TIPTOIV  LOUIS  YOUNG,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 

Vice  President-Treasurer  Wallins  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Louis- 
ville, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-four 
years.  He  is  Sales  Manager  of  the  Wallins  Creek  Sales 
Co.,  and  was  formerly  with  the  Louis  des  Cognets  &  Co. 
and  the  Lexington  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  holds  positions  of 
honor  in  the  coal  operators'  associations  of  the  state. 


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M  i:in  I  J.  1.1111,1:1.  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
Louisville  Manager  Central  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Speed  Building, 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville  September  7, 
1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr. 
Karley  has  spent  his  entire  business  life  with  this  company, 
having  started  as  office  boy  and  having  been  promoted 
steadily   to   his   present   position. 


LOUIS   A.   POWELL,  Louisville  Kentucky, 

Manager  Federal  Coal  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  December  1,  1888,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Louisville  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  White  Oak  Coal 
Co.  and  the  Continental  Coal  Corp. 


KENNKTH  U,  MGGl'lRE,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
President  Harlan  Coal  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  January  31,  1880,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  is  interested  in 
the  Harlan  Coal  Co.,  the  Harlan  Coal  Mining  Co.,  the  Ken- 
tucky Headwaters  Coal  Co.,  the  Paint  Cliff  Mines  Co.,  Am- 
burgy  Coal  Co..  and  others.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Snead 
&  Meguire  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Megulre  has  served  as  President 
of  the  Kentucky  Mining  Institute.  Vice  President  Kentucky 
Mine  Owners'  Association  and  has  been  active  in  other  or- 
ganizations. 


It.  C.  TWAY,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 

President  R.  C.  Tway  Coal  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  October  21,  1881,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  is  also  President 
of  the  R.  C.  Tway  Mining  Co.  and  the  James  Coal  Co.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Harlan  County  Coal  Operators'  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Southern  Appalachian  Coal  Operators'  Asso- 
ciation. 


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JOHN    P.    GORMAN,    Lexlneton,   Kentucky, 

General  Manager  of  the  Hazard  Coal  Co.,  Lexington,  Ken- 
tucky, and  General  Superintendent  of  the  Tennessee-Jellico 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Houtsdale,  Pennsylvania,  January  7, 
1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  he  was  eight 
years  of  age.  Mr.  Gorman  is  also  President  of  the  Marian 
Coal  Co.  and  General  Superintendent  of  the  Block  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  and  has  interests  in  the  Comargo  Coal  Co.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Hazard  Coal  Oper- 
ators' Exchange,  and  is  one  of  the  best  known  Kentucky 
operators. 


LESLIE  I.  COLEMAN,  Knoxville,  Tennessee* 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Tennessee- 
Jellico  Coal  Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  March  4, 
1860,  in  Falmouth,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness about  thirty-two  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Block  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  President 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Comargo  Coal  Co.,  and  Vice  President 
Hazard  Coal  Co.  and  Tennessee  Jellico  Coal  Corp.  Mr. 
Coleman  has  been  a  Director  of  the  Executive  Committee 
and  member  of  the  Traffic  Committee  of  the  Southern  Appa- 
lachian Coal  Operators  Association  and  is  one  of  the  best 
known  coal  operators  in  the  South. 


JOHN    W.    WILLIAMS,    Coxton,     Kj-„ 

President  and  General  Manager  Lick 
Branch  Coal  Co.,  Coxton,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Mahanoy  City,  Pennsyl- 
vania, February  22,  1S72,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years. 
He  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Proctor  Coal  Co..  Red  Ash,  Trosper 
Coal  Co.,  Trosper,  and  the  Wallins 
Creek  Coal  Co.,  Wallins,  all  of  Ken- 
tucky. 


DOVER     WILLIAMS,     Coxton,     Ky, 

Secretary-Treasurer  Lick  Branch  Coal 
Co..  Coxton,  Kentucky,  was  born  in 
Soddy,  Tennessee,  April  13,  1874.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven 
years  He  was  formerly  with  the  Wal- 
lins Creek   Coal  Co. 


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CLAUDS    MH.l\     HYI.KV,    h'vinn Kentucky, 

Owner  of  C.  L.  Kyley  Coal  Co..  Lexington,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Troy.  Kentucky,  May  19,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  The  firm  is  composed 
of  Mr.  Ryley  and  his  son,  C.  Reginald  Ryley.  Mr.  Ryley  is 
also  President  of  the  Payette  Coal.  Grain  &  Feed  Co.,  and 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  firm  of  Ryley  &  Collins 
and  the  White  Ash  Coal  Co.  He  is  the  coal  member  of  the 
Rotary  Club  in  Lexington,  and  is  well  and  favorably  known 
throughout  the  trade. 


C.   REGINALD   RYLEY,   Lexington,  Kentucky, 

Assistant  Manager  C.  L.  Ryley  Coal  Co.,  Lexington,  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  in  Woodford  County,  Kentucky,  July  15, 
1897,  and  has  been  associated  with  his  father,  C.  L.  Ryley, 
in   the   wholesale  coal   business   for  about   three   years. 


WILLIAM    DIXON    COIL,    MndiMonvlllc,    Kentucky, 

President  Coil  Coal  Co.,  Madisonville,  Kentucky,  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Sunset  Coal  Co..  was  born  in  Hopkins  County, 
Kentucky,  May  21,  18B7.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  previously  connected  with 
the  Rose  Creek  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Coil  is  a  member  of  the 
Western  Kentucky  Operators  Association.  Both  companies 
of  which  he  Is  President  are  members  of  the  West  Ken- 
tucky   Conservation    Association. 


IIOYT   II.  COIL.   MndlMonvllle,   Kentucky, 

General  Manager  Coil  Coal  Co.,  Madisonville,  Kentucky,  was 
born  In  Hopkins  County.  Kentucky,  August  1,  1891,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  eight  years.  He  is  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Sunset  Coal  Co.,  interested  in  the  Peerless  Min- 
ing Co.  and  holds  a  position  of  honor  with  the  West  Ken- 
tucky   Conservation    Association. 


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E.    P.    NICHOLSON.    H  i.i.i  I. Kentucky, 

President  Low  Ash  Mining  Co.  and  Manager  of  the  Home 
Run  Coal  Co.,  Middlesboro,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Pulaski, 
Virginia,  April  27,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  nineteen  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Central 
Coal  &  Feed  Co.  and  was  formerly  with  the  Lick  Fork  Coal 
Co.,  the  West  Virginia  Coal  Co.,  and   the  Nicholson  Coal  Co. 


FREDERICK     DEMPSTER     HART,    JR.,     Middlesboro,    Ky., 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Low  Ash  Mining  Co. 
and  President  of  Home  Run  Coal  Co.,  Middlesboro,  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  April  10,  1872,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Central  Coal  &  Feed  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Wallsend  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  National  Coal  &  Iron 
Co.  and  Appalachian  Washed  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Hart  was  edu- 
cated as  an  electrical  and  mechanical  engineer. 


WAITER   S.   HARKINS,  Prestonsburg,   Kentucky, 

Of  Harkins  &  Harkins,  Prestonsburg,  counsel  for  many  coal 
companies  in  Floyd  County  and  Eastern  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Prestonsburg  September  25.  1857.  In  addition  to  acting 
as  counsel  Mr.  Harkins  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the 
buying  and  selling  of  coal  and  mineral  lands  in  Kentucky 
and  in  the  course  of  thirty  years  or  more  has  handled  many 
large  sales  and  leases.  Personally  he  is  one  of  the  largest 
individual  owners  of  coal  and  mineral  properties  in  Ken- 
tucky, interested  in  several  banks,  and  still  in  active  practice 
in   both  State  and  United  States  courts. 


JOSEPH  D.  HARKINS,  Prestonsburg,  Kentucky, 

Of  Harkins  &  Harkins.  Prestonsburg,  counsel  for  coal  com- 
panies, was  born  in  Prestonsburg  April  24,  1884.  Since 
entering  the  firm  he  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  purchase 
and  sale  of  coal  and  mineral  lands.  The  firm  is  connected 
with  every  branch  of  the  coal  industry  except  the  actual 
mining  of  coal,  and  their  services,  because  of  their  practical, 
as  well  as  legal,  knowledge  of  the  mining  laws  and  condi- 
tions,  are  much   sought   after. 


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WALTER  S.  WELLS,  Prestonsburg,  Kentucky, 

Late  General  Manager  Middle  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Prestonsburg, 
Kentucky,  was  born  In  Paintsville,  Kentucky,  August  5, 
1888,  and  had  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  October  16,  1918.  He 
was  president  of  the  Black  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  Salt  Lick 
Coal  Co.,  Beaver-Elkhorn  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Loraln-Elkhorn 
Coal  Co.  He  served  as  Vice  President  of  the  Kentucky 
Mining  Institute  and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Big  Sandy 
Coal  Mining  Institute. 


GEORGE    BOOTON    ARCHER.    I'i v>i i -g,    Kentucky, 

Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Middle  Creek  Coal  Co..  Prestons- 
burg,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Prestonsburg,  Kentucky,  May 
30,  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  seven 
years.  He  is  a  Director  in  the  following  companies:  Beaver- 
Elkhorn  Coal  Co..  Lorain-Elkhorn  Coal  Co.,  Black  Diamond 
Coal  Co.,  and  Salt  Lick   Coal  Co. 


J.    W.    ALLEY,    I'rextonxbui-K,    Ky., 

President-Manager  Prestonsburg  Coal 
Co.,  Inc.,  Prestonsburg.  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Virginia,  October  8,  1882,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Virginia  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.  and 
the  Virginia  Iron,  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Mr. 
Alley  installed  the  plant  of  the  Stone- 
wall Coal  &  Coke  <'o.  and  has  been 
in   the  Big  Sandy   field   ten    years. 


THOMAS   -ii.|-|'i:ic»o\    A.SIIKIt,  Wasloto.  Kentucky, 

Was  born  in  Itedbird,  Clay  County,  Kentucky.  May  21,  1848. 
and  has  been  associated  with  the  remarkable  development 
of   Kentucky    coal    lands. 


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J.  D.  CAIN,  Middlexboro,  Kentucky, 

Assistant  State  Inspector  of  Mines,  Middlesboro,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Illinois  December  27,  1860,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Lady  Ensley  Coal,  Iron  &  Railway  Co., 
Richmond  Coal  Co.,  R.  O.  Campbell  Coal  Co.,  Wilhoit  Coal 
Co.,  and  the  Blackwood  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Mr.  Cain  is  consid- 
ered one  of  the  best  posted  coalmen  in  Kentucky  and  an  au- 
thority on  eastern  Kentucky  coal  properties. 


C.    R.    COLEMAN,    Stanford,    Kentucky, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Coleman  Mining  Co., 
Inc.,  Cary,  Bell  County,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Maysville, 
Pennsylvania,  December  16,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-one  years.  Mr.  Coleman  enjoys  an  en- 
viable reputation  in  the  coal  trade  and  is  the  guiding  spirit 
of  the  company.  They  operate  an  absolutely  modern  plant 
equipped  with  the  latest  mining  machinery,  producing  about 
five  hundred  tons  per  day.  Mr.  Coleman  was  formerly  with 
the  Lexington  &  Carter  County  Mining  Co.  and  the  Man- 
chester  Coal  Co. 


WILLIAM    E.   DAVIS.    Lexington,    Kentucky, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Midland  Mining 
Co..  Lexington,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Knoxville,  Ten- 
nessee. December  7,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  nineteen  years.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the 
East  Tennessee  Coal  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  Kenmont 
Coal  Co..  Kentucky  Block  Coal  Co.,  Kentucky  Jewel  Coal 
Co..  and  Elk  Fork  Coal  Co.  He  sold  recently  his  interest 
in  the  First  Creek  Coal  Co.  of  which  he  was  President  and 
General  Manager.  He  is  the  pioneer  of  the  Hazard  coal 
fields  in  Kentucky  and  has  equipped  and  operated  some  of 
the   best   properties   in    that   field. 


W,  J.  BROWN,  JR.,  Lennnt,  Ky., 
Was  born  in  Bristol,  Virginia,  and  is 
in  charge  of  the  Daniel  Boone  Coal  Co., 
Lennut,  Kentucky,  known  as  the  Haz- 
ard field.  This  company  has  recently 
completed  the  opening  of  another  mine 
on  Lotts  Creek,  having  a  daily  capacity 
of  3,000  tons,  equipped  with  all  modern 
electrical    equipment. 


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\\  II. 1. 1  \>l    GRAHAM    DUNCAN, 

(■rf-cnYillc.  Kentucky, 
President  \V.  G.  Duncan  Coal  Co.,  was 
born  September  4,  1851.  in  Hollytown, 
Scotland,  and  has  been  engaged  fifty- 
two  years  in  the  coal  Industry.  He  is 
one  of  Kentucky's  best  known  opera- 
tors. 


II AM  101,  BOONE   LOGAN,  IMnevllle.  Kentucky, 

Preside -nt  White-Log  Jellico  Coal  Co.,  Elk  Coal  Co..  Terry's 
Fork  Coal  Co.,  Dorton  Branch  Coal  Co.,  and  Straight  Creek 
Mineral  Co.,  was  born  in  Carter  County.  Kentucky.  April  23, 
1858.  and  by  reason  of  a  quarter  of  a  century's  experience 
in  mining  coal  is  considered  one  of  the  leading  operators 
of  Kentucky.  He  was  at  one  time  with  the  Wallsend  Coal 
&  Coke  Co. 


l:il\V  Mill  J.  HAKKTT,  Louisville.  Ky„ 

Born  in  I..eltelitteld,  Kentucky,  Decem- 
ber 3,  lXfit),  has  had  twenty  very  active 
years  in  both  mining  and  selling  coal. 
He  is  President  of  the  Caledonia  Min- 
ing Co..  Treasurer  of  the  D.  J.  Maekey 
I'n.,  and  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 

Fork  Ridge  Mining  Co.,  of  the  Big  Four 
Coal  Co.,  and  of  t lie  Big  Muddy  Min- 
ing Co.,  ail  operating  companies,  and 
Treasurer  and  Manager  ot  the  Edward 

.1      Hackttl    Coal    Co.,   a    retail    company. 


.1.  I,.  MWlllMi,  Middles  bora,  Kentucky, 
President  Manrlng  Coal  Exchange,  Mlddlesboro,  Kentucky. 
was  born  in  the  state  of  Ohio  In  1872  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  He  is  also  President 
of  the  Winona  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  with  the  Fork 
Kidge  Coal  Co.  and  the  Sterling  Coal  Co.,  as  well  as  a 
member  of  the  Southern  Appalachian  Coal  Operators  Asso- 
ciation. Mr.  Manrlng  is  Mayor  of  Middleslmro  and  one  of 
the    best    known    operators    in    the    eastern    Kentucky    field. 


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WHITE    LANE    MOSS,    Plneville,   Kentucky, 

President  of  the  White  Moss  Coal  Co.,  Pineville,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Pineville,  Kentucky,  September  4,  1883,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Continental  Coal  Corp ,  White  Star  Coal 
Co.,  Straight  Creek  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Moss  &  Sons  Coal  Co., 
and  Poplar  Hignite  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  President 
of  the  Kentucky  Mining  Institute  and  as  member  of 
Bxecutive  Committee,  Southern  Appalachian  Coal  Operators' 
Association,   and   has   many  warm   friends  in  the   coal   trade. 


J.     L.     MORGAN,     Plkevllle,     Kentucky, 

Manager  of  the  Allegheny  Coke  Co., 
Hellier,  Kentucky,  is  a  well  known 
coal  operator,  having  spent  many  years 
in  the  coal  business.  He  has  been  in 
the  Big  Sandy  Valley  for  twelve  years 
and  was  formerly  in  the  Pocahontas 
field    of   West   Virginia. 


GEORGE    MORIN    SHOEMAKER,   Evarts,    Kentucky. 

President  and  General  Manager  The  Red  Dragon  Coal  Co., 
Evarts,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pennsylvania, 
June  21,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-three 
years.  He  is  also  General  Manager  of  the  Bailey's  Creek 
Coal  Co.,  Harlan,  Kentucky.  He  was  formerly  with  the  La- 
Follette  Coal,  Iron  &  Railway  Co.  and  the  New  River  Col- 
lieries Co.  He  has  been  chairman  of  the  Executive  Board 
of  the  Southern  Appalachian  Coal  Operators  Association. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engi- 
neers. 


CHARLES     M.    RIKER,     Paducah,    Ky., 

General  Manager  and  Treasurer  Eureka 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Paducah,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
February  15,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  nineteen  years.  He  is 
General  Manager  of  the  Carbondale 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  President  of  the 
C.  M.  Riker  Coal  Co.  (mines  of  St. 
Charles,  Kentucky).  He  was  previous- 
ly with  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co..  Erie 
Coal   Co.,   and  West  Kentucky  Coal  Co. 


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HARRISON    I.aFAVETTE    Tll'KKK,    H«ck|iort,    Kentucky, 

President-General  Manager  Rockport  Coal  Co.,  Rockport, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Union  County,  Tennessee,  July  12, 
1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Chas.  F.  Keeler  Coal  Co., 
W.  S.  Bogle  Coal  Co.  and  the  Grant  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  is 
Secretary-Treasurer  and  Commissioner  of  Western  Ken- 
tucky Coal  Operators  Association. 


CAPT.    YV.    C.    TICK  Kit,    Ueiiham.    Kentucky, 

General  Superintendent  of  the  Wisconsin  Steel  Co.,  Benham, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Columbus.  Mississippi,  January  20, 
1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years. 
Capt.  Tucker  is  widely  known  for  his  ability  in  the  survey 
and  development  of  coal  lands  and  has  a  splendid  reputa- 
tion   in    the  eastern   Kentucky   field. 


J.  \  I  li  I :  u  1   SMITH,  Central  City,  Ky„ 

General  Manager  Gibraltar  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,  Central  City,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Lynnville,  Tennessee,  August 
11,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirteen  years,  all  the  time  with 
this  company.  He  is  also  interested  in 
the  Mercer  Coal  Co.  and  the  Brown 
Coal  Co.,  Memphis.  He  is  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Western  Kentucky  Opera- 
tors' Association  and  a  member  of  the 
West  Kentucky  Conservation  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Ohio  Valley  Coal  Op- 
erators'   Association. 


H.    W.    WHITFIELD,    KUtM,    Kentueky, 

President  Clover  Fork  Mining  Co., 
Kitts,  Kentucky,  was  born  January  24, 
1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Whitfield 
was  formerly  connected  with  several 
companies  in  Alabama  and  later  oper- 
ated the  Left  Fork  Coal  Co.,  which  was 
afterwards  sold  to  the  Continental 
Coal    Co. 


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KENTUCKY-  Louisville 

JOHN  HENRY  IlK'Kia,  JR..  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Louisville  September  28,  1873.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
East    Kentucky  Mining  Co.  and  the  W.  G.   Duncan  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  F.  IH'RWINKLE,  President  Walnut  Coal  Co., 
Inc..  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville.  Kentucky. 
October  13.  1SS2,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  James  Coal  Co.  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Joseph  Walton  Co.  and  R.  C. 
Tway  Coal   Co.    K.    E.   Weber  is  Treasurer  of  the  company. 

CHARLES  L.  CRUSH,  President  Atlas  Coal  Co.,  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  February  16, 
1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Pacific  Coal  Co.,  and  has 
held  positions  of  honor  with  the  coal  organizations  of  the 
state,  and   is  well   known   throughout   the   trade. 

GEORGE  ESi  DAVIS.  Manager  of  the  Consolidation  Coal 
Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Virginia, 
June  36,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  covering  a 
period  of  ten  years.  Mr.  Davis  was  formerly  in  the  railroad 
service  and   has  many  friends  in  the  trade. 

LEON  l'HANKEl,  President  Frankel  Coal  Co.,  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  September  28, 
1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  RATHRICtHT,  Sales  Agent  and  Assistant 
Manager  of  the  St.  Bernard  Mining  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Indianapolis.  Indiana,  in  ISsl,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  thirteen  years. 

C.  D.  H  AUGER,  President  Mannington  Coal  Co.,  Louis- 
ville, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Washington  County,  Indiana, 
July   IS,   1881,   and   has  been  in   the  coal  business  two   years. 

KARL  .11  NGIII.I  I'll.  JR.,  of  the  Harlan  Coal  Co.,  Louis- 
ville, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  July  20, 
1876,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Ho 
is  also  interested  in  the  Harlan  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  was 
formerly    with    the   Smokeless    Fuel   Co.,   Cincinnati,   Ohio. 

E.  lUWIMi,  Secretary-Treasurer  Harlan  Coal  Co.,  Har- 
lan Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  Treasurer  Kentucky  Headwaters 
Coal  Co.,  Louisville.  Kentucky,  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness four  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  The  Snead 
&   Meguire  Coal  Co. 

W.  s.  McDXNELD,  President  Drabelle  Yager  Coal  Co., 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  in 
1881,  and   has  been   in   the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

CHAHLES  J.  O'CONNOR,  Manager  of  the  Pittsburgh  Coal 
Co.,    Louisville.    Kentucky,    was    born    in    Louisville    May    4, 

1867.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  O'Neil  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  later  merged 
into  the  present   company. 

FHEU  W.  OTT,  .III.,  Traffic  Manager  R.  C.  Tway  Coal  Co- 
Louisville.  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
December  1.  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  cover- 
ing  a   period   of   six  years. 

LOUIS  A.  SHAKER,  Sales  Manager  James  Coal  Co.,  Louis- 
ville. Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  March 
16,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  R.  C.  Tway  Coal  Co.,  and 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Southern  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Straight  Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Asher  Coal  Agency.  Jellico- 
Laurel  Coal  Agency,  Louisville  &  Nashville  Railroad  Coal 
Agency  and  others.  Mr.  Shafer  is  considered  one  of  the 
best  retail  coal  salesmen  in  the  state  and  is  widely  known 
throughout    the    trade. 

ROBERT  A.  WATSON,  Manager  of  the  Byrne  &  Speed 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Jellico-Laurel  Coal  Agency,  Louisville, 
Kentucky,   was  born   in   Louisville,   Kentucky,    December   12, 

1868.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 
DR.  HOIIEKT  WEDEKIND,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Tennessee  Jellico  Coal  Corp..  Block  Coal  & 
Coke  Co..  Hazard  Coal  Co  and  the  Tennessee  Jellico  Coal 
Co.,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  March  7,  1871,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  Dr.  Wede- 
kind   is  the  largest  farm   land  owner  in   the  state. 


KENTUCKY 


HARRY  W.  ABBOTT,  Manager  of  The  M.  M.  Allen  Supply 
Co.,  Newport,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Covington,  Kentucky, 
December  25,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven   years. 

VAN  Bl'RFA'  ALEXANDER  of  Alexander  Bros.,  Cadiz, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Cadiz,  Kentucky.  January  22,  1876, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He 
was  formerly   with   Alexander  Bros.  &  Sands. 

F.  J.  ALSO  I',  General  Manager  Alsop  Bros..  Hawesville, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Hawesville  in  1S79  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Aubur   Ash    &    Fe  n'.ey    Co. 


SAM  J.  ALVES,  Henderson,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Hen- 
derson County,  Kentucky,  August  1,  1847,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly 
with   the  Coreydon  Mining  Co. 

GEO.  C.  ATKINSON,  President  St.  Bernard  Mining  Co., 
Karlington.  Kentucky,  was  born  in  New  Jersey  May  15,  1852, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1871.  He  is  also 
President  of  the  Victoria  Coal  Co.  and  one  of  the  largest 
coal  operators  in  Kentucky,  his  father  being  a  pioneer  in 
the  development  of  that  state. 

THOMAS  MARSHAL  BARROW,  Owensboro,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Clark  County,  Kentucky,  in  1873,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for  seventeen   years. 

J.  W.  RASTIN,  Secretary-General  Manager  Nelson  Creek 
Coal  Co.,  Nelson,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Lincoln  County, 
Kentucky,  September  18,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-six  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Bevier  Coal  Co.,  Cleaton,  Kentucky,  and  was  formerly  with 
the  Laurel  Coal  Co.  and  the  New  Laurel  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburg, 

PERCY  D.  BERRY',  Vice  President  and  Treasurer  Provi- 
dence Mining  Co.,  Providence,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Madi- 
sonville,  Kentucky,  November  24,  1874,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years,  the  company  for- 
merly being  known  as  the  Providence  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Berry 
is  serving  as  a  Director  in  the  Kentucky  Mine  Owners'  As- 
sociation   and    the   Ohio   Valley   Coal   Operators'    Association. 

ALEXANDER  BLAIR,  General  Manager  Pittsburgh  Coal 
Co.,  Henderson,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Scotland  October 
16,  18511,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty 
years. 

LINDSAY  R.  BLANTON,  Richmond,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Richmond,  Kentucky,  April  25,  1890,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  all  his  life.  The  firm  bearing  Mr.  Blan- 
ton's  name  started  business  in  1885  and  he  has  been  its 
Manager   for   eight   years  or  more. 

C.  G.  BOWMAN,  President  Daniel  Boone  Coal  Co.,  Haz- 
ard, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Estell  County  in  1864.  Mr. 
Bowman  is  a  man  of  means  and  is  well  and  favorably 
known  in  Kentucky,  having  been  engaged  in  the  lumber 
industry   as   well   as   coal   business   for   many   years. 

HENRY'  L.  BRADLEY',  Manager  of  Bradley  Bros.,  Padu- 
cah,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Paducah  in  1872  and  has  been 
in   the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

W.  W.  BRIDGES,  President  Black  Diamond  Coal  &  Min- 
ing Co.,  Drakesboro,  Kentucky,  was  born  at  Boxville,  Ken- 
tucky, March  12,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   twenty-six   years,   with   the   one   company. 

WILLIAM  WILSON  BROADDUS,  President  W.  W. 
Broaddus  &  Co.,  Richmond,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Madison 
County,  Kentucky,  January  17,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
L.    R.    Blanton    fourteen    years. 

A.  V.  BROWN.  Secretary-Treasurer  Golden  Ash  Coal  Co.. 
Williamsburg.  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Osgood,  Indiana,  June 
14,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 
He  is  also  Auditor  for  the  Southern  Mining  Co.  and  is  inter- 
ested in  the  New  Caryville  Coal  Co.  and  the  Gatliff  Coal  Co. 

CHARLES  D.  BL'RDICK,  Auditor  and  Assistant  Treas- 
urer West  Kentucky  Coal  Co.,  Sturgis,  Kentucky,  was  born 
near  Uniondale,  Pennsylvania,  August  19,  1874,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Hillside  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  the 
Pennsylvania    Coal    Co.    at    Scranton,    Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE  S.  CHOWNING,  President  of  Hall  &  Cbowning, 
Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Shelbyville,  Kentucky, 
September  7,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
fifteen  years.  Mr.  Cbowning  is  one  of  the  most  popular 
retailers    in    that    section. 

J.  J.  CHRISTIE,  General  Manager  Marrowbone  Mining 
Co.,  Pikeville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  the  state  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  all  his  life. 
He  is  President  of  the  Mossy  Bottom  Mining  Co.  and  Gen- 
eral  Manager   of   the   Natts   Creek   Mining  Co. 

GEORGE  THOMAS  CLARK  of  The  George  T.  Clark  Coal 
&  Sand  Co.,  Russellville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Russellville 
March  27,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years. 

EDWARD  R.  CLAYTON,  Secretary  of  the  Harlan  County 
Coal  Operators'  Association,  Harlan,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Grafton,  West  Virginia,  January  10,  1876,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Maryland  Coal  Co.,  Wendel,  West 
Virginia,  The  Harlan  Coal  Co.,  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and 
the  Wallins  Creek  Coal  Co..  Louisville,  Kentucky.  He  is 
Secretary  of  the  Harlan  County  Coal  Operators'  Association, 
and  on  February  1,  1918,  was  appointed  a  District  Repre- 
sentative of  the  1'nited  States  Fuel  Administration,  with 
headeiuarters   at    Knoxville,    Tennessee. 

S.  H.  CRAIN,  Crain  Coal  Co.,  Flemingsburg,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Fleming  County,  February  9,  1864,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with   the  Collins-Crain   Co. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


B.  C.  DAVIDSON,  s  cretary-Treaaurer  I'niontown  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.,  Uniontown,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Hawes- 
ville,  Kentucky.  April  6,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with   B.   C.   Davidson    ft    Suns  and   B.   C.   Davidson   Coal   Co. 

J.  EAHLE  DAVIS,  Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in 
Shelby  County,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  associated  with 
Curtis  P.  Hall  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  the  past  year 
under    the    name    of    Hail   &    Davis. 

II AKK V  W.  Dl<  KKBSOX  of  the  Reliance  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Cincinnati.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Kenton  County,  Kentucky, 
January  18,  1890,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  six 
years.  He  is  also  interested  In  the  Lincoln  Coal  Co.  of  Cin- 
cinnati, and  was  formerly  with  the  Marmet-Halm  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

WILLIAM  G  DODSON.  Paris,  Kentucky,  is  a  native  of 
Kentucky,  born  June  11,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  over  seventeen  years.  He  is  a  well  known 
retailer  in  that  section. 

W.  H.  DOUGLAS  of  the  firm  of  W.  H.  Douglas  ft  Son, 
Richmond,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Madison  County,  Ken- 
tucky, January  20,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   six    years. 

WILLIAM  THI  MAX  DK1IIV,  Morganfleld,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Waverly,  Kentucky,  October  IS,  1871,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  River  &  Rail  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Drury  Coal  Co. 
Mr.   Drury  has   2,020  acres  of  undeveloped  coal    lands. 

harry  DBAFSB  kvstox,  clem  mi  Superintendent  Fed- 
eral  Coal   Co..    inc.    successors    to   Continental    Coal    Corp., 

Straight  Creek,  Kentucky,  wis  born  In  Mehoopany.  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1^7v  and  is  an  authority  on  the  coal 
industry  and  the  author  of  books  and  articles  on  the  sub- 
ject. Mr.  Kaston  Is  a  Professor  of  Mining  Engineering 
and  has  been  instructor  in  this  branch  in  several  univer- 
sities. 

ISAAC  J.  K.\(iLK,  Lexington,  Kentucky,  member  of  the 
firm  of  Shepherd.  Engle  &  Given,  was  born  in  Richmond, 
Kentucky,  about  thirty-six  years  ago.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  ^ohn  B.  Payne  and  Louis  des  Cognets  &  Co., 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  thirteen  years. 

DR.  C.  W.  EVANS,  General  Manager  Colonial  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Prestonsburg,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Pottsville. 
Pennsylvania,  flfty-nine  years  ago,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Henry  Clay  Coal  Co.  Dr.  Evans  gave  up  the  medical  pro- 
fession for  the  coal  industry  and  has  been  in  the  Big  Sandy 
field  since  1905. 

SAMUEL  MILTO.\  FREESE,  Treasurer  The  Kentucky 
Block  Cannel  Coal  Co.,  Cannell  City,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Louisa,  Kentucky,  March  27,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 

H.  H.  FINK,  Sutton,  Kentucky,  General  Manager  of  The 
Funk  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1851  and  has 
been    in   the   present   company   about   two    years. 

SHELBY  GISH,  President  Central  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Central 
City,  Kentucky,  was  born  near  Central  City,  Kentucky,  in 
the  year  1877,  and  has  coal  interests  in  the  Gish  Cannel 
Coal  Co.,  McHenry  Coal  Co.,  Jellico  Coal  Co.,  Consolidated 
Coal  Co.,  Five  J  Coal  Co.  and  the  Central  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 

JAMES  G.  GIVEN,  member  of  the  firm  of  Shepherd,  Engle 
&  Given,  Lexington,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Lexington,  Ken- 
tucky, about  forty-four  years  ago.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  George  Land  and  the  Pluto  Coal  Co.  and  has 
been   in    the  coal   business   for  about    twenty-six   years. 

•WALTER  SCOTT  BLOWS,  Danville  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Dan- 
ville, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  January 
12,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  is  Interested  in  the  Kentucky-Tennessee  Prop- 
erty  Co.   and    the    Virginia    Mining   Co. 

JOII.V  H.  GRIFFITT,  Superintendent  Marrowbone  Mining 
Co.,  Lookout,  Kentucky,  was  horn  In  Marmet,  West  Vir- 
ginia. In  the  year  1865,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
tin-    Solvay   Collieries  Co.,   Kingston.   West   Virginia. 

B.  I'.  GBIGSBY.  SB.,  President  of  Grigsby  &  Co..  Bards- 
town.  Kentucky,  was  horn  In  Bardstown,  Kentucky,  May 
30,  1847,  and  has  been  in  the  owl  ImisIik  ss  for  twenty-eight 
years.  His  sons.  B.  P.  Grigsby.  Jr..  O.  K.  Grigsby  and 
It  W.  Grigsby.  are  associated  with  him  In  the  business. 
James  Carothers.  Jr..  has  also  been  with  the  company  for 
twenty-eight    years. 

S.  B.  GUI  BBS,  Warsaw,  Kentucky,  was  born  In  Florence, 
Boone  County,  Kentucky.  July  14.  1846.  and  has  been  In 
the   coal    business    for   twenty-eight    years. 

BUM  «.l  IIIHIi:,  President  Republic  Coal  Co.,  Harlan, 
Kentucky,  was'  born  In  the  state  of  Alabama,  January  19, 
1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years.     He   was   formerly   with   the   Alabama  Coal  Co. 


Ct'RTIS  P.  HALL,  Shelbyville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in 
Shelby  County,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness under  the  firm  name  of  Hall  &  Davis  since  January  1, 
1917,    which    firm    succeeded    Hall    &    Crume. 

EVEHETTE  BcDOWBLL  BAKU  AH,  Vic-  President  and 
General  Manager  Allburn  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  McCarr,  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  in  Ennis,  West  Virginia,  September  22, 
1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years.  He 
was   formerly    with    the   Premier    Pocahontas  Collieries  Co. 

R.  K.  RASKINS,  General  Manager  Diamond  Block  Coal 
Co.,  Hazard,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Virginia  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  lie  is  Interested  in 
the  Acme  By-Pi  oducts  Coal  Co.,  Fleming,  Kentucky,  and 
was  previously  connected  with  the  Majestic  Collieries  Co. 
and    the    Vulcan    Coal    Co. 

J.  T.  HATFIELD,  Secretary-Treasurer  Hatfield  Coal  Co., 
Covington,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Lincoln,  Illinois,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
six  years.  He  started  in  business  for  himself  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  years.  He  is  President  of  the  Great  Kanawha  River 
Improvement  Association  and  is  interested  in  the  Pomeroy 
Dock  Co.,  Pittsburg  Mining  Co.,  Thomas  &  Hartweg  Lands 
Co.,  West  Virginia  Washed  Coal  Co.,  Plymouth  Coal  &  Min- 
ing Co.,  Coalburgh-Kanawha  Mining  Co.,  E.  J.  Hlckey  Trans- 
portation Co.,  Atlas  Coal  Co.,  P.  &  K.  Finger  Bros.  Coal 
Co.,  Madison  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  and  several  other  Arms. 
He  is  well  and  favorably   known   throughout  the  trade. 

W.  B.  HILL,  Litchfield.  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Kentucky 
March  4,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Rockport  Coal 
Co. 

ROGER  W.  HEXDKKSON,  Purchasing  Agent  Stearns  Coal 
ft  Lumber  Co..  Stearns.  Kentucky,  was  born  In  California, 
Kentucky,  February  23,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for   twelve    years. 

WILLIAM  H,  HOGE  of  the  Hoge  Coal  Co.,  Frankfort,  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  in  Staunton.  Virginia.  November  8,  1863, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  Black  &  Hoge.  The  Hoge  Coal  Co.  is  suc- 
cessor to  Black  ft  Hoge.  one  of  the  oldest  coal  companies 
in    Frankfort. 

NORMAN  A.  HOLT,  Secretary  The  Holt  Coal  Co.,  Central 
City,  Kentucky,  was  born  at  Snow  Shoe,  Pennsylvania,  De- 
cember 20,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six- 
teen years.  He  was  formerly  with  W.  F.  Holt.  Mr.  Holt 
is  a  member  of  the  Western  Kentucky  Coal  Operators' 
Association,  Ohio  Valley  Coal  Operators'  Association,  and 
the    Western    Kentucky    Conservation   Association. 

RODGER  D.  HOLT,  Clay,  Kentucky,  Manager  of  the  Clay 
mines  of  the  Clifty  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Franklin,  Tennessee,  in  1S91,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eight  rears.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  mines  at 
Clifty,    Tennessee. 

JESSE  C.  HOSKIXS,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Magnet  Coal  Co.,  Hosman,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Ten- 
nessee, August  22,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-five  years.  He  is  interested  in  the  Imperial- 
Jellico  Coal  Co.,  Roekhold.  Kentucky,  and  was  formerly 
connected    with    the   Emlyn    Coal   Co. 

CHARLES  III  Dlll.KSTOX,  Fulton,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Fulton  County,  Kentucky,  October  24,  1876,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal  business  for  eleven   years. 

ROBERT  JAMESON,  General  Manager  of  Thomas  Jam-  on 
&  Son,  Beattyville.  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Beattyville,  Ken- 
tucky, in  1892,  and  lias  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years,  associated  with  Thomas  Jameson,  who  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  forty-one  years.  Mr.  Jameson  is  President 
of  the  Jamison  Coal  Co.,  and  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
The  Relco  Coal  Mining  Co.  at  Idamay.  Kentucky.  They  now 
Operate   five   mines. 

THOMAS  JAMESON  of  the  Thomas  Jameson  &  Son  Coal 
Co.,  Beattyville,  Kentucky,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
forty-one  years  and  is  at  present  operating  five  mines.  He 
is  associated  with  his  son,  Robert  Jameson. 

THOMAS  E.  JENKINS  of  the  West  Kentucky  Coal  Co.. 
Sturgis,  Kentucky,  was  born  In  Wayland,  Ohio,  October  6. 
1876.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  Jenkins  &  Bailey  in  Ohio, 
Economy  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators'  Liability 
Co. 

DAVID  JOHNSON  of  The  Shelby  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Shel- 
blana,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Ohio,  December  23,  1874,  and 
has  been   in   the  coal  business   for  sixteen  years. 

C.  A.  KBNIfHI  of  Kennev  &  Marlmon.  Nicholasville.  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  at  Clear  Creek.  Illinois.  June  10.  1862,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

WILLIAM  T.  KING,  Manager  William  T.  King  &  Son, 
Lewisport,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  1855.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  a  period  of  ten   years. 

SHELBY  KIXKEAD.  Manager  of  the  Kinkead  Coal  Co.. 
Lexington,  Kentucky,  was  born  In  Lexington,  Kentucky,  In 
the  year  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  shirty- 
six  years. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


1 0.  KIRKPATHICK,  Secretary-Treasurer  Kirk  Coal  Co., 
Beech  Creek,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Muhlenberg  County, 
Kentucky,  in  the  year  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Beech  Creek  Coal  Co. 

GEORGE  W.  LAND  of  George  Land  &  Bro.,  Lexington. 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Lexington  February  22,  1869,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  This  firm 
is   well   and   favorably   known   throughout   the   trade. 

W.  B.  LtMtiil  )l.  Secretary  of  the  Kentucky-Harlan  Coal 
Co.,  Harlan,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Laurel  County,  Ken- 
tucky, June  27,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eight  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Clear 
Fork  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pineville  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  the 
Catrons   Creek   Coal   Co. 

STERLING  S.  LANIER,  JR.,  General  Manager  of  the  Nor- 
ton Coal  Mining  Co.,  Nortonville,  Kentucky,  was  born  in 
Birmingham,  Alabama,  September  23,  1888,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Republic  Iron  &  Steel  Co.  and  the  Monro  Warrior  Coal 
&  Coke  Co. 

W.  H.  LLOYD,  President  and  Manager  Morganfleld  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.,  Morganfleld,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  England 
January  25,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-four  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Corydon  Coal 
Co. 

JOSEPH  E.  MATTISON,  Manager  of  St.  Bernard  Mining 
Co.,  Paducah,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Paducah,  Kentucky, 
July  23,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six 
years. 

SAMUEL  WOOLDRIDGE  MeCOMB  of  the  Wallins  Creek 
Coal  Co.  and  Wallins  Creek  Sales  Co.,  Pineville,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Christian  County,  Kentucky.  May  6,  1871,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  many  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Wooldridge  Jellico  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Jellico  B.  G.  Coal  Co. 

C.  E.  McGINNIS,  Secretary-Manager  Lawrenceburg  Sup- 
ply Co.,  Lawrenceburg,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Lawrence- 
burg, Kentucky,  in  the  year  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   covering   a   period   of   two   and   a   half  years. 

WALTER  J.  NISBET,  President  Providence  Mining  Co., 
Providence,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Madisonville,  Kentucky, 
July  6,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
nine  years.  He  organized  this  company  in  1890.  Mr.  Nisbet 
is  a  member  of  the  West  Kentucky  Conservation  Associa- 
tion. 

GILMORE  H.  NUNNELLEY,  President  The  G.  H.  Nunnel- 
ley  Co.,  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Randolph 
County,  Missouri,  October  14,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-four  years. 

CHARLES  A,  FATKOLD  of  The  Campbells  Creek  Coal  Co.. 
Newport,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  December 
28,  1864.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine 
years  continuously.  He  is  President  of  the  Newport  Retail 
Coal   Dealers   Credit   Association. 

S.  L.  PEACE  of  the  Foulks  Coal  Co.,  Hopkinsville,  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  in  Hopkinsville,  Kentucky,  November  11, 
1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years, 
succeeding  E.  L.  Foulks,  who  died  in  February,  1916,  at 
the  age  of  ninety-five  years.  This  business  was  estab- 
lished by  Mr.  Foulks  in  1871  and  has  been  in  continuous 
operation   since   that   time. 

CHARLES  J.  ftUIGGINS  of  the  Valley  Creek  Coal  Yard, 
Elizabethtown,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Elizabethtown  May 
20,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years. 

FRANK  DILLMAN  RASH,  Vice  President-General  Mana- 
ger St.  Bernard  Mining  Co.,  Earlington,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  St.  Charles,  Kentucky,  September  1,  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was 
formerly  President  of  the  Kentucky  Mining  Institute  and 
is  at  present  President  of  the  Kentucky  Mine  Owners  Asso- 
ciation, First  Vice  President  of  the  Kentucky  Manufactur- 
ers' and  Shipping  Association,  and  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  Mining  Engineers  and  Kentucky  Mining  In- 
stitute. 

W.  C.  REED,  member  of  the  City  Coal  Co.,  Hickman, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Hickman,  Kentucky,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 

CHARLES  F.  RICHARDSON,  President  West  Kentucky 
Coal  Co.,  Sturgis,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Waterford,  Ver- 
mont, November  8,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eight  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  West  Jellico  Coal 
Co.  of  Paducah,  Kentucky.  Mr.  Richardson  has  served  as 
Vice  President  of  the  Ohio  Valley  Coal  Operators'  Associa- 
tion and  as  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  West- 
ern   Kentucky    Conservation    Association. 

JAMES  L.  ROGERS,  Secretary-General  Manager  Lam 
Coal  Co.,  Bevier,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Ohio  County,  Ken- 
tucky, June  19,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fourteen  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Elkhorn 
Consolidated  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  a  member  of  the  West- 
ern Kentucky  Coal  Operators'  Association  and  the  Ohio 
Valley   Coal   Operators'    Association. 


GEORGE  E.  ROPER,  Manager  of  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
Paducah,  Kentucky,  "was  born  July  27,  1892,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  ten  years,  nine  years  of  which  he  has 
been  connected  with  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

CALVERT  T.  ROSZELL  of  Roszell  Bros.,  Lexington,  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  in  Lexington  March  31,  1875,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Lexington  &  Carter  County  Mining  Co.  and  Frost  & 
Edge. 

R.  M.  SALMON,  Secretary-Treasurer  and  General  Mana- 
ger Crabtree  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Ilsley,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Hopkinsville,  Kentucky,  January  23,  1857,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-seven  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Hecla  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Salmon  is  a 
Representative  from  the  Sixth  Senatorial  District  and  is 
well    and    favorably    known. 

S.  N.  SINKHORN,  Stamping  Ground,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Lebanon,  Kentucky,  June  27,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nine  years,  the  firm  being  known  as 
Palmer    &    Sinkhorn. 

A.  G.  SPII.LMAN,  General  Superintendent  St.  Bernard 
Mining  Co.,  Earlington,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Kentucky 
January  27,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nineteen   years.     He  has  acted   as  State   Mine   Inspector. 

MARTIN  L.  SPURLING,  Campbellsville,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Taylor  County,  Kentucky,  June  10,  1865,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  about  fourteen  years.  He  owns 
the  Campbellsville  Coal  Co. 

J.  W.  STEPHENS,  Berea,  Kentucky,  was  born  at  Berea, 
Kentucky,  July  8,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   twenty-one  years. 

"WILLIAM  STEPHENS,  President  and  Manager  Petersburg 
Coal  Co.,  Petersburg,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Hebron,  Ken- 
tucky, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two  years. 

WALKER  W.  STEVENSON,  Superintendent  Kentucky  Sol- 
vay  Coke  Co.,  Ashland,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  New  York 
September  9,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eight  years.     He  was  formerly  with  the  Semet  Solvay  Co. 

BEN  ETHAN  TATE,  President  Ajax  Elkhorn  Coal  Co.,  Ash- 
land, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Illinois,  September 
4,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  five  and  a 
half  years.  He  is  General  Manager  of  the  Clere-Elkhorn 
Coal  Co.,  Manager  and  Purchasing  Agent  of  the  Interstate 
Coal  &  Dock  Co.  of  Green  Bay,  Wisconsin,  and  was  for- 
merly  with   the   Tate   Coal  Co. 

FIELDING  KENLEY  TRIBBLE,  Danville,  Kentucky,  was 
born  near  Danville,  Kentucky,  September  21,  1859,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

R.  L.  WHEELER,  President  and  Manager  Brush  Creek 
Mining  &  Manufacturing  Co.,  Wheeler,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Caryville,  Tennesse,  January  15,  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Red  Ash  Coal  Co.,  Remey  Coal  Co.,  The  LaFollette  Coal, 
Iron  &  Railway  Co.,  and  others.  Mr.  Wheeler  is  a  well 
known   coal   operator. 

N.  M.  WHITE,  Colonial  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Prestonsburg, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  over  forty  years.  He  was  with  the  Superior 
Coal   Co.   twenty-three   years. 

EUGENE  M.  WILLIAMS,  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  was  born 
in  Frankfort,  October  10.  1862,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
coal   business   twenty-seven   years. 

HENRY   CHESTER  WILLIAMSON,  Superintendent  Hercu- 
les Coal  Co.,  Morganfleld,   Kentucky,   was  born   in  Gallitzin, 
Pennsylvania,   November   13,    1885,   and  has   been    in   the   coal 
business  for  nine  years. 
Kentucky. 

ROBERT  G.  WILMOTT,  Manager  of  the  R.  G.  Wilmott 
Coal  Co.,  London.  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Rockcastle  County, 
Kentucky,  November  9,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  seven  years. 

D.  T.  WILSON  of  James  S.  Wilson  &  Bro.,  Paris,  Kentucky, 
was  born  in  Bourbon  County  in  1853,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business   for   seventeen   years. 

ALEXANDER  HAMILTON  WOOD,  General  Manager  and 
Secretary  King  Harlan  Mining  Co.,  Kildav,  Harlan  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  September 
21,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Petros  Coal 
Co.,  Big  Brushy  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Brushy  Mountain  Coal 
Mines,  Bon  Air  Coal  Co.,  and  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  &  Rail- 
way Co.  He  was  Chief  State  Mine  Inspector  of  Tennessee, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engi- 
neers, enjoying  a  reputation  in  Kentucky  and  surrounding 
states  as  a  consulting  and  designing  engineer  as  well  as  a 
coal    operator. 

JOHN  WRIGHT  of  the  City  Fuel  Co.,  Hickman,  Ken- 
tucky, was  born  in  Hickman,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in   the   coal  business   for  a  period  of  three  years. 

EDGAR  M.  YOUNG,  Providence,  Kentucky,  was  born  in 
Providence  in  1887  and  has  been  mining  coal  eleven  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Cuckman  Coal  Co.  and 
Highland  Mining  Co. 


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LOUISIANA 


ALTHOUGH  Louisiana  produces  no  coal  within 
its  borders,  it  has  figured  long  and  prominently 
in  coal  trade  history.  One  of  the  earliest  records 
of  the  American  bituminous  coal  industry  is  of  a  ship- 
ment from  Illinois  to  New  Orleans  in  1810,  down  the 
Big  Muddy  and  Mississippi  rivers.  While  such  move- 
ments of  Illinois  now  seem  musty  traditions  of  the  past, 
the  same  cannot  be  said  of  the  coal  barges  that  have 
floated  down  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  from  the  Penn- 
sylvania and  western  Kentucky  fields.  Indeed,  until 
within  the  past  two  or  three  years,  the  river  movement 
of  coal  to  New  Orleans,  which  represents  the  major 
factor  in  Louisiana  consumption,  far  overshadowed  the 
all-rail  movement,  emphasizing,  in  a  striking  way,  the 
late  James  J.  Hill's  famous  remark  with  reference  to 
the  natural  flow  to  the  Gulf. 

Before  the  withdrawal  of  the  Pittsburgh  barge  coal 
movement  the  water  receipts  at  Xew  Orleans  approxi- 
mated 1,000,000  tons  per  annum.  Sixty-five  per  cent. 
of  this  tonnage  was  floated  down  from  Pittsburgh,  the 
other  35  per  cent,  came  from  the  western  Kentucky  field. 
According  to  testimony  introduced  before  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission,  prior  to  the  withdrawal  men- 
tioned, the  land  consumption  was  over  1,000,000  tons 


a  year  and  the  bunker  and  fueling  tonnages  approxi- 
mated 850,000  tons.  Of  the  water-borne  tonnage  men- 
tioned 10,000  tons  were  consumed  locally  by  the  domes- 
tic trade,  650,000  tons  went  for  cargo  and  bunker  coal, 
225,000  tons  was  used  by  one  railroad  system  and  125,- 
000  tons  were  shipped  to  points  west  of  the  city.  Later 
figures  compiled  by  the  Bureau  of  Foreign  and  Domes- 
tic Commerce  credit  the  New  Orleans  district  with  546,- 
020  tons  of  fuel  and  bunker  coal  to  steamships  engaged 
in  foreign  trade  in  1915,  while  the  export  figures  for 
the  same  year  show  215  tons  of  anthracite  and  12,132 
tons  of  bituminous  coal  moving  through  the  customs 
district. 

Taking  the  state  as  a  whole,  both  its  per  capita  con- 
sumption (i.  e.,  .82  ton  bituminous  coal  and  .01  ton 
anthracite)  and  square  mile  consumption  (31  tons)  are 
far  below  the  averages  for  the  country  as  a  whole.  Ac- 
cording to  the  1915  United  States  Geographical  Survey 
figures  its  internal  domestic  and  industrial  consump- 
tion totaled  only  1,477,886  tons  of  bituminous  coal  and 
1 5,000  tons  of  anthracite.  Its  bituminous  supplies  were 
drawn  from  five  states,  Alabama  furnishing  717,437 
tons;  Pennsylvania,  478,011;  Kentucky,  215,007;  Illi- 
nois, 67,338,  and  Arkansas,  93  tons. 


LOUISIANA 


S.  C.  HLACKMOX,  Manager  S.  C.  Blackmon  Fuel  Yard, 
Monroe,  Louisiana,  was  born  in  Louisiana  January  22,  1879, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

IIKVJAMIN  CXAASSEN,  SR„  Vice  President  Cahaba  Red 
Ash  Coal  Co.,  Xew  Orleans  Louisiana,  was  born  at  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  January  29,  1849.  Mr.  Claassen  is  a  very 
active  man  and  is  the  moving  spirit  of  the  company,  of 
which  his  son,  Benjamin,  Jr.,  is  President  and  General  Man- 
ager. 

JOSEPH  II.  nVCHAMF,  Secretary-Treasurer  Duchamp 
Hardware  Co.,  St.  Martinsville,  Louisiana,  was  born  in  St. 
Martinsville,  Louisiana,  July  20,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 

ii'iiikht  n.  BKKVKS,  Vice  President  and  General.  Mana- 
ger W.  G.  Coyle  &  Co.,  Inc.,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  was 
born  in  Todd  County,  Kentucky,  December  19,  1877,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  three  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  and  Mississippi  Central 
Railroad. 

J.  CHAIU.ES  Jl\«,  Vice  President  Jung  &  Sons  Co..  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  was  born  In  New  Orleans,  Louisiana, 
October  8,  18B9,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twen- 
ty-five years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Jung  & 
Sons. 


LOUIS  A.  JUNG,  President  Jung  &  Sons  Co..  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  was  born  in  Martinique  January  9,  1844,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years.  He  was 
formerly   with  Desforges  &  Jung  and  Jung  &  Sons. 

THEODORE  A.  JI;NO,  Secretary-Treasurer  Jung  &  Sons 
Co..  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  was  born  In  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  December  10,  1870,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Jung  & 
Sons. 

i.ioni.i  ItEMlEltT  FRENCH,  Manager  of  the  Southern 
Coal  Co.,  Inc..  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  was  born  in  Liv- 
ingston, Kentucky,  July  27,  1883,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  three  years. 

i  hi  u  W.  M'llAHFEXSTEIN.  Manager  of  Scharfensteln 
A  Son,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  was  born  in  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  October  23,  1890,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  eight  years. 

JACOB  F\  srilAHl  T.NVIEIN,  President  Scharfensteln  & 
Son,  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  was  born  In  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  November  8,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  eight  years. 

JOSHUA  C.  wf.hnkh.  Manager  of  the  Pittsburgh  Coal 
Co.,  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana,  was  born  In  West  Elizabeth, 
Pennsylvania,  February  19,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Monon- 
gahela  River  Consolidated  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


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MARYLAND 


[Including  Data  on  District  of  Columbia. 


ANY  attempt  to  use  existing  current  tonnage  fig- 
ures as  the  sole  criterion  of  the  position  occupied 
by  Maryland  in  the  bituminous  coal  trade  his- 
tory of  the  country  would  result  in  misleading  conclu- 
sions because  the  high  character  and  wide  distribution 
of  the  product  of  the  Maryland  mines  gives  the  state  a 
fuel  importance  not  equaled  by  some  commonwealths 
outranking  it  upon  the  purely  statistical  tonnage  basis. 
With  its  high  grade  semi-bituminous  or  smokeless  beds, 
including  the  well-known  Georges  Creek  smithing  coal, 
Maryland  is  able  to  effect  national  distribution. 

The  principal  coal  deposits  of  the  state  lie  in 
Allegany  and  Garrett  counties,  along  the  Penn- 
sylvania-Maryland and  Pennsylvania-West  Virginia- 
Maryland  boundary  lines.  The  coal  measures  are 
in  an  area  estimated  to  contain  455  square 
miles.  Next  to  Georgia,  with  its  estimated  area  of  167 
square  miles,  this  is  the  smallest  coal  bearing  area  in 
any  of  the  producing  states  of  the  Appalacbian  region. 
The  Maryland  coal  fields,  with  adjoining  counties  in 
West  Virginia,  make  up  what  is  known  as  the  Cumber- 
land, or  Georges  Creek,  region.  The  coals  of  the  state 
occur  in  five  basins,  designated  as  the  Georges  Creek, 
Upper  Potomac,  Castleman,  Lower  and  Upper  Youghi- 
ogheny  basins.  Present  production  is  largely  confined 
to  workings  in  the  Georges  Creek  and  Upper  Potomac 
basins,  which  are  a  true  semi-bituminous,  while  those 
of  the  other  three  are  for  the  most  part  bituminous  in 
character.  These  basins  contain  a  number  of  recog- 
nized beds  or  seams,  including  the  Upper  Sewickley  or 
Tyson  seam,  the  Pittsburgh  or  Big  Vein,  the  Bakers- 
town,  Upper  Freeport,  Lower  Kittanning  or  Six-foot 
and  the  Clarion  bed.  Until  the  early  part  of  the  present 
century  practically  all  of  the  coal  mined  in  the  state 
came  from  the  Pittsburgh  seam,  "but  the  gradual  ex- 
haustion of  this  wonderful  seam  has  led  to  the  ex- 
ploitation with  most  satisfactory  results  of  many  of  the 
small  veins  both  above  and  below  the  chief  seam. 
There  is  unquestionably  a  great  future  for  these  smaller 
seams  in  Maryland,  especially  in  the  Upper  Potomac 
basin1  in  southern  Garrett  county,  where  they  reach 
greatest  thickness.  The  total  amount  of  coal  in  these 
small  seams  exceeds  many  fold  that  originally  contained 
in  the  big  vein."'  It  is  estimated  that  the  Maryland 
fields  still  contain  7,500,000,000  tons  of  unmined  coal. 


Analysis  of  the  average  composition  of  coals  of  the 
Georges  Creek  basin,  as  made  by  the  Maryland  Geo- 
logical Survey,  shows  the  following: 


Mols-    Vola-      Fixed 


Sul- 


tile. 

carbon. 

Ash. 

phur. 

BTU. 

20.22 

70.09 

8.86 

1.40 

14,011 

18.78 

73.13 

7.12 

1.02 

14,256 

18.64 

70.32 

9.94 

2.07 

13,973 

19.47 

68.70 

10.17 

1.73 

13,975 

19.52 

67.20 

12.01 

2.13 

13,471 

21.04 

68.83 

9.22 

1.30 

13,912 

Seam.  ture. 

Upper  Sewickly   ...     .83 

Pittsburgh    70 

Bakerstown    1.10 

Upper  Freeport....  1.21 
Lower  Kittaning...  1.26 
Brookville    91 

The  first  discovery  of  coal  in  Maryland  dates  back  to 
1782 ;  shipments,  however,  were  not  made  until  nearly 
fifty  years  later  (1830),  when  small  tonnages  were  sent 
by  barge  from  the  Georges  Creek  basin  to  points  along 
the  Potomac  river.  Six  years  later  the  first  corporate 
coal  mining  enterprise  in  the  state  was  launched.  It 
was  not  until  the  construction  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Railroad  in  1842  and  of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Canal 
eight  years  later  that  the  industry  secured  a  pro- 
nounced impetus.  From  1842  to  1852  there  was  a 
steady  increase  in  output,  the  annual  tonnage  rising 
from  2,104  tons  to  812,727  tons.  The  1,000,000-ton 
mark  was  first  passed  in  1865,  when  the  output  reached 
1,025,208  tons.  Production  rose  to  2,210,300  tons  in 
1860  and  dropped  back  to  1,819.824  tons  in  1870J 
The.  output  by  years  since  that  date  is  shown  in  the 
following  table: 


Year. 

1871.. 

1872.. 

1873.. 

1874.. 

1875.. 

1876.. 

1877.. 

1878.. 

1879.. 

1880.. 

1881.. 

1882.. 

1883.. 

1884.. 

1885.. 

1886... 

1887.., 

1888.. 

1889.. 

1890... 

1891... 

1892... 

1893... 


Ton. 

,670,338 
,647,156 
,198,911 
;899,392 
,808,018 
,126,873 
939,575 
,068,925 
,132,233 
.228,917 
,533,348 
555,445 
,476,075 
,765,617 
,833,337 
,517,577 
,278,023 
,479,470 
,939,715 
357,813 
820,239 
419,962 
716,041 


Year. 

1894.. 

1895.. 

1896.. 

1897.! 

1898.. 

1899.. 

1900.. 

1901.. 

1902.. 

1903.. 

1904.. 

1905.. 

1906.. 

1907.. 

1908.. 

1909.. 

1910.., 

1911.. 

1912.. 

1913..  , 

1914... 

1915... 

1916.. 


Ton. 

501,428 
,915,585 
143,936 
442,128 
,674,884 
,807,396 
,024,688 
113,127 
271,609 
846,165 
,813,622 
108,539 
435,453 
532,628 
377,093 
023,241 
217,125 
685,795 
964,038 
779,839 
133,547 
180,477 
,460,046 


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In  addition  to  consuming  20  per  cent,  of  its  produc- 
tion within  its  own  borders  1915  distribution  figures 
show  that  45  per  cent,  of  the  output  was  shipped  all- 
rail  to  over  20  states.  Of  these  interstate  shipments 
by  far  the  greater  part — over  90  per  cent. — were  sent 
to  New  England,  New  York  and  Pennsylvania.  Twen- 
ty-five per  cent,  of  the  total  production  was  shipped  to 
the  ports  of  Baltimore  and  New  York  for  foreign  ex- 
port, for  use  us  bunker  fuel  and  for  coastwise  transorta- 
tion  to  New  England  points.  Less  than  10  per  cent. 
of  the  production  was  consumed  by  the  railroads.  In 
di  tail  the  distribution  for  the  year  was  as  follows: 
Used  in  Maryland.  Ton. 

Used  at  mines 64,588 

Sold  to  local  trade. 38,908 

Shipped  to  Maryland  and  District  of  Columbia 
points    748,673 

Total  used  in   Maryland   and  District  of  Co- 
lumbia points 852,169 

Shipped  to  other  States: 

California  and  Washington 10,244 

New  Kngiand t>30,097 

Delaware  9,327 

Illinois   20,783 

Indiana 6,947 

Iowa  and  Kentucky 5,898 

Michigan  48,124 

Missouri  and  Texas 9,090 

Montana    58 

New  Jersey   33,561 

New    fork *567,421 

Ohio   37,305 

Pennsylvania   505,860 

Virginia  787 

West  Virginia   6,525 

Total  shipped  to  other  States  (all  rail) 1,892,027 

Shipped  to  tidewater 1,049,160 

Used  by  railroads 387,121 

Total  production 4,180,477 

•Includes  small  quantity  exported  to  Canada  by  rail. 


Considering  Maryland  and  the  District,  of  Columbia 
as  one  consuming  unit  the  total  per  capita  consumption 
(1.93  tons  bituminous  coal  and  .86  ton  anthracite)  was 
slightly  in  excess  of  the  per  capita  average  for  the  coun- 
try, while  the  square  mile  consumption,  432  tons,  was 
three  and  one-half  times  the  national  average.  Exclu- 
sive of  tidewater  coal  dumped  at  Baltimore  and  used  in 
Chesapeake  bay,  the  state  drew  upon  Pennsylvania  for 
its  major  bituminous  supplies,  with  West  Virginia  push- 
ing the  home  mines  closely  for  second  honorsJ  In  de- 
tail the  consumption  was  as  follows:  Maryland,  852,- 
169;  Pennsylvania,  1,514,354;  Virginia,  3,913;  West 
Virginia,  814,379 ;  tidewater,  700,000,  approximate  fig- 
ures representing  Maryland,  Pennsylvania  and  West 
Virginia  coal  dumped  at  Baltimore  and  used  in  Chesa- 
peake bay;  total,  3,884,815;  anthracite,  1,470,000. 

No  account  of  the  Maryland  coal  industry  would  be 
complete  without  at  least  a  passing  reference  to  the 
trade  at  Baltimore  which  consumes  over  20  per  cent, 
of  the  total  fuel  used  within  the  district  under  review, 
and,  in  addition,  is  one  of  the  major  clearing  ports  for 
coastwise  and  export  fuel  shipments.  During  1915  the 
total  coal  receipts  at  the  port  were  7,657,097  tons 
(6,749,336  tons  bituminous  and  907,761  tons  anthra- 
cite) ;  in  addition,  coke  receipts  totaled  95,943  tons. 
Coastwise  shipments,  including  foreign  and  domestic 
bunker  coal  and  coal  used  in  Baltimore  harbor  and 
Chesapeake  bay.  totaled  3,912,476  tons  of  bituminous 
coal  and  241,689  tons  of  anthracite,  while  export  tide- 
water shipments  totaled  2,129.642  tons  of  bituminous 
coal,  3,532  tons  of  anthracite  and  39,526  tons  of  coke. 
This  would  leave  a  total  consumption  of  1,426,175  tons 
of  coal  and  coke,  viz.,  707,218  tons  of  bituminous,  662,- 
540  tons  of  anthracite  and  56,417  tons  of, coke  for  Balti- 
more :  but  all-rail  shipments  to  neighboring  communities 
would  probably  reduce, this  total  to  some  slight  extent. 
Excluding  the  local  bituminous  consumption,  707,218 
tons,  the  bituminous  receipts  were  distributed  as  follows: 
Foreign  cargo,  2,129,642  tons;  foreign  bunker,  653,664; 
coastwise  cargo,  1 ,873,552 ;  coastwise  bunker,  232,732 ; 
Baltimore  harbor  and  Chesapeake  bay  points.  1,152.528 
tons. 


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DOUGLAS     GORMAN,    llnltimore,    Mnrylund, 

President  Cumberland  Coal  Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was 
born  in  Annapolis,  Maryland,  May  13,  1882,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  is  also  President  of 
the  Gorman  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Piedmont  Mining  Co.,  and 
the  Wyanoke  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  The  Cumberland  Coal  Co., 
in  addition  to  its  large  wholesale  trade,  is  one  of  the  old- 
est and  largest  retail  distributors  of  bituminous  coal  in 
Baltimore. 


Wl  1,1,1  AM   II.  GORMAN,  Baltimore,   Maryland, 

Late  President  and  organizer  of  the  Cumberland  Coal  Co., 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Woodstock,  Maryland, 
August  11.  1843,  and  had  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
for  over  thirty  years.  Mr.  Gorman  also  organized  and  was 
the  executive  head  of  the  Gorman  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Piedmont 
Mining  Co.,  and  Wyanoke  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  was  one  of 
the  substantial  men  in  the  business  and  financial  group  of 
Baltimore.      His  death   occurred  July  5,   1915. 


J.  WAI.BACR  EDELRN,  Baltimore,   Maryland, 

President  Enterprise  Fuel  Co.  and  Edwena  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Bryantown,  Maryland, 
December  10,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee of  the  Baltimore  Coal  Exchange  and  is  well  known  in 
the    trade. 


J.    HARRY    WEST,    Baltimore,    Maryland, 

Vice  President  of  the  Enterprise  Fuel  Co.,  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, was  born  in  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  March  22,  1873, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He 
is  an  active  officer  of  the  Baltimore  Coal  Exchange,  Director 
National  Retail  Coal  Merchants  Association  and  Vice  Presi- 
dent Edwena  Coal  Mining  Co.  Mr.  West  is  highly  regarded 
and  has   many   friends   in   the   trade. 


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JOHN    K.    SHAW,    llnlllniore    Maryland, 

President  of  the  Century  Coal  Co.  of 
West  Virginia,  Baltimore,  was  born 
in  Cumberland,  Maryland,  October  7, 
1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
covering  a  period  of  twenty-four 
years.  He  is  also  President  of  Shaw 
Bros.,  the  National  Union  Coal  Mining 
Co.  of  Iowa  and  the  Indian  Fork  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  Mr.  Shaw  was  previously 
connected  with  the  Cumberland  &  Elk 
Lick  Coal  Co.  and  the  Loudening  Coal 
Co. 


in  -VI  \  M  I  N      lllSSKl.l,,     Baltimore, 

General  Manager  of  The  Century  Coal 
Co.  of  West  Virginia,  Baltimore,  was 
born  in  Maryland  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fifty-one  years.  Mr. 
Bissell  has  a  wide  and  extensive  ac- 
quaintance   in    the   coal    producing    field. 


WILLIAM     I..    COONKY,    Baltimore, 

Vice  President  and  a  Director  of  The 
Century  Coal  Co.  of  West  Virginia, 
Baltimore,  was  born  in  Baltimore, 
February  2,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty-three  years.  He 
is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  In- 
dian Fork  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  West 
Virginia  and  the  National  Union  Coal 
Mining    Co.    of   Iowa. 


JOHN  J.  Slli:i:ll  \\,  Baltimore.  Maryland, 

President  Dominion  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  November  15,  1880,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  is 
also  President  of  the  Elk  Garden  Big  Vein  Co.  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Big  Vein  Pocahontas  Co.,  and  was  formerly  with 
the   Merchants   Coal    Co.    and   Stafford   Coal   Co. 


T.   FRANK    SIIEKHAN.    Baltimore,    Maryland, 

Treasurer  Dominion  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  January  29.  1882,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Klk  Garden  Big  Vein  Coal  Co.,  and  was 
previously  connected    With    the  Merchants  Coal   Co. 


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CHARLES    F.    K  I : II (  II  \  I  ;n.    Baltimore,    Maryland, 

Sole  owner  of  Hall  Bros.  &  Co..  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born 
in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  in  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Monongah  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Natalie 
Anthracite  Coal  Co.  Both  Mr.  Kerchner  and  his  company 
enjoy  an  exceptionally  high  reputation  and  he  has  occupied 
many  positions  of  honor  in  the  trade.  He  served  as  Im- 
perial Modoc  of  the  Order  KoKoal. 


\V.    B,    MeCAULEY,    Baltimore,    Maryland, 

Resident  Manager  of  the  Brothers  Valley  Coal  Co.,  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  was  born  in  Baltimore.  Maryland,  October 
17,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 
Mr.  McCauley  was  formerly  in  the  railroad  service  for 
twenty-five  years,  being  Division  Chief  for  the  Baltimore 
&    Ohio    Railroad. 


CHAS.  \V.  HENDLEY,  Baltimore,  Mil.. 
President  C.  W.  Hendley  &  Co.,  Bal- 
timore, was  born  in  Washington,  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  June  20,  1878,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Mr.  Hendley 
has  served  as  Vice  President  of  the 
Maryland  Coal  Jobbers  Association 
and  as  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  National  Coal  Job- 
bers Association. 


M  A  R  Y  L  A  N  D  —  Baltimore 

EDWARD  TAYLOR  BOSWELL,  General  Manager  Min- 
eral State  Coal  Co.,  Baltimore.  Maryland,  was  born  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  August  13,  1882,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected    with    the    Merchants    Coal    Co. 

THOMAS  T.  BOSWELL,  President  Mineral  State  Coal 
Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Danville,  Virginia, 
October  13,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Merchants 
Coal   Co. 

BURTON  G.  BUCK  of  Buck  Bros..  Baltimore.  Maryland, 
was  born  in  Baltimore  in  1861  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Hall 
Bros.   &   Co. 

W.  J.  CHAPMAN,  President  W.  J.  Chapman  Coal  Co., 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Virginia,  September  21, 
1848,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  forty-two  years. 

THOMAS  WEST  CLAGGETT  of  the  Philadelphia  &  Read- 
ing Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in 
Maryland,  August  4,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-four  years.  He  is  one  of  the  best  known  an- 
thracite  sales  agents   in   that  section. 

J.  A.  DINNING,  Sales  Agent  of  the  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Quebec,  Canada,  in 
the  year  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years. 

J.  FRANK  FOSTER,  Baltimore  Manager  Thorne,  Neale 
&  Co.,  Inc.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Woodlawn, 
Maryland,  January  24,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness   thirteen    years. 

LESLIE  ROCKWELL  HARRISON  of  Harrison  &  Rouse, 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
August  16,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four 
years. 

ROBERT  HETO,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Balti- 
more December  4,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Geo. 
Hetz.  H.  Schmidt  &  Co.  and  Robert  Lange.  His  son,  John 
R.  Hetz,  is  the  third  generation  in  the  coal  trade. 

CHARLES  C.  KRiOBELOCH,  Sales  Manager  The  Davis 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  March  21,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   nineteen   years. 


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JOHN  C.  LEWIS,  President  The  Lewis  Fuel  Co.,  Inc., 
Baltimore.  Maryland,  was  born  In  Washington,  D.  C,  No- 
vember 26,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Gilmor 
Meredith   &  Co.   and   the  Consolidation   Coal  Co. 

FRANCIS  «;.  PATTERSON,  Treasurer  The  Lewis  Fuel  Co., 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  In  England  August  17,  1875, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Laurel  Hill  Mining  Co.  and  was  for- 
merly with   the  Quemahoning  Coal  Co. 

REI HEX  II.  l'l.V'lT  of  Weston  Dodson  &  Co.,  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  was  born  In  Cheater,  Pennsylvania,  June  13,  18M, 
and    has    been    in    the    coal    business    eighteen    years. 

BENJAMIN  III  <;i:it  UK  A  I),  President  Lynah  &  Read,  Inc., 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Charleston,  South  Caro- 
lina. December  16,  1856,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-eight  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  mining  of 
bituminous  coal  in  West  Virginia,  being  Vice  President  of 
the  Preston  Coal  Co.  Lynah  &  Read  was  organized  in  the 
year  1890,  although  Mr.  Lynah  had  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness since   1868.      Mr.    Lynah   died   in   1901. 

QUO.  BDWABD  Hi:  Mil.  of  Reahl  Bros..  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, was  born  in  Baltimore  June  4,  1870,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  twenty-one  years, 

JOHN  J.  HE  AMI,  of  Reahl  Bros.,  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  in  August,  1877,  and  has 
been    in  the  coal   business  for  eighteen  years.    • 

HAMILTON  WKI.I.S  KOINE:  of  Harrison  &  Rouse,  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  was  born  July  25,  1894,  at  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, and  has  been   in   the  coal  business  for   four  years. 

EDWAHD  FIT/.GKHAI.I)  SHEA,  Sales  Manager  Sexton 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Baltimore.  Maryland,  was  born  in  Balti- 
more May  26,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Merchants  Coal 
Co.,  Boswell  Coal  Co.  and    Big  Vein  Pocahontas  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  M.  SHEA.  Treasurer  Wright  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
August  18,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-one  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Big  Run 
Coal  Co. 

AICISTIS  L.  SHITT  of  A.  P.  Shutt  &  Son,  Baltimore. 
Maryland,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  February  21, 
1845,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  fifty  years. 

ROBEKT  I).  SII.VKHWOOI)  of  the  A.  F.  Lawrence  Coal  Co., 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
fifty-six  years,  and  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Balti- 
more Coal  Exchange.     Mr.  Silverwood  was  born  in  1852. 

OOHDON  SMITH,  Vice  President  Maryland  Coal  Co.  of 
West  Virginia,  with  offices  at  1307-9  Munsey  Building,  Bal- 
timore, Maryland,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  and  has  been 
eighteen   years   in   the   coal    business. 

BDWABD  STAB1.EH,  Jll„  formerly  President  E.  Stabler 
Jr.  Coal  Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  at  Sandy  Spring, 
Maryland,  March  16,  1836,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixty  years.  He  was  interested  in  the  Short  Mountain  Coal 
Co.  (anthracite)  as  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and  President 
of  the  Blaen-Avon  Coal  Mining  Co.  (bituminous),  both  now 
out  of  business,  and  from  its  incorporation  in  April,  1903, 
to  October  1,  1917.  was  President  of  the  Enterprise  Fuel  Co., 
which  bought  the  equipment,  coal,  etc.,  of  the  E.  Stabler 
Jr.  Co.  when  It  went  out  of  business  the  last  of  October, 
1917.  He  made  a  connection  with  the  Enterprise  Co.,  which 
also  took  over  the  office  and  good  will.  Mr.  Stabler  repre- 
senting  the   patronage. 

HENRI  QBOBSB  VON  HEINE.  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was 
born  In  Baltimore  March  30,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-six  years.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the  Bal- 
timore Coal  Exchange  and  is  one  of  the  well  known  retail 
coal  merchants  of  Baltimore. 

J.  BDWABD  WAESCHE,  Treasurer-General  Manager  of 
the  company  bearing  his  name  at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was 
born  at  Thurmont  October  15,  1872.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Chesapeake  Coal  Co. 

Ill  HIIKOD  M.  WATTS,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in 
Maryland  in  1861  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-one  years,  associated  with  E.  A.  Watts.  Mr.  Watts 
has  taken  an  active  Interest  in  civic  affairs  and  Is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Baltimore  Coal  Exchange,  serving  as  President 
for  a  period  of  ten  years  or  more.  He  Is  one  of  the  best 
known    and    most    popular   coalmen    in    the   city. 

EDWARD  A.  WATTS.  Baltimore.  Maryland,  was  born  in 
Baltimore  in  1859  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-one  years,  associated  with  B.  M.  Watts.  He  is  a 
member  of   the   Baltimore  Coal    Exchange. 

RICHARD  W.  WRICiHT.  President  Wright  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Baltimore,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  is  also 
Interested  In  the  Big  Run  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  with 
J.  W.  Ellsworth  Coal  Co.  Merchants  Coal  Co.,  Boswell  Coal 
Co.    and    the    Hit;     Vein    Pocahontas    Coal    Co. 


MARYLAND 

JEFFERSON  D.  II A  It  (Ills,  chestertown,  Maryland,  was 
born  in  Chestertown,  Maryland,  December  3,  1861,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  Mr.  Barchus 
is  widely  known  in  his  part  of  the  state  and  is  connected 
with  a  number  of  firms  in  various  capacities  aside  from  oper- 
ating  a  successful    retail   business   in   coal. 

D.  s.  hover  of  Boyer  &  Heard,  Hagerstown,  Maryland, 
was  born  In  Washington  County,  Maryland,  November  3, 
1839,  and   has   been   in   the   coal   business  for  fifty  years. 

JOHN  I,.  CASEY,  Frostburg,  Maryland,  is  now  State  In- 
spector of  Mines.  Mr.  Casey  Is  a  well  known  coal  man  In 
his    state. 

CHARLES  W,  COHDDKY,  Treasurer  The  Corddry  Co.. 
Snow  Hill,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Snow  Hill,  Maryland,  in 
1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 
Mr.    Corddry    served    as   Mayor    1914-1918. 

WILLIAM  D.  CORDDRY,  President  The  Corddry  Co., 
Inc.,  Snow  Hill,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Snow  Hill,  Mary- 
land, July  12.  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since 
1888,  succeeding  the  Snow  Hill  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  Mr.  Corddry 
was  Mayor  1902-1912. 

ALWYN  M.  CULP  of  W.  S.  &  A.  M.  Culp.  Chestertown, 
Maryland,  was  born  in  Kennedyville,  Maryland,  August  27, 
1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 

DAVID  K.  CISHWA,  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  was  born 
in  Williamsport,  Maryland,  in  1869,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  about  thirty  years,  associated  with  his  broth- 
er, Victor  M.  Cushwa,  and  like  his  brother  is  very  active 
in  public  affairs  and  numerous  other  enterprises,  aside 
from    the    coal    business. 

VICTOR  M.  CUSHWA,  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  was  born 
in  Williamsport,  Maryland,  March  12,  1865,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  about  thirty  years,  succeeding  his 
father,  the  late  Victor  Cushwa.  Mr.  Cushwa  is  a  public 
spirited  man  and  is  interested  in  numerous  other  enter- 
prises aside  from  his  large  interests  in  the  coal  business. 
This  firm  is  one  of  the  oldest  coal  shipping  firms  in  Mary- 
land. 

RAYMOND  (;.  FORD  of  Markell  &  Ford,  Frederick,  Mary- 
land, was  born  in  Maryland,  January  23,  1868,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  for- 
merly   with    Keller,    Newman    &    Co. 

WILLIAM  I,.  HAMILTON,  Mt.  Savage,  Maryland,  General 
Manager  Brailer  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Frostburg,  Mary- 
land, August  13,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Union 
Mining   Co.    and    the    Black-Sheridan-Wilson  Co. 

SAMUEL  D.  MARKLEY,  proprietor  of  D.  Markley  Supply 
Co.,  Lauraville,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
August  2(1,  INTO,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
six  years. 

ORION  C.  MICHAEL,  Aberdeen,  Maryland,  was  born  in 
the  state  of  Maryland  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for    twenty-nine    years. 

HENRY  B.  MYERS,  President  The  Henry  B.  Myers  Co., 
Annapolis,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Annapolis,  Maryland,  May 
10,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four 
years. 

JACOB  M.  NEWMAN  of  J.  M.  Newman  &  Co.,  Frederick. 
Maryland,  was  horn  in  Hanover,  Pennsylvania.  October  12, 
1843,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years. 

JOHN  L.  REIFSNIDEH,  JR..  of  Smith  &  Reifsnider, 
Westminster,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Westminster,  Mary- 
land, in  July,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-three  years,  associated  with  Joseph  W.  Smith,  do- 
ing a  prosperous  business.  Mr.  Keifsnider  is  interested  In 
a   number  of  other  companies. 

EDWIN  .1.  ROBERTS,  Manager  Allegany  Coal  Co..  West- 
ernport,  Maryland,  was  born  in  Westernport.  Maryland,  In 
1865,  and  has  been   in   the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

JOSEPH  W.  SMITH  of  Smith  *  Reifsnider.  Westminster, 
Maryland,  was  born  In  Westminster.  Maryland.  In  July,  1861. 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  thirty-three  years 
the  firm  having  been  organized  in  1863  by  the  uncle  and 
grandfather  of  the  members  of  this  firm.  Mr.  Smith  is 
prominent  in  his  community,  being  Interested  In  numerous 
other   enterprises   aside    from    a    prosperous    ooal    business. 

LAWBBNOS  H.  low  Ills  of  I..  H.  Towers  A  Bro.,  Den- 
ton, Maryland,  was  born  in  Towers  Wharf,  Maryland,  Feb- 
ruary 12.  1872.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
four   years. 


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MICHIGAN 


MICHIGAN  has  been  in  the  ranks  of  coal-pro- 
ducers for  over  three-quarters  of  a  century,  but 
it  is  only  only  within  the  last  twenty  years  that 
serious  and  intensive  development  of  the  resources  of 
the  state  has  been  undertaken  and  even  today  its  prox- 
imity from  a  transportation  point  of  view  to  the 
great  surplus  output  of  the  major  eastern  and  southern 
fields  confines  its  mining  activities  to  home  and  railroad 
consumption,  while  its  manufacturing  enterprises,  par- 
ticularly in  the  furniture  and  automobile  lines,  have 
made  it  an  attractive  territory  for  sales  cultivation  by 
other  producing  fields.  As  a  result  it  is  as  a  coal  con- 
sumer that  it  looms  large  in  fuel  history. 

The  coal  fields  of  the  state,  having  an  area  of  ap- 
proximately 11,000  square  miles,  is  in  almost  the  exact 
center  of  the  lower  peninsula  and  are  the  only  known 
fields  within  the  drainage  area  of  the  Great  Lakes. 
While  the  Michigan  coal  bearing  measures  are  char- 
tered to  underlie  all  or  parts  of  Arenac.  Bay,  Clare, 
Eaton,  Clinton,  Genesee,  Gladwin,  Gratiot,  Ingham, 
Ionia,  Jackson,  Isabella,  Kent,  Livingston,  Mecosta, 
Midland,  Montcalm,  Newaygo,  Osceola,  Saginaw,  Shia- 
wassee and  Tuscola  counties,  commercial  operations  of 
recent  years  have  been  confined  to  Bay,  Clinton,  Eaton, 
Genesee,  Ingham,  Saginaw,  Shiawassee  and  Tuscola 
counties.  Of  the  counties  just  named  Bay  and  Sag- 
inaw are  of  the  greatest  importance  since  their  com- 
bined production  represents  over  90  per  cent,  (over  94 
per  cent,  in  1915)  of  the  total  output  of  the  state. 

"According  to  Prof.  Alfred  C.  Lane,"  says  the  United 
States  Geological  Survey,  "there  are  seven  horizons 
where  the  coal  occurs  in  workable  thickness,  although  it 
was  formerly  supposed  that  there  was  only  one  work- 
able bed  in  the  state.  Owing  to  the  varying  character 
of  the  formation  and  the  manner  in  which  the  coal  beds 
run  together  and  separate,  no  hard-and-fast  classifica- 
tion is  made,  but  the  following,  which  has  been  adopted 
by  Prof.  Lane,  is  generally  accepted  as  designating  the 
different  beds,  namely:  Upper  Rider,  Upper  Verne, 
Lower  Verne,  Middle  Rider,  Saginaw,  Lower  Rider  and 
Lower  Coal.  All  of  the  coals  produced  in  Michigan  are 
of  the  dry,  non-coking  bituminous  variety  and  are,  as  a 
usual  thing,  of  lower  grade  than  those  coming  from 
Ohio  and  Pennsylvania,  with  which  they  have  to  com- 
pete." 


Although  the  earliest  federal  government  record  of 
Michigan  production  is  found  in  the  Census  for  1860^ 
when  the  output  was  given  as  2,320  tons,  the  existence 
of  coal  deposits  in  the  state  was  known  for  a  consider- 
able period  prior  to  that  date.  Some  mining  is  said  to 
have  been  done  in  the  Jackson  field  as  early  as  1835  and 
operations  were  started  at  Grand  Ledge,  in  Clinton 
county,  in  1838.  As  long  as  the  Wolverine  State  had 
her  vast  forest  reserves  to  call  upon  wood  was  the 
principal  fuel  used  and  it  was  only  with  the  continued 
depletion  of  these  reserves  that  attention  began  to  be 
focused  upon  the  coal  resources  of  the  state.  Prior  to 
1897,  when  production  rose  from  92,882  tons  to  223,592 
tons,  there  had  been  only  four  years  in  the  history  of  the 
coal  production  of  the  state,  viz.,  1880,  1881,  1882  and 
1895,  when  the  output  had  exceeded  100,000  tons.  As 
will  be  seen  by  the  figures  following,  the  1,000,000-ton 
mark  was  first  attained  in  1901,  and,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  year  following,  production  has  been  in  ex- 
cess of  that  figure  since  that  time: 


Year.  Ton. 

1898 315,722 

1899 624,708 

1900 849,475 

1901 1,241,241 

1902 964,718 

1903 1,367,619 

1904 1,342,840 

1905 1,473,211 

1906 1,346,338 

1907 2,035,858 


Year. 

1908.. 

1909.. 

1910.. 

1911... 

1912.. 

1913.. 

1914... 

1915... 

1916.. 


Ton. 

,835,019 

,784,692 

,534,967 

.476,074 

206,230 

231,786 

283,030 

156,138 

,180,360 


Figures  for  1915  show  that  approximately  66  per 
cent,  of  the  production  for  the  year  was  consumed  at 
the  mines  or  by  local  domestic  and  industrial  users 
within  the  state ;  approximately  34  per  cent,  or  394,921 
tons,  went  to  the  railroads. 

Upon  a  per  capita  basis  Michigan  stands  sixth  in 
bituminous  coal  consumption.  This  serves  to  offset  its 
lower  average  on  anthracite  and  bring  the  total,  3.14 
tons  (2.87  tons  bituminous  and  .28  ton  anthracite), 
above  the  average  for  the  country  as  a  whole,  putting  it 
thirteenth  in  the  list.  On  the  square  mile  basis  its 
consumption,  192  tons,  is  greater  by  over  50  per  cent, 
than  the  national  average,.  In  1915  the  state  consumed 
10,726,284  tons  of  bituminous  coal  and  838,800  tons  of 
anthracite.     Over  40  per  cent,  of  the  bituminous  coal 


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COAL   MEN  OF  AMERICA 

used   was  supplied   l»v   the  Weal   Virginia  mines,  while  Source.                        Ton.  Source.                        Ton. 

the  home  state  operatJona,  with  66  per  cent  of  theii     Illino,s  83'256      Vir£inia   29.2°5 

.    ,        •  ,     ,  ,        ,,         ..                          Indiana   6,086  West  Virginia.  .  .      4,326,412 

production  represented, furnished  less  than  7.5  percent.      Kentucky   i.oei^o     Lake  coal 558,000 

ol   the  states  requirements.     Exclusive  of  lake  cargo      Maryland    48,121  

coal,  coal  from  Kentucky,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania  and  West     Michigan  761,217  Total  bituminous.  10,276,284 

Virginia  contributed  more  than  85  per  cent,  of  the  total       ohl°    1,453,869  Pennsylvania   an- 

bituminoua   fuel   used  hv  Michigan   householders  and  l*™^™™  ••■    i.»«.236         thracite   838,800 

industries.     In  detail  the  figures  for  the  year  were  as  n  115084 

follows  : 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


JAMES  ALFRED  BALLARD,  Detroit,  Michigan, 
Sales    Manager   of   the   Semet   Solvay   Co.   and   Solvay   Collieries    Co., 
Detroit,  was   born  August  10,  1874,  in   Syracuse,  New  York,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.     His  entire  business  experi- 
ence has  been  with  this  same  company. 

Mr.  Ballard  bears  an  exceptional  reputation  in  trade  circles  and  is 
considered  one  of  the  most  popular  and  capable  men  in  the  coal  trade. 

He  has  served  as  Vice  President  of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal 
Association,  President  Detroit  Coal  Exchange  and  Imperial  Modoc  of 
Order  KoKoal  and  President  National  Coal  Association,  and  has  been 
honored  with  numerous  other  offices. 

He  has  been  prominent  in  Masonic  circles,  being  a  Past  Master,  Past 
Commander  and  Potentate  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 


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H.    T.    WILSON,   Detroit,   Michigan, 

President  of  the  Norfolk  &  Chesapeake  Coal  Co.  and  of 
the  H.  T.  Wilson  Coal  Co.  of  Detroit.  Michigan,  is  one  of 
the  well-known  and  successful  wholesale  coal  merchants 
of  Detroit.  Mr.  Wilson  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  twenty-two  years  and  was  formerly  connected  with 
Little  &  Wilson  and  the  Camp  Branch  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


W.    II.    II.    IIOHSKY,    li.  ii. .11.    Michigan, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Norfolk  &  Chesapeake  Coal 
Co.  and  H.  T.  Wilson  Coal  Co.  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-seven  years.  Previous  to  going  with  his  present 
company  he  was  connected  with  the  Hull  Coal  &  Coke  Corp. 
and  Red  Jacket  Coal  Co. 


\i  i  i    \     n.     •» 1 1  .    Detroit,    Michigan. 

Assistant  to  President  of  the  Norfolk  &  Chesapeake  Coal 
Co.  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  August  13,  1879,  in 
Rochester.  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business- 
fifteen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  I. 
T.  Becker  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  of  the  H.  T.  Wllsoni 
Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Consolidated 
Coal   Co.   of   Saginaw,   Michigan. 


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FORD    II.    CATE,   Detroit,   Michiican, 

President  of  the  Cate-Churchman  Coal  Co.,  Detroit,  was 
born  May  21,  1879,  in  Milford,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr..  Cate  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  Detroit  wholesalers  and  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  W.  C.  Clark  Coal  Co.,  W.  A.  Gosline  &  Co.,  and 
Houston  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Cate  also  successfully  served  as  Sec- 
retary of  the  Ohio  Retail  Coal  Association  and  President 
Detroit    Coal    Exchange. 


DOOI-EY   DAREWOOD    DAVIDSON,   Detroit,   Michigan, 

Yin:  President  Cate-Churchman  Coal  Co..  Detroit,  Michigan, 
was  born  November  7,  1870.  in  South  Point,  Ohio,  and  has" 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  eighteen  years.  Pre- 
vious to  going  with  his  present  company  he  was  connected 
with  the  National  Fuel  Co.,  Federal  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Maynard 
Coal  Co.  and  the  New  York  Coal  Co. 


ROBERT    M.    CHURCHMAN,    Detroit,    Michigan, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Cate-Churchman  Coal  Co., 
Detroit,  was  born  December  22,  1877,  in  Indianapolis, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  Mr. 
Churchman  is  very  popular  in  trade  circles,  and  previous 
to  going  with  his  present  company  was  connected  with 
M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co.  of  Cleveland.  He  has  served  as  a 
Director  of  the  Detroit  Coal   Exchange. 


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I  .1    yir.lt    C.    CAI.VKirl',    Detroit,    Michigan, 

President  J.  Calvert's  Sons,  Detroit,  was  born  August 
17,  1869,  at  Champaign,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-rive  years,  associated  first  with  his 
father  and  later  with  his  brother.  This  firm  is  one  of  the 
old  established  and  substantial  retail  coal  companies  of 
1>.  troit. 


GEO.    T.   CALVKRT,   Detroit,    Michigan. 

Late  President  of  J.  Calvert's  Sons,  Detroit.  Michigan, 
was  born  February  1,  1868,  at  Champaign,  Illinois,  and  was 
in  the  coal  business  for  forty  years  until  his  death  in  1917. 
.Mr.  Calvert  was  prominent  in  coal  trade  circles  and  for 
eighteen  years  was  a  member  of  the  Kxecutive  Committee 
of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal  Association,  and  also 
served  as  President.  The  business  was  established  by  John 
Calvert  in  1876.  The  partnership  of  Geo.  T.  and  Elmer  C. 
was  formed  in  1893  as  J.  Calvert's  Sons,  and  was  later  In- 
corporated   under   the   same   name. 


BOHKB     Mil. I. Kit     AI.I.KN,    Detroit.    Michigan, 

Manager  Coal  Department  J.  Calvert's  Sons,  Detroit,  is  one 
of  the  best  known  and  best  liked  coal  salesmen  in  the  Mid- 
dle West.  He  was  born  May  14,  1877.  In  Conneaut,  Ohio, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  over  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Allen  was  salesman  for  the  W.  L,  Scott  Co.  and  the  Susque- 
hanna Coal  Co.,  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  for  twelve  years,  and 
represented  W.  A.  Gosline  &  Co.  in  Michigan  for  three 
years.  He  has  always  taken  a  keen  Interest  In  any  move- 
ment for  the  betterment  of  the  coal  trade,  was  an  active 
charier  member  in  the  tinier  KoKoal.  held  office  in  that 
organisation  for  several  years,  and  has  a  large  acquain- 
tance In  all  branches  of  the  Industry.  He  is  a  thirty-second 
degree    Ma«on,    Knight    Templar    and    Shrincr. 


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HARRY    S.    AYERS,   Detroit,    Michigan, 

Member  of  the  wholesale  coal  firm  of  Ayers  &  Lang,  Dime 
Savings  Bank  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  In 
Dexter,  Michigan,  in  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  associated  with  W.  C. 
Clark  Coal  Co.  and  O.  W.  Shipman  Co.,  Detroit.  He  is 
President  of  The  Purity  Cannel  Coal  Co.,  Prestonsburg, 
Kentucky,  Treasurer  of  Blue  Beaver  Coal  Co.,  Prestonsburg, 
and  part  owner  of  Chat-ta-roi  cannel  mine  at  Offutt,  Ken- 
tucky. 


WALTER    I..    LANG,    Detroit,    Michigan, 

Member  of  the  wholesale  coal  firm  of  Ayers  &  Lang,  Dime 
Savings  Bank  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  in 
Detroit  in  1879  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 
He  is  Vice  President  of  The  Purity  Cannel  Coal  Co.  and  of 
the  Blue  Beaver  Coal  Co.,  Prestonsburg,  Kentucky,  and  part 
owner  of  Chat-ta-roi  cannel  mine  at  Offutt,  Kentucky. 


JOSEPH  WILLIAM   DYKSTRA,  Detroit,  Michigan, 

Of  J.  W.  Dykstra  &  Co.,  820  Hammond  Building,  Detroit, 
Michigan,  was  born  October  25,  1880,  at  Grand  Rapids,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years. 
He  is  also  President  of  the  Blue  Beaver  Coal  Co.,  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  O.  W.  Shipman  Co.,  Ayers  & 
Morse  Cpal  Co.  and  Jules  G.  Hoffman.  He  has  also  served 
as  a  Director  of  the  Detroit  Coal   Exchange. 


ALEX.   J.    /I  \  111  IK.    Detroit,   Michigan, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  J.  W.  Dykstra  &  Co.,  coal 
merchants  of  820  Hammond  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan, 
was  born  May  24,  1886,  at  Detroit  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  the  past  twelve  years.  He  is  also  interested 
in  the  Blue  Beaver  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  connected 
with   the   Brenner  Coal   Co.   and   Jules   G.   Hoffman. 


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JAMF-S    I».    MOHAN.    Iletroit.    Michigan, 

Wholesale  coal  merchant  at  1324  Penobscot  Building,  De- 
troit, Michigan,  was  born  January  11,  1879,  in  Detroit,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  E.  J.  Corbett  of  Detroit  and  Burton, 
Beidler  &  Phillips  of  Cleveland.  Ohio. 


DAVID     S.    'WALSH,    Detroit,    Michigan, 

Sales  Manager  J.  P.  Moran  &  Co.  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  January  31,  1870,  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  twenty-three  years. 


'   ii  mi  i   -   J.   AM)Hi:ws.  Detroit,  MlchlKan, 

President  The  Morgan-Andrews  Coal  Co.,  Majestic  Building, 
Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  December  20,  1870,  at  Wash- 
ington, District  of  Columbia,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  the  past  twenty  years.  Mr.  Andrews  was  with  The 
Turney  &  Jones  Co.  for  three  years  and  the  Sunday  Creek 
Co.  for  ten  years,  holding  the  management  of  their  Detroit 
office,  and  later  Vice  President  and  Manager  of  Sales,  before 
forming  his  present  company. 


HI"    II  \itl>     I,.     AYI.WAHD.    Detroit.    Michigan. 

One  of  the  best  known  and  popular  retail  coal  merchants 
of  Detroit.  Michigan,  was  born  in  Detroit  December  1,  1869, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  there  for  over  thirty 
years.  Before  going  into  business  for  himself  he  was  con- 
nected with  the  firms  of  O.  W.  Shipman  and  Skae  &  Aylward 


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EDWARD   J.    i  lilllli:  I "i\   Detroit,   Michigan, 

Prominent  wholesale  coal  merchant  of  Detroit,  Michigan, 
was  born  March  23,  1865,  at  Groveport,  Ohio,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  In  addition  to 
his  Detroit  business  Mr.  Corbett  has  coal  interests  in  Ohio 
and  West  Virginia.  Previous  to  entering  business  for  him- 
self he  was  connected  with  the  Columbus  &  Hocking  Coal  & 
Iron   Co.   and   H.   D.   Turney   &   Co. 


ARTHl'R   D.   CRONIN,   Detroit,   Michigan, 

President  Pine  Ridge  Coal  Co.,  616  Union  Trust  Building, 
Detroit,  was  born  May  3,  1883,  in  Hamilton,  Ontario,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  is  interested  in 
the  Cronin  Coal  Co.  and  the  Black  Hawk  Colliery  Co.,  and 
has  a  wide  and  favorable  acquaintance  in  coal  circles.  Mr. 
Cronin  was  formerly  Sales  Manager  of  John  T.  Hesser  Coal 
Co.,  Ohio  &  Michigan  Coal  Co.  and  Black  Hawk  Colliery  Co. 


JAMES    PETER   CUMMISKEY,   Detroit,   Michigan, 

President  of  the  Ohio  &  Michigan  Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  Detroit,  was 
born  January  28.  1872,  in  Detroit,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty  years.  He  was  with  O.  W.  Shipman  for  four- 
teen years  before  forming  his  present  company.  Mr.  Cum- 
miskey  is  President  of  the  New  York  Clay  &  Mining  Co., 
Michigan  &  West  Virginia  Land  &  Mining  Co.,  Big  Creek 
Coal  Co.,  Black  Hawk  Colliery  Co.,  J.  R.  Morris  Coal  Co.,  and 
a  Director  of  the  Marsh-Fork  Coal  Co. 


CHARLES     C.     COREY,     Detroit,     Midi. 

AVholesale  coal  merchant  of  Detroit, 
was  born  October  1,  1879,  in  Chester- 
field, Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  the  past  thirteen 
years.  Mr.  Corey  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Hutchinson  Fuel  Co., 
Fairmont,  West  Virginia,  and  the  Sun- 
day Creek   Coal  Co.   for  eight  years. 


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\  I    \  \  in  I     JOHNSON,  Detroit,   Michigan, 

Manager  of  the  Island  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Ford  Building:,  De- 
troit, was  born  September  8,  1877,  in  Petersburg.  Virginia, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He 
\v:is  formerly  in  charge  of  the  W.  R.  Johnson  mines  in  West 
Virginia,  Assistant  General  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Kanawha  Fuel  Co.  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  Agent  of  the 
Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  at  Detroit,  and  General 
Bales  Agent  of  the  W.  R.  Johnson  Coal  Co. 


LYDA    ..I   ii  I  ill  :m;    MOSHER,    Detroit,    Michigan, 

In  the  coal  business  under  her  own  name  in  the  Book 
Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  September  26, 
1888,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirteen  years.  Miss  Mosher  is  an  unusually 
capable  coal  salesman  and  has  made  a  success  ever  since 
entering  the  trade.  She  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Marine  Coal  Co.  of  Pittsburgh,  Jewett,  Bigelow  &  Brooks 
of  Detroit,  and  in  recent  years  was  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Southland  Coal  Co. 


I'llll.lP  ii  \i  i  I  ii  I  \  Detroit,  Michigan. 
Western  Agent  of  Meeker  &  Co.,  Ford  Building,  De- 
troit, Michigan,  was  born  October  19,  1869,  at  Paterson, 
New  Jersey.  He  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
six  years,  the  entire  time  with  (he  old  established  firm  of 
Meeker  &  Co. 


I  i>\\  IN  MKIIHIM,  SMITH,  Detroit,  Michigan, 
Sole  Owner  of  the  E.  M.  Smith  Coal  Co.,  502-503  Owen 
Building.  Detroit,  Michigan,  is  also  Interested  in  the  L.  Z. 
Netzorg  Coal  Co.  of  Toledo,  Ohio.  He  was  born  August  24, 
1870,  In  Chicago.  Illinois,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  Manager  of  the  Detroit 
office  of  the  W.  H.  Warner  Coal  Co.  of  Ohio  and  Inter- 
ested in  that  company,  from   which  he  resigned  April   1,  1918. 


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ARTHUR  S.  AINSWOHTH,  Grand  Itiipiils.  Michigan, 
Proprietor  of  Bennett  Fuel  &  Ice  Co.,  was  born  July  31, 
1862,  in  Rome,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  business  thirty-seven 
years.  Mr.  Ainsworth,  one  of  the  most  successful  retail 
coal  merchants  in  Michigan,  has  this  creed  in  business: 
"I  believe  in  the  man  who  neither  looks  up  to  the  rich 
nor  down  on  the  poor;  who  is  courteous  and  considerate  to 
women,  children  and  old  people;  who  is  too  brave  to  lie; 
too  generous  to  cheat;  who  takes  his  share  and  lets  others 
have  theirs."  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Michigan 
and  Ohio  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  of  the  Grand 
Rapids   Coal   Exchange. 


DEWEY    BLOCKSMA,    Grand    Rapids,   Michigan, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Breen  &  Halla- 
day  Fuel  Co.  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born 
August  1,  1884,  and  has  been,  in  the  coal  business  for  thir- 
teen years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  A.  Himes 
Coal  Co.  Mr.  Blocksma  is  also  Manager  of  the  Creston 
Fuel  &  Building  Material  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  City  Coal 
&   Coke  Co. 


ABRA1I  B.   K  Now  I, son.  Grand   Rapids,  Michigan, 

President  A.  B.  Knowlson  Co.  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan, 
is  one  of  the  best  known  coal  men  in  that  section.  He  was 
born  May  11,  lf.61,  at  Albany,  New  York,  and  established 
his  present  business  in  1876,  and  incorporated  it  in  1912, 
with  W.  W.  Tanner  Vice  President,  G.  J.  Rooks  Treasurer, 
and  A.  B.  Horner  Secretaiy.  Mr.  Knowlson  has  served  as 
President  of  the  Michigan-Indiana  Coal  Association,  Direc- 
tor of  National  Coal  Association,  President  Grand  Rapids 
Retail  Coal  Dealers  Exchange,  and  is  the  dean  of  Grand 
Rapids   coal    merchants. 


EDWARD  W.  STAEULER,  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan, 

Weil-known  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan, 
doing  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Staebler  &  Son,  was 
born  December  26,  1872,  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  during  his  entire  business  life.  Mr.  Staebler 
is  favorably  known  in  the  trade  and  has  served  as  Treasurer 
of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Retail  Coal  Association  for  six 
terms  and  has  also  been  Secretary  of  the  Ann  Arbor  Coal 
Exchange  for  a  number  of  years. 


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liinil  It  I  LAKE,  Jnfkson.  Michigan, 
President  of  the  Robert  Lake  Co.,  Jackson,  Michigan,  was 
born  June  24,  1848,  at  Dorsetshire,  England,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Lake  is  one  of 
the  best  known  retail  coal  merchants  in  the  United  States 
and  has  served  as  President  of  the  Michigan  and  Indiana 
Coal  Association  and  of  the  Michisan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal 
Association.  Mr.  Lake  was  President  of  the  National 
Council  of  Retail  Coal  Merchants  and  is  a  Director  of  the 
National  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 


JAMES  W.  KYDEI1,  Kalamazoo.  Michigan, 
President  The  James  W.  Ryder  Coal  Co.  of  Kalamazoo. 
Michigan,  was  born  April  4,  1868,  in  Kalamazoo  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Ryder 
is  well  and  favorably  known'  in  the  coal  trade  and  does  a 
large  wholesale  and  retail  business.  He  also  has  a  mod- 
ernly  equipped  elevator  and  uses  auto  trucks  for  delivery. 
He  has  served  as  President,  Treasurer  and  Director  of  the 
Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal  Association. 


GBOBGB  !•:.  stki.hn.  Kalaauu Ml.hlunn, 

General  Manager  of  the  Kalamatoo  toe  \-  Puel  Co.,  Kala- 
mazoo. Michigan,  n;is  born  Jinn'  8,  I860,  in  Rochester, 
New     York,    and    lias    been    in    the    coal    business    since    1890. 

■as  built  up  one  of  the  largest  retail  buiinesaet  In  Mich- 
igan. He  has  a  splendid  reputation  In  the  trade  and  has 
served  as  President   of  the  Carbon   t'lub  of  Kalamazoo. 


it  A.  iniK\i:iHT.  Mnikncnn,  Michigan, 
of  Kauknecht  Bros.,  well-known  retail  coal  merchants  of 
Muskegon,  Michigan,  was  born  December  29,  1872,  in  Muske- 
gon, and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  since  1883.  Mr. 
Bauknecht  is  widely  known  in  the  coal  trade  and  has  taken 
an  active  Interest  in  association  affairs.  He  has  served  on 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana 
Association  and  President  of  the  Muskegon  Coal  Dealers' 
Credit    Association. 


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OTTO  LANGKAWEL,  Muskegon,  MiHiiu'.-ui. 
Proprietor  of  Otto  Langkawel  &  Co.,  Muskegon,  Michigan, 
was  born  September  29,  1877,  in  Muskegon,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  since  1905.  He  originally  started  in 
the  wood  business  in  1899  and  naturally  progressed  into 
the  coal  business.  Mr.  Langkawel  has  been  unusually  suc- 
cessful. 


MICHIGAN  — Detroit 


I.  T.  BECKER,  President  of  the  I.  T.  Becker  Coal  Co.,  De- 
troit, Michigan,  was  born  February  1,  1892,  at  Detroit, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
eleven  years.  Previous  to  engaging  in  the  retail  business 
on  his  own  account  he  was  traveling  salesman  for  the  H.  T. 
Wilson  Coal  Co.  and  the  Norfolk  &  Chesapeake  Coal  Co. 
Mr.   Becker  is   in  the   service   of  his  country. 

W.  F.  BENTLEY,  Secretary  of  C.  C.  Corey,  1303  Majestic 
Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  May  26,  1887,  at  St. 
Thomas,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past  eight  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  De- 
troit office  of  the  Sunday  Creek   Co. 

WM.  E.  BESANCON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Detroit, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  Michigan  in  1877  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  practically  all  his  life.  After  a  term  at  col- 
lege Mr.  Besancon  started  out  to  learn  and  know  not  only 
the  coal  business  in  Detroit,  but  just  about  everyone  who 
was  connected  therewith.  There  are  few  salesmen  or  mine 
representatives  who  fail  to  call  him  "Bill."  ,  He  operates 
two   yards,   besides   doing  a   considerable   car-lot  business. 

WALTER  BROOKS,  Treasurer  Jewett,  Bigelow  &  Brooks, 
Penobscot  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  in  De- 
troit in  1870  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Brooks  is  one  of  the  highly  regarded 
members  of  the  Detroit  coal  trade,  and  his  Arm  is  a  leading 
operator  in  the  smokeless  field. 

LA  VERNE  C.  HROW1V,  owner  and  Manager  of  the  Pro- 
gressive Coal  Co.,  360  Penobscott  Building,  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  April  26,  1879,  in  Jackson  County,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  associated  with  J.  P.  Moran  &  Co.  of  Detroit  for 
eleven  years. 

CHARLES  ALEXANDER  CHAMBERS,  Manager  of  Sales 
The  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  Detroit.  Michigan,  was  born 
April  5,  1869,  in  Paris,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Chambers  was  formerly 
with  the  Luhrig  Coal  Co.  and  W.  P.  Rend.  Prior  to  enter- 
ing the  coal  business  he  was  for  a  number  of  years  in  the 
railroad   service. 

RICHARD  B.  CHASE,  Secretary  of  Jewett,  Bigelow  & 
Brooks,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1870  at  Medina, 
New  York.  Mr.  Chase  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
firm  of  Ayers  &  Chase  until  he  purchased  J.  W. 
Bigelow's  interest  in  Jewett,  Bigelow  &  Brooks,  who  op- 
erate a  number  of  mines  in  West  "Virginia  and  Kentucky. 


AUGUSTIN  W.  C'OOJiEY,  President  Monarch  Coal  Co.. 
Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  April  11,  1873,  in  Detroit,  and 
has   been    in   the   coal   business   twenty-two   years. 

EDWARD  CORNELIUS  CROWLEY,  Secretary  Ohio  & 
Michigan  Coal  Co..  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  August  7. 
1887,  in  Wayne  County,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years,  the  entire  time  with  his  present  firm. 

JACOB  H.  DAVIS,  President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  January 
15,  1887,  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the  past   eight  years. 

LOUIS  A.  DE  HAYES,  proprietor  of  the  Sterling  Coal  Co., 
Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  June  9,  1884,  at  Detroit,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  sixteen  years. 

JAMES  DE  WOLFE,  Manager  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  for 
the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  New  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
is  one  of  the  veteran  and  highly  respected  coal  salesmen  in 
the  Middle  West.  Mr.  DeWolfe  was  born  July  17,  1845,  at 
North  Ridgeville,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-two  years.  He  was  with  the  Sunday  Creek  Co. 
before  making  his   present   connection. 

EDWARD  F.  DELAHUNTE,  General  Manager  of  the  Gen- 
eral Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 10,  1867,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Delahunte  was  for- 
merly General  Manager  of  the  West  Massillon  Coal  Co., 
General  Sales  Manager  of  Burton,  Beidler  &  Phillips  Co.,  and 
Local  Manager  Ohio  &  Michigan  Coal  Co. 

EDWARD  J.  DlT  BOIS,  Vice  President  and  Sales  Man- 
ager American  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  in  1883  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eleven  years.  Mr.  DuBois  has  also  taken  an  active 
interest  in,  and  is  an  officer  of  the  National  Coal  Jobbers' 
Association.  * 

ELMER  FRITSCH,  President  E.  T.  Brooks  &  Fritsch,  re- 
tail coal  merchants  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  October 
26,  1861,  in  Detroit,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the   past  fifteen  years. 

CORNELIUS  J.  W.  GEERLING,  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
the  Morgan-Andrews  Coal  Co.  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  March  14,  1874,  at  Usquert,  Holland,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Detroit  office  of  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co. 

RICHARD  B.  GERISCH,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Gerisch  Coal  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  October  18, 
1881,  in  Germany.     He  is  also  interested  in  the  Alice  Coal  Co. 

FREDERICK  D.  GLEASON,  Manager  of  the  F.  D.  Gleason 
Coal  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  July  29,  1887,  at  De- 
troit, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  He 
was  formerly  representative  of  the  Pittsburgh-Buffalo  Co. 
and  has  many  friends   in   the  trade. 

EDWIN  GOLDBEBG,  proprietor  Brenner  Coal  Co.,  De- 
troit, Michigan,  was  born  August  10,  1879,  at  Detroit,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  twenty  years.  He 
was   formerly   connected   with   the  Jonathan   Creek   Coal  Co. 

GEORGE  J.  HCEBNER  of  the  Detroit  &  Pittsburg  Coal 
Co.,  1237  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  in 
Detroit  November  20,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
nine  years. 

WALTER  JAMES  JAROCH,  proprietor  of  the  Wolverine 
Coal  Co.  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  April  28,  1887,  at 
Port  Austin,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the  past  four  years. 

EDWARD  HUNTING  JEWETT,  President  Jewett,  Bige- 
low &  Brooks,  Penobscot  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  in  1874  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two 
years.  Mr.  Jewett  is  also  interested  in  the  J.  B.  B.  Coal 
Co.  and  the  Pine  Ridge  Mining  Co.,  and  is  a  prominent 
member   of  the  coal   trade. 

BURKE  H.  KEENEY,  Resident  Manager  of  the  Middle 
West  Coal  Co.,  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  in  1874  at  Patrait,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with   the   Bewley-Darst  Coal  Co.   of  Knoxville,   Tennessee. 

HAROLD  N.  KING,  Auditor  of  R.  L.  Aylward  at  Detroit, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1874  in  England,  and  has  been  In 
the   coal   business   for   twelve   years. 

JOHN  F.  KOENIG,  President  The  P.  Koenig  Coal  Co., 
Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  January  18,  1877,  in  Detroit, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  all  of  his  business  life. 
This  business  was  established  in  1870  by  Peter  Koenig, 
father  of  John  F.  Mr.  Koenig  is  also  interested  in  the 
Elkhorn   Coal  Co. 

WM.  N.  KRUG,  President  Commercial  Coal  Co.,  Detroit, 
Michigan,  was  born  August  27,  1867,  in  Detroit,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 


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\.  H.  I.imiiia,  Detroit  Manager  of  the  Houston  Coal  Co., 
Dime  Bank  Building;,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  June  7, 
IvTl'.  in  I'ownal,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
the  past  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Lincoln  lias  been  in  his  present 
position  for  the  past  twelve  years  and  previous  to  that  rep- 
resented the  Taylor  Coal  Co.  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  Jules  O. 
Hoffman  of  Detroit. 

A.  UHHI  MANCOl'RT,  President  and  Treasurer  Man- 
court-Wlnters  Coal  Co.  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  No- 
vember 8,  1888,  in  Sidney,  Nebraska,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   for   the   last    three   years. 

FRED  J.  MrDONALU,  President  McDonald  Coal  &  Brick 
Co..  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  January  8,  1864,  in  Detroit, 
and    lias   been   in    the  coal   business  for  the   past   ten   years. 

m  \iik  HePADDBM,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, la  a  native  of  Ireland  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-three  years.  He  started  with  one  team  and 
borrowed  a  wagon,  and  today  Is  using  twenty-eight  horses 
and  five  auto  trucks,  has  a  3,000-ton  coal  pocket  and  ground 
storage  for   6,000   tons. 

HUMPHREY  H.  ileK II. I. IP,  proprietor  International  Coal 
Co.,  Ford  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  September 
3.  1872,  in  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  E.  J. 
Corbett   for  a    number  of  years. 

CHARLES  P.  MORIAHITY,  Northern  Sales  Agent  of  the 
Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  1228  Majestic  Building, 
Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  December  14,  1 88!*,  at  Indian- 
apolis, Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
last  five  years.  He  is  a  son  of  Charles  R.  Moriarity  of 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  is  at  present  enlisted  in  the  service 
of  his  country. 

I  I.YSSES  S.  MORRIS,  President  Superior  Colliery  Co., 
Hammond  Building.  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Colum- 
bus. Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
ten  years.  Mr.  Morris  is  President  of  the  Superior*  Develop- 
ment Co.,  a  subsidiary  of  the  colliery  company.  He  is 
Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Coal  Operators  Bureau  of  Colum- 
bus. Ohio,  and  chairman  of  the  Jackson  District  Coal  Asso- 
ciation of  Ohio.  Previous  to  forming  his  present  company  he 
was   connected   with   the   Clinchfield  Coal  Corp. 

RALPH  B.  "VEAL,,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Mon- 
arch Coal  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  October  27,  1885, 
at  Bay  City,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  W.  H. 
Peck  &  Co.  and  J.  Max  Bernard  &  Co. 

WILLIAM  A.  REED,  Agent  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal 
&  Iron  Co.,  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born 
October  23,  1854,  in  Port  Clinton,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Reed  is  one  of  the  best 
liked  and  most  popular  anthracite  salesmen  in  the  Middle 
West. 

LEWIS  CHAPIN  Hl'FFJiER,  Northern  Sales  Manager 
Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co..  with  headquarters  at 
Detroit.  Michigan,  was  born  February  24,  1885,  at  Quijotoa, 
Arizona,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Diamond  Ice  & 
Coal  Co.  of  Charleston,  West  Virginia,  and  altogether  has 
■pent  some  twenty-three  years  around  the  coal  mines  of 
West  Virginia. 

\\  BB8THB.  L.  SAI.LEE,  President  and  General  Manager 
Detroit  Fuel  &  Foundry  Supply  Co..  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  December  11,  1X81,  in  Bharpvllle,  Indiana,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  President 
of  the  Kentucky  Ridge  Mining  Co.  of  Pinevllle,  Kentucky, 
lie  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Aetna  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Indiana    Fuel   &  Supply  Co.,  and   National  Coal  Co. 

i:\\  Al.l>  SCHI'IWE.  President  and  General  Manager  of 
Scheiwe  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  April 
10.  1874,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nine  years.  Mr.  Scheiwe  is  President  of  the  Detroit  Coal 
Exchange  and  of  the  Michigan  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation. 

KHWK  C'RANT  SCHNEHH,  Western  Sales  Agent  of  J. 
S.  Wentz  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  April  24,  1885,  at 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Maryland  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

HENRY  E.  SCHUMACHER  of  Schumacher  Bros.  & 
Graham,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  in  1870  in  Germany,  and  came  here  as  a  lad  of  eleven 
years  with  his  parents,  He  and  his  father,  Charles  Schu- 
macher, started  in  the  retail  coal  business  in  1892.  A  few 
years  later  Herman  A.  Schumacher  was  admitted  as  partner. 
In    111]    Daniel   Graham    was  admitted   to  the   firm. 

WALTER  J.  SCI  I.I.Y,  Sales  Manager  of  W.  H.  Warner 
Coal  Co.  at  Detroit.  Michigan,  was  born  in  1870  at  Sarnia, 
Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years. 

DANIEL  si  I, I, I  VAN,  retail  coal  merchant,  386  Michigan 
Ave.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Detroit  June  26, 
1867.  and  has  been  In  the  business  for  thirty  years.  He  Is 
also  Treasurer  of  the   Diamond  Coal  &   Coke  Co. 


GEORGE  W.  SWEENEY,  President  United  Coal  Sales  Co.. 
Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  July  12, 
1874,  In  Detroit,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Davis  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  and  the  L'nlted  Coal  Co.  of  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

CASH  WATSON  TALBOT,  President  Talbot  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  February  13,  18S4,  in 
Toledo,  Ohio,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twelve 
years. 

WARNER  R.  THOMPSON,  President  Warner  R.  Thomp- 
son Co.  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  In  Detroit  July 
29,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
eight  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Parker  Bros. 
Co.  for  twenty-two  years  and  later  with  John  S.  Lorlmer 
Sons. 

CLARENCE  A.  WEINHART,  Vice  President  of  the  Com- 
mercial Coal  Co.  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  with  his  office  at 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Peshtigo,  Wisconsin, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  was 
formerly  Vice  President  of  the  Central  West  Coal  Co.  at 
Menominee,    Michigan. 

RICHARD  WILLIAMS,  President  Middle  West  Coal  Co., 
Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1891  at  Shamokin,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 
Mr.  Williams  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  North  East  Coal 
Co.  of  Paintsville,  Kentucky,  and  the  South  East  Coal  Co. 
He  was   formerly  connected  with   the  Susquehanna  Coal  Co. 

C.  C.  WINTERS,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
Mancourt-Winters  Coal  Co.  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born 
June  21,  1880,  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  He  is  President  of  the  Elkhorn 
Collieries  Co.,  Vice  President  of  the  Elkhorn  Coal  Co.,  and 
President  of  the  Sunnybrook  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  S.  J.  Patterson  Co.  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  the 
Middle  West  Coal  Co.  of  Detroit,  and  the  Consolidation 
Coal  Co. 

M'll.l.  WINTERS,  Manager  Sunnybrook  Coal  Co.  of  De- 
troit, Michigan,  was  born  February  27,  1884,  at  Sandusky, 
Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Mancourt-Winters 
Coal  Co.   of  Detroit. 

MATTHEW  J.  YIPE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Detroit, 
Michigan,  is  a  native  of  Michigan  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   fifteen    years. 


MICHIGAN  — Grand  Rapids 


E.  BOEHKMA,  proprietor  of  the  Oakdale  Coal  &  Wood 
Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  December  31,  1867, 
in  the  Netherlands,  going  to  Grand  Rapids  with  his  par- 
ents when  eleven  years  old,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  for  a  number  of  years  and  in  the  coal 
business  for  eight   years. 

WILLIAM  JAMES  BREEN,  President  Breen  &  Halladay 
Fuel  Co.  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Canada, 
July  29,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
six  years.  Mr.  Breen  is  also  President  of  the  City  Coal 
&  Coke   •". 

ADRIAN  DE  YOUNG  of  the  De  Young  Bros.  Fuel  Co., 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  July  15,  1880,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal   business  for   fourteen    years. 

JOHN  DE  YOUNG  of  the  De  Young  Bros.  Fuel  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids.  Michigan,  was  born  February  25,  1877,  and  lias  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

H.  R,  DICKINSON,  President  The  Valley  City  Coal  & 
Ice  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1838  in 
Chenango  County,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  fifty-two  years. 

-H\KT1\  II.  HONKER,  Bookkeeper  for  Donker  .*  Mo!, 
Grand    Rapids,   Michigan,   was  born  in  Grand   Rapids  October 

j:'.    t.V'2.  and    lias   been    in   the   coal    business    tor   six    years. 

WILLIAM  DONKEH  of  Donker  &  Mol,  retail  coal  mer- 
chants of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  November  22, 
1868,  in  the  Netherlands  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  seven  years.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Coal 
Exchange. 

HAKIIV  KI.KNBAAS,  General  Manager  M.  J.  Elenbaas  & 
Sons.  GraiHl  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  May  24,  1888,  at 
Grand  Rapids,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three 
years. 

GEORGE  A.  HARPER,  Salesman  for  Lehigh  Valley  Coal 
Sales  Co.  at  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  horn  June  25, 
1873,  in  Selkirk,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty  years.  Mr.  Harper  is  very  well  known  and  has 
many  warm  friends  in  the  trade.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Buffalo  office  of  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.  for  eight   years. 


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COAL   MEN   OF  AMERICA 


JOHN  M.  HIMES,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  A.  Himes 
Coal  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1874  at 
Oswego,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Himes  is  one  of  the  leading  re- 
tailers of  Grand  Rapids  and  is  very  favorably  known  in 
coal   trade   circles. 

ABRAM  BAYNTON  HORNER,  Secretary  of  A.  B.  Knowl- 
son  Co.,  wholesale  and  retail  coal  merchants  of  Grand  Rap- 
ids, Michigan,  was  born  August  27,  1885,  in  Grand  Rapids, 
and   has   been    in    the    coal    business    for   thirteen    years. 

ALFRED  HUNT,  President  and  Manager  of  the  Home 
Fuel  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Grand  Rapids 
December  22,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Cen- 
tury Fuel  Co.,  and  has  always  taken  an  interest  in  move- 
ments for  the  betterment  of  trade  conditions. 

JOHN  JASPERSE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Grahd  Rapids, 
Michigan,  was  born  January  31,  1867,  in  the  Netherlands, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

PETER  JONKMAN,  Manager  Welmers-Dykman  Fuel  Co. 
of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  February  2,  1861,  in 
the  Netherlands,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirteen  years.  The  firm  operate  three  yards.  Mr.  Jonkman 
is   a  Director   of   the   Grand   Rapids   Coal   Exchange. 

MARTIN  P.  LOHWERSE,  member  of  the  Arm  of  S.  A.  Mor- 
man  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  July  16,  1871, 
in  Grand  Rapids,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
one  years.     He  has  been  with  this  present  firm  since  1887. 

JOHN  C.  MOL,  member  of  the  firm  of  Donker  &  Mol, 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  January  2,  1878,  in  Grand 
Rapids  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years. 

JOHN  MOLLEMA,  JR.,  Manager  J.  Mollema  &  Son,  retail 
coal  merchants  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  June 
17,  1891,  at  Jamestown,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eight  years. 

SAMUEL  A.  MORMAN  of  S.  A.  Morman  &  Co.,  well-known 
coal  and  building  material  merchants  of  Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan,  was  born  April  13,  1858,  in  Grand  Rapids,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  trade  twenty-two  years.  He  was  a 
former  President  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Coal  Exchange.  This 
company  was  founded  in  1855  by  Mr.  Morman's  father  and 
has  been  highly  successful  ever  since,  in  both  coal  and 
building  material.  A  year  ago  Mr.  Morman  took  into  part- 
nership M.  P.  Louwerse,  who  has  been  connected  with  the 
firm   for   over   thirty   years,   and   William   B.   Steele. 

CLAUS  F.  PETERSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Grand 
Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  November  12,  1856,  in  Sweden, 
and   has  been   in  the   coal  business  for  thirty-five  years. 

GERRIT  J.  ROOKS,  Treasurer  of  the  A.  B.  Knowlson  Co., 
wholesale  and  retail  coal  merchants  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  March  28,  1867,  near  Holland,  Michigan,  and 
has  been   in   the   coal   business   for   thirty   years. 

OMGE  HOTTSCHAFER,  Manager  Silver  Creek  Fuel  & 
Feed  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Holland, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years.  He  is 
associated  with  his  brothers,  Henry,  John  and  William,  who 
are   in  the  contracting  business   in   Holland,   Michigan. 

J.  H.  SMITH,  Manager  of  the  J.  H.  Smith  Coal  Co.  of 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1882  at  Rochester, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years.  This  concern  handles  coal  at  wholesale  only.  Mr. 
Smith  was  formerly  with  the  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co., 
Harlem  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Sedalia  Coal  Co. 

J.  G.  STEELE,  Manager  of  Steele  Bros.,  Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan,  was  born  October  3,  1879,  in  Grand  Rapids  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  five  years. 

WILLIAM  W.  TANNER,  Vice  President  of  the  A.  B. 
Knowlson  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  July  1, 
1857,  near  Lockport,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  the  past  twenty-three  years,  associated  with 
A.    B.   Knowlson. 

ROBERT  D.  TEELE,  Michigan  Representative  of  the 
Buckeye  Coal  &  Railway  Co.,  with  headquarters  at  Grand 
Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  June  4,  1857,  in  Grand  Rapids, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co. 
and  has  been   in   the   retail  business  in  Grand  Rapids. 

I.  A.  VAN  HEULEN,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Van 
Heulen  Fuel  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  in  the 
Netherlands  in  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
South  Grand  Rapids  Ice  &  Coal  Co. 


MICHIGAN 


CHRIS  ABRAHAM,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Capac,  Mich- 
igan, born  September  22,  1875,  at  Mt.  Clemens,  Michigan,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 


MARTIN  C.  ABRAHAMSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lud- 
ington,  Michigan,  was  born  September  21,  1881,  in  Norway, 
and  has   been  in   the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

HENRY  J.  ADAMS,  President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
H.  J.  Adams  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Jackson,  Michigan,  was 
born  November  15,  1857,  in  Monroe,  Michigan,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  seven  years. 

GEORGE  A.  ALDRICH,  President  G.  A.  Aldrich  &  Co., 
Hillsdale,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1849  at  Geneseo,  New  York, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years,  and  is 
one  of  the  well-known  retailers  in  Michigan. 

A.  E.  D.  ALLAN  of  the  Allan  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.,  West 
Detroit,  Michigan,  was  born  March  28,  1869.  in  Wales  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years.  His  brother,  A. 
T.  Allan,  is  associated  with  him  in  the  coal  and  lumber 
business. 

ARTHUR  C.  ATWELL,  Assistant  Manager  Cass  City 
Grain  Co.,  Cass  City,  Michigan,  was  born  August  21,  1890.  in 
Evergreen  Township,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  three  years. 

AXEL  L.  AXELSON,  Manager  F.  &  A.  Lumber  Co.,  Crystal 
Falls,  Michigan,  was  born  February  14,  1880,  at  Ishpeming, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

JACOB  H.  BAAD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Union  City, 
Michigan,  was  born  July  3,  1876,  in  Canal  Dover,  Ohio,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

DANIEL  D.  BARRON,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant 
of  River  Rouge.  Michigan,  was  born  in  September,  1866,  at 
Newport,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for   the  past  seventeen   years. 

F.  L.  BAUER  of  the  Hastings  Lumber  &  Coal  Co., 
Hastings,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1878,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  three   years. 

W.  G.  BAUER  of  the  Hastings  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Hast- 
ings, Michigan,  was  born  in  Hastings  in  1875,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 

JESSE  G.  BAUKNECHT,  member  of  the  firm  of  Bauk- 
necht  Bros.,  Muskegon,  Michigan,  was  born  March  20,  1879, 
in  that  city  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years. 

SIDNEY  T.  BEAM,  senior  member  of  E.  Beam  &  Sons, 
Lawton,  Michigan,  was  born  December  28,  1S49,  in  St.  Joseph 
County,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years. 

SILAS  A.  BEMENT,  managing  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  was  born  January  9,  1876,  at  Leroy, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in   the  coal   business  two  years. 

HERMAN  RALPH  nil  in  lie.  Manager  Ann-A  Fuel  Co., 
Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1886  in  Washtenaw 
County,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past  three  years. 

EUGENE  M.  BIGGS,  Scottville,  Michigan,  was  born  May 
10,  1885,  at  Hudson,  New  York,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business   for  twenty  years. 

RUFUS  F.  BIRCH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hudson,  Mich- 
igan, was  born  April  12,  1858,  at  East  Green  Bush,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight 
years,  the  last  eighteen  of  which  in  his  present  location. 

RALPH  S.  BISHOP  of  Frank  Bishop  &  Son,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Almont,  Michigan,  was  born  May  14,  1892,  in 
Almont,  and  has   been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

ALFRED  P.  BLANEY',  Manager  of  The  Bedford  Coal  Co., 
Alpena,  Michigan,  was  born  September  6,  1882,  in  Alpena, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  suc- 
ceeded the  old  established  firm  of  M.  N.  Bedford  &  Co.  in 
1916. 

G.  S.  BLESCH,  Manager  Little  Rock  Coal  Co.,  Alma.  Mich- 
igan, was  born  June  20,  1876,  in  Brenton,  Michigan,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal    business   seven   years. 

JOHN  BOEKHOUT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Kalamazoo, 
Michigan,  was  born  May  2,  1863,  in  the  Netherlands  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 

C.  L.  BOELIO,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Petoskey,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  September  28,  1855,  in  New  York  state,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business   ten  years. 

HENRY  J.  BOLT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Grand  Haven, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  Grand  Haven  October  22,  1867,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  about  twelve  years. 

YVM.  R.  BRADISH,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Adrian,  Mich- 
igan, was  born  May  2,  1857,  at  Madison,  Michigan,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

CHARLES  C,  BRADLEY  of  Bradley  &  Chubb,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Romeo,  Michigan,  was  born  November  21,  1840, 
at  Detroit,  Michigan,'  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  ten   years. 

CHARLES  THOMPSON  BRADLEY,  Manager  Bradley  & 
Chubb  of  Romeo.  Michigan,  was  born  November  27.  1890, 
in  Romeo  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
six  years. 


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KHBD  W.  BRAMAN,  Manager  Central  Coal  Co.,  Bay  City, 
Michigan,  was  born  February  9,  1874,  In  Bay  City  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Braman 
is  Secretary  of  the  Bay  City  Coal  Exchange  and  was  for- 
merly connected  with  F.  P.  Young  &  Co.  for  eight  years. 

THOMAS  W.  IIHAMWV  of  Evart,  Michigan,  was  born 
January  15,  1854,  at  Kingston,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  for  fourteen   years. 

\V.  EAHI.  BRI6G8  of  W.  E.  Briggs  &  Co..  Shelby  vi  lie, 
Michigan,  was  born  July  4,  1S79,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  the  past   twelve   years. 

C.  O.  llliuw  \.  Benton  Harbor,  Michigan,  of  the  Brown 
Ice  &  Coal  Co.  of  St.  Joseph  and  Benton  Harbor,  was  born 
October   26,    1882,    in   Benton    Harbor. 

Fin-: 1 1  A.  BROWN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bellevue,  Mich- 
igan, was  born  in  18fiS  in  Bellevue  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twelve  years. 

OVA  D.  BROWN  of  the  Brown  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  St.  Joseph, 
Michigan,  was  burn  June  13,  1885,  at  Benton  Harbor,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  ten  years. 

W.  M.  BROWN,  senior  member  of  the  Brown  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.,  St.  Joseph  and  Benton  Harbor,  Michigan,  was  born 
June  29,  1858,  at  Mokena,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  ice 
and  coal  business  forty  years.  Mr.  Brown  is  one  of  the  best 
known  retail  coal  merchants  in  Michigan  and  is  a  Director 
of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal  Association,  and  also 
Director  in  the  Michigan  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association. 

JOHN  M.  HINTING,  Owner  and  Manager  City  Coal  Co., 
Grayling,  Michigan,  was  born  August  5,  1861,  at  Fenton, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  BURRS,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Fremont  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co.,  Fremont,  Michigan, 
was  born  December  16,  1873.  in  Muskegon,  Michigan,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Home  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co.,  Alma,  Michigan, 
and  the  Grant  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co.,  Grant,  Michigan. 

L.  W.  BURROUGHS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Cement  City, 
Michigan,  was  born  April  2,  1865,  in  Concord  Township, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

J.  LE1GHTON  in  Ml,  proprietor  of  J.  L.  Bush  &  Co.,  of 
Adrian.  Michigan,  was  born  May  24,  1882,  at  Clinton,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years. 

BBRH  AN  s.  BUURMA, Assistant  Manager  for  S.  H.  Buurma 
of  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  was  born  August  12,  1895,  in  Kala- 
mazoo, and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  seven   years. 

SAMCEL  II.  Ill  IIIIIA,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Kalamazoo, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  the  Netherlands  August  6.  1873,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  eighteen  years. 

EDGAR  R.  CALKINS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Steiner, 
Michigan,  was  born  May  19,  1863,  at  Monroe  City  and 
has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

V.  H.  (  AM'IKI.II,  proprietor  of  the  Capital  Coal  Co.,  Lan- 
sing, Michigan,  was  born  in  Youngstown,  Ohio,  and  has 
been    In    the    coal    business    forty-two    years. 

PHILIP  CATSMAN,  President  of  the  Catsman  Coal  Co., 
Flint.  Michigan,  was  born  in  1879  in  Russia,  and  has  been 
in    the    coal    business    for    eight    years. 

m  I.  mi  A.  CHAPMAN,  Manager  Chapman  Coal  Co.,  Eaton 
Rapids.  Michigan,  was  born  June  19,  1880,  in  Katun  Rapids, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  He  was  for- 
merly  with   the    Fred  C.   Cobb  Co.  at  Charlotte.    Michigan. 

CHARLES  \V.  Ill  APPLE,  General  Manager  C.  W.  Chappie 
&  Co..  Hillsdale,  Michigan,  was  born  April  29,  1S7H,  at 
Litchfield,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seven  years. 

RAYMOND  C.  CHASM.  Secretary  of  Catsman  Coal  Co., 
Flint,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1886,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  seven  years. 

HAN'S  J.  CHRISTIANSEN,  Manager  of  Houle  Bros.  Co., 
Muskegon.  Michigan,  was  born  March  1,  1881,  at  Muskegon, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Christiansen  &  Wenk  until  they  dis- 
solved  partnership,  when   he   formed  his  present  connection. 

CALVIN  D.  CHURCH  of  Church  &  Church,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Itica.  Michigan,  was  born  September  5,  1858, 
in  Shelby  Township,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-three  years. 

CLARENCE  A.  CLARK,  Manager  for  C.  W.  Davis  at 
Gladstone,  Michigan,  was  born  September  1,  1862,  in  West 
Henrietta.  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty  years. 

HARRY  T.  CLARK,  proprietor  Vicksburg  Lumber  Co.. 
Vlcksburg,  Michigan,  was  born  August  1,  1879.  at  Cooper, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  fifteen  years  in  the  lumber  business 
and  four  years  handling  coal. 

LF.WIS  HOLLAND  COOK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Nash- 
ville, Michigan,  was  born  July  3,  1882,  at  Marshall,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  three 
y.ars. 


CHAS.  COOL  of  the  Cool  Bros.  Grain  Co.,  Saline,  Michigan, 
was  born  March  15,  1874,  in  Ionia  County,  Michigan,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  twenty-five  years.  He 
worked  with  his  uncle,  E.  F.  Cool,  at  Clarksville,  Michigan, 
fourteen  years.  In  1907  he  moved  to  Saline  and  has  handled 
coal  continually  since. 

LEWIS  COOL  of  Cool  Bros.  Grain  Co.,  Saline,  Michigan, 
was  born  November  15,  1876,  in  Ionia  County,  Michigan,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  fourteen  years.  He 
was  with  Charles  Cool  at  Clarksville  three  years,  and  has 
been    at    Saline    nearly    eleven    years. 

FLOYD  W.  CORLETT.  President  Corlet  I-Stone  Lumber 
Co.,  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  was  born  October  26,  1878,  at 
Clinton,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years. 

MERYL  G.  CORLETT,  Manager  of  R.  J.  Corlett  &  Sons, 
Pittsford,  Michigan,  was  born  July  11,  1891,  at  Hillsdale, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

ROBERT  C.  CORLETT.  proprietor  of  R.  J.  Corlett  &  Sons 
of  Hillsdale,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Hillsdale  in  1882  and  is 
now  interested  in  nine  retail  coal  yards  in  that  section. 

FRANK  D.  CORNWELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ann 
Arbor,  Michigan,  was  born  January  9.  1874,  in  Ann  Arbor, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal   business  for  over  eleven   years. 

H.  HOIIART  CORWIN.  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Cor- 
win  Lumber  Co.,  Jackson,  Michigan,  was  born  April  22,  1877, 
in  Grass  Lake,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Inter- 
state  Coal   &   Coke   Co. 

I.  S.  CORWIN,  Manager  A.  A.  Corwin  &  Sons,  Pontiac, 
Michigan,  was  born  August  17,  1878,  in  Grass  Lake,  Michi- 
gan,  and    has    been    in    the   coal   business  over  twenty  years. 

R.  A.  COTTRELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Marine  City, 
Michigan,  was  born  September  29.  1851,  in  Marine  City  and 
has  been   in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 

B.  B.  CHAPO  of  the  Crapo  Lumber  Co..  Williamson,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  July  5,  1S64,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  sixteen  years. 

Mi  i  lii  it  G.  CRCICKSHANK,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Port  Huron,  Michigan,  was  born  July  11,  1868,  at  Port 
Huron,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 

WILLIAM  J.  CRIMP  of  the  South  End  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Bay 
City,  Michigan,  was  born  February  12,  1863,  at  Pittsford, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen 
years. 

BUHTON  T.  CCRTIS,  Manager  Curtis  Bros,  of  Reed 
City,  Michigan,  was  born  July  15,  1871,  at  Kalamazoo, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  the 
past    eight    years. 

LORENZO  D.  CCRTIS,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant 
of  Edmore,  Michigan,  was  born  September  21,  1851,  at 
Chatham,  Canada,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years.      He  sold  the  first  bituminous  coal  in  Edmore. 

WILL  CCRTIS,  member  of  the  firm  of  Curtis  Bros.,  retail 
coal  merchants  of  Reed  City,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Elkhart, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty 
years. 

FRANK  R.  CCTTING,  proprietor  of  the  F.  R.  Cutting  Co., 
Lapeer,  Michigan,  was  born  May  22,  1866,  in  Lapeer  County 
and  has  been  in  the  lumber  business  for  twenty-seven  years. 
A  few  years  ago  he  bought  out  the  Wilcox  Lumber  Co.  and 
since   thru    has    been    handling  coal. 

HARRY  L.  DAN  SAND,  President  K.  &  K.  Ice  &  Coal  Co., 
Monroe,  Michigan,  was  born  In  Monroe  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  eight  years.  The  business  was  started  origi- 
nally   by    John    Klecman.    Treasurer   of   the    present   company. 

A.  M.  DARLING,  proprietor  of  the  A.  M.  Darling  Coal  Co., 
Lansing,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Lansing  in  1S64  and  has  been 
in  the  coal   business   for  fourteen  years. 

WILLIAM  P.  DARLING,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Kala- 
mazoo, Michigan,  was  born  in  Kalamazoo  April  26,  1869,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years. 

CHARLBS  VVII.MAM  DAVIS,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Oladstone,  Michigan,  was  born  June  14.  1846,  in  Chicago,  and 
has  been  In   the  coal  business  thirty  years. 

A.  K.  DEAN  is  President  of  the  Central  Supply  Co.,  which 
does  a   retail  coal  business  at  Addison,  Michigan. 

M.  O.  DEWEY,  manufacturer  and  shipper  of  charcoal, 
Jackson,  Michigan,  was  born  August  23.  1878,  in  Concord. 
Michigan,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  fourteen  years. 
He  began  the  business  April  1,  1904,  as  Manager  for  J.  E. 
Bartlett  Co.,  and  April  1,  1905,  bought  that  business  and 
organized  the  M.  O.  Dewey  Co.  On  May  1.  1916,  he  sold  his 
interest  therein  and  with  10.  A.  Smith  organized  the  Dewey- 
Smith  Co.,  of  which  he  was  Treasurer.  On  May  1,  1918, 
he  bought  the  car-lot  coal,  charcoal  and  burlap  sack  lines 
of  the  Dewey-Smith  Co.  and  sold  his  interests  in  that 
company. 

FRED  J.  DILLON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Addison,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  December  29.  1874,  at  Hudson.  Michigan,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years. 


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FRANK  A.  DIMOND.  Manager  of  George  F.  Dimond  Co., 
St.  Johns,  Michigan,  was  born  December  21,  1883,  at  Peck, 
Michigan,   and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  five   years. 

GEO.  A.  DOCKERAY  of  Dockeray  Bros.,  Rockford.  Michi- 
gan, was  born  March  9,  1862,  in  Orleans  County,  New  York, 
and   has   been    in    the   coal   business   for   over   twenty   years. 

R.  HARLOW  DOCKERAY  of  Dockeray  Bros.,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Rockford,  Michigan,  was  born  November  8, 
1854,  in  Orleans  County,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  for   over  twenty  years. 

W.  J.  DODGE,  Manager  W.  J.  Dodge  &  Co.,  Howard  City, 
Michigan,  was  born  July  22,  1866,  at  Saginaw,  Michigan,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

PRANK  C.  DRIESHACH  of  F.  C.  Driesbach  &  Son,  White 
Pigeon,  Michigan,  was  born  November  18,  1863,  in  White 
Pigeon  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty- 
three  years.  His  son  has  been  associated  with  him  six 
years. 

A.  H.  DUDLEY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Jonesville,  Mich- 
igan, was  born  at  Perry,  Michigan,  April  5,  1854,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

MILLARD  DURHAM,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Coopersville, 
Michigan,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  ten 
years. 

WESLEY  E.  DYER,  Manager  of  the  Wiselogel  Co.  at 
Muskegon,  Michigan,  was  born  March  1,  1867,  at  Albion, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
four  years.  He  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Muskegon 
Coal   Dealers'   Credit   Association. 

HENRY  A.  EASTON  of  Consumers  Fuel  Co.,  Petoskey, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1855  in  New  York  City.  He  is  also 
President  of  the  Petoskey  Crystal  Ice  Co.  and  for  forty 
years  has  been   a   prominent   business   man. 

FRANK  H.  EBERTS,  Treasurer  Eberts  Bros.  Co.,  Wyan- 
dotte, Michigan,  was  born  June  13,  1882,  at  Wyandotte, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  H.  A. 
and  W.  L.  Eberts  are  also  associated  with  him.  Harry  A. 
Eberts  was  born  August  21,  1877  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-one  years. 

HEN  EILRER  of  B.  &  S.  Eilber.  1'bly.  Michigan,  was  born 
in  Ontario  in  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-six    years. 

SAMUEL  EILBER  of  B.  &  S.  Eilber,  Ubly,  Michigan,  was 
born  in  Ontario  in  1862,  and  has  been  with  the  present  firm 
for   fourteen   years. 

CARL  D.  EKSTROM,  proprietor  of  The  Ekstrom  Coal 
Co.,  Benton  Harbor,  Michigan,  was  born  October  22,  1871,  in 
Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four 
years.     He  was  formerly  with  the  Madison  Coal  Co. 

CLAYTON  E.  ELI,IS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Shelby,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  July  5.  1869,  in  Norwalk,  Ohio,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

CLAUDE  H,  ESTEE  of  Shepard.  Michigan,  was  born  March 
18,  1879,  in  Shepard,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen   years. 

JONAH  ETHIER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hubbel,  Mich- 
igan, was  born  July  20,  1853,  at  Montreal,  Canada,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

ARTHUR  N.  FANCHER,  General  Sales  Agent  What  Cheer 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Bay  City,  Michigan,  was  born  June  5,  1875, 
at  Parish,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
fifteen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  General  Sales  Agent 
of  the  Wenona  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 

GERTRUDE  RICE  FELLOWS,  Manager  of  the  retail  coal 
and  fueling  business  for  J.  E.  Miller  &  Son,  Port  Huron, 
Michigan,  was  born  April  6,  1872,  in  Detroit,  Michigan. 
Upon  the  retirement  of  J.  E.  Miller  from  the  coal  business 
in  1910  Mr.  Fellows  came  from  Detroit  to  take  over  the 
management  of  the  business  for  the  Millers,  who  all  reside 
in  California.  Upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Fellows,  in  January, 
1916,  Mrs.  Fellows  took  her  husband's  place  as  Manager,  and 
has  proved  to  the  firm  as  well  as  to  the  people  of  Port 
Huron  that  she  is  a  most  capable  business  woman.  She 
enjoys  the  reputation  of  being  the  only  woman  operating  a 
fueling    dock. 

EDWAttD  FINLEY,  owner  of  the  Finley  elevator  and 
retail  coal  yard  at  Hartford,  Michigan,  was  born  May  26. 
1853,  in  Palmyra.  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-nine  years.  When  he  started  a  hundred  tons  of 
anthracite   annually  "would   supply   the  entire   community. 

F.  J.  FLYNN,  Manager  Flynn  &  Neely,  Gladwin,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  April  3,  1879.  at  Livingston.  Michigan,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  two  years. 

JAMES  M.  FORD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Blissfield,  Mich- 
igan, was  born  February  21,  1870,  at  Riga,  Michigan,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

JAMES  FORSYTH,  retail  coal  merchant,  Blissfield,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  January  16.  1869.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty  years. 


CHARLES  M.  FOSTER,  Manager  Foster  Coal  Co.,  Utica, 
Michigan,;  was.  born  May  29,  1870,  in  New  York  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  :business  four  years.  He  succeeds  his 
father-in-law,  W.  H.  Marvin,  who  formerly  conducted .  the 
business. 

J.  FRITCHEY,  Secretary  and  Manager  Cass  City  Grain 
Co.,  Cass  City,  Michigan,  was  born  September  27,  1874,  at 
Portland,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  fifteen  years.  His  company  handles  coal  in  seven  Mich- 
igan towns. 
f  HENRY  P.  GAUKLER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Pontiac, 
Michigan,  was  born  April  3,  1871,  in  Halfway,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  Mr. 
Gaukler  has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indi- 
ana Coal  Association  and  is  well  known  in   the  trade. 

JAMES  A.  GIBBS,  senior  member  of  Gibbs  &  Sanders, 
Albion,  Michigan,  was  born  September  24,  1859,  in  Ottawa 
County,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  Prior  to  organizing  his  present  company 
he  was  connected  with  F.   E.  Steele  of  Albion,   Michigan. 

ALLEN  A.  GILBERT  recently  started  in  the  coal  business 
at  Coidwater.  Michigan.  He  was  born  May  30.  1856,  at 
Burlington,    Michigan. 

W.  IRVING  GILSON,  Manager  East  Lansing  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.,  East  Lansing,  Michigan,  was  born  February  27, 
1888,  in  Deerfield,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  the   past   two   years. 

FRED  J.  GREMEL  of  Grassman  &  Gremel,  Sebewaing, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  Sebewaing  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  six  years. 

MELVIN  GRIFFITH,  Manager  M.  Griffith  &  Son  of  Cli- 
max, Michigan,  was  born  July  7,  1867,  at  Springport,  Mich- 
igan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

WARREN  GRIFFITH,  Assistant  Manager  of  M.  Griffith  & 
Son  of  Climax,  Michigan,  was  born  December  30,  1890,  at 
Springport,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years. 

R.  H.  GRILLEY,  Manager  Grant  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co.  of 
Grant.  Michigan,  was  born  July  20,  1868.  in  Barry  County, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen 
years.  His  assistants  are  his  two  sons,  Emory  and 
Floyd,  who  were  born  in  Fremont,  Michigan,  June  11,  1894, 
and  January  8,   1896,  respectively. 

G.  W.  GUST,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Morenci,  Michigan, 
was  born  April  17,  1859,  in  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
business   fifteen    years. 

ELMER  W.  HAMMOND  of  the  Crapo  Lumber  Co.,  William- 
son, Michigan,  was  born  November  8,  1874,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  for   sixteen   years. 

JOHN  M.  HAMMOND,  proprietor  of  the  Flint  Coal  Co., 
Flint,  Michigan,  was  born  January  26,  1867,  in  Big  Flats, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  at  Flint  fifteen 
years.  Previous  to  going  to  Flint  he  was  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  lumber  business  at  Bay  City.  Michigan,  and  at 
the  same  time  organized  the  Flint  Lumber  Co.  of  Flint,  J. 
M.  Hammond  &  Co.  of  Clinton,  and  the  Lenawae  Lumber  Co. 
of  Tecumseh,   all   in   Michigan. 

LOUIS  W.  HAHMAN  of  Harman  Bros  ,  Onaway,  Michigan, 
was  born  in  Manhattan,  Kansas,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  five  years. 

AUSTIN  HARRINGTON,  well-known  retail  coal  merchant 
of  Holland,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Holland  August  11,  1863, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years,  and  is  one  of 
the  substantial  merchants  in  that  territory.  His  son,  Harry 
Harrington,  has  been  in  charge  of  the  office  for  the  past 
ten  years.      He  was  born  May  28,  1890. 

CHARLES  VICTOR  HARRIS,  President  Harris  Lumber 
&  Coal  Co.  of  Ovid,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1871  at  Mattoon, 
Illinois,   and  has  been   in   the   coal  business   for  ten  years. 

C.  H.  HECK  of  C.  H.  Heck  &  Son,  retail  coal  merchants  of 
Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  was  born  November  21,  1861,  at  South 
Bend,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over 
thirteen  years.  W.  S.  Heck  has  also  been  associated  with 
this  firm  for  the  past  ten  years. 

A.  HEINKELMANN,  President  Marine  City  Lumber  &  Coal 
Co.,  Marine  City,  Michigan,  was  born  October  6,  1862,  in 
Marine  City,  and  was  associated  with  M.  Sichen  in  the  lum- 
ber and  coal  business  from  1879  to  1913,  when  he  bought  the 
interest  of  the  Sichen  estate  and  organized  his  present 
company. 

JOHN  C.  HICKS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  St.  Johns.  Michi- 
gan, was  born  April  6,  1869,  in  St.  Johns  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  twenty-five  years. 

ALEXANDER  H.  HILLER,  Manager  of  Home  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.,  Buchanan,  Michigan,  was  born  January  26.  1861, 
in  Hudson,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  two 
years.  Previous  to  1916  he  was  for  twenty-four  years  in 
the  United   States  Government  service   at   Washington,   D.   C. 


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i:i>\\  Mill  l>.  BltOOCK  of  K  I).  Hlsoock  A  Son,  well- 
known  retail  coal  merchants  of  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  was 
born  November  19,  1856,  at  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-four  years.  This  busl- 
mm   was  started   by   his   father  and   Mr,    Hiscock   has  now 

taken    his    son    in    partnership    with    him. 

H.  II.  HOAULGV,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Eau  Cla're, 
Michigan,  was  born  September  3,  1872,  in  Ohio,  and  has 
been   in   the  coal    business   for  fifteen   years. 

I-.  \\.  HOW  \lll>.  Treasurer  Belding  Coal  &  lee  Co.  of 
Belding.  Michigan,  was  born  November  26,  1852,  at  Windsor, 
Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six 
years. 

■1  M\KR  K.  HOWE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ypsilanti, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1859  in  Shiawassee  County,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years.  Two 
years  ago  he  bought  out  the  interest  of  the  Ypsilanti  Coal 
Co. 

CLAUD  H.  JACKSON,  proprietor  C.  H.  Jackson  Coal  Co., 
Jackson,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Jackson  December  16,  1888, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

GEOKGK  WILLIAM  JAMIESON,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Wayne,  Michigan,  was  born  June  4,  1863,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years. 

JOSEPH  LEON  .IKI.I. IS.  Manager  of  J.  Jellis  &  Co.,  Flint, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1882  in  Flint  and  has  been  in  the 
retail   coal   business   for  four  years. 

WILLIAM  A.  JONES,  Superintendent  Banner  Coal  Co., 
Saginaw.  Michigan,  was  born  in  Wales  in  1846  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  sixty  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  and  the  Robert  Gage  Coal  Co. 

Ill:  MM  A.  KEIN,  General  Manager  New  Haven  Lumber 
&  Coal  Co.,  New  Haven,  Michigan,  was  born  March  2,  1876, 
in  Hoseville,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   fourteen    years. 

ALEX.  P.  KEMP,  Managing  Partner  Kemp  Bros.  Coal 
Co.,  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Sault  Ste. 
Marie  May  12,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
George  Kemp  Coal  Co. 

BARBIE  B.  KENYON  of  the  Kenyon  Coal  Co.,  Algonac. 
Michigan,  was  born  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  in  1883,  and  has 
been   in   the  coal   business  for  the  last  three  years. 

KL.MF.H  H.  K1XYOX,  retail  coal,  merchant  of  Quincy, 
Michigan,  was  born  February  9,  1844,  at  Syracuse,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five 
years. 

W.  J.  KIHKPATHIC'K,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Battle  Creek.  Michigan,  was  born  in  Battle  Creek  October 
11,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years. 

JAMKS  A.  KITTS  of  McMillen  &  Kitts  at  Mt.  Pleasant, 
Michigan,  was  born  January  3,  1894,  at  Seymour,  Indiana, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  two  years, 
succeeding   his   father,   who   retired    recently. 

WILLIAM  A.  KXAPP,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bay  City, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1867  in  Bay  City  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the 
Central  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Robt.  Gage  Coal  Co.,  Black  Dia- 
mond Coal  Co.,  Benton  Coal  Co.  and  Michigan  Coal  Co. 

GBOBGB  LlMHEHT,  Manager  of  Lambert  &  Co.,  Lawton, 
Michigan,  was  born  In  England  in  1857,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   for   the   last   three   years. 

J.  N'KAL  LA  Molt  KA  I  X,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Comstock 
Park.  Michigan,  was  born  May  3.  1889,  in  Comstock  Park, 
and   has   been    in    the  coal  business   for  four  years. 

CHARLES  W.  LAPP,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Richmond, 
Michigan,  was  born  June  21,  1863,  in  Canada,  and  has  been 
in   the  coal   business   for   the   last   two   years. 

LLOYD  R.  LAWRBNCB,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Vlcks- 
burg,  Michigan,  was  born  February  1,  1878,  at  Battle  Creek, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve 
years. 

CLYDE  L.  LAWSON,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Lawson 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Royal  Oak.  Michigan,  was  born  in  1  ss:> 
in  Clawson,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the  past  ten  years. 

KM  II.  I.KK,  owner  of  Emil  Lee  &  Co.,  Laingsburg,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  in  Sclota  Township  March  22,  1882,  and  has 
been   in   the  coal    business  eight   years. 

FRANK  H.  I.KSSKI.YONG,  President  Lesselyong  Hard- 
ware Co..  Ironwood,  Michigan,  was  born  June  5,  1863,  at 
Appletoa,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years.  John  A.  Kennedy  Is  Vice  President  and  Ed- 
ward I".  I.esselyong  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany. 

Ml<  IIAKI.  I'KTKII  LBMBLTOHCfa  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Ishpeming,  Michigan,  was  born  February  18,  1874,  at  Escan- 
aba,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1898. 


ELLSWORTH  B.  LONG.  Manager  Long,  Cobb  &  Co., 
Olivet,  Michigan,  was  born  December  22,  1861,  at  Eaton 
Rapids,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven   years. 

<;.  W.  LUCE,  Manager  G.  W.  Luce  &  Co.,  Sturgis,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  July  6,  1867.  at  Waterloo,  Indiana,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  six  years.  Before  that 
he   traveled  for   the   Elmer   Miller  Coal  Co.  for   four  years. 

JOHN  C.  MANN,  a  Director  of  the  Peoples  Fuel  Co.,  Hough- 
ton. Michigan,  was  born  September  11,  1868,  at  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

CLARENCE  D.  MANSFIELD,  Manager  D.  Mansfield  & 
Co.,  Remus,  Michigan,  was  born  April  23.  1864,  in  Genesee 
County,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over 
twenty  years. 

ROY'  E.  MATT,  proprietor  of  the  Cheboygan  Coal  &  Dock 
Co.,  Cheboygan,  Michigan,  was  born  December  15,  1878,  at 
Forester,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  McArthur  Dock 
in   his   city. 

AUGUST  G.  MATTHES,  Manager  of  Matthes  Bros.,  retail 
coal  merchants  of  Adrian.  Michigan,  was  born  October  10. 
1869,  in  Adrian  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years. 

LOUIS  C.  McDOl  «.  \l.  of  McDougal  &  Young  of  Albion, 
Michigan,  was  born  July  31,  1874,  at  Litchfield,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years  for  him- 
self, and  previous  to  that  was  with  G.  W.  Perkins  for  seven 
years. 

LEWIS  MrGEORGE  of  E.  A.  McGeorge  &  Son,  Gladwin, 
Michigan,  was  born  September  26,  1890,  in  Cass  City,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  West  Branch  Grain  Co.  and  was  for- 
merly connected   with   the   Cass  City  Grain  Co. 

GLAUDE  J.  MoKAHN  of  the  McKahn  Fuel  &  Ice  Co., 
Northville,  Michigan,  was  born  June  4,  1881,  at  Highland, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three 
years. 

FRED  B.  MoKAY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lowell,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  October  24,  1868,  at  Grand  Rapids,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  six  years. 

ERVIN  E.  McMILLEN  of  McMillen  &  Kitts.  Mt.  Pleas- 
ant, Michigan,  was  born  July  15,  1884,  and  has  been  in 
the    coal   business   for    twelve    years. 

JOHN  MEAGHER  of  the  Meagher  Coal  Co.,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Lansing,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Lansing 
in  1869  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years. 

NICHOLAS  S.  MEYERS,  General  Sales  Agent  of  the  Cen- 
tral West  Coal  Co.,  Menominee.  Michigan,  was  born  August 
5,  1883,  in  Marinette,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  five  years.  E.  P.  Smith  is  President  and  H.  J.  Gram 
is    Secretary    and    Treasurer    of   the    company. 

HERBERT  A.  MILLARD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hersey, 
Michigan,  was  born  April  8,  1868,  at  Hillsdale,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

CLARENCE  L.  MILLER,  President  Miller.  Ryder  &  Win- 
terburn  Co.,  Kalamazoo.  Michigan,  was  born  March  31.  1876, 
at  Kalamazoo,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
one  years. 

MASON  S.  MILLER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Miller,  Ryder 
&  Winterburn  Co.,  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  was  born  June  9, 
1SSS,  in  Kalamazoo  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  five  years.  His  father.  Conrad  Miller,  founded  the  busi- 
ness thirty-four  years  ago,  but  is  now  retired  and  living  in 
California. 

JOHN  H.  MOBKE,  Manager  G.  Moeke  &  Sons,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Zeeland,  Michigan,  was  born  December  25, 
1880,  in  Zeeland  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five 
years  He  has  served  as  Chairman  of  the  Zeeland  Coal 
Dealers  Association. 

FRANK  w.  MOORE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lansing, 
Michigan,  was  born  September  9.  1861,  in  Chester,  Massachu- 
setts, and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  since  1879,  a 
total   of   thirty-nine  years. 

F.  R.  MORTON,  proprietor  of  the  F.  R.  Morton  Coal  Co., 
Colon,  Michigan,  was  horn  in  1859  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  C.   E.   Kaird  Coal  Co. 

FRANK  L.  MIKHI. i:\IIKCK.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Sagi- 
naw, Michigan,  was  born  October  30,  1868,  in  Germany  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  fur  twelve  years.  He  served 
as  President  of  the  Saginaw  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Associa- 
tion. 

JOHN  w.  MIMA,  retailer  of  Union  City,  Michigan,  was 
horn  December  9,  1847,  in  Wales  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  nine  years. 

i:igi:ni:  1>.  RASH,  .Manager  W.  A.  Nash  &  Son,  Bravo, 
Michigan,  was  born  August  25,  1888,  at  Bassett,  Nebraska, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 


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WILSON  NEELY  of  Neely  Bros.,  Brooklyn,  Michigan, 
was  born  in  1860  in  Brooklyn  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  eight  years.  The  Arm  is  composed  of  Wilson  Neely 
and  Frank  Neely,  and  they  handle  both  coal  and  lumber. 

WILLIAM  F.  \  i  mm  lit.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Big  Rap- 
ids, Michigan,  was  born  in  Germany,  May  14,  1874,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

HUGH  NESBITT,  who  handles  coal  at  retail  at  Baraga, 
Michigan,  was  born  May  8,  1859,  in  Canada. 

ADDISON  D.  NEWMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Stanton, 
Michigan,  was  born  December  4,  1872,  in  Mecosta  County, 
and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

ASA  NEWMAN,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Portland,  Michigan,  was  born  August  18,  1852,  in  Portland 
and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years. 

ALFRED  E.  NIEDERMEIN,  Manager  of  H.  Niedermein 
&  Sons  of  Newport,  Michigan,  was  born  August  2,  1878,  in 
Newport  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last 
fifteen   years. 

JACOB  NIFFENEGGER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  South 
Haven,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Switzerland,  June  7,  1865, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years. 

JOHN  F.  NOUD,  General  Manager  John  F.  Noud  Co.,  South 
Haven,  Michigan,  was  born  September  29,  1876,  at  Manistee. 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  fifteen 
years.  Mr.  Noud  is  well  known  in  the  coal  trade  and  is  also 
Treasurer   of   the   Frieze   Fork   Coal   Mining   Co. 

WALLACE  OBETS  of  the  Belmont  Mills  &  Elevator  Co., 
Belmont,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1887  in  Belmont  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

P.  J.  O'BRIEN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Rochester,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  January  17,  1875,  in  Oakland  County,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years. 

G.  EARL  O'DELL,  Manager  Elkton  Elevator  Co.,  Elkton, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1881  in  Canada,  and  has  been'  in  the 
coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 

MILLARD  D.  OLDS,  owner  of  the  McArthur  Dock,  Cheboy- 
gan, Michigan,  was  born  March  10,  1860,  in  Hartford,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  ten  years. 

JOHN  C.  OTTO,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Zilwaukee,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  August  19,  1863.  in  Zilwaukee  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Otto  also  has 
a  yard  at  Carrollton,  Michigan. 

MARVIN  J.  PARDEE  of  M.  J.  Pardee  Bros.,  Clinton. 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1877  in  Livingston  County,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  He 
also  has  a   branch   yard   at  Bridgewater,   Michigan. 

HARRIE  R.  PARISH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Allen,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  March  2.  1870,  in  Allen,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

WILLIAM  D.  PARKER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  New 
Baltimore,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1869  at  Chesterfield, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last 
ten  years. 

H.  PAULSEN,  Manager  Iron  County  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co., 
Crystal  Falls,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Denmark  March  19, 
1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 

CHARLES  GAGE  PEER,  well-known  retail  coal  merchant 
of  Flint,  Michigan,  was  born  March  14,  1868,  in  Genesee 
County,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years. 

HOWARD  W.  PERRY,  Vice  President  and  Manager  D.  W. 
Hamilton  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Saugatuck,  Michigan,  was  born 
January  13,  1882,  in  Saugatuck  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
and  lumber  business  for  seven  years.  T.  B.  Dates  is  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer  of  the  company. 

J.  L.  PETERS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Colon,  Michigan, 
was  born  in  Colon  December  7,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  seven  years. 

JOHN  VAN  POPPELEN,  Manager  of  Van  Poppelen  &  Mun- 
ley  of  Bay  City,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1869  in  the  Nether- 
lands, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  President  of  the  Bay  City  Coal  Exchange. 

L.  E.  PUGH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Armada.  Michigan, 
was  born  March  22,  1878,  at  Toledo,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Saline  Lumber  Co.,  Crete,  Nebraska,  for  a  number 
of  years  and  previous  to  that  was  in  the  banking  business. 

ERNEST  A.  REMER,  prominent  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Cedar  Springs,  Michigan,  was  born  February  23,  1861,  in 
Yates  County,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Remer  has  also  served  as  a  Di- 
rector  of   the   Michigan-Ohio-Indiana   Coal   Association. 

SYDNEY  H.  REYNOLDS,  President  Dundee  Mercantile 
Co..  Dundee,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1863  at  Dundee  and  has 
been   in   the  coal   business  for   the   past  five  years. 


OTTO  F.  RICHTER,  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  Sagi- 
naw Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Saginaw,  Michigan,  was  born  November 
24,  1863,  in  Saginaw  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over 
twenty-six  years.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Sagi- 
naw Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association.  George  B.  Nobel  is 
President  of  the  company,  Jos.  W.  Needham  Vice  President, 
and  James  H.  Malcolm  Secretary,  all  equal  owners. 

JOHN  A.  RIPSLINGER  of  Ripslinger  Bros.,  Saginaw, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  Saginaw,  July  31,  1874,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  over  twenty  years. 

MARTIN  RIPSLINGER  of  Ripslinger  Bros.,  Saginaw, 
Michigan,  was  born  February  11,  1872,  in  Mt.  Clemens,  Michi- 
gan, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over  twenty  years. 

JOHN  ROACH,  Manager  Drinan,  Roach  &  Co.  of  Mus- 
kegon, Michigan,  was  born  December  9,  1881,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected  with   Otto   Langkaw"el. 

NATHANIEL  ROBBINS,  well-known  retail  coal  merchant 
of  Grand  Haven,  Michigan,  has  been  in  the  coal  and  build- 
ing material  business  for  thirty-four  years.  He  was  born 
in  Benton  Harbor. 

H.  D.  ROBERTS,  Manager  of  H.  D.  Roberts  &  Co., 
Galion,  Michigan,  was  born  January  23,  1867,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

WM.  H.  L.  ROHDE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ann  Arbor, 
Michigan,  was  born  January  30,  1872,  in  Ann  Arbor,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  since  May  1,  1906.  The  business 
was  established  by  his  father,  Louis  Rohde,  in  1878. 

LOUIS  E.  SCHNORBACH,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Otto 
Langkawel  &  Co.,  Muskegon,  Michigan,  was  born  April  25. 
1879,  at  Muskegon  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
last  three  years. 

HENRY  W.  SCHWANNECKE,  proprietor  of  the  Genesee 
Coal  Co.,  Saginaw,  Michigan,  was  born  June  7,  1880,  in 
Saginaw  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years. 
He  has  served  as  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Saginaw 
Coal  Dealers  Exchange  Mr.  Schwannecke  operates  three 
retail  yards  and   does  a   large  business. 

W.  H.  SEEDORFF,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Battle  Creek, 
Michigan,  was  born  April  5,  1874,  at  Kalamazoo,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  Be- 
fore going  into  the  business  for  himself  he  was  associated 
with  F.  A.  Ward  and  W.  A.  Wattles. 

EDGAR  MoMARTIN  SERGEANT,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1877  in  Kalamazoo  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  has  served 
as  President  of  Kalamazoo  Carbon  Club. 

W.  H.  SHELDON,  proprietor  of  Sheldon  Bros.,  Climax. 
Michigan,  was  born  in  Climax  in  1860  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  over  thirty  years,  having  erected  the  first 
coal  sheds  in  Climax. 

WILLIAM  SIMPSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Saginaw, 
Michigan,  was  born  September  26,  1866,  in  Saginaw  and  has 
been   in  the  coal   business   fifteen   years. 

EARLE  BERRIDGE  SLAWSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Greenville,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Greenville  June  17,  1875, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

W.  J.  SLOSS  of  W.  J.  Sloss  &  Son,  Big  Rapids,  Michigan, 
was  born  in  1856  at  Dearborn,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years.  R.  W.  Sloss  is  his 
partner. 

ISAAC  M.  SMITH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Marcellus, 
Michigan,  was  born  March  5,  1852,  near  Beaver  Springs, 
Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
five  years. 

PERLEY  M.  SMITH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Alma,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  in  1850  in  Massachusetts  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  over  thirty  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  SMITH,  proprietor  of  the  Constantine  Lum- 
ber Co.,  Constantine.  Michigan,  was  born  October  5,  1864,  at 
Milton,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  business  ten  years. 

CLAUDE  R.  SPARKS!  Manager  C.  R.  Sparks  &  Co.  of 
Berrien  Springs,  Michigan,  was  born  January  27,  1875,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

F.  B.  SPEAR,  senior  member  of  F.  B.  Spear  &  Sons,  Mar- 
quette, Michigan,  was  born  September  16,  1842,  in  Hamilton, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifty-four 
years.  Mr.  Spear  has  the  distinction  of  having  brought 
the  first  anthracite,  the  first  cargo  of  Pittsburgh  coal,  and 
the  first  cargo  of  Pocahontas  coal  to  Marquette  county. 

FRED  G.  STEGGALL  of  the  City  Fuel  &  Supply  Co., 
Bay  City,  Michigan,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
four  years,  and  previous  to  that  spent  sixteen  years  with 
the  Wenona  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 

FRANK  A.  STEVENSON,  prominent  retail  coal  merchant 
of  Adrian,  Michigan,  was  born  April  12,  1852,  in  Jordan,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years. 


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WILLIAM  c.  STKHMXG,  senior  member  of  W.  C.  Ster- 
ling: &  Sons.  Monroe,  Michigan,  was  born  September  7, 
184S,  in  Monroe,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty- 
nine  years.  This  tlrtn  is  the  oldest  coal  concern  in  Michi- 
gan, having-  been  started  l>y  J,  M.  Sterling-  in  1847,  seventy- 
one  years  ago.  Mr.  Sterling  was  interested  in  the  first 
Mlling  vessel  plying  between  Monroe  and  Buffalo.  He 
assisted  in  building  the  first  railroad  in  Michigan  between 
Monroe  and  Adrian  and  owned  the  first  grain  elevator  In 
the  state.  There  have  been  four  generations  of  the  Sterling 
family  connected  with  the  business.  W.  C.  Sterling,  senior, 
Joined  his  father  In  1867;  W.  C.  Sterling.  Jr.,  joined  his 
father  In  1892.  and  Joe  C.  Sterling,  II.,  has  been  with  the 
firm   during  the  past   year. 

H.  MARVIN  STONE,  Secretary-Treasurer  Corlett-Stone 
Lumber  Co.,  Three  Rivers,  Michigan,  was  born  September 
11,  1878,  in  Milford,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coa! 
business  nine   years. 

C.  E.  STl  ART,  Manager  of  Swartzmiller  &  Stuart  of 
Chesaning*,  Michigan,  was  born  July  2,  1864.  in  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  ten  years. 

UII.I.IAM  F.  SIMMKHHILL  of  the  W.  F.  Summerrill  Coal 
Co.,  Benton  Harbor,  Michigan,  was  born  September  17,  1861, 
in  Kosciusko  County.  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  four  years. 

RICHARD  C.  si  PERN  \\\,  General  Manager  Supernaw 
Produce  &  Fuel  Co..  Fast  Jordan,  Michigan,  was  born 
April  16,  1877,  in  Ellingburg,  New  York,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal   business  for  six  years. 

JAMES  O.  TAFT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Howell,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  April  2,  1860,  in  Oceola,  Livingston  County, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirty- 
six   years. 

WILLIAM  P.  THOMPSON,  retail  coal  and  lumber  merchant 
of  Augusta,  Michigan,  was  born  December  26,  1859,  in  New 
York  State,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years. 

!•:.  J.  TOUSIGNAT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ontonagon. 
Michigan,  was  born  November  14,  1885,  in  Canada,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  M.  Van  Orden  Co.  of  Houghton,  Michigan. 

FREDERICK  C.  TRAGER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lan- 
sing, Michigan,  was  born  April '21,  1872.  at  Bristol.  Indiana, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

JOHN  BARTON  TROWBRIDGE,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Frankfort.  Michigan,  was  born  December  14,  1865,  at  Ev- 
ansville,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen   years. 

WILLIAM  J.  TUNSTEAD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ox- 
ford. Michigan,  was  born  March  17,  1840,  at  Brantford,  On- 
tario, and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty- 
eight  years. 

GEORGE  R.  TURNER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Sturgls, 
Michigan,  was  born  June  29.  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eight  years  as  successor  to  Joseph  R.  Cook,  de- 
ceased. 

JAMES  ROBINSON  TURNER,  Sales  Manager  Reliance- 
Jellico  Coal  Sales  Agency  at  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  with  a 
branch  office  at  Wcllston.  Ohio,  was  born  February  20,  1858, 
in  Boone  County,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-three  years.  Mr.  Turner  is  a  Director  and 
stockholder  In   the  Vinton  Mining  Co..  McArthur,  Ohio. 

EZRA  R.  TYLER,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Saugatuck.  Michigan,  was  born  In  1842  in  Rochester,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty- 
one  years. 

LEWIS  C.  UPSON,  President  Beldlng  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Beld- 
Ing,  Michigan,  was  born  April  11.  1869,  at  Otsego,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

C.  W.  UPTON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Rochester,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  August  4.  1862,  at  Utica,  Michigan,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business   for  the  past   twelve  years. 

•  .Mi  miii  s  YANDKLAARH  of  the  Kalamazoo  Ice  &  Fuel 
Co.,  KAlIling  goo.  Michigan,  was  bom  January  -■:..  lssii, 
ami  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was 
with  his  father  before  selling  out  to  the  present  company. 

\IGISTIS     II.     \l\      in:     M\ltK.     Manager     A.      1!.     Van 

DeMark  &  Co.,  Clinton,  Michigan,  was  born  March  ->-.  1841, 

in    Phelps,    New     York,    ami    lias    snlil    and    handled    coal    for 
forty-seven  years.    He  sold  the  (Irst  anthracite  that   was  . 
shipped  Into  his  city  for  domestic  use. 

FRANK     L.     VAN     OHIH.V     Vice    President    and    General 

Lger    The    M.    Van    orden    Co..     Houghton,    Michigan,    for 

eighteen    years    followed     mining    engineering    and    for    the 

last  three  years  has  been  actively  engaged   In   looking  after 

his   father's  company. 

>i\tiii<:\\    \  w  okdkv  Praaidanl  The  m.  Van  Ordtn  Co., 

Houghton.  Michigan,  was  born  October  It,  1846,  In  New  York 
City,  and  has  been  aetively  engaged  in  the  roil  and  building 
supply  business  for  more  than  forty-five  years. 


RICHARD  VINCENT,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  The  Peo- 
ples Fuel  Co.,  Calumet,  Michigan,  was  born  June  5,  1872,  at 
Hancock,  Michigan,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
over   twenty-two    years. 

HARRY  G.  WARD,  President  Ward  Lumber  &  Coal  Co., 
Big  Rapids,  Michigan,  was  born  August  30,  1860,  at  Holland 
Patent,  New  York,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years.  H.  J.  Ward  is  Vice  President  and  F.  M.  Ward 
Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

LOUIS  I>.  WALLACE,  President  and  Manager  John  Wal- 
lace Sons  Co.,  St.  Joseph,  Michigan,  was  born  in  1864  at 
Chicago  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty 
years. 

ALBERT  M.  WATSON,  Manager  of  Huckleberry  &  Watson, 
Cadillac,  Michigan,  was  born  January  13,  1883,  at  Spring 
Lake,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve 
years.  The  firm  is  composed  of  Edwin  Watson  and  Albert 
M.  Watson. 

LEE  WATSON.  Secretary  and  Manager  of  Crawford  & 
Co.,  coal  merchants  of  Breckenridge,  Michigan,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eighteen   years, 

JOHN  NELSON  WEAVER,  senior  member  of  Weaver  & 
Watkins.  Milford,  Michigan,  was  born  April  4,  1844,  at 
Green  Oak,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-one  years.  This  firm  has  continued  without  a 
change   for  forty  years. 

L.  J.  WEBER,  Manager  Corlett-Stone  Lumber  Co..  Cen- 
terville,  Michigan,  was  born  October  21,  1883,  in  St.  Joseph 
County,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
past  two  years. 

NORMAN  W.  WELLS  of  the  Consumers  Fuel  Co.,  Petos- 
key,  Michigan,  was  born  October  23,  1882,  at  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years. 
He  is  also  Manager  of  the  Petoskey  &  Bay  Shore  Gas  Co. 

E.  ARTHUR  WESTON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Traverse 
City,  Michigan,  was  born  June  10.  1870,  at  Jefferson  County, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

JAS.  A.  WHITE  of  the  City  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.,  Bay  City, 
Michigan,  was  born  January  30.  1883,  at  Detroit,  Michigan, 
and    has    been    in    the    coal    business    for    eight    years 

H.  W.  \\  mini  II. id.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Charlevoix, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1859  in  Ontario.  Canada,  and  has 
been  in   the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

R.  M.  WIEGANDT,  proprietor  of  West  Side  Fuel  Co., 
Lansing,  Michigan,  was  born  December  23,  1879,  at  Rogers 
City,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two 
years. 

ARTHUR  S.  WILLIAMS,  Manager  A.  S.  Williams  &  Co., 
Bay  City,  Michigan,  was  born  July  13.  1880.  at  Bay  City,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  has 
served  as  President  of  the  Bay  City  Coal  Exchange  for  two 
years. 

FREDERICK  I.  WILLIAMS,  Manager  F.  I.  Williams  & 
Son,  North  Adams,  Michigan,  was  born  July  21.  1866,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  Howard  A. 
Williams  is  junior  member  of  the  firm,  having  been  born 
February  20,   1893. 

DANIEL  T.  WILSON,  Manager  of  D.  T.  Wilson  Fuel,  Feed 
&  Seed  Co..  Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  was  born  April  22,  1862, 
in  Greenville,  Michigan,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
seven   years. 

SAMUEL  M.  VVINNE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Petoskey, 
Michigan,  was  born  in  1854  In  Otsego,  New  York,  and  has 
been    in    business    twenty    years. 

ALBERT  F.  WOODIIAMS.  President  Wondhams  Toland 
Co.,  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  was  born  June  28,  1848,  in  Kala- 
mazoo and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1 S92  with 
the  exception  of  six  years.  He  has  served  as  Vice  President 
of  the  Michigan  Retail  Coal  Dealers-  Association  and  has 
also  been  President  of  the  Kalamazoo  Carbon  Club. 

w  11.1,1  \M  H.  WITIIWELL.  President  The  Sunfield  Lumber 
Co..  Sitnlielcl.  Michigan,  was  born  January  23,  1X57,  in  Roch- 
ester, New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

EMERSON  SCOTT  WOODS,  Manager  H.  J.  Woods  & 
Sons.  Plymouth,  Michigan,  was  born  June  9-,  1888,  at  Pinne- 
bog,  Michigan,  and  has   been    in   the  eoal   business  five   years. 

D.  L.  WOIITIIINGTON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Mendon, 
Michigan,  was  born  May  16.  1859,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal    business    for    ten    years. 

A.  E.  )oi\(i,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ravenna,  Michigan, 
was  bom  March  31,  1SX6,  in  Ravenna,  and  lias  been  in  the 
coal   business   for   the   past   ten   years. 

V.  F.  YOI  VGS.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Jackson,  Michigan, 
was  born  In  1S56  in  Hillsdale  County,  Michigan,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

H.  P.  ZWEMER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Holland,  Michi- 
gan, was  born  at  Saugatuck  December  14,  1874,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  has  served 
as   President   of   the   Coal   Association   of   Holland. 


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MINNESOTA 


ALTHOUGH  Minnesota  produces  no  coal  within 
its  borders  its  geographic  position  as  the  gate- 
way to  the  great  Northwest  and  its  rich  iron  ore 
deposits — the  utilization  of  which  are,  as  a  practical 
economic  proposition,  so  closely  interwoven  with  and 
dependent  upon  the  movement  of  coal  to  the  Head  of 
the  Lakes — give  it  an  importance  that  robs  its  modest 
per  capita  and  square  mile  consumption  statistics  of 
much  of  their  significance.  Stretching  to  the  north,  the 
west  and,  to  a  considerable  extent,  to  the  south  is  a 
broad  area,  largely  agricultural,  but  dotted  with  well- 
known  towns  and  cities,  where  the  climatic  conditions 
throughout  the  winter  and  during  the  spring  and  fall 
demand  a  heavy  consumption  of  fuel  for  household  com- 
fort. To  a  large  degree  this  necessity  in  normal  times 
is  supplied  by  coal  from  the  Pennsylvania  anthracite 
and  eastern  bituminous  fields  and  by  far  the  major  por- 
tion of  this  tonnage  is  ex-lake,  flowing  through  the 
magnificent  docks  at  Duluth,  Minnesota,  and  Superior, 
Wisconsin.  The  vessels  that  bring  this  tonnage  up  the 
lakes  from  the  lower  Lake  Erie  ports  receive  return 
loadings  of  ore  and  grain. 

If  state  lines  may  be  overlooked  and  Superior  con- 
sidered, as  it  is  in  actual  commercial  practice,  a  part 
of  Minnesota,  the  docks  at  the  Twin  Ports  offer  the 
coal  shipper  in  the  East  a  combined  storage  capacity  of 
approximately  11,000,000  tons.  Figures  published  in 
"The  Eetail  Coalman"  in  March,  1918,  showed  that 
the  principal  docks  at  Duluth  had  an  aggregate  storage 
capacity  sufficient  to  take  care  of  330,000  tons  of  an- 
thracite and  4,239,000  tons  of  bituminous  .coal,  and 
that  the  aggregate  storage  capacity  of  the  Superior 
docks  was  767,000  tons  of  anthracite  and  5,502,000  tons 
of  bituminous  coal.  Government  statistics  for  1915,  1916 
and  1917  show  the  following  receipts  during  the  season 
of  navigation;  1915 — anthracite,  1,687,726  tons;  bitum- 
inous coal,  6,656,237  tons;  1916— anthracite,  1,413,713 
tons;   bituminous  coal,  8,171,524  tons;   1917 — anthra- 


cite, 1,823,799  tons;  bituminous  coal,  9,238,784  tons. 
During  the  same  period  the  combined  anthracite  and 
bituminous  shipments  from  Duluth  and  Superior  to 
interior  points  were  as  follows:  1915,  251,842  car- 
loads: 1916,  312,845  carloads;  1917,  267,067  carloads. 
While  chief  reliance  is  placed  upon  the  movement  of 
ex-lake,  fuel  from  the  East  it  is  not  to  he  inferred  that 
the  Northwest  is  blind  to  the  coal-producing  states  lying 
nearer  home.  The  contrary  is  true.  Minnesota  has 
drawn  heavily  upon  Illinois  and  Indiana — and  particu- 
larly the  former  state — for  fuel,  and  Minnesota  business 
has  been  sought  with  eagerness  by  operators  in  the 
states  named.  The  Twin  Cities  industrial  district  in 
particular  and  the  territory  lying  south  and  west  of 
that  district  in  general  have  been  bitter  battle  grounds 
in  the  struggle  for  supremacy  between  all-rail  coal 
moving  from  the  Illinois  mines  and  Eastern  coal  mov- 
ing through  the  docks  at  the  Head  of  the  Lakes.  Last 
year  the  combined  Illinois  and  Indiana  commercial  ton- 
nage placed  in  the  Twin  Cities  district  reached  889,654 
tons,  while  shipments  into  the  state  as  a  whole  aggre- 
gated 1,838,734  tons. 

In  1915  the  per  capita  consumption  in  Minnesota 
was  3.22  tons  (2.48  tons  bituminous  coal  and  .74  ton 
anthracite).  Consumption  per  square  mile  was  89 
tons.  The  total  consumption  for  the  state  was  7,506,- 
568  tons,  of  which  1,670,000  tons  were  Pennsylvania 
anthracite  and  5,836,568  tons  bituminous  coal.  Of  the 
total  bituminous  consumption,  3,793,000  tons,  or  nearly 
65  per  cent,  was  ex-lake  coal.  Illinois  mines  ranked 
next  in  importance,  furnishing  1,334,330  tons.  Contri- 
butions from  other  coal  producing  states  were  as  fol- 
lows: Arkansas,  5,372  tons;  Indiana,  72,934;  Iowa, 
12,557;  Kentucky,  345,333;  Ohio,  65,094;  Pennsyl- 
vania, 120,244;  Virginia,  47,000;  West  Virginia,  40,- 
704  tons.  These  figures,  of  course,  are  for  all-rail  move- 
ment and  exclude  the  ex-lake  fuel  coming  from  Penn- 
sylvania, West  Virginia  and  Ohio. 


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FLOUR   CITY    FUEL  &   TRANSFER   CO., 

Minneapolis,  Minn. 


Twenty  year-  ago  .1.  1>.  Kkstnnn.  who  for  three  years 
hail  served  honorably  as  sergeant  of  police  at  Minne- 
apolis. Minnesota,  ami  who  had  amassed  as  savings  the 
modest  capital  of  $100,  determined  to  enter  business 
for  himself.  With  X.  I..  Johnson  as  a  partner  this 
little  capital  was  invested  in  a  supply  of  cordwood  and 


.1.     n.    KKSTKI  >l. 

1'rexident    Flour   City    Fuel    &    Trmixfrr  Co* 

MinneapoIlM,  MinneMota. 


thus  began  the  history  of  the  Flour  City  Fuel  &  Transfer 
Co..  which  now  has  a  capital  of  $300,000  and  is  one 
of  the  notable  successes  in  the  retail  coal  trade  of  Amer- 
ica. Mr.  Kkstnnn  attributes  this  success  in  great 
measure  to  the  sincere  endeavors  of  the  company  to 
please  every  patron.     This  of  course  involved  much  hard 


work.  The  demands  of  the  people  had  to  be  studied 
and  when  determined  prompt  delivery  anil  other  factors 
entered  into  the  problems  of  the  growing  concern.  The 
company  was  incorporated  with  a  capital  of  $100,000 
in  191 1  and  this  was  increased  to  $300,000  in  1915. 

The  activities  of  the  company  broadened  rapidly 
through  the  twenty  years  which  measure  its  distinctive 
career.  Wholesale  and  retail  coal  and  wood  comprise 
but  one  of  its  activities.  Fireproof  storage  facilities  con- 
st itute  one  of  its  great  achievements.  The  company 
is  at  present  operating  about  sixteen  offices  and  eight 
yards  in  Minneapolis.  In  its  coal  department  it  uses 
about  thirty  trucks  and  sixty  teams.  Nearly  200,- 
000  tons  of  coal  are  distributed  annually  in  the  com- 
pany's retail  business  at  Minneapolis.  Its  wholesale  and 
jobbing  trade  exceeds  100,000  tons  annually. 

The  officers  of  the  Flour  City  Fuel  &  Transfer  Co. 
include  the  following:  J.  D.  Ekstrum.  President  and 
General  Manager;  X.  L.  Johnson,  Treasurer  and  Assist- 
ant General  Manager;  F.  Warde  Smith,  Vice  President 
and  Manager  Sales;  John  Olson,  Vice  President;  IT.  E. 
Johnson,  Secretary;  A.  J.  lluotte.  Assistant  Secretary 
and  Credit  Manager;  August  Kallberg.  Superintendent 
of  (Jarage  and  Automobile  Department;  A.  F.  Nelson, 
Superintendent  of  Yards;  C.  B.  Ekstrum,  Superintend- 
ent of  Shops  and  Equipment. 

Mr.  P.  Warde  Smith.  Sales  Manager,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  company  only  four  years  but  in  that 
time  has  materially  increased  the  tonnage  and  is  con- 
sidered one  of  the  best  sales  managers  in  the  city. 

Mr.  X.  L.  Johnson.  Treasurer,  is  also  Treasurer  and 
Manager  of  the  Powers  Fuel,  Transfer  &  Storage  Co. 

Mr.  John  Olson.  Vice  President  of  the  company,  is 
not  active  in  the  coal  business  but  is  interested  from  an 
investment  point  of  view. 

The  main  office  of  the  company  is  located  at  40  West 
Fake  Street.  Minneapolis. 


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WILLIAM    FRANKLIN     \  1.1*1  •:  M 1 1  .n  I  I  :I( .    Minneapolis, 

North  Western  Sales  Agent  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Sales  Co., 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  August  22,  1872,  in 
Dakota,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
two  years.  Before  being  promoted  to  his  present  position 
Mr.  Aldenderfer  served  as  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Lehigh  Valley 
Coal  Co.  at  St.  Paul,  and  previously  as  Cashier  of  the  Lehigh 
Valley   Coal   Co.    at   Chicago. 


TRUMAN    H.    CLARK,    Minneapolis    Minnesota, 

North  Western  Sales  Manager  of  Berwind  Fuel  Co.,  Ply- 
mouth Building,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  October 
12,  1887,  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  four  years.  Before  entering  the  coal  business  Mr. 
Clark   was  with   the   North   Western   Railroad. 


ARCH    COLEMAN,    Minneapolis,    Minnesota, 

President  City  Fuel  Co.,  McKnight  Building,  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota,  is  one  of  the  progressive  retail  coal  merchants 
of  the  Northwest.  He  was  born  May  29,  1877,  in  Detroit, 
Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  Novem- 
ber 13,  1896.  Mr.  Coleman  is  highly  respected  and  has  an 
unusally  large  number  of  warm  friends  in  the  coal  trade. 
He  served  as  Imperial  Modoc  of  the  Order  KoKoal  and  has 
held  numerous  other  positions  of  honor  in  the  trade.  Be- 
fore organizing  his  present  company  he  was  connected 
with  the  Pioneer  Fuel  Co.,  The  Weaver  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
and  The  St.   Paul  &  Western  Coal  Co. 


HARRIS    P.    GAGNON,    Minneapolis,    Minnesota, 

Vice  President  The  Elliott  Fuel  Co.,  120  South  Fifth  St., 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  January  24,  1878,  at 
Marinette,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.  and  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co.  Mr.  Gagnon  has 
served  as  chairman  of  the  improvement  committee  of  Min- 
neapolis  and   St.   Paul   track   dealers. 


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I.   C.    i   I   \  I   I  I  lilt.    Minneapolis.    Minnesota, 

Editor  and  publisher  of  the  "Coal  Dealer,"  Lumber  Ex- 
change, Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  July  5,  1860,  in 
Holland.  Mr.  Cuvellier  was  connected  with  the  W.  W.  Car- 
gill  Co.  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-two  years  and  es- 
tablished his  paper  for  the  coal  dealers  of  the  Northwest 
thirteen  years  ago.  He  is  a  man  who  has  the  courage  of 
his  convictions  and  has  many  warm  friends  throughout 
the    Northwest. 


WILLIAM    RICHARD    CUVELLIER,    Minneapolis,    Minnesota, 

Assistant  Manager  of  the  "Coal  Dealer,"  Lumber  Exchange, 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  in  1888  at  La  Crosse, 
Wisconsin,  and  has  been  associated  with  his  father  In 
publication   of  the   "Coal  Dealer"   for  the   past  eleven   years. 


WILLIAM     II.    GODWIN,    Minneapolis,    Minnesota, 

Manager  of  Sales  of  the  Carnegie  Dock  &  Fuel  Co., 
National-Son  Line  Building,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
was  born  July  'J5.  1868,  at  Montreal,  Canada,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for-  twenty  years.  Mr.  Godwin  was 
formerly  eonnseted  With  the  Ohio  Coal  Co.,  The  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.,  the  Clarkaon  Coal  A  Dock  Co.,  and  the  Berwlnd 
Fuel    Co. 


WILLIAM     P.    II  AI. LOWELL,    Minneapolis,    Minnesota, 

v\ir  President  ami  Treasurer  of  the  Holmes  &  Halloweil  Co., 
Plymouth  Building,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  No- 
vember 30,  1863,  at  Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  and  has 
bean  In  the  Ooal  business  for  thirty  years.  Before  organ- 
izing his  present  company  Mr.  Halloweil  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  North  Western  Kuel  Co.,  H.  W.  Arm- 
strong CO.,  ToughiOffheny  &  l-vliigh  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Holmes 
&   McCaughy  Coal  Co, 


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HERBERT    I,.    LAIRD,   Minneapolis,   Minnesota, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  North  Western  Traffic  and  Service 
Bureau,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  January  19,  1871, 
in  Colo,  Iowa,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  trade 
twelve  years,  as  Secretary  of  the  Iowa  and  Nebraska  Coal 
Dealers'  Association  and  of  the  North  Western  Retail  Coal 
Dealers'  Association,  which  three  years  ago  was  merged 
into  the  North  Western  Traffic  and  Service  Bureau.  Mr. 
Laird  is  popular  in  the  trade.  He  was  for  a  number  of 
years  engaged   in  an  official  capacity   in   railroad  work. 


GARDINER    H.    REEVES,    Minneapolis    Minnesota, 

President  The  Reeves  Coal  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
was  born  January  27,  1863,  in  Bradford,  Maine,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  Mr. 
Reeves  has  a  wide  acquaintance  in  the  coal  trade  of  the 
Northwest,  having  formerly  been  connected  with  the  Le- 
high Valley  Coal  Co.  and  later  for  several  years  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  North  Western  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association. 


JOHX    H.    SESSIONS,    Minneapolis,    Minnesota, 

North  Western  Sales  Agent  of  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading 
Coal  &  Iron  Co.  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  No- 
vember 6,  1848,  at  Randolph,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Sessions  is  one 
of  the  best  known  and  most  highly  respected  coal  men  in 
the   Northwest. 


CHARLES   I,.   SWAIN,  Minneapolis,    Minnesota, 

President  and  Treasurer  Swain-Farmer  Co.,  Minneapolis, 
was  born  November  20,  1870,  in  Northfield,  Minnesota,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  Mr. 
Swain  was  formerly  with  H.  L.  Swain  &  Co.  and  the  Swain 
Fuel  &  Transfer  Co..  before  organizing  his  present  concern. 
He  started  in  a  small  way  and  has  been  successful  in  build- 
ing up  a  splendid  retail   business. 


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WORRELL    (I.ARKSON,    St.    Paul,    Minnesota, 

President  Clarkson  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  President  Clarkson 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  President  Peoples  CoaJ  &  Ice  Co.,  St. 
Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  February  12,  1870,  in  Middletown, 
Delaware,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven 
years.  Mr.  Clarkson  is  one  of  the  well-known  and  progres- 
sive coal  men  in  the  Northwest.  He  was  formerly  in  the 
retail  business  at  Duluth  and  later  with  the  Lehigh  Valley 
Coal  Co.,  before  forming  his  present  company,  which  has 
enjoyed     a     most     successful     growth. 


EDWARD    NKI,M)\     SAI  XDIOIIS,    JR..    St.    Paul,    Minnesota, 

President  North  Western  Fuel  Co.,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota, 
was  born  July  15,  1877,  at  St.  Paul,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  the  past  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Saunders  is  the 
head  of  one  of.  the  most  important  dock  companies  in  the 
Northwest,  and  is  also  interested  in  the  Lorain  Coal  & 
Dock   Co.,   and    the    Spring  Valley  Coal   Co. 


III.MO     I.KWIN    SMITH,    St.   Paul,   Minnesota, 

Vice  President  of  the  M.  A.  Hanna  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  St. 
Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  In  November,  1868,  at  St.  Paul, 
and  h;in  Ik  en  in  tin-  eoaj  business  for  the  past  thirty  years. 
Mr.  Smith  is  <> n.-  of  the  lust  known  coal  men  in  the  North- 
west mill  wiim  formerly  connected  with  the  North  Western 
Fini  Co.  He  lias  served  as  President  of  North  Western  Coal 
Dock  Operators  Association  and  on  the  advisory  board  of 
tin-  National  Coal  Association, 


WILLIAM     WAI.LACI-:    CHAPMAN.    Minneapolis     Minnesota, 

President  North  West  Coal  Supply  Co.,  Plymouth  Building, 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  April  5,  1865,  at  Tama 
City,  Iowa,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  a  quarter  of 
a  century.  Mr.  Chapman  has  a  wide  acquaintance  In  the 
coal  trade  through  the  North  wist.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Ohio  Coal  Co..  The  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Pittsburgh    Coal    Co. 


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JAMES   ATKINSON   FERGUSON,   Duluth,   Minnesota, 

Northern  Sales  Agent  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Duluth,  Minne- 
sota, was  born  October  29,  1857,  in  New  Brunswick,  Canada, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-three  years.  Mr. 
Ferguson  was  President  of  the  Pioneer  Fuel  Co.  during  its 
early  connection  with  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  and  at  that 
time  became  Northern  Sales  Agent  of  the  latter  company 
with  offices  at  Duluth,  covering  the  territories  of  Northwest 
Wisconsin,  Northern  Minnesota  and  Western  Canada. 


FRED   EUGENE   WOI.VIN,  Duluth,  Minnesota, 

Sales  Agent  and  Manager  Local  Agency,  Carnegie  Dock  & 
Fuel  Co.,  Duluth,  Minnesota,  was  born  August  28,  1890,  at 
Duluth,  Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
two  years.  Mr.  Wolvin  is  one  of  the  progressive  younger 
coal  men  at  the  Head  of  the  Lakes. 


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MINNESOTA  —  Minneapolis 


BARNEY  A.\UKRSK\,  proprietor  Barney  Andersen  Co., 
retail  coal  merchants  of  Minneapolis.  Minnesota,  was 
born  June  4,  1868,  In  Norway,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  t unity-two  years.  He  has  held  the  office  of  Treas- 
urer, Vice  President  and  President  of  the  Minneapolis  Re- 
tail Coal  Dealers  Association.  He  is  a  member  of  several 
fraternal  organizations  and  has  served  as  County  Commis- 
sioner of  Hennepin  County,  Minnesota. 

lit  in>l  I'll  s.  BT,  BLOCK,  North  Western  Sales  Agent  Big 
Creek  Colliery  Co..  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  Febru- 
ary 4.  1S87,  in  Manistee,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  National  Mining  Co.  and  the  Harrisburg  Southern 
Coal  Co. 

in. mil. ic  i  WALTON  BROWER,  Representative  of  the 
Chicago,  Wilmington  &  Franklin  Coal  Co..  in  charge  of  the 
Minneapolis  office,  was  born  March  22.  1873,  in  Rochester, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal 
Co.,  Williams  &  Peters,  and  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  & 
Supply  Co. 

.  THOMAS  V.  COLLINS,  Resident  Manager  M.  A.  Hanna 
Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1872,  at  Worthington,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Collins  has  a 
large  personal  acquaintance  and  many  warm  friends  in 
the  coal  trade.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Silver 
Creek  &  Morris  Coal  Co..  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal 
&  Iron  Co.,  and  the  S.  C.  Schenck  Co. 

THOMAS  W.  DANAHER,  Salesman  for  the  Chicago,  Wil- 
mington &  Franklin  Coal  Co.  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
was  born  August  30,  1885,  at  White  Lake,  South  Dakota, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  three  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Clarkson  Coal  &  Dock  Co. 

J.  D.  EKSTRUM,  President  and  General  Manager  Flour 
City  Fuel  &  Transfer  Co.,  40  West  Lake  St.,  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota,  was  born  September  14,  1873,  in  Sweden,  and 
nas   been    in   the   coal   business   twenty   years. 

ARNOLD  V.  F1CKEL,  Salesman  for  the  Taylor  Coal  Co.. 
2728  Bloomington  Ave.,  Minneapolis.  Minnesota,  was  born 
December  25,  1887,  at  Minneapolis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  M.  A.  Hanna  Coal  Co..  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  Pittsburgh  &  Ashland  Coal  &   Dock  Co. 

MORRIS  1".  HANSON.  Sales  Agent  The  C.  Reiss  Coal  Co.. 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  May  8,  1866,  in  Den- 
mark, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

WILLI  \M  T.  HOPKINS.  Manager  of  Sales  of  the  Swain- 
Farmer  Coal  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  August 
7,  1879.  at  Stratford.  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Jones  &  Adams  Co..  St.  Paul  &  Western  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  City   Fuel  Co.,  and  is  very  popular  in  trade  circles. 

ANTHONY  J.  Hl'OTTE,  Assistant  Secretary  and  Credit 
Manager  Flour  City  Fuel  &  Transfer  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Min- 
nesota, was  born  December  25,  1876,  in  Chippewa  Falls, 
Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
four  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Ohio 
Coal  Co.  and   the  C.  Reiss  Coal  Co. 

HENRY  ERNST  JOHNSON,  Secretary  Flour  City  Fuel 
&  Transfer  Co.,  3700  Blaisdell  Ave.,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
was  born  September  22,  1882,  at  Waseca  County,  Minnesota, 
and   has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  seven  years. 

N.  L.  JOHNSON,  Treasurer  and  Assistant  General  Mana- 
ger of  the  Flour  City  Fuel  &  Transfer  Co..  3221  Pillsbury 
St.,  Minneapolis.  Minnesota,  was  born  March  13.  1873,  in 
Sweden,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last 
eighteen    years. 

EDW  \RD  STILLMAN  KENDRICK,  JR.,  President  Ken- 
driek  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Chamber  of  Commerce  Building, 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  April  12,  1886,  In  New 
York  City,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years.  He  was  formerly  Sales  Manager  for  the  Berwind 
Fuel  Co.   of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota. 

i  D0AB  W.  KLINE,  a  salesman  of  the  Reliance  Coal  Co., 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  October  30,  1880,  at  Byron, 
Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last 
twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Lehigh  Valley 
Coal  Co.,  The  S.  C.  Schenck  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Carnegie 
Doek   &    Fuel  Co.  of  Minneapolis. 

oi.iYKll  J.  messkr,  proprietor  Plymouth  Fuel  & 
Lumber  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  in  Ohio  and 
has   been    In   the  coal   business  for   nearly   twenty  years. 

OsH  mi  ii.  in. ma,  Resident  Manager  The  Northern  Coal 
ft  Dock  Co..  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  March 
30,  1885,  at  Minneapolis,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Olsen  was  formerly  connected  with 
the   Sunday   Creek    Co.    and   the   Pittsburgh   Coal  Co. 


JAMES  H.  PHILLIPS.  North  Western  Sales  Agent  C.  M. 
Moderwell  &  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  August 
16,  1876,  at  Carson  City,  Nevada,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  the  past  nineteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Holmes  &  Hallowell  Co.  and  the  Clark 
Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

ERNEST  C.  PRATT,  member  of  firm  of  Pratt  Bros,  and 
General  Manager  of  Reliance  Coal  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minne- 
sota, was  born  June  1,  1869,  in  Minneapolis,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  Mr.  Pratt  is  also 
President  of  the  Dakota  Coal  Co.,  Director  of  the  Western 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Montana,  and  Secretary  and  a  Director 
of  the  Nason  Coal  Co..  Chicago,  and  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Zeigler  Coal  Co.,  Ziegler  District  Colliery  Co.,  and 
the  Purity  Coal  Co.  Before  that  he  was  for  four  years 
editor  of  the   "Black  Diamond." 

GEORGE  H.  ROSENQ.UIST,  proprietor  of  the  G.  H.  Rosen- 
quist  Fuel  &  Transfer  Co.,  Minneapolis.  Minnesota,  was 
born  April  11,  1876,  at  Minneapolis,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    for    eighteen    years. 

ARTHUR  WILLIAM  SAUNDERS,  General  Agent  for  Min- 
neapolis of  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  January 
4,  1881,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  with    this   company    for   thirteen    years. 

R.  W.  C.  SHllL,  Treasurer  J.  &  W.  C.  Shull,  Minneap- 
olis, Minnesota,  was  born  January  7,  1886,  in  Sac  City, 
Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  This 
company  is  one  of  the  largest  owners  of  retail  coal  and 
lumber   yards   in    the   Northwest. 

F.  WARDE  SMITH.  Vice  President  and  Manager  Sales 
Flour  City  Fuel  &  Transfer  Co.,  40  West  Lake  St.,  Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota,  was  born  August  17,  1880,  in  Kokomo, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 
Mr.  Smith  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Berwind  Fuel 
Co.   and   the   Clarkson   Coal   &   Dock   Co. 

WALTER  E.  STILL,  Sales  Agent  Zenith  Furnace  Co., 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  June  25,  1879,  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co. 

E.  *t.  STONE,  retail  coal  merchant,  Minneapolis,  Minne- 
sota, was  born  May  22,  1854,  in  Vermont  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Stone  served  for 
three  years  as  President  of  the  Minneapolis  Fuel  Dealers 
Association  and  one  year  as  a  Director  of  the  North  West- 
ern   Retail   Coal   Dealers   Association. 

FRANK  K.  SULLIVAN,  President  and  Treasurer  Sullivan 
Coal  Co..  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  was  born  April  6,  1866,  at 
Ulster,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty  years.  Mr.  Sullivan  was  for  ten  years  with  the  Taylor 
Coal  Co.  of  Minneapolis  and  then  engaged  in  business  for 
himself  which  has  enjoyed  a  steady  growth.  Mr.  Sullivan 
has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  association  work  and 
was  President  of  the  local  association  for  several  years  and 
has  been  a  Director  of  the  North  Western  Retail  Coal  Deal- 
ers Association. 

DELMAK  AUGUSTUS  TURNER,  Salesman  Chicago,  Wil- 
mington ft  Franklin  Coal  Co.,  1025  6th  Ave.,  South,  Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota,  was  born  November  3,  1896,  in  New  York 
City  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  two  years. 

W.  R,  TITTLE,  Secretary  Tuttle  Coal  Co.,  Minneapolis. 
Minnesota,  was  born  July  13,  1881,  in  Hastings,  Minnesota, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  was  for- 
merly   connected    with    the    Berwind    Fuel    Co. 


MINNESOTA  — St.  Paul 


SYLVESTER  BRAND,  well-known  retail  coal  merchant 
of  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  January  31,  1857,  and  lias 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  thirty-three  years. 
Mr.  Brand  has  served  as  President  of  the  St.  Paul  Retail 
Coal    Dealers   Association   for  several   years. 

RICHARD  A.  CARRINGTON,  Superintendent  of  Yards 
North  Western  Fuel  Co..  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  at 
Richmond.  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-five  years. 

FRED  J.  CROPSEY,  Agent  Carnegie  Dock  &  Fuel  Co.. 
St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  October  27,  1869,  at  Elgin. 
Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Pioneer  Fuel 
Co.  and  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

GEORGE  A.  DORAN,  part  owner  F.  B.  Doran  &  Co.,  2d 
and  Wabasha  Sts.,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  August 
18,  1867,  in  McHenry  County.  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  since  1888.  This  business  was  started  In 
1881  by  F.  B.  Doran,  who  died  In  1914.  It  Is  now  con- 
ducted  by   George   A.   and   his   brother,   C.   B.   Doran. 

HAY  ('.  EVEHSON,  Resident  Manager  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
St.  Paul.  Minnesota,  was  born  October  13,  1891,  at  Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the   past  ten   years,   the  entire  time  with   this  company. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


FILLER  W.  POOSHE,  Secretary  Citizens  Ice  &  Fuel  Co., 
St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  January  29,  1875,  in  Coronaca, 
South  Carolina.  Mr.  Fooshe  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   the    past    eleven    years. 

BENJAMIN  GORHAII,  Vice  President  and  General  Sales 
Agent  of  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co.,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota, 
was  born  July  8,  1872,  at  Austin,  Minnesota,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business  for   the  past   thirty   years. 

DONALD  A.  HUTCHISON,  Local  Manager  Great  Lakes 
Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  August 
27,  1882,  at  Montreal,  Canada,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Holmes  &  Hallowell  Co.,  The  Vanderwarker  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  Citizens  Ice  &  Fuel  Co. 

ALBERT  JOHN  NASON,  President  Nokomis  Coal  Co.  and 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Osage  Coal  Co.,  502  Peoples 
Bank  Building,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  was  born  June  1,  1878,  in 
Smithfield,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
over   ten   years. 

MINNESOTA  — Duluth 

A.  J.  ANDERSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Duluth,  Minne- 
sota, was  born  June  16,  1863,  in  Sweden  and  has  been  in  Wie 
coal   business   for   twenty-five   years. 

ALBERT  E.  BOTSFORD,  Superintendent  of  the  M.  A. 
Hanna  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Duluth,  Minnesota,  was  born  in 
1859  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  over  thirty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with   the   Pioneer  Fuel  Co.   and  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

A.  C.  JONES,  Director  of  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co., 
Duluth,  Minnesota,  was  born  January  11,  1845,  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty-three 
years,  the  entire  time  with  this  organization.  Mr.  Jones 
is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Stott  Briquet  Co. 

HENRY  W.  NICHOLS,  Manager  North  Land  Coal  Co., 
Duluth.  Minnesota,  was  born  March  18,  1870,  in  New  Lisbon, 
Wisconsin,   and   has  been   in  the  coal   business   fifteen  years. 

EDWARD  P.  RADFORD,  Secretary  and  Purchasing  Agent 
Northern  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Duluth,  Minnesota,  was  born 
July  5,  1891,  in  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  six  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Radford 
&  Wright  Co.  of  Duluth,  Oshkosh  and  Winnipeg,  the  Home 
Lumber  Yards  of  Winnipeg  and  the  Bertram-Wright  Lum- 
ber Co.  of  Minneapolis,  and  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  the  Hibbing  Lumber  Co. 

AXEL  P.  WICK,  Vice  President  and  Treasurer  of  Wick 
Bros.,  Duluth,  Minnesota,  was  born  November  20,  1882,  at 
Peshtigo,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  five  years. 

FRED  W.  YOUNG,  Vice  President  Clarkson  Coal  &  Dock 
Co.  at  Duluth,  Minnesota,  was  born  in  1876  at  River  Falls, 
Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last 
eleven  years. 

MINNESOTA 

0.  M.  BOTSFORD,  President  Botsford  Lumber  Co.  of  Wi- 
nona, Minnesota,  was  born  March  18,  1863,  in  Lake  County, 
Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine 
years.  Mr.  Botsford  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
popular  coal  men  in  the  Northwest.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected  with  the  Laird-Norton  Co. 

CHAS.  BROWN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Red  Wing,  Minne- 
sota, was  born  July  12,  1868,  in  Red  Wing,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years. 

JOHN  WM.  CAMPBELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Fergus 
Falls,  Minnesota,  was  born  March  18,  1871,  at  Clyde,  Min- 
nesota, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

RALPH  PETTIBONE  CRANE,  General  Manager  Crane 
Lumber  Co.,  Austin,  Minnesota,  was  born  April  21,  1887,  in 
Austin,  Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years. 

1.  L.  DEMARAY  of  Demaray  &  Munce,  Pipestone,  Minne- 
sota, was  born  November  10,  1882,  in  Le  Mars,  Iowa,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  and  grain  business  for  twelve  years. 
He  was  for  two  years  Secretary  of  the  Minnesota  Farmers 
Grain   Dealers  Association. 

J.  H.  DREDGE  of  White  &  Dredge,  Amboy,  Minnesota,  was 
born  in  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five   years. 

FRANK  A.  ENGEL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hastings. 
Minnesota,  was  born  October  29,  1870,  at  Hastings  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years. 

JOHN  F.  FAIRBANKS,  veteran  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Austin,  Minnesota,  was  born  July  25,  1857,  in  Iowa  and  has 
been   in   the   coal  business   for   thirty-four  years. 

SAM  K.  FOWLER,  retail  merchant  of  Mankato,  Minnesota, 
was  born  at  Chatham,  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business  for   four  years. 


MATH  HABERER,  retailer  of  Alexandria,  Minnesota,  was 
born  June  25,  1858,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty  years,  ever  since  coal  has  been  sold  in 
his   town. 

GEO.  S.  HAGE,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  S.  Hage 
Lumber  Co.,  Madelia,  Minnesota,  was  born  June  14,  1876  at 
Madelia  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty- 
five  years. 

JOHN  E.  HENNESSY,  President  J.  E.  Hennessy  &  Co.,  Ex- 
celsior, Minnesota,  was  born  July  27,  1867,  at  Winona,  Min- 
nesota, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six 
years. 

WILLIAM  L.  IRELAND,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Crookston, 
Minnesota,  was  born  December  23,  1879,  at  Chesley,  Ontario, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  four  years. 

JOHN  J.  KILTY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Stillwater,  Min- 
nesota, was  born  October  28,  1861,  in  Ireland,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  over  thirty  years. 

JOHN  LARSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Brainerd,  Minne- 
sota, was  born  October  24,  1856,  in  Denmark,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years,  and  is  the 
pioneer  coal   merchant  of  Brainerd. 

N.  S.  NELSON,  Manager  Albert  Lea  Fuel  Co.  of  Albert 
Lea,  Minnesota,  was  born  November  14,  1859,  in  Denmark, 
and   has   been   in   the   coal   business   for   nearly   thirty   years. 

RALPH  N.  NELSON  of  the  Albert  Lea  Fuel  Co.,  Albert 
Lea,  Minnesota,  was  born  July  5,  1896,  at  Dell  Rapids,  South 
Dakota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  with  his  father 
for  the   past  two   years. 

JOHN  NETT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Albany,  Minnesota, 
was  born  September  27,  1884,  at  St.  Martin,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for   three   years. 

JOHN  W.  NIELSEN,  retail  coal  merchant.  Hutchinson, 
Minnesota,  was  born  January  24,  1870,  in  Denmark,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  He  was  formerly 
Manager  of  the  Farmers  Elevator  Co.  at  Buffalo  Lake, 
Minnesota. 

JOHN  O'DEA,  well-known  retail  coal  merchant  of  Winona. 
Minnesota,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1838  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  nearly  thirty  years. 

CHARLES  S.  OLDS,  proprietor  Crozier-Olds  Coal  Co.,  St. 
Cloud,  Minnesota,  was  born  January  4,  1876,  at  Luverne, 
Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  at  St.  Cloud 
for  eight  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  E.  A. 
Brown  Co.  at  Luverne,  Minnesota. 

CLARENCE  A.  REMINGTON,  proprietor  Remington  Lum- 
ber Co.,  Hibbing,  Minnesota,  was  born  May  25,  1858,  in 
Jefferson  County,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  six  years.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Range 
Coal  Dealers  Association. 

J.  O.  RINDAHL  of  the  Cargill  Elevator  Co.  at  Ada,  Min- 
nesota, was  born  April  7,  1874,  at  St.  Peter,  Minnesota,  and 
has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  the  past   seven  years. 

ALFRED  O.  ROLFE,  veteran  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ada. 
Minnesota,  was  born  November  15,  1855,  at  Cole  Brook,  New 
Hampshire,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
three    years. 

JOSEPH  A.  ROTHMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ely,  Min- 
nesota, was  born  October  13,  1884,  in  Wisconsin  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

H.  R.  SHELDON,  Manager  Sheldon  &  Richardson,  Roches- 
ter, Minnesota,  was  born  November  26,  1858,  in  Syracuse, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  and  grain  business 
over  twenty-six  years. 

G.  F.  STREATER,  Secretary  Botsford  Lumber  Co.,  Winona, 
Minnesota,  was  born  November  14,  1875,  in  Kossuth  County, 
Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Laird-Norton 
Yards. 

CHAS.  T.  TAYLOR,  well  known  and  popular  retail  coal 
merchant  of  Mankato,  Minnesota,  was  born  December  2, 
1860,  in  Red  Wing,  Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  over  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Taylor  has  served 
as  President  of  the  North  Western  Retail  Coal  Dealers  As- 
sociation, President  of  the  Mankato  Fair  &  Blue  Earth 
County  Agricultural  Association.  President  of  the  Mankato 
Automobile  Club,  Mayor  of  Mankato  three  different  terms, 
and  President  of   the   Mankato   Commercial  Club. 

ALBERT  G.  SWANSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Welch, 
Minnesota,  was  born  September  28,  1870,  in  Goodhue  County, 
Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

F.  W.  WHITE  of  White  &  Dredge,  Amboy,  Minnesota, 
was  born  in  New  York  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-five  years. 

HENRY  J.  WILLIS,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Winona,  Minnesota,  was  born  in  1855  in  Kenosha  County, 
Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
eight  years. 


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MISSISSIPPI 


KING  COTTON  stands  in  no  immediate  danger  of 
surrendering  his  crown  to  King  Coal  in  Missis- 
sippi, for  the  weather  man  and  the  character  of 
the  predominating  enterprises  of  the  state  have  com- 
bined to  make  fuel  play  a  minor  role  in  the  develop- 
ments there.  Producing  no  coal,  as  a  consumer,  whether 
considered  from  the  point  of  view  of  the  total  tonnage 
used  or  the  per  capita  or  square  mile  consumption,  its 
position  in  American  coal  trade  history  is  well  down  the 
list  of  states  of  the  Union.  Its  per  capita  bituminous 
consumption  is  only  .70  ton,  against  a  general  average 
for  the  entire  country,  of  2.04  tons,   while   its   1915 


anthracite  consumption,  2,000  tons  for  nearly  2,000,000 
people,  was  so  small  as  to  be  entirely  negligible.  Upon 
a  square  mile  basis  the  consumption  was  only  23  tons, 
as  compared  with  the  average  of  123  tons  for  the  coun- 
t  rv  as  a  whole. 

The  total  bituminous  coal  consumption  for  the  year 
was  placed  at  1,3(58,388  tons.  Only  four  states  were 
called  upon  to  furnish  this  tonnage,  and  of  these  four, 
Alabama  with  596,218  tons  and  Kentucky  with  630,518 
tons,  shipped  over  87  per  cent,  of  the  coal  consumed. 
Illinois  shipments  were  96,577  tons  and  Pennsylvania 
45,075  tons. 


MISSISSIPPI 


J.  Y.  lti:i.l..  General  Manager  J.  J.  Bell  &  Son,  retail 
coal  merchants  of  Corinth,  Mississippi,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    for    ten    years. 

PAL.V1CK  IIKADI.KY.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Aberdeen, 
Mississippi,  was  born  September  12,  18S0,  in  Ireland,  and 
lias    been    in   the  coal    business   twenty-rive    years. 

LOUIS  JOHN  HK.Vl  \,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Biloxi,  Mis- 
sissippi, was  born  July  1,  1890,  at  Biloxi,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with   the   Biloxi  Artificial  Ice   Mfg.   Co. 

JOSEPH    >li:\IH'.lts    BBOWR,   proprietor   of   the   Jay-Em- 
Bee  Coal  Co.,   Grenada,   Mississippi,   was   born   June   19,  1873, 
'•■ffeeville,  Mississippi,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business 
live  years.    Previous  to  that  be  was  engaged  in  the  cotton 
and   cotton   seed   oil    business. 


I.KI.AM)  \v.  DEI.AXV  of  the  Delany  Coal  &  Ice  Co., 
Natchez,  Mississippi,  was  born  August  24,  1885,  at  Natchez 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  four  years. 

It.  G.  fiOTHKI.F,  proprietor  of  the  Gothelf  Coal  Co., 
Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  was  born  March  20,  1891,  at  Vicks- 
burg,  Mississippi,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the   last  six   years. 

COM  MIM  s  R.  HI  I.I. ,  proprietor  of  the  Hull  Coal  Co., 
Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  was  born  in  r857  in  Mason  County, 
West  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 
Mr.  Hull  is  also  owner  of  the  Hull  Packet  Line  which  oper- 
ates the  steamer  C.  R.  Hull  and  barges  Falcon  and  Vicks- 
burg. 

W.  «.  KIMMONS,  President  W.  G.  Kimmons  &  Sons  of 
Corinth,  Mississippi,  was  born  In  Corinth  in  1845  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Associated 
with  Mr.  Kimmons  are  his  two  sons,  W.  G.  Kimmons.  Jr.. 
and   J.   M.    Kimmons. 


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MISSOURI 


MISSOURI  can  justly  lay  claim  to  the  attention 
of  the  coal  trade,  and  particularly  that  por- 
tion west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  both  from 
the  historic  point  of  view  and  from  the  point  of  view 
of  present  day  consumption  and  production.  As  a  con- 
sumer of  coal  today  it  holds  first  rank  among  the  states 
west  of  the  Mississippi  river.  It  is  also  far  from  a 
negligible  factor  in  the  total  production  mined  beyond 
the  "Father  of  Waters"  and,  though  its  output  is 
exceeded  by  that  of  certain  sister  states,  it  is  believed 
to  have  been  the  first  commonwealth  west  of  the  river 
to  enter  the  list  of  coal  producing  states.  Because  it 
lies  in  a  pocket  of  producing  states,  being  bordered  on 
the  east  by  the  Appalachian  and  eastern  interior  coal 
basins,  on  the  south  by  Arkansas  and  on  the  north  and 
west  by  Iowa  and  Kansas,  which  are  underlaid  with 
the  same  measures  that  give  Missouri  its  place  in  coal 
production  history,  the  Missouri  output  enters  but 
little  into  the  general  interstate  commercial  traffic,  but, 
as  a  coal  consumer,  it  makes  wide  calls  upon  eastern 
and  southern  producing  fields. 

The  Missouri  coal  beds,  which  are,  as  stated  in  the 
preceding  paragraph,  part  of  the  western  interior  coal 
basin  which  also  underlies  Kansas  and  Iowa,  geologi- 
cally speaking  belong  "to  the  Pennsylvania  series  of 
the  Carboniferous  system."  That  portion  lying  in 
Missouri  has  an  approximate  area  of  25,000  square 
miles  of  coal-bearing  formations,  of  which  it  is  esti- 
mated that  60  per  cent,  may  be  considered  productive 
under  present  conditions  "and  more  will  yield  supplies 
at  some  future  period." 

There  are  half  a  dozen  fields  of  importance  in  the 
state,  viz. : 

1.  The  Bevier,  worked  in  portions  of  Boone,  Chari- 
ton, Howard,  Macon  and  Randolph  counties.  This 
field,  which  produces  approximately  27  per  cent,  of  the 
output  of  the  state,  is  mined  from  a  bed  ranging  from 
three  to  six  feet  in  thickness. 

2.  The  Lexington,  worked  in  Clay,  Lafayette  and 
Ray  counties.  Although  the  bed  mined  is  very  thin, 
ranging  from  14  to  26  inches  in  thickness,  "because  it 
is  ideally  adapted  to  the  long-wall  system  of  mining 
and  is  situated  near  large  consuming  centers,  this  bed 
produces  27  per  cent,  of  the  total  for  the  state." 

3.  The  Southwestern  field,  which  includes  parts  of 
Barton,  Bates,  Henry  and  adjoining  counties.     Several 


beds  are  mined  in  this  field  and  the  total  output  is 
approximately  20  per  cent,  of  that  for  the  entire  state. 

4.  The  Xovinger,  in  Adair  county,  which  is  in  the 
same  stratigraphic  horizon  as  that  mined  in  the  Bevier 
iield  and  which  averages  three  and  one-half  feet  in 
thickness,  yields  15  per  cent,  of  the  output  of  the  state. 

5.  The  Marceline  field  in  Linn  county  is  worked  in 
a  bed  29  inches  thick  and  contributes  four  per  cent,  of 
the  total  production  of  the  state. 

6.  The  Mendota  field,  lying  in  Putnam,  Schuyler  and 
northwestern  Adair  counties,  is  the  southern  extension 
of  the  Mystic  or  Centerville  bed  of  Iowa.  "The  coal 
in  this  field  lies  stratigraphically  about  100  feet  above 
that  in  the  Xovinger  and  is  probably  at  the  same  hori- 
zon as  that  of  the  Lexington  field."  Although  in  Iowa 
this  is  one  of  the  most  important  beds  worked,  Mis- 
souri operations  are  of  a  very  limited  character. 

The  occurrence  of  coal  on  the  banks  of  the  Osage 
river  was  noted  as  early  as  1806  in  Pike's  "Account 
of  Expeditions  to  the  Sources  of  the  Mississippi." 
As  far  as  known  production  statistics  were  a  blank  until 
1840,  when  the  United  States  Census  credited  the  state 
with  an  output  of  9,972  tons.  Between  that  year  and 
1870,  the  date  of  the  next  absolute  record,  production 
apparently  enjoyed  a  steady  growth  as  the  figure  for 
the  year  last  named  was  621,930  tons.  The  state  passed 
the  1,000,000-ton  mark  in  1876.  Four  years  later  the 
figure  fell  below  this,  but  there  was  a  pronounced  recov- 
ery in  1878,  from  which  time  the  upward  swing  con- 
tinued until  3,080,000  tons  were  reached  in  1885.  Out- 
put slumped  off  to  1,800,000  tons  the  year  following. 
The  statistics  since  that  date  are  as  follows: 


Year.  Ton. 

1887 3,209,916 

1888 3,900,967 

1889 2,557,823 

1890 2,735,221 

1891 2,674,606 

1892 2,733,949 

1893 2,897,442 

1894 2,245,039 

1895 2,372,393 

1896 2,331,542 

1897 2,665,626 

1898 2,688,321 

1899 3,025,814 

1900 i.  3,540,103 

1901 3,802,088 


Year.  Ton. 

1902 3,890,154 

1903 4,238,586 

1904 4,168,308 

1905 3,983,378 

1906 3,758,008 

1907 3,997,936 

1908 3,317,315 

1909 3,756,530 

1910 2,982,433 

1911 3,836,107 

1912 4,339,856 

1913 4,318,125 

1914 3,935,980 

1915 3,811,593 

1916 4,742,146 


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From  the  point  of  view  of  the  consumption  of  Mis- 
souri coal  the  railroads  overshadow  every  other  class 
of  consumer;  in  1915,  the  transportation  companies 
took  2,351,940  tons  of  Missouri  coal,  or  approximately 
62  per  cent,  of  the  total  production.  Approximately 
3  per  cent,  of  the  output  was  consumed  within  the 
state;  of  this,  84,091  tons  were  used  at  the  mines; 
202,975  tons  were  sold  locally  and  773,350  tons  shipped 
to  points  within  the  state.  Interstate  movement  to  six 
adjacent  commonwealths  took  care  of  the  remaining 
400,237  tons;  Nebraska  received  203,337  tons;  Kan- 
L67,483  tons:  Iowa.  22,729;  Oklahoma,  4,800  and 
Arkansas  and  Illinois  combined,  1,888  tons. 

A  small  anthracite  consumption  (.11  ton)  serves  to 
pull  down  the  average  per  capita  consumption  in  the 
state  to  2.20  tons,  as  compared  with  2.82  tons  for  the 
United  States  as  a  whole.  The  consumption  per  square 
mile,  116  tons,  was  only  slightly  under  the  general 
average.  Despite  these  somewhat  unfavorable  average 
comparisons  the  total  amount  actually  used  within  Mis- 
souri exceeded,  as  before  stated,  that  of  any  other  com- 
monwealth west  of  the  Mississippi  river.  The  total 
consumption  for  1915,  exclusive  of  railroad  fuel  but  in- 
cluding 371.300  tons  of  Pennsylvania  anthracite,  was 
8,086,548  tons.  Although  the  bituminous  supply  was 
drawn  from  14  different  states  over  56  peT  cent,  came 
from  Illinois.  This  high  percentage,  of  course,  was 
due  to  the  proximity  of  the  "Inner  Group"  and  central 


and  southern  Illinois  coal  fields  to  the  St.  Louis  mar- 
ket. During  the  year  in  question  7,782,577  tons,  of 
bituminous  coal,  180,478  tons  of  anthracite  and  121,- 
389  tons  of  coke  were  received  in  St.  Louis  and  it  is  esti- 
mated that  4,250,000  tons  of  bituminous  coal  and 
117,006  tons  of  anthracite  of  this  amount  were  con- 
sumed within  the  St.  Louis  district.  Of  the  estimated 
bituminous  consumption  approximately  3,750,000  tons 
were  of  Illinois  origin.  In  1916  the  St.  Louis  receipts 
totaled  7,799,223  tons  of  bituminous  coal,  172,832 
tons  (including  13,859  tons  shipped  through)  of  an- 
thracite and  215,025  tons  of  coke. 

The  detailed  figures  on  consumption  for  1915  show 
the  following: 


Source. 
Alabama 
Arkansas 
Colorado 
Georgia   . 


Ton. 

3,519 
198,768 
535 
538 
Illinois    4,391,722 


Source. 
Pennsylvania  ... 

Virginia    

West  Virginia. .  . 
Wyoming 


Ton. 
294,820 

1,500 
158,763 

1,484 


Indiana 

Iowa    

Kansas  

Kentucky 

Maryland     

Missouri 1,059,416 

Oklahoma    3,653 


12.632 
174,164 
926,480 
478,164 

*9,090 


Total   bituminous 

coal  7,715,248 

Pennsylvania  an- 
thracite          371,300 


8,086,548 


'Includes  Maryland  coal  consumed  in  Texas. 


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HARRY  X.  TAYLOR,  Kansas  City,  Mo., 

Vice  President  of  the  Central  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Kansas  City,  was  born  April 
20,  1865,  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-six 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Northern  Central  Coal  Co.,  Scioto  Coal 
Co.,  Harkes  Coal  Co.,  Taylor  Coal  Co., 
and  Big  Four  Wilmington  Coal  Co. 
Mr.  Taylor  ranks  as  one  of  the  ablest, 
most  prominent  and  most  popular  coal 
operators  in  the  United  States.  He  has 
for  years  been  an  important  factor  in 
coal  producing  circles  and  was  for- 
merly President  of  the  General  Wil- 
mington Coal  Co.,  Big  Four  Wilmington 
Coal  Co.,  and  Monon  Coal  Co.,  General 
Manager  of  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal 
Co.,  and  President  of  the  Western  Coal 
&  Dock  Co.  Mr.  Taylor  has  been  hon- 
ored with  many  offices  and  has  served 
as  President  of  the  Illinois  Coal  Op- 
erators Association,  President  National 
Federation  of  Coal  Operators,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Executive  Board  of  the 
Southwestern  Coal  Operators  Associa- 
tion, Vice  President  of  the  National 
Coal  Association  and  District  Repre- 
sentative United  States  Fuel  Adminis- 
tration for  Iowa,  Missouri,  Kansas. 
Arkansas,  Oklahoma  and  Texas. 


FRED    W.    LUKJJV8,    Kansas    City,   Mo., 

President  and  General  Manager  Farm- 
ers Fuel  Co.  of  Kansas  City,  was  born 
February  5,  1857,  in  Earlville,  Illinois, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Lukins 
is  also  General  Manager  and  Secretary- 
Treasurer  of  the  Waverly  Coal  Co.,  and 
President  of  the  Southwestern  Inter- 
state Coal  Operators  Association.  He 
has  been  active  and  prominent  in  op- 
erating circles  for  many  years  and  is 
highly  regarded  in  the  trade.  He  was 
formerly  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Lukins  &  Cavanaugh.  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Chicago-Virden  Coal 
Co.,  Illinois  Collieries  Co.,  and  General 
Manager  of  the  mines  of  the  O'Gara 
Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Illinois  Coal  Operators  As- 
sociation, and  has  also  been  honored 
with  election  as  President  of  several 
organizations  outside  of  the  coal  in- 
dustry. 


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JOHN  H.  BOVAHI),  Kujimuh  City.  Mfxxourl. 
President  Northwestern  Coal  &  Mining  Co..  400  Rialto  Build- 
ing, Kansas  City,  was  horn  in  Bellevue,  Iowa,  December  29, 
1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  November,  1871, 
when  he  started  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder,  weighing  coal. 
He  has  had  experience  In  both  the  selling  and  operating 
ends,  being  connected  with  the  Kansas  &  Texas  Coal  Co.  at 
one  time.  Mr.  Bovard  is  a  Director  of  the  New  England 
National  Bank  of  Kansas  City. 


\\l>m;\\     M.   HAWAII,   Kannaa   City,  MInkouH. 

General  Sales  Manager  Mackie-Clemens  Fuel  Co.,  Dwight 
Building,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  December  29, 
1884,  at  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  the  past  nineteen  years.  Mr.  Hannah  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the 
Sheridan  Coal  Co.,  and  has  held  practically  every  position 
from   weighman    up. 


JOHN   R.  CROW,  JR.,  Kantian  City,  Mo.. 

President  The  J.  R.  Crowe  Coal  &  Min- 
ing Co..  Dwight  Building.  Kansas  City, 
was  born  in  lss'i  in  Weir  City,  Kan- 
sas, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the  past  eleven  years,  succeeding 
his  father,  who  was  a  well  known  coal 
operator  in  that  section.  Mr.  Crowe  is 
also  Interested  in  the  Junior  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.  and  the  Whitehead  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Southwestern  Coal  Operators  Associa- 
tion. Be  is  at  present  in  the  service 
of   his   country. 


<   II  Mil  I   -    II.   HIGHTOWKR.  Kantian   City,    i ii. 

Division  Sales.  Agent  of  the  McAlester  Fuel  Co.,  Lathrop 
Building,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  March  25,  1870, 
in  Cleburne,  Texas,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  twenty-four  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with   the   Western   Coal   &   Mining  Co. 


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GRANT    STAUFFEH,  Kansas   City,   Missouri, 

President  Sinclair  Coal  Co.,  Gloyd  Building,  Kansas  City, 
and  Vice  President  Semi-Anthracite  Fuel  Co.  and  Semi- 
Anthracite  Mining  Co.,  Alix,  Arkansas,  was  born  December 
1,  1888,  in  Hope,  Kansas,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the  past  six  years. 


GEORGE    J.    L.    WULFF,    Kansas    City,   Missouri. 

Division  Sales  Manager  Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Railway 
Exchange  Building,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  May  5, 
1881.  at  Osage,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Wulff  started  with  this  company  as 
a  stenographer  and  has  received  steady  promotion  to  his 
present  position  as  a  result  of  consistent  attention  to  his  work. 


IRA    M.    FLEMING,    Kansas    City,    Mo., 

President  Fleming  Coal  Co.,  Kansas 
City,  was  born  March  24.  1866,  Ke- 
wanee,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty-two  years.  Mr. 
Fleming  is  also  interested  in  the 
Cherokee-Crescent  Coal  Co.,  the  Pitts- 
burg Northern  Co.,  and  the  Girard  Coal 
Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Rich  Hill  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Western 
Coal  &  Mining  Co..  Southwestern  Coal 
&  Improvements  Co.  Mr.  Fleming  has 
served  as  President  of  the  Southwest- 
ern Interstate  Coal  Operators  Associa- 
tion. 


I. I'll',  \KI)    D.    KMiTIV,    Kansas    City, 

Manager  Kansas  City  office  of  the 
Sheridan  Coal  Co.,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 30,  1877,  in  Sedalia,  Missouri,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen 
years.  He  is  a  son  of  Capt.  S.  W. 
Kniffin,  a  pioneer  coal  man  in  the  Mis- 
souri and  Kansas  fields.  Mr.  Kniffin 
is  also  interested  in  the  Roundup  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.  and  the  McCormick  Coal 
Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Great  Western  Coal  Co.  and  was 
Secretary  of  the  Mid-State  Retail  Coal 
Dealers   Association. 


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HARVEY    F.    PIXLEY,    St.     I  ...iiv    Missouri, 

President  Breese  Trenton  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
was  born  November  25,  1869,  at  Ingraham,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  President  of  this  company  for  seven  years  and 
previous  to  that  has  been  Treasurer  and  a  Director.  Mr. 
Pixley  is  President  of  the  First  National  Bank  at  Flora, 
Illinois,     and    prominent     in    business    affairs. 


A.  H.  m.iiiiiH  .  St.  I. ..in-..  Missouri, 
General  Sales  Agent  Breese  Trenton  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  was  born  March  23,  1882,  in  Washington,  Indiana, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  Mr. 
Beddoe  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  popular  mem- 
bers of  the  St.  Louis  coal  trade  and  has  received  many 
honors  at  their  hands.  He  was  Imperial  Baron  of  the 
Order  KoKoal,  President  St.  Louis  Coal  Club,  and  is  the 
wholesale  coal  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Rotary  Club,  execu- 
tive member  Fifth  and  Ninth  Districts  Coal  Bureau,  and 
Chairman  Coal  Operators'  Advisory  Committee  of  St.  Louis 
Fuel  Administration. 


(XARESCE  V.  BECK,  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 

President  St.  Louis  Coal  Co.,  1009  Syndicate  Trust  Building, 
St.  Louis,  was  born  October  30,  1886,  in  St.  Louis,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  Mr.  Beck  is  also 
President  of  the  White  Coal  Co.,  operating  the  Valley  mine; 
Beck-White  Mining  Co.,  operating  the  Henrietta  mine;  the 
West  Side  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  operating  the  Consol  mine 
and  the  Slogo  Coal  Co.,  operating  the  Slogo  mine:  the  output 
of  all  these  mining  companies  being  handled  through  the 
St.  Louis  Coal  Co. 


JAMES    C.    BLITHE,    St.    Louis.    Missouri, 

President  Inland  Valley  Coal  Co.,  Equitable  Building,  St. 
Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  December  21,  1870,  at  St.  Louis, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1894.  He  has  served 
as  Secretary  of  the  Williamson  County  Coal  Co.  and  was 
formerly   connected   with   the   Lumaghl  Coal  Co. 


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ALEXANDER    A.    BRYDEN,    St.   Louis,   Missouri, 

Sales  Manager  Harris-Dillavou-Dimond  Co.,  Wainwright 
Building,  St.  Louis,  was  born  February  23,  1864,  in  Halifax, 
Nova  Scotia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five 
years.  Mr.  Bryden  is  one  of  the  well-known  coal  men  of 
St.  Louis.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Carbondale 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Bryden  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  the  Borders 
Coal  Co.  He  served  as  President  of  Retail  Coal  Association 
in  St.  Louis  for  five  years.  His  grandfather  and  uncles 
opened  the  first  mine  of  Carterville  coal. 


THOMAS    l(.    HARRIS,    St.    Louis,    Missouri, 

President  and  General  Manager  of  White  Oak  Fuel  Co.,  St. 
Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  near  Nashville,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Harris 
is  also  President  of  the  Madison  County  Mining  Co.  of  Ed- 
wardsville,  Illinois.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Berry  Horn  Coal  Co.,  John  T.  Hesser  &  Co.,  and  the  Lu- 
maghi   Coal   Co. 


WILLIAM    J.    1 1 1  :<-  w  i:i\.    St.   Louis,    Missouri, 

President  Hegwein  Coal  Co.,  4800  Bulwer  Ave.,  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  was  born  February  17,  1876,  at  St.  Louis,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nve  years.  Mr.  Heg- 
wein was  formerly  connected  with  the  Stephan  Coal  Co. 
and  is  considered  one  of  the  enterprising  retail  coal  mer- 
chants of  his  city.  He  has  two  railroad  yards  located  on 
Florissant  and  Bircher  streets,  catering  exclusively  to  the 
north    end    trade. 


THOMAS  T.  BREWSTER,  St.  Louis,  Mo., 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
Mt.  Olive  &  Staunton  Coal  Co.,  1012 
Federal  Reserve  Bank  Building.  St. 
Louis,  was  born  March  31,  1867,  in 
Saco,  Maine,  and  has  been  a  producer 
of  coal  twenty-eight  years.  He  has 
been  President  of  the  Coal  Operators 
Association,  Fifth  and  Ninth  Districts 
of  Illinois;  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Accounting  and  Cost  of  Production, 
Fith  and  Ninth  Districts  of  Illinois 
Coal  Bureau;  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  and 
a  Director  of  the  National  Coal  Asso- 
ciation. 


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WILLIAM     J.    JENKINS,    St.    Louis.    Missouri, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  The  Consolidated  Coal 
Co.  of  St.  Louis,  was  born  February  5,  1873,  in  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Jenkins  is  President  of  the  Union  Fuel 
Co.,  St.  Louis.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  North- 
ern Pacific  Coal  Co.,  the  North  Western  Improvement  Co. 
and  Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Jenkins  has 
served  as  Vice  President-at-Large  of  the  South  West  In- 
terstate Coal  Operators  Association  since  1908  and  is  highly 
respected   in   coal   mining  circles. 


THADIIKIS  I).  PAYNE,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

General  Sales  Agent  The  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  of  St.  Louis, 
St.  Louis,  Missouri,  with  headquarters  in  Chicago,  was  born 
in  1878  in  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky.  His  early  business 
experience  was  with  railroads.  In  1903  he  became  Chief 
Clerk  to  the  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Western 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  In  1907 
he  was  called  to  the  same  position  with  the  President  of 
the  Western  Maryland  Railroad  and  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  Since  1910  he  has  held  his  present  position.  He  served 
as  Director  of  Industrial  Distribution  for  the  Fuel  Adminis- 
tration of  Illinois  during  the  Great  War. 


JOHN    HENDERSON,    St.    Louis,    Mo, 

President  West  Virginia  Coal  Co.  of 
Missouri,  St.  Louis,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 2,  1874,  in  Ohio,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  over  twenty  years. 
H<-  is  also  President  of  the  Superior 
Mining  Co..  Belleville;  Perry  County 
Coal  Corp.,  Coulterville;  St.  Ellen  Coal 
Co.,  O'Fallon;  Victoria  Coal  Co.,  Belle- 
ville: Liberty  Coal  &  Mining  Co., 
Renchler;  Gus  Blair  Big  Muddy  Coal 
Co.,  Murphysboro,  all  of  Illinois;  La- 
clede Coal  Co..  St.  Louis;  and  Vice 
President  Henderson-Wallace  Coal  Co., 
Marion,    Illinois. 


WALTER    F.     ill   i\i  .  M  .    St.    Louis.    Missouri, 

President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Heinecke  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.,  1940  South  Klngshighway,  St.  Louis,  was  born 
October  8,  1879,  in  Lenzburg,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Heinecke  is  one  of  the 
most  popular  St.  Louis  retailers  and  has  served  as  President 
of  the  St.  Louis  Coal  Club. 


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JOSEPH    D.   LIIMAGHI,   St.   Louis,   Missouri, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  Lumaghi  Coal  Co.,  606  Equitable 
Building,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  September  30,  1861, 
in  Collinsville,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-seven  years.  Mr.  Lumaghi  Is  interested  in  the  Wil- 
liamson County  Coal  Co.  of  St.  Louis. 


JOHN  C.  MUCKERMAN,  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 

Vice  President  of  the  Polar  Wave  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.  of  St. 
Louis,  was  born  November  8,  1868,  in  St.  Louis,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  He  started  with 
his  father,  who  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  ice  and  coal 
business  in  St.  Louis.  The  present  company  is  the  largest 
retail  coal  firm  in  the  city,  having  twenty-one  rail  yards 
scattered  in  different  parts  of  the  city  and  numerous  ice 
plants  which  supply  their  forty-two  retail  branches.  Mr. 
Muckerman  has  a  family  of  seven  children,  three  sons  and 
four   daughters. 


EDMUND    G.    HIDGWAY,    St.    Louis,   Missouri, 

Was  born  November  11,  1875,  in  Olney,  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Carterville  District  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Ridg- 
way  was  the  first  Secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  Coal  Club  and 
served   as   its   President   in   1917. 


EUGENE    STEVENS,   St.   Louis,  Mo., 

President  Crown  Coal  Co.,  1202  Central 
Bank  Building,  St.  Louis,  was  born 
May  12,  1872,  in  Harvard,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Benton  District  Coal  Co.,  and  Carroll 
&  Franklin  County  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Stevens  is  active  in  the  Fifth  and  Ninth 
District   Coal  Operators  Association. 


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WILLIAM    S.    SCOTT,    St.    Louis.    Missouri, 

President  and  General  Manager  Missouri  &  Illinois  Coal 
Co.,  St.  Louis,  was  born  December  13,  1862,  in  Fredericks- 
burg, Virginia.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty 
years.  Mr.  Scott  was  connected  with  the  T.  &  H.  Mining 
Co.  and  was  President  of  the  Scott-Wilson  Coal  Co.  eight 
years.  He  has  served  as  Representative  of  the  Seventh 
District   Illinois   Coal   Operators  Association. 


CLIFFORD    M.    SNOW,    St.    Louis,    Missouri. 

Manager  Snow  Coal  Co.,  Pierce  Bldg.,  St.  Louis,  was  born 
in  Liverpool,  Nova  Scotia,  Canada.  He  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  thirteen  years.  Mr.  Snow  was  formerly  Sales 
Agent  for  the  Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis,  and 
later  was  Manager  of  Sales  of  the  Durham  Coal  &  Iron  Co., 
Chattanooga,  Tennessee.  From  February  1,  1915,  he  was 
Sales  Agent  of  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  of  St.  Louis,  leav- 
ing their  service  June  1,  1918,  to  go  into  business  on  his 
own    account. 


WALTER  H.  I  \  HI  HU  hud.  St.  Louis, 
Manager  St.  Louis  office  of  the  Dom- 
hoff  &  Joyce  Co.,  Times  Building,  was 
born  March  »,  1882,  in  Cincinnati.  Ohio, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  and  coke  busi- 
ness ten  years.  Mr.  Underwood  spe- 
cializes in  the  sale  of  coke  and  has  a 
wide  circle  of  friends  In  the  St.  Louis 
territory. 


EDWARD    J.    WALLACE,   St.    Louis,  Missouri. 

Sales  Manager  Stephan  Coal  Co.,  St.  Louis,  was  born 
February  23,  1879.  In  New  Haven.  Connecticut,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  since  1905.  He  was  formerly 
Sales  Manager  for  the  Mississippi  Valley  Fuel  Co.  and 
Western  Sales  Manager  of  the  Dealers  Fuel  Co.  He  was 
Pictor  of  the  St.  Louis  Order  KoKoal,  and  organized  the 
Missouri  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association,  and  the  St.  Louis 
Coal  Club.  Hi'  is  sirving  as  advisor  to  Lieutenant  Gov- 
ernor Wallace  Ciiissli'v.  Fuel  Administrator  for  the  State 
of  Missouri,  and  advisor  to  the  Fuel  Committee  In  St.  Louis. 


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H.   11.    WESSEL.   St.   Louis,    Missouri, 

Sales  Manager  Kolb  Coal  Co.,  Mermod  &  Jaccard  Building, 
St.  Louis,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Illinois,  August  1,  1888,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He  has  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  coal  affairs  of  his  city,  and  was  elected 
President  of  the  St.  Louis  Coal  Club  in  April,  1918.  Mr. 
Wessel  was  formerly  connected  with  the  St.   Louis  Coal  Co. 


FRANK  M.    l[iei\Nn\     st.  Joseph.   Missouri, 

Wholesale  coal  merchant  of  St.  Joseph,  was  born  January 
23,  1870,  in  St.  Joseph,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen  years.  Mr.  Brinson  is  one  of  the  well-known  and 
enterprising  wholesalers  in  the  Southwest  and  has  many 
friends   in  the  coal  trade. 


MISSOURI  —  Kansas  City 


T.  PERCY  BRYAN,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Gray-Bryan- 
Sweeney  Coal  Co.,  New  England  Building,  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  Kansas  March  24,  1873,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  and  the  Kansas  & 
Texas  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Bryan  has  held  many  positions  of  honor 
in  the  trade — President  of  the  Correct  Weighing  Association 
of  Kansas  City,  President  of  the  Interstate  Retail  Coal 
Dealers'  Association,  and  of  the  Missouri  State  Retail  Coal 
Merchants'  Association,  a  Director  in  the  National  Coal 
Association,  and  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  National  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association,  and  has 
a  wide  acquaintance  throughout  the  country. 

JAMES  D.  COLE,  proprietor  of  Arkansas  Fuel  Co.,  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  was  born  in  1862  in  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis- 
consin, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-flve  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Loomis  Coal  Co.  and 
was  "Vice  President  of  the  Citizens  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Denver,  Colorado.  Mr.  Cole  has  served  as  President  of 
the  National  Hay  Association,  and  was  the  first  Secre- 
tary of  the  Operators  Association  of  Iowa,  Missouri  and 
Kansas. 

ALBERT  MELVIN  FELLOWS,  City  Manager  Jackson- 
Walker  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Kansas  City.  Missouri,  was 
horn  August  25,  1868,  in  Lincoln,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  Mr.  Fellows  has 
a  wide  acquaintance  and  is  popular  in  the  coal  trade 
through  the  Southwest.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  was  Fuel  Agent  of  the 
Missouri-Pacific  Railway,  and  General  Sales  Agent  of  the 
Gould  coal  properties. 

GEORGE  C.  GRAY,  President  Gray-Bryan-Sweeney  Co., 
New  England  Building,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  is  a  native 
of  New  England,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  twenty  years.  Mr.  Gray  is  also  President  of  the  Mis- 
souri City  Coal  Co.,  which  operates  a  mine  in  Missouri. 

EDWARD  C.  HANKS,  proprietor  of  Missouri-Kansas  Coal 
Co.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  August  19,  1886,  at 
Mechanicsburg,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  the   past   seven   years. 

HARRY  HARRIS,  Manager  and  Treasurer  Laning-Harris 
Coal  &  Grain  Co.  of  Kansas  City.  Missouri,  was  born  De- 
cember 21,  1849,  in  Maryland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  over  forty-five  years.  Mr.  Harris  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Petersburg  Coal  Co.  of  Petersburg, 
Illinois. 


HERSCHEL  M.  HERROLD,  JR.,  Mine  Superintendent  Her- 
rold-Breivogel  Coal  Co.,  successors  to  the  Herrold  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.,  Kansas  City.  Missouri,  was  born  August  18,  1879, 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Walnut  Creek 
Coal  Co. 

CHARLES  E.  KEARJVEY.  a  salesman  of  the  Central 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 9,  1870,  in  Kansas  City,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-two  years,  having  covered  South- 
western  Kansas  since  1897  for  his  company. 

CHAS.  S.  KEITH,  President  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Kansas  City.  Missouri,  was  born  January  28,  1873,  in  Kan- 
sas City,  and  has  been,  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
eight  years.  Mr.  Keith  is  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
prominent  coal  operators  and  lumbermen  in  the  Southwest, 
having  extensive  interests  in  several  states,  and  is  very 
highly  regarded  in  the  trade.  He  has  served  as  President 
of  the  Southwestern  Interstate  Coal  Operators  Associa- 
tion, President  of  the  Southern  Pine  Association,  Vice  Pres- 
ident of  the  National  Lumber  Association,  Director  of  the 
National  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  President  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Commercial  Club,  and  has  been  active  in  many 
movements   for   the  betterment  of  trade  or  civic  conditions. 

RICHARD  H.  KEITH,  President  Bell  Coal  Co.,  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  was  born  in  1882  in  Kansas  City,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr.  Keith  is  a 
son  of  the  late  R.  H.  Keith,  founder  of  the  Central  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  and  brother  of  Charles  S.  Keith,  the  present 
President  of  that  company.  He  was  also  connected  with  the 
Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  for  a  number  of  years.  He  went 
into  the  first  Officers'  Training  Camp. 

H.  G.  KELLOGG,  President  Midland  Coal  Co.,  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  was  born  December  31,  1875,  at  Salina,  Kansas, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Kellogg  is  also  interested  in  a  number  of  other  operat- 
ing companies.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Kan- 
sas City-Midland  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  has  served  as 
Vice  President  of  the  Southwestern  Operators  Association. 

CHARLES  H.  MARKHAM,  Sales  Manager  Interstate  Coal 
Co.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  September  12,  1874,  at 
Erie,  Kansas,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four- 
teen years.  Mr.  Markham  has  served  as  President  of  the 
South  Western  Steam   Shovel  Operators  Association. 

HARVEY  A.  MoDONALD,  Manager  Bell  Coal  Co.,  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  was  born  in  1876  in  Pennsylvania,  and  was 
Manager  of  the  City  Department  of  the  Central  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  twenty-one  years  before  assuming  his  present 
position. 


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EDW  tun  s.  \r.\  ii  s.  General  Manager  Nevius  Coal  Co., 
Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  January  15,  1864,  in  Law- 
rence County,  Ohio,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-three  years.  He  is  also  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger Nevius-Coulter  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  Cashier  and 
Assistant  Superintendent  of  the  Kansas  &  Texas  Coal  Co. 

H'KKDKIIIIK  WILLIAM  SCIIEHMES.  Vice  President  and 
Manager  of  the  Katzmaier  Coal  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
was  bom  November  12,  1873,  in  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business   for    twenty-two   years. 

HOBKHT  I..  SMITH  of  Smith  Bros.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
was  born  August  12.  1865,  in  Jackson  County,  Missouri,  and 
has    been    in    the    coal    business    for    twelve    years. 

HOWARD  \.  »\I\ELY.  ISO*  Kensington  Ave.,  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  a  salesman  for  T.  C.  Keller  &  Co..  Chicago, 
horn  February  7,  1x7  3.  in  Wathena,  Kansas,  and  has 
liven  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Blackbird  Block  Coal  Co.  at  Union- 
rllle,  Missouri,  for  rive  years,  and  Is  well  known  among  the 
coal    trade    of    the   Southwest. 

n\im\n  ii.  >\\  WSON,  General  Manager  Lehigh  & 
Havens  Lumber  Co..  Kansas  <'ity,  Missouri,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1878,  at  Stanton,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  twenty-one  years. 

Ernest  It.  sweenei.  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager  Gray-Bryan-Sweeney  Coal  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
was  born  in  1867  at  Fort  Scott,  Kansas,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Sweeney  Is  one 
of  the  most  popular  coal  men  in  the  Southwest  and  was 
formerly  with  the  Keith  &  Perry  Coal  Co.  and  the  Central 
Coal   &  Coke  CO. 

QEORGE  T.  walker.  President  Jackson-Walker  Coal 
,v  Mining  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  born  April  4, 
1866.  in  Princeton,  Illinois,  and  died  May  8,  1918,  at  his 
home  in  Kansas  City.  lie  had  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-four  years.  Sir.  Walker  was  one  of  the  prominent 
coal  operators  of  the  Southwest,  having  been  interested  in 
the  Toluca  Coal  Co.  and  the  Marceline  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 

M  I  S  S  0  U  R  I  —  St.  Louis 

x  i  in  ii  I  J.  \\  I'.HY.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Avery  Coal 
.v  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  April  15,  1876, 
in  St.  Clair  County.  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  the  first  Secretary  of 
the  Fifth  and  Ninth  Districts  Operators  Association  of 
Illinois. 

RICHARD  J.  BEYER,  Credit  Manager  Hegwein  Coal  Co., 
1401  North  Park  PI.,  St.  Louis.  Missouri,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 29.  1886,  in  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  for  over  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Polar  Wave  Ice  &  Fuel  Co. 

EDWARD  DEVOY,  proprietor  Edward  Devoy  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  in  August,  1846,  at 
St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  continuously 
for  over  forty-five  years.  Mr.  Devoy  is  considered  the  dean 
of  St.  Louis  coal  men  and  is  President  of  the  Coal  Service 
Bureau  of  St.  Louis. 

R.  K.  KUGKBRGCHT,  Sales  Manager  Southern  Coal,  Coke 
A  Mining  Co..  700  Security  Building,  St.  Louis.  Missouri, 
was  born  February  5,  1877,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  Devoy  &  Kuhn  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

FRANK  R.  ELLIS,  President  Ellis  &  Richmer  Coal  Co., 
St.  Louis.  Missouri,  was  born  July  20,  1876,  in  Eatontown, 
New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four 
years.  Mr.  Ellis  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Maguire 
Coal  Co.  for  twenty-two  years. 

L.OIIS  A.  GOLTERMANN,  proprietor  Hinrichs-Goltermann 
Fuel  &  Material  Co..  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 14,  1S7  1.  at  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   eight    years. 

ALEXANDER  W.  HAMILTON,  Southwestern  Sales  Agent 
of  The  Peabody  Coal  Co.,  Syndicate  Trust  Building.  St. 
Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  February  19.  1878,  at  Newark, 
New   Jersey,   and   has   been   in   business  eighteen    years. 

HARRY  F.  HKKWKIX,  Sales  Agent  Hegwein  Coal  Co.  of 
St.  Louis.  Missouri,  was  horn  in  1882  in  St.  Louis  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Inland  Valley  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Stephan   Coal  Co. 

THOMAS  M.  JENKINS,  President  and  General  Manager 
St.  Louis  <Si  O'Fallon  Coal  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was 
born  July  4.  1860,  in  Albany,  New  York,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  eight  years. 

HICHABL   ■>.  JOYCB,  General  Sales  Agent  Bickett  Coal  & 

Coke   Co.,    St     1 is.    Missouri,   was  born   September   29,   1868, 

In  Ireland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four 
years.  Mr.  Joyce  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Madison 
Coal  Corp.   and    the    Illllsboro  Coal   Co. 


CHARLES  II.  KRAl'SK,  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager The  Willis  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
was  born  November  21,  1873,  In  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  Mr.  Krause  has 
served  as  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Coal  Operators 
Association  of  the   Fifth  and   Ninth   Districts  of  Illinois. 

E.  Ji  KRAI  si:.  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Willis 
Coal  &  Mining  Co..  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  August 
26,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty 
years. 

ERNEST  I,.  MAY,  General  Sales  Agent  St.  Louis  Coal 
Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  December  16,  1885,  at  Mar- 
ion, Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  St.  Louis- 
Carterville  Coal  Co.  Mr.  May  is  very  energetic  and  has 
taken  a  great  Interest  in  the  National  Coal  Jobbers  Asso- 
ciation. He  Is  also  Secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  Coal  Club  and 
President  of  the  Clinker  Club  of  St.  Louis,  both  important 
factors   in   St.   Louis   coal   affairs. 

homer    f.    mi-donald.    President    M.tcor   Coal   Co.,   St. 

Louis.  Missouri,  was  horn  July  22.  1885,  In  Pinckneyville. 
Illinois,    and    has    been    in    the    roal    business    fourteen    rears, 

lie    was   connected    formerly    with    the    White    Walnut    Coal 

Co..  Madison  Coal  Corp.,-  and  the  Berry-  Bergs  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
McDonald  served  for  two  rears  as  Plctor  of  the  St.  Louis 
hreaker  of  the  Order  KoKoal. 

LOUIS  KBBBHOFF,  traffic  Manager  Hegwein  Coal  Co., 
St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  horn  In  St.  Louis  and  has  been  in 
the    coal   business   for   eight  years. 

ROBERT  A.  NICKMtiSJ  t\.  President  Gartslde  Coal  Co.,  St. 
Louis.  Missouri,  was  born  in  1874  In  St.  Louis,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Gartside  Land  Co. 

J.  J.  O'DONNELL,  General  Manager  West  Virginia  Coal 
Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  also  President  of  the  City  Coal  Co. 
of  St.  Louis,  a  retail  company  doing  an  extensive  business 
and  operating  three  yards,  was  born  November,  1880,  in 
New  York  City,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen 
years.  He  was  connected  with  the  Lumaghi  Coal  Co.,  hav- 
ing been  Sales  and  Traffic  Manager  for  that  company  ten 
years. 

ARTHUR  II.  PAI'LE,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Paule  Fuel  &  Material  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born 
September  9.  lSfiS,  in  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for    thirty-three    years. 

CHARLES  QVADE,  President  Charles  Quade  Coal  & 
Hauling  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  December  22,  1881, 
in  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years. 

HARRY'  C.  RICHMER,  Vice  President  and  Treasurer 
Ellis  &  Richmer  Coal  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born 
May  21,  1885,  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Maguire  Coal  Co. 

PHILIP  A.  RILEY,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  City  Coal 
Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  February  13,  1881,  at 
Montgomery  City,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Lumaghi  Coal  Co.  and  has  served  as  Treasurer  of  the 
St.   Louis  Coal   Club. 

ALEXANDER  W.  RORERTSON,  Southwestern  Sales 
Agent  Taylor  Coal  Co.  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born 
November  25,  1887,  in  Pullman,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  is  also  interested 
in  the  A.  W.  Robertson  Coal  Co.  at  Charleston,  Missouri, 
and  is  President  of  the  Energy  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Cape 
Girardeau,  Missouri.  Mr.  Robertson  was  formerly  connect- 
ed  with   the   New  Kentucky  Coal  Co.   at  Chicago   until   1909. 

WILLIAM  S.  SNYDER,  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager I-X-L  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was 
born  May  25.  1868,  at  McArthur,  Ohio,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  about  twenty  years.  His  company  oper- 
ates two  retail  yards  in  St.  Louis. 

WILLIAM  J.  SPVERING,  Bookkeeper  Hegwein  Coal  Co.. 
St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  February  8,  1867,  in  St.  Louis, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  Donk  Bros.  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

ED.    E.    si(i  ii:k.    President    Ed.    E.    Squier    Co.,    St.    Louis, 

Missouri,  was  horn  February  14.  1842.  In  New  Jersey,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

E.  E.  SQIIER,  JR.,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
Ed.  K.  Squier  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  March  30. 
1879,  in  Pierre  City,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  nine  years.  He  Is  now  Captain  in  the  Ordnance 
Department,    1".  S.  R..  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

ROBERT  HAROLD  SQL'IER,  Secretary  Ed.  E.  Squier 
Co..  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  September  23,  1884,  In 
St.   Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  ten  years. 


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MICHAEL  E.  SULLIVAN,  coal  merchant,  La  Salle  Build- 
ing, St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  December  11,  1859,  in 
St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Maguire 
Coal  Co.,   Consolidated   Coal  Co.,  and   the   St.  Louis   Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  CLINTON  TAYLOR,  Sales  Agent  Johnson  City 
Coal  Co.,  St.  Louis.  Missouri,  was  born  July  28,  1889,  at 
Divernon,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Madi- 
son Coal  Corp.,  Williamson  Coal  Co.,  and  Southern  Illinois 
Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

LOUIS  H.  TIEMANN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  4318  Gra- 
vois  Ave.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  February  10,  1863, 
in  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
two  years. 

FRANK  F.  TIRRE,  Assistant  General  Manager  North 
Breese  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born 
August  8.  1871,  in  St.  Louis,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Tirre  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Tirre  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  the  Northern 
Colorado  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Tirre  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the 
Fifth  and  Ninth  Districts  Coal  Operators  Association  and 
was  Modoc  of  the  St.  Louis  Order  of  KoKoal. 

HENRY  C.  TRIER,  Sales  Agent  D.  E.  McMillan  &  Co., 
St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  September  29,  1877,  at  St. 
Joseph;  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over 
twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Madison  Coal  Corp.  and  the  Western  Anthracite  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  Mr.  Trier  has  served  as  Treasurer  of  the  St. 
Louis   Coal   Club. 

ORVILLE  VIRDEN,  General  Manager  of  the  Laclede  Coal 
Co.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  in  1878  in  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Smith  Lohr  Coal  &  Mining  Co., 
the  Southern  Illinois  Coke  &  Coal  Co..  St.  Louis  &  OFallon 
Coal  Co.,  and  the  West  Virginia  Coal  Co. 

NATHAN  P.  WITHINGTON,  President  and  Treasurer 
Pioneer  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  1106  Syndicate  Trust  Building, 
St.  Louis.  Missouri,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  California, 
August  27,  1881,  and  has  been  nineteen  years  in  the  coal 
business.  He  was  formerly  with  DeCamp  Bros,  and  the 
Yule  Iron,  Coal  &  Coke  Co:,  St.  Louis. 

ALEXANDER  YULE,  Vice  President  and  Secretary  Pio- 
neer Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  1109  Syndicate  Trust  Building,  St. 
Louis,  Missouri,  was  born  in  England  September  19,  1870, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, all  in  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Yule  has  held  positions  of  honor 
in  the  St.  Louis  Coal  Club,  and  in  1918  was  with  the  United 
States  Fuel  Administration,  Washington,  D.  C,  in  charge 
of  the  distribution  of  blaeksmithing  coal  in  the  United 
States,  Canada,  Old  Mexico,  and  South  America.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  St.  Louis 
(Federal)    Fuel   Committee. 


MISSOURI 


ROBERT  W.  ALLARDICE,  President  Allardice  Coal  Co., 
Trenton,  Missouri,  was  born  October  12,  1862,  in  Ayrshire, 
Scotland,  and  has  been   in   the   coal  business  thirty  years. 

OSCAR  F.  ARNOLD  of  the  Arnold  Wood  &  Coal  Co., 
Webb  City,  Missouri,  was  born  January  7,  1844,  in  Franklin 
County,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fif- 
teen  years. 

F.  WM.  AUTENRIETH,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Clayton 
Supply  Co.,  Clayton,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Clayton  August 
3,  1891,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  nine  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  St.  Louis  County  Supply  Co.  Mr. 
Autenrieth  is  interested  in  the  Autenrieth  Hotel,  is  Secretary 
of  the  George  Autenrieth  Estate  Co.,  and  while  one  of  the 
youngest  coal  men  in  St.  Louis  County  is  Chairman  of  the 
Organization  Committee  and  Advisory  Board  of  the  Fuel 
Administration  for  St.  Louis  County. 

CLARENCE  J.  BAXTER,  Secretary  Big  Creek  Coal  Co., 
Kirksville,  Missouri,  was  born  August  31,  1870,  at  Prairie 
Du  Sac,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Star  Coal 
Co.   at   Kirksville,    Missouri. 

FRITZ  BOEDEKER,  Manager  Boedeker  Coal  Co.,  Hig- 
ginsville,  Missouri,  was  born  February  19,  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

WILLIAM  BURGER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Boonville, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  February  20,  1859, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  sixteen  years. 

D.  A.  CHILDERS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  La  Grange. 
Missouri,  was  born  in  La  Grange  and  bought  out  the  La 
Grange  Coal  &  Feed  Co.  in  1911. 

GEORGE  A.  COOPER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Neosho, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  1859  in  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 


JAMES  L.  CREASON,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  River  Side 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Camden,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Winston, 
Missouri,  November  18,  1883. 

CHARLES  AUGUSTUS  CRUIKSHANK,  General  Manager 
Cruikshank  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  was 
born  September  3,  1869,  in  Hannibal,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  about  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Cruikshank 
is  well  known  in  the  trade  and  has  always  taken  an  inter- 
est in  retail  coal  association  affairs.  He  was  President  of 
the  Mid-State  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association  in  1901  and 
1902;  Treasurer  of  National  Council  of  Retail  Coal  Mer- 
chants, 1901  to  1907;  Vice  President  of  the  Northwestern 
Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association,  1909  to  1915,  and  since  that 
Vice  President  Northwestern   Traffic  and  Service  Bureau. 

JOSEPH  C.  CULBERTSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Tar- 
kio,  Missouri,  was  born  May  17,  1850,  at  Pittsburgh,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty- 
five  years. 

C.  P.  DAVIDSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  De  Soto,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  in  1870  in  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  the   last  twelve  years. 

HENRY  T.  DEMAREE,  General  Manager  Anaconda  Coal 
Co.,  Clinton,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Henry  County,  Kentucky, 
November  1,  1862,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  mining  of 
coal  thirty-six  years.  He  was  connected  at  one  time  with 
Demaree  &  Whitworth  and  Thompson  &  Demaree. 

CARROLL  CASVILLE  DE  SHON,  Manager  DeShon  &  Son, 
Cameron,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Buchanan  County,  Missouri, 
February  16,  1886,  and  has  been  four  years  in  the  retail  coal 
business. 

WILLIAM  A.  DOEHERTY,  Manager  Doeherty  Fuel  Co., 
Clinton,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Kansas  in  1889,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

JOHN  DONAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Mound  City,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  July  9,  1873,  in  Mound  City,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business  for   five   years. 

SAMUEL  L.  EVANS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Cameron, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  Stanberry,  Missouri,  March  7,  1865. 

ANDREW  FINLAYSON,  senior  member  of  Finlayson  &  Son, 
Carrollton,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Lanarkshire,  Scotland,  June 
24,  1860,  and  has  been  thirty-one  years  in  the  coal  business. 
He  was  in  business  for  himself  and  later  with  Finlayson  & 
Ryan. 

JOHN  T.  FINLAYSON,  junior  member  of  Finlayson  &  Son, 
Carrollton,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Carrollton  October  3,  1886, 
and  has  been  with  the   present  firm  since   1906. 

J.  W.  FITZPATRICK  of  the  Clark  Coal  Co.,  Perry,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  in  1861  in  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 

ALONZO  E.  FRAZER  of  the  firm  of  Frazer  &  Hall  of 
Savannah,  Missouri,  was  born  in  1862  at  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  two 
years. 

CLARENCE  EVERETT  FULTON,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Malta  Bend,  Missouri,  was  born  March  30,  1857,  in  Ohio, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 

EDWARD  GANNON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Glasgow, 
Missouri,  was  born  August  1,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with    the   Consolidated   Coal   Co.    of   St.   Louis. 

FRANK  J.  GITTINGS,  coal  merchant  of  Neosho,  Missouri, 
was  born  March  11,  1875,  in  St.  Paul,  Kansas,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for   thirteen   years. 

STILING  PRICE  GUTHRIE,  General  Manager  Guthrie  & 
Sons  of  Mexico,  Missouri,  was  born  November  24,  1863,  in 
Mexico,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 
The  business  was  started  by  Joel  Guthrie  in  1875. 

WILLIAM  H.  HAAS,  President  Eagle  Coal  Co.,  Vandalia, 
Missouri,  was  born  December  12,  1887,  at  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

JAMES  F.  HAGGART,  proprietor  Haggart  Ice  &  Fuel 
Co.  at  Joplin,  Missouri,  born  March  7,  1866,  at  Madison, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen 
years.  He  has  served  as  Vice  President  of  Joplin  Retail 
Coal   Dealers   Association. 

EDWARD  C.  HALL,  Manager  Aurora  Coal  Co.,  retailers  at 
Aurora,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Neosho,  Missouri,  November 
18,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  T.  A.  Miller  Lumber  Co.,  with 
eight  branch  yards,  all  of  which  handle  coal. 

WILLIAM  HOUK,  Treasurer  Minden  Coal  Co.,  Joplin, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness since  1914. 

CHARLES  A.  HOWELL,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant 
at  Springfield,  Missouri,  was  born  November  1,  1866,  in  Ray 
County,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
sixteen  years.  Mr.  Howell  was  President  of  the  Springfield 
Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association  for  two  years  and  con- 
tinues to   serve   as   one   of   the   directors. 


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0.  S.  HUBERT,  General  Manager  of  the  Minden  Coal  Co., 
Hinden  Mines,  Missouri,  was  born  March  3,  1877,  in  France, 
and  has  been  engaged  in  coal  mining  fourteen  years  and 
In  operating  coal  mines  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Hubert  is 
also  President  and  Manager  of  the  Cherokee-Girard  Coal 
Co.    and    the    O.    S.    Hubert   Coal    Co. 

FRANK  I,.  JAMISON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Shelby- 
ville.  Missouri,  was  born  February  8,  1863,  in  Kails  County, 
Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

THOMAS  H.  JAHHAV,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bolivar, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  Osage  County,  Missouri,  February  19, 
1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years,  all 
the  time  in  Bolivar.  Mr.  Jarman  was  the  first  retailer  to 
introduce  Arkansas  semi-anthracite  and  Illinois  bituminous 
coal  In  his  home  city. 

WILLIAM  N.  JENNINGS,  Manager  Central  Coal  &  Sup- 
ply Co.  of  Moberly,  Missouri,  was  born  August  28,  1892,  in 
Moberly,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 
This  company  wholesales  coal  and  building  material  and 
sells  the  output  of  several  small  mines  at  Huntsville,  Mis- 
souri. Mr.  Jennings  was  formerly  a  salesman  for  the  North- 
ern Central  Coal  Co.,  The  Monon  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Coal 
Hill   Coal  Co. 

CHARLES  V.  JOHNSON  of  the  W.  E.  Johnson  Coal  Co., 
Joplin,  Missouri,  was  born  April  8,  1877,  and  is  associated 
in   business  with   his    father. 

W.  E.  JOHNSON  of  the  W.  E.  Johnson  Coal  Co.,  Joplin, 
Missouri,  was  born  July  31,  1845,  in  Jasper  County,  Mis- 
souri, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years. 

J.  GARNET  JOLLY,  Manager  Sedalia  Trading  Co.,  Se- 
dalia,  Missouri,  was  born  January  26,  1886,  in  Sedalia. 

FLOYD  D.  JONES,  Manager  F.  D.  Jones  &  Co.  of  Mar- 
shall, Missouri,  was  born  February  3,  1888,  at  Malta  Bend, 
Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three 
years.     He  is  interested  in  a  yard  at  Independence,  Missouri. 

ERNEST  LINWOOD  JORDAN,  President  River  Side  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.,  Camden,  Missouri,  was  born  near  Camden, 
March  17,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

CHARLES  R.  KELLY,  General  Sales  Agent  Northern  Cen- 
tral Coal  Co.,  Moberly,  Missouri,  was  born  September  4, 
1891,  at  Milan,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   six   years. 

1.  C.  KNOTTS,  Manager  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  St. 
Joseph,  Missouri,  was  born  March  15,  1865,  in  Knottsville, 
West  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
eight  years.  Mr.  Knotts  is  well  known  to  the  coal  trade 
of  the  Southwest  and  has  many  warm  friends.  He  was 
recently  elected  President  of  the  Missouri  Retail  Coal  Mer- 
chants Association. 

L.  G.  KRUEL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Washington,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  October  16,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Kruel  owns  and  operates 
a  general  merchandise  store,  retail  coal  business,  and  is 
Cashier  of  the  Franklin  County  Bank. 

FRANCIS  ASHBY  WAKE  LEWIN,  Superintendent  North 
Breese  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  of  Breese,  Illinois,  who  lives 
at  436  Park  Ave.,  Webster  Grove,  Missouri,  was  born  in 
1873  in  England,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years.  He  has  held  the  position  of  electrician  and 
superintendent  In  several  large  Illinois  coal  mining  com- 
panies. 

C.  E.  LINGSWEILER,  Buyer  J.  G.  Lingsweiler  Lumber 
Co.  of  Lebanon,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Lebanon  in  1872. 
He  is  associated  with  his  brother,  A.  S.  Lingsweiler,  suc- 
ceeding their  father   in  business. 

ROLLA  V.  MARTIN,  Manager  C.  C.  Martin  &  Son,  Excel- 
sior Springs,  Missouri,  was  born  February  10,  1882,  in  Ex- 
celsior Springs  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years. 

O.  J.  MAYBERRY,  Manager  Mayberry,  Byington  &  Tul- 
lock  at  Farmington,  Missouri,  was  born  in  1854  in  Cum- 
berland County,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eight  years. 

ARTHUR  FREDERIC  m  .  I  ill  i ■:  M I ..  Division  Sales  Agent 
of  the  Pittsburgh  &  Midway  Coal  Mining  Co.  of  Joplin, 
Missouri,  was  born  November  15,  1888,  at  Peru,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with   the  Fidelity  Coal  Mining  Co. 

EDWARD  J.  McGREW,  President  McGrew  Coal  Co.  of 
Lexington,  Missouri,  a  well  known  Missouri  coal  operator, 
was  born  April  23.  1872,  at  Lexington,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years.  Mr.  McGrew  has 
served  as  a  Director  of  the  Southwestern  Coal  Operators 
Association. 


ARCH  F.  MEYER,  proprietor  Arch  F.  Meyer  Fuel  & 
Feed  Co.,  Hannibal,  Missouri,  was  born  September  8,  1878, 
at  Hannibal,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
two   years. 

WILLIAM  E.  MOORE,  coal  merchant  of  Independence, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  Independence  March  17,  1877,  and  has 
been    In    the    coal    business    for    twelve    years. 

J.  I*.  MORGAN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Duenweg,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  December  24,  1858,  in  Clay  County,  Illinois, 
and   has   been    in    the   coal    business  about   twelve   years. 

WALTER  T.  OLDEHWORTH,  General  Manager  Clayton 
Supply  Co.,  Clayton,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Clayton  December 
14,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  Clayton  real  estate  and  St. 
Louis  County  farm  lands,  and  active  in  church  work.  He 
was  formerly  with  J.  G.  Weber  Co.,  Beckmann  Bros.,  and 
St.  Louis  County  Supply  Co. 

CHARLES  H.  PAYSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Macon, 
Missouri,  was  born  January  4,  1875,  in  Macon,  and  has  been 
in   the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 

ISADORE  PICKERING,  President  Pickering  Coal  Co.  of 
Richmond,  Missouri,  who  operates  six  mines  in  Missouri, 
was  born  in  1862  at  Kingston,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   since  May   5,    1889. 

JOHN  REESE,  Manager  Crescent  Coal  Co.,  Browington, 
Missouri,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1876,  and  has  passed  his  life 
about   the  mines. 

P.  H.  RUTHERFORD,  General  Manager  P.  H.  &  J.  T. 
Rutherford,  Hannibal,  Missouri,  was  born  January  3,  1869, 
in  Marion  County,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen    years. 

EDWARD  SIMPSON,  JR.,  Foreman  Central  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Bevier,  Missouri,  was  born  in  England  October  24,  1873, 
and  has  been  in  the  mining  end  of  the  coal  business  thirty- 
one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  North  Western  Coal  & 
Mining  Co. 

JAMES  CLINTON  SPAHR,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Skid- 
more,  Missouri,  was  born  September  19,  1858,  in  Xenia,  Ohio, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal   business  for  fifteen  years. 

J.  G.  STARR,  President  Minden  Coal  Co.,  Joplin,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  in  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness   for    two   years. 

E.  B.  STOCKTON  of  the  firm  of  Stockton  &  Lampkin  of 
Warrensburg,  Missouri,  was  born  March  6,  1869,  in  Warrens- 
burg,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  The 
present  firm  was  formed  in  1907.  Associated  with  Mr. 
Stockton  are  J.  H.  Lampkin  and  G.  M.  Boyd,  who  also  oper- 
ate the  Boyd  Coal  Co.,  mining  coal  and  operating  a  steam 
shovel.      All   their   coal   is   sold   for   local   use. 

WALTER  A.  STORRS,  President  and  Treasurer  Storrs 
Ice  &  Coal  Co.  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  was  born  December 
3,  1874,  in  Hannibal,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-three  years.  This  business  was  established  by 
George  W.  Storrs,  father  of  Walter  A.  Storrs,  in  partnership 
with  James  P.  Hinton  in  1871  and  in  1910  the  Storrs  took 
over  the  Hinton  interest.  The  firm  does  a  large  retail 
coal  and  ice  business. 

ERNEST  A.  STORY,  Owner  and  Manager  E.  A.  Story  Coal 
Co.,  Charleston.  Missouri,  was  born  in  Charleston  July  27, 
1891,  and  has  been  three  years  in  the  retail  coal  business. 

MICHAEL  w.  SUMMERS  of  Alma,  Missouri,  was  born  in 
1846  in  Ireland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifty- 
five  years.  Mr.  Summers  came  to  Missouri  from  Pennsyl- 
vania in  1867. 

J.  S.  THOMAS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Pleasant  Hill, 
Missouri,  was  born  October  13,  1859,  at  Syracuse,  Indiana, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty-three 
years. 

JAMES  R.  TUCKER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Fulton,  Mis- 
souri, was  horn  in  November,  1873,  in  Fulton,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for  the  last   ten  years. 

JOHN  J.  WARD,  Superintendent  Kansas  City-Midland 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.  of  Novinger,  Missouri,  was  born  in 
1862  in  Mendota,  Missouri,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Mendota  Committee  and  has  served  on  the  scale  com- 
mittees of  the  Southwestern  Interstate  Coal  Operators 
Association. 

THOMAS  WEDGE,  Superintendent  McGrew  Coal  Co.  of 
Lexington,  Missouri,  was  born  July  31,  1872,  In  England, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years, 
sixteen  of  which   have   been  with  this  present  firm. 


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'EASURED  by  the  records  of  many  of  the  states 
east  of  the  Mississippi  river  the  commercial 
development  of  the  coal  resources  of  Montana 
is  still  very  much  in  the  infant  stage,  but  this  junior- 
ship  is  of  typical  lusty  western  character  and  has  al- 
ready attained  a  production  close  to  4,000,000  tons  per 
annum,  while  the  extent  of  the  coal  measures  in  the 
state  has  attracted  wide  attention  from  government  geo- 
logical experts  and  the  output  is  rapidly  growing  in 
practical  economic  importance.  Although  limited  in  its 
area  of  distribution,  both  because  of  transportation  con- 
ditions and  freight  rates  and  the  competition  of  coals 
from  other  fields  in  the  states  to  the  east,  demand  within 
its  own  borders  and  from  the  railroads  absorbs  the 
greater  percentage  of  the  output. 

In  character  the  Montana  coal  fields  range  from  bitu- 
minous through  sub-bituminous  to  lignite  and  are  esti- 
mated to  underlie  34,000  square  miles  of  territory  to 
a  depth  of  two  feet  and  more  within  the  state.  The 
largest  field  of  sub-bituminous  and  lignitic  formation 
is  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  state  and  includes  most  of 
Rosebud,  Custer,  Dawson  and  Valley  counties.  The 
sub-bituminous  coal  is  classified  by  the  United  States 
Geological  Survey  as  "low  grade"  and  finds  its  principal 
market  locally  in  the  vicinity  of  Miles  City  and  Glen- 
dive.  The  eastern  section  of  the  lignite  area  lying  in 
Dawson  county — known  as  the  Sentinel  Butte  field  of 
North  Dakota  and  Montana — is  part  of  the  Fort  Union 
region  which  covers  a  considerable  area  in  northern 
Wyoming,  eastern  Montana,  western  Xorth  Dakota  and 
northwestern  South  Dakota.  Mining  on  a  commercial 
scale  has  been  developed  at  Glendive,  25  miles  to  the 
west  of  the  Sentinel  Butte  field,  but  although  operations 
in  the  region  just  named  were  carried  on  by  the  North- 
ern Pacific  Railway  in  the  early  '80s,  these  have  long 
since  been  abandoned  and  at  present  the  production  is 
of  purely  local  character. 

The  Bull  Mountain  field,  which  the  United  States 
Geological  Survey  believes  is  destined  to  take  the  lead 
among  producing  areas  in  the  state,  was  the  subject  of 
geological  attention  as  early  as  1881.  That  part  of  the 
field  of  commercial  importance,  the  eastern,  lies  south 
of  the  Musselshell  river,  between  Roundup  and  Mus- 
selshell, extending  southward  for  a  distance  of  25  miles 
and  estimated  to  contain  between  500  and  600  square 


miles  of  coal  lands.  As  many  as  14  distinct  beds  have 
been  chartered  in  the  Bull  Mountains.  Some  of  the 
measures  are  from  three  to  five  feet  thick  and  one,  ap- 
propriately known  as  the  "Mammoth  Seam,"  is  from 
eight  to  15  feet  in  thickness. 

For  the  present,  however,  the  Red  Lodge  field,  located 
in  Yellowstone  county  in  the  vicinity  of  Red  Lodge  and 
Bear  Creek,  is  of  the  greatest  commercial  importance. 
The  coal  here  is  "sub-bituminous  in  character,  but  so 
near  the  dividing  line  between  sub-bituminous  and  bitu- 
minous that  it  is  rather  difficult  to  classify."  The  beds 
in  this  field,  of  which  seven  are  known  to  exist,  range 
from  three  feet  to  12  feet  in  thickness  and  cover  an 
area  of  approximately  32  square  miles.  "It  is  about 
the  same  quality  as  the  coal  of  the  Bull  Mountain  field 
and  both  are  classed  as  high  grade  sub-bituminous 
coals." 

The  Great  Falls  field,  which  enjoys  a  large  share  of 
the  copper  smelting  business  at  Anaconda  and  Great 
Falls,  is  in  Cascade  county  and  is  the  scene  of  heavy 
operations.  Mines  located  at  Sand  Coulee,  Stockett  and 
Belt  produce  a  considerable  percentage  of  the  output  of 
the  state.  Geologically  speaking  these  coal  measures 
extending  to  the  eastward  nearly  across  Fergus  county 
and  southwcstward  for  a  number  of  miles  up  Hound 
Creek,  are.  with  one  exception,  the  oldest  in  the  state. 
The  principal  commercial  development,  however,  is  in 
Cascade  countv,  Lewiston  furnishing  the  leading  con- 
sinning  market  for  the  Fergus  county  coal. 

Of  minor  importance  are  the  Bridger  field  of  bitu- 
minous coal  in  Carbon  county  to  the  east  of  the  Red 
Lodge  sub-bituminous  area,  the  sub-bituminous  district 
along  the  Milk  river  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the 
state  in  Chouteau  county  and  the  Trail  Creek  and  Elec- 
tric fields. 

The  first  government  record  of  production  in  Mon- 
tana was  in  1880,  when  an  output  of  224  tons  was  re- 
ported. Developments  for  the  next  few  years  were  ir- 
regular, jumping  from  19.795  tons  in  1883  to  80,376 
tons  in  1884,  increasing  to  86,440  tons  in  1885  and 
dropping  to  49,846  tons  the  following  year  and  to  10,202 
tons  in  1887.  In  1888  production  rose  to  41.467  tons 
and  in  1889  had  increased  to  363,301  tons.  Production 
for  the  succeeding  years  was  517.477,  541,861.  802,309, 
and  927.395  tons  respectively.     In  1895  the  1,000,000.- 


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ton  murk  was  passed  with  an  output  of  1,504,193  tons. 
Production  statistics  since  that  date  are  as  follows: 


Year.  Ton. 

1896 1,543,445 

1897 1,647,882 

1898 1,479,803 

1899 1,496.451 

1900 1,661,775 

1901 1,396,081 

1902 1,560,823 

1903 1,488,810 

1904 1,358,919 

1905 1,643,832 

1906 1,829,921 


Year.  Ton. 

1907 2,016,857 

1908 1,920,190 

1909 2,553,940 

1910 2,920,970 

1911 2,976,358 

1912 3,048,495 

1913 3,240,973 

1914 2,805,173 

1915 2,789,755 

1916 3,632,527 


I  "ruler  normal  conditions  little  of  the  Montana  pro- 
duction has  been  able  to  enter  markets  outside  of  the 
state.  In  1915,  for  example,  1,638,750  tons,  or  approxi- 
mately 59  per  cent.,  was  consumed  in  Montana.  Of  this 
tonnage  122,592  tons  were  hurried  at  the  mines  for 
steam  and  heat.  105,924  tons  were  sold  locally,  and 
1,410,234  tons  were  shipped  to  various  points  within 
the  state.  The  railroads  purchased  1,050,319  tons,  or 
approximately  38  per  cent,  of  the  output.    The  remain- 


ing three  per  cent.,  or  100,686  tons,  was  distributed  as 
follows:  Idaho,  9.311  tons;  North  Dakota.  I  l.M  1  : 
South  Dakota,  25,702  ;  and  Washington,  20,859. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  per  capita  bituminous  con- 
sumption Montana,  with  4.76  tons,  ranks  third  in  the 
list  of  states,  being  exceeded  only  by  Illinois  and  Dela- 
ware. Although  its  anthracite  consumption  is  very 
small.  .01  ton,  the  heavy  bituminous  consumption  en- 
ables it  to  maintain  a  high  place  in  the  total  per  capita 
consumption.  The  showing  with  respect  to  square  mile 
consumption,  however,  is  naturally  far  below  the  coun- 
try-wide average,  being  15  tons  against  123  tons.  In 
1915,  Montana  drew  over  72  per  cent,  of  its  coal  re- 
quirements from  its  own  mines.  The  total  consumption 
for  the  state,  including  5,000  tons  of  Pennsylvania  an- 
thracite, was  2,258,711  tons.  As  shown  in  the  preced- 
ing paragraph,  1,638,750  tons  of  this  amount  were  of 
Montana  origin.  Wyoming  came  second,  contributing 
."94,602  tons;  Utah  third,  with  17,301  tons;  eastern 
dock  coal  receipts  totaled  3,000  tons,  while  an  all-rail 
movement  of  58  tons  from  Maryland,  probably  for 
smithing  purposes,  was  also  reported. 


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MONTANA 


JOHN  AUSTIN  BLESSING,  coal  jobber,  Great  Falls,  Mon- 
tana, was  born  August  6,  1887,  in  White  Sulphur  Springs, 
Montana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  Mr. 
Blessing  was  previously  connected  with  the  Sandcoulee  Coal 
Co.,  Monarch  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  National  Fuel  Co.  He  has  been  engaged  in  business 
for   himself   since   February    9,    1918. 

JAMES  BRODIE,  Manager  James  Brodie  &  Son,  coal  op- 
erators of  Belt,  Montana,  was  born  August  16,  1860,  in 
England,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

H.  EARL  CLACK,  President  H.  Earl  Clack  Co.,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Havre,  Montana,  was  born  in  Texas  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  ten  years.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Northern  Transfer  &  Storage  Co.,  operat- 
ing a  coal  mine  at  Havre. 

THOS.  P.  CLUNOW,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General 
Manager  of  the  National  Fuel  Co.  of  Billings,  Montana,  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Great  Northern  Railway  for 
ten   years. 

JAMES  P.  DANSON,  President  Consolidated  Coal  Co., 
Great  Falls,  Montana,  was  born  July  4,  1876,  in  England. 
Mr.  Danson  has  been  connected  with  the  Interstate  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  C.  M.  Moderwell  &  Co.,  and  Nelson  Coal  Co., 
and  Western  Representative  of  Geo.  G.  Pope  &  Co.  of  Chi- 
cago for  several  years. 

J.  R.  ECK,  Superintendent  Perry-Eck  Fuel  &  Mortar  Co., 
Missoula,  Montana,  was  born  September  7,  1887,  at  St.  Paul, 
Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  three 
years.  Before  entering  his  present  company  Mr.  Eck  was  in 
the  construction  business  for  twelve  years. 

CHAS.  O.  FISHER,  Manager  Fisher  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Ger- 
aldine,  Montana,  was  born  February  26,  1885,  at  Somerset, 
Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 

PHIL  GRENI,  President  Crystal  Ice  &  Fuel  Co.,  Billings, 
Montana,  was  born  July  22,  1863,  in  Germany,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

HENRY  H.  GRIFFITH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Butte, 
Montana,  was  born  in  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Griffith  is  also  interested 
in   the   Owl   Creek   Coal   Co.   of   Gebo,   Wyoming. 

FRANK  F.  HAYES,  President  and  Manager  Western  Fuel 
Co.,  Butte,  Montana,  was  born  in  1874  at  Alpena,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

FRED  T.  HIOTTE,  President  Pioneer  Fuel  Co.,  Butte, 
Montana,  was  born  February  12,  1884,  at  Chippewa  Falls, 
Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years.  Prior  to  his  present  position  he  was  with  the  Ohio 
Coal  Co.,  Chequamegon  Ice  Co.,  and  George  W.  Miars  of 
Ashland,  Wisconsin. 

R.  J.  JOHANNES,  President  National  Fuel  Co.,  Helena, 
Montana,  was  born  June  17,  1870,  at  Humboldt,  Michigan, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  Mr. 
Johannes  has  been  President  of  the  Helena  Retail  Coal  Deal- 
ers  Association. 

W.  E.  MARTIN,  Manager  Glendive  Transfer  Co.,  retailers 
of  coal  at  Glendive,  Montana,  was  born  November  20,  1870, 
at  St.  Louis,  Michigan,  and  has  handled  coal  for  the  past 
three  years. 


ROBERT  A.  KELLY,  Manager  Washoe  Coal  Co.,  Ana- 
conda, Montana,  was  born  in  1882  at  St.  Martins,  Ohio,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  year.  His  part- 
ner, W.  H.  Fuchscherer,  a  native  of  Menasha,  Wisconsin, 
has  lived  in  Anaconda,  Montana,  for  sixteen  years,  and  ia 
interested  in  the  Anaconda  Brewing  Co.,  Anaconda  Ice  Co., 
Kentucky  Liquor  Co.,  and  Washoe  Coal  Co.  He  enlisted  and 
left   for  Camp  Lewis,  Washington,   March   29,   1918. 

CHARLES  H.  LANE,  Manager  of  National  Fuel  Co.  at 
Butte,  Montana,  was  born  May  13,  1854,  at  Natick,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Lane  was  previously  connected  with  the  West- 
ern Fuel  Co.,  Harris  &  Lane  Co.,  and  the  Wyoming  Coal 
Mining  Co.     He  was  also  Mayor  of  Butte  from   1915  to  1917. 

L.  M.  MCALLISTER,  proprietor  Black  Coal  &  Transfe! 
Co.,  Great  Falls,  Montana,  was  born  December  21,  1867,  at 
Logansport,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  two  years.  Previous  to  going  into  business  for 
himself  Mr.  McAllister  was  for  fifteen  years  Superintendent 
of  the  Great   Falls   Street   Railway. 

GEORGE  L.  ONSTAD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Westby, 
Montana,  was  born  July  6,  1872,  at  Red  Wing,  Minnesota, 
and  has   been   in   the   coal   business  for   ten  years. 

JOHN  PEARSON,  Superintendent  Cottonwood  Coal  Co., 
coal  operators  at  Stockett,  Montana,  was  born  in  1868  at 
Braidwood,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty  years.  Previous  to  going  with  this  present  com- 
pany Mr.  Pearson  was  with  the  Carbon  Coal  Co.,  Big  Sandy 
Coal  Co.,  and  for  seven  years  retailed  coal  at  Great  Falls, 
Montana. 

CHESTER  C.  PERRY,  Manager  Perry-Eck  Fuel  &  Mortar 
Co.,  formerly  the  O.  W.  Perry  Co..  Missoula,  Montana,  was 
born  September  19,  1880,  in  Kansas,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  for  eight  years. 

GEORGE  M.  PIERCE,  one  of  the  proprietors  and  opera- 
tors of  the  Peerless  coal  mine  at  Plentywood,  Montana,  was 
born  February  8,  1863,  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal  business   ten  years. 

FRANK  ERWIN  SMITH,  Manager  Hoffman  Coal  Co.,  retail 
coal  merchants  of  Helena,  Montana,  was  born  in  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  Mr. 
Smith  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Trail  Creek  Coal 
&  Land   Co. 

W.  CARTER  SNELL,  proprietor  Snell  Bros.,  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Miles  City,  Montana,  was  born  in  Miles  City  in 
July,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years. 
Previous  to  forming  his  present  company  Mr.  Snell  was 
Manager  of  the   Peoples  Coal   Co. 

FRED  H.  STLRM,  member  of  the  firm  of  Sturm  &  Yaw, 
wholesalers  of  coal  at  Great  Falls,  Montana,  was  born 
October  14,  1885,  at  Shannon,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twelve  years.  Mr.  Sturm  is  also  Vice 
President  of  the  Carbon  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Sandcoulee. 
Montana,  and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Cascade  County 
Coal  Operators'  Association.  Previous  to  going  into  busi- 
ness for  himself  Mr.  Sturm  was  Sales  Agent  for  The  Sheri- 
dan Coal  Co.,  Roundup  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  the  Bear  Creek 
Coal   Co. 

R.  L.  WHEELER,  one  of  the  proprietors  and  operators  of 
the  Peerless  coal  mine  at  Plentywood,  Montana,  was  born 
May  6,  1882,  in  Tipton,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    seven   years. 


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ALTHOUGH  portions  of  the  western  interior  coal 
field  (Missouri,  Kansas  and  Iowa)  underlie  the 
southeastern  section  of  Nebraska,  the  existence 
of  workable  beds  in  this  area  is  still  a  matter  of  specu- 
lation, so  that  it  is  solely  as  a  coal  consumer  that  this 
state  at  present  holds  the  attention  of  the  commercial 
side  of  the  industry.  Like  Iowa  and  Minnesota  it  has 
been  one  of  the  battle  fields  in  the  market  competition 
between  coals  mined  east  of  the  Indiana-Ohio  state  line 
and  those  produced  in  Illinois  and  Indiana.  It  has  also 
been  one  of  the  meeting  places  for  coals  mined  east  and 
coals  mined  west  of  the  Mississippi  river.  Under  nor- 
mal conditions  its  principal  market,  Omaha,  had  the 
reputation  of  handling  coals  from  more  different  mining 
fields  than  any  other  city  in  the  United  States.  From 
the  East  it  was  drawing  anthracite,  smokeless,  splints, 
smithing  and  Kentucky  gas  and  general  bituminous 
coals,  Illinois  was  shipping  from  several  fields,  but  more 
particularly  the  southern;  Indiana  sent  some  coal;  Ar- 
kansas offered  its  smokeless  and  semi-anthracites;  Col- 
orado its  anthracite  and  bituminous  coal;  Iowa,  Kan- 


sas and  Missouri  the  coals  from  the  western  interioi 
field  and  Wyoming  its  product. 

Exclusive  of  527,300  tons  of  Pennsylvania  anthra- 
cite and  approximately  100,000  tons  of  various  kinds  of 
coal  moving  from  off  of  the  docks  the  total  consumption 
of  the  state  in  1915  was  3,088,180  tons.  The  sources 
of  supply  and  the  tonnages  received  from  each  coal- 
producing  state  were  as  follows:  xVrkansas,  120,376 
tons;  Colorado,  422,320;  Illinois,  938,905;  Indiana, 
2,833;  Iowa,  143,108;  Kansas,  774,937;  Kentucky, 
92,091;  Missouri,  203,337;  New  Mexico,  339;  Pennsyl- 
vania bituminous,  24,963 ;  West  Virginia,  1,553 ;  Wyo- 
ming, 363,418  tons. 

The  per  capita  consumption  for  the  state,  2.95  tons 
in  1915,  is  slightly  over  the  average  for  the  country  as 
a  whole.  The  bituminous  coal  figure  of  2.53  tons  is  .49 
ton  greater  while  the  anthracite  falls  .36  ton  short  of 
attaining  the  national  average  of  .78  ton.  Due  largely 
to  the  high  percentage  of  land  devoted  to  farming  and 
general  agricultural  purposes,  the  square  mile  consump- 
tion during  that  year  was  only  48  tons. 


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WILLIAM    R.    BROOKS,    Lincoln,    Nebraska, 

President  of  W.  R.  Brooks  Coal  Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska, 
was  born  at  York,  Nebraska,  December  16,  1876,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Brooks  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Consolidated  Fuel  Co.  of  Fre- 
mont, Nebraska. 


HERBERT    T.   FOLSOM,    Lincoln.   Nebraska, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Union  Coal  Co.  of  Lincoln, 
Nebraska,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  1870  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
Mr.  Folsom  is  the  only  active  man  in  the  company  and  is 
also  a  Director  of  the  North  Western  Traffic  and  Service 
Bureau  and  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  move- 
ments   for    the    betterment   of   trade    conditions. 


SAMl'El    8.    SEELY,   Lincoln,  Nebraska, 

President  and  Manager  of  the  Consumers  Coal  Co.,  engaged 
in  the  retail  coal  business  at  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  at 
Bennett,  Nebraska,  February  22,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Seeley  was  associated 
with  J.  M.  Clarke  in  the  City  Fuel  Co.  before  organizing  this 
present  company.  Previous  to  that  time  he  was  connected 
with  Schaupp  &  Hurd,  Charles  B.  Gregory,  and  Marsh-Burke 
Co. 


SETH    SERAT  SWIFT,  Lincoln,  Nebraska, 

Vice  President  of  the  National  Supply  Co.,  Inc.,  doing  a 
jobbing  business  at  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Addi- 
son, New  York,  February  1,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  He  counts  among  his  customers 
many   of  the   leading  retailers   in   Nebraska  and  Iowa. 


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G.  W.  M I  i.l  \  I  II.  Omaha,  Nebranka, 
President  of  the  Sheridan  Coal  Co.,  one  of  the  largest  pro- 
ducing companies  in  the  West>  was  born  in  Londen  County, 
Virginia,  June  1.  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirty-one  years.  Mr.  Megeath  is  also  interested 
in  the  Roundup  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  C.  B.  Havens  &  Co  ,  I'nion  Pacific  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  is  prominent  in  the  trade 
and   widely   known. 


FORREST  RICHARDSON,  Omaha,  Neliruxku. 

General  Sales  Managtr  of  the  Sheridan  Coal  Co.,  with  head- 
quarters at  Omaha.  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Charlestown. 
West  Virginia,  April  29,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-eight  years.  Mr.  Richardson  was  for- 
merly connected  with  C.  B.  Havens  &  Co  and  the  Central 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  is  at  present  interested  in  the  Roundup 
Coal   Mining  Co. 


10.  II.  <  AHKHiW,  Omaha.  Vel.raxkii 
Late  President  of  the  E.  B.  Carrlgan  Co.,  of  Omaha.  Ne- 
braska, was  born  in  New  York,  September  1,  1866,  and  had 
been  in  the  coal  business  almost  a  uuarter  of  a  century  at 
the  time  of  his  d:>ath  in  1917.  Mr.  Carrlgan  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co  of  Kansas  City, 
Missouri. 


AR'I'III  It    IIISSKI.I,   CI  HUH'..   Omaha,   >eliraKka, 

Proprietor  of  the  A.  B.  Currle  Co.  of  Omaha,   Nebraska,  was 

born  at  Denver,  Colorado,  September  4,  1876.  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-live  years  Mr.  Currie  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Binfnrd  Toil  <  !o,  and  Colorado 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Pueblo,  Colorado,  Grand  Junction  Min- 
ing &  Fuel  Co.,  Orand  Junction,  Colorado,  Glen  Rock  Coal 
Co.,  Glen  llock.  Wyoming,  and  Fidelity  Coil  Mining  Co.  of 
Kansas  City,  Missouri.  He  is  also  a  member  of  various 
prominent  clubs  of  Omaha,  as  well  as  several  fraternal 
orders,    being    a    pioneer    member    of    the     Pueblo,    Colorado, 

Lodge  of  Bilks  and  several  Utaaonle  bodiee. 


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GEORGE  W.   GARDNER,  Omaha,  Nebraska, 

Vice  President  and  Manager  of  the  Carbon  Coal  &  Supply 
Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  West  Unity,  Ohio,  In 
1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Gardner  was  formerly  connected  with  C.  B.  Havens  & 
Co.  of  Omaha  and  Breese-Trenton  Mining  Co.  of  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  and  was  active  in  the  Order  KoKoal.  He  is  one 
of  the  most  popular  coalmen  in  the  Missouri  River  territory. 


FREDERICK    S.    MARTIN,    Omaha,    Nebraska, 

President  and  Manager  of  F.  S.  Martin  &  Co.,  doing  a 
wholesale  coal  business  in  Omaha,  also  Vice  President  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Peoples  Coal  Co.,  a  retail  firm  in  Omaha, 
was  born  in  Danville,  Illinois,  January  30,  1877,  and  en- 
tered the  coal  business  as  Omaha  representative  of  the 
Manufacturers  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Chicago  in  April,  1904. 


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NEBRASKA  — Lincoln 


JESSE  M.  CLARK.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Con- 
sumers Coal  Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Waverly, 
Iowa,  December  12,  1885,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  City 
Fuel  Co.  and  the  Gregory  Coal  Co.  of  Lincoln. 

LANDY  CI. ARK,  President  Landy  Clark  Co.,  Lincoln, 
Nebraska,  was  born  at  Marion,  Ohio,  in  1864,  and  has  been 
in  the  ooa]  business  twenty-four  years.  Mr.  Clark  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Clark  Lumber  Co.  and  the  Gerlng  Lumber  Co. 

MARION  TAYLOR  CUMMINGS,  President  of  the  M.  T. 
Cummings  Coal  Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Van 
Buren  County,  Iowa,  June  21,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-two  years.  Mr.  Cummings  has  been 
connected  with  A.  J.  Griffin  of  Lawrence,  Kansas,  and 
Cummings  &  Laughlin  and  Cummings  &  Pease  of  Beatrice, 
Nebraska. 

JOSEPH  HOMER  DEADMAN,  Secretary  of  the  National 
Supply  Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Mahomet, 
Illinois,  April  30,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eight  years. 

JOHN  T.  DORGAN,  President  of  the  Whitebreast  Coal  & 
Lumber  Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nerbaska,  a  native  of  Taunton, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  June  16,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   for   thirty-two   years. 

\\  II. 1. 1  AM  D.  EASLEY,  Manager  of  the  Easley-Graham 
Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Halifax  County,  Vir- 
ginia, and  has  been   in  the  coal   business  for   ten  years. 

SAMUEL  A.  FOSTER,  President  of  the  S.  A.  Foster  Lum- 
ber Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  September  18,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness almost  forty  years.  Mr.  Foster  was  formerly  con- 
nected  with  Foster  &  Smith  Lumber  Co. 

EDWARD  V.  GIRSLER,  proprietor  of  the  Giesler  Coal  Co., 
doing  a  retail  business  at  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  at 
Lincoln,  March  23,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  sixteen  years.  He  was  with  the  Whitebreast  Coal  & 
Lumber  Co.  for  eight  years  prior  to  forming  this  company. 

JOSEPH  F.  HUTCHINS,  President  of  the  Hutchlns  & 
Hyatt  Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  25,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  at   the   same   location   since   1876. 

J.  H.  JOHNSON,  Manager  of  the  Western  Brick  &  Supply 
Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  is  a 
native  of  Nebraska,  born  June  15,  1887,  and  has  been  ip 
the   coal   business   for  ten   years. 

W.  L.  MeCLAY,  member  of  the  Hutchins  &  Hyatt  Co.,  re- 
tailers at  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Illinois  in  1869, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  Mr. 
McClay  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Whitebreast  Coal 
&  Lumber  Co. 

HAROLD  BANCROFT  MILES  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was 
horn  at  Jerseyville,  Illinois,  June  15,  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Miles  is  also 
'••tary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Grand  River  Coal  Co.  of 
Cainesvlllo,  Missouri,  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Cambria  Mining  Co.  of  Cambria,  Wyoming,  and  C.  B.  Ha- 
vens &  Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska. 

BBORCHB  I.  SMITH,  Manager  of  the  Smith-McCain  Co., 
doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born 
at  Moline,  Illinois,  December  4,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Smith  was  formerly 
connected  with  A.  H.  Weir  &  Co.  of  Lincoln. 

GEORGE  W.  VOSS,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Geo. 
W.  Voss  Co.  of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  State  Center, 
Iowa,  in  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Voss  has  other  coal  and  lumber  interests  at 
Weeping  Water,  Nebraska.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Voss  Lumber  Co.  of  Belle  Plain,  Iowa. 

JOHN  H.  YOST,  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  J. 
H.  Yost  Lumber  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Lincoln,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  July  20.  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Yost  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Sutton  Lumber  Co.,  whicn,  together  with  the 
J.  H.  Yost  Lumber  Co.,  operates  a  great  many  branches 
throughout  Nebraska. 


NEBRASKA  — Omaha 


WOOD  ALLEN  of  the  Allen  &  Reynolds  Coal  Co.,  whole- 
salers engaged  in  business  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born 
at  Leslie,  Michigan,  on  November  13,  1870,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  almost  thirty  years.  Mr.  Allen  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Nebraska  Fuel  Co.  and  was  Plctor 
of  the  Omaha  Breaker  of  the  Order  KoKoal. 


JOS.  T.  BEATTV,  retailer  engaged  in  the  coal  business  at 
Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Ohio,  July  11,  1846,  and  has 
been   in   business  for  himself  for  seventeen  years. 

JEFF  W.  BEDFORD,  President  of  Jeff  W.  Bedford  Co., 
retailers  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Lexington,  Ne- 
braska, in  1845,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty 
years.  Mr.  Bedford  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Rich 
Hill  Coal  Co.,  American  Fuel  Co.,  and  Oak  Block  Coal  Co., 
and  has  been  in  business  at  Omaha  since  1881  and  is  a 
pioneer  coal  dealer  of  his  city, 

ALBERT  W.  BOWER,  President  of  the  A.  W.  Bonner 
Coal  &  Ice  Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Omaha, 
June  12,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Bonner  was  formerly  connected  with  the  J.  C. 
Kehoe  Coal   Co.   and  C.   B.    Havens  Co. 

EDWARD  P.  BOYER,  Manager  of  the  Boyer-Van  Kuran 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Omaha, 
December  10,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven  years. 

FRANK  A.  BROADWELL,  4724  South  24th  Street,  Omaha, 
Nebraska,  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Broadwell- 
Roberts  Co.,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-four  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Sunderland 
Bros.  Co..  at  Omaha.  He  was  born  in  Plattsburg,  New  York, 
July  3,    1859. 

MOSHIER  G.  COLPETZEB,  President  Chicago  Lumber 
Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Omaha  in  1877  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years,  having  built  up 
a   large  organization   with   many   branches. 

GILBERT  S.  DONOHO,  proprietor  of  the  Donoho  Coal  Co., 
wholesalers  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Troy,  Illinois, 
November  17,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Donoho- 
Engler  Coal  Co.  and  Donoho  &  Son. 

FRANK  W.  ENGLER,  Manager  of  the  Engler  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Omaha,  Janu- 
ary 19,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years.  Mr.  Engler  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Donoho- 
Engler  Coal  Co. 

FRANK  A.  FITZGERALD,  Division  Manager  of  the  Baum 
Coal  Co.  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Maysville,  Ken- 
tucky, June  19,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years.  Mr.  Fitzgerald,  before  his  connection  with  this 
company,  was  with  the  McAlester  Fuel  Co.  and  the  New 
River  Consumers  Coal  Co. 

RAY  C.  GODDARD,  President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Peoples  Coal  Co.,  well  known  retailers  of  Omaha,  Nebraska, 
was  born  at  East  Dubuque,  Illinois,  June  19,  1884,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  Mr.  Goddard 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Union  Pacific  Coal  Co. 
and    Central   Coal   &   Coke   Co.    of   Omaha. 

GEORGE  E.  HARDING,  proprietor  of  G.  E.  Harding  Coal 
Co.,  engaged  in  business  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  in 
Iowa  February  8,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  himself   three   years. 

ANSON  L.  HAVENS,  proprietor  of  the  Havens  Coal  Co., 
retailers  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  North  Amherst, 
Ohio,  August  6,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Tom  Collins  Havens  Coal  Co.  and  the  Havens-White  Coal 
Co.  Mr.  Havens  was  active  in  the  Order  KoKoal  and  is 
President   of   the   Northwestern   Traffic   and   Service   Bureau. 

EDWARD  E.  HOWELL,  proprietor  of  Edward  E.  Howell 
&  Son,  retailers  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Canada 
August  4,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost 
forty  years.  This  business  was  started  in  1880  by  S.  J. 
Howell,  his  father,  and  taken  over  by  him  in  1892,  and  he 
is  being  assisted  by  S.  J.  Howell,  Jr.,  his  son. 

EDWARD  H.  HOWLAND,  President  of  the  E.  H.  Howland 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  on  March  29,  1851,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty  years. 

CHARLES  WATSON  HULL,  President  of  the  C.  W.  Hull 
Co.,  doing  a  wholesale  coal  business  at  Omaha,  Nebraska, 
was  born  at  Coldwater,  Michigan,  in  1864,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

FRANK  A.  MANLEY,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Union  Pacific  Coal  Co.  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born 
at  La  Rue,  Ohio,  March  13,  1867.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Manley  is  also  Interested  in 
the  Porter  Fuel  Co.  of  Colorado  as  Vice  President  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Kemmerer  Coal  Co.  of  Wyom- 
ing. 

WINDSOR  F.  MEGBATH,  Vice  President  and  Secretary 
of  the  Sheridan  Coal  Co.,  wholesalers  at  Omaha,  Nebraska, 
is  a  native  of  Omaha,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seven   years. 


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LOUIS  NELSON  of  the  Allen  &  Reynolds  Coal  Co.  of  Oma- 
ha, Nebraska,  was  born  at  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  November 
16,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Nelson  was  formerly  connected  with  C.  B.  Havens  & 
Co.  and  Bnnm  Coal  Co.  of  Omaha. 

G.  LYNN  PARSONS,  President  of  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  large  wholesale  concern  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born 
at  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  August  17,  1883,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Parsons  has  been 
with    this   company    since    its    inception. 

RONALD  L.  PATERSON,  President  of  the  Nebraska  Fuel 
Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  is  a  native  of  Omaha,  born  April 
12,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  lor  twelve  years. 
Mr.  Paterson  is  also  President  of  the  Elk  Creek  Mining  Co. 
of  Colorado. 

GEORGE  W.  PLATNER,  proprietor  of  the  Farmers  Lum- 
ber Co.  and  Platner  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  of  Omaha,  Nebraska, 
was  born  at  Glidden,  Iowa,  October  31,  1871,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years,  operating  four  yards  in 
Omaha  at  present. 

LOUIS  N.  PLATNER,  Manager  of  the  Platner  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.,  doing  a  retail  business  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was 
born  at  Glidden,  Iowa,  in  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  five  years. 

ALFRED  REDMON,  senior  member  of  Alfred  Redmon  Co., 
engaged  in  retail  coal  business  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was 
born  at  Cicero,  Indiana,  July  25,  1851,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Redmon  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Moore  Loring  Co.,  Le  Mars,  Iowa,  and  A. 
Redmon  Lumber  Co.,   Moville,   Iowa. 

CHARLES  M.  REYNOLDS,  Vice  President  and  Treasurer 
Nebraska  Fuel  Co.,  handling  coal  at  wholesale  and  retail 
at  Omaha.  Nebraska,  was  born  In  North  Platte,  Nebraska, 
January  1,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about 
a  year.  Mr.  Reynolds  has  been  in  the  banking  business 
ten  years  and  is  President  of  the  Maxwell  State  Bank  of 
Maxwell,  Nebraska.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of  The  Elk 
Creek   Mining  Co.   of  Pool,   Colorado. 

SAMUEL  W.  REYNOLDS,  partner  in  the  Allen  &  Reynolds 
Coal  Co.,  wholesalers  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at 
Omaha,  August  11,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eight  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Ne- 
braska Fuel  Co.  Mr.  Reynolds  is  a  famous  golf  player  and 
Is  at   present   in   the   service   of  his  country. 

FRED  J.  SILVERS,  Sales  Agent  of  the  McAlester  Fuel  Co., 
doing  business  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Ottumwa, 
Iowa,  May  7,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years. 

GEORGE  M.  WALLACE,  Secretary  of  the  Nebraska  Fuel 
Co.,  selling  coal  at  wholesale  and  retail  at  Omaha,  Nebraska, 
was  born  at  Omaha,  March  12,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  six  years.  Mr.  Wallace  was  formerly  connect- 
ed with  the  Coal  Hill  Coal  Co. 

S.  J.  WELSH,  President  of  Welsh  Bros.  Co.,  handling  coal 
at  wholesale  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  at  Youngstown, 
Ohio,  December  8,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
almost  twenty  years. 

CHARLES  A.  WESTERFIELD,  retailer  doing  business  at 
Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Illinois  in  1857.  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Westerfleld  was 
formerly  connected  with  Constant  &   Squires. 

GEO.  D.  WILLIAMS,  Assistant  to  General  Sales  Agent 
Sheridan  Coal  Co.,  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Berlin, 
Wisconsin,  November  12,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  C. 
B.  Havens  &  Co. 


NEBRASKA 


C.  E.  ALTER  of  Joe  Alter  &  Son,  retail  coal  merchants 
of  Alma,  Nebraska,  was  born  October  14,  1882,  in  Burling- 
ton, Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
four  years. 

GEO.  ARNOLD,  Manager  of  the  retail  coal  business  of 
Wm.  Wieters,  Harbine,  Nebraska,  was  born  February  18. 
1864,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years. 

SAMUEL  D.  AYRES,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Central  City, 
Nebraska,  was  born  October  30,  1860,  in  Ohio,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Ayres  also 
retails  coal   at  Archer,  Nebraska. 

'WILLIAM  HENRY  HARTEN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Gor- 
don, Nebraska,  was  born  March  31.  1870,  at  North  Boston, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 
Mr.  Barten  is  extensively  interested  in  patents,  which  he  is 
putting  on  the  market  from  time  to  time. 


WILLIAM  W.  BIRGE,  President  W.  W.  Birge  Co.,  retail- 
ers of  coal  at  North  Platte,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-seven 
years  in  North  Platte.  Mr.  Birge  was  formerly  connected 
with   Birge   &   Trees. 

CRESSIE  J.  111.  \  \<  II  Mil),  Manager  McGregor  Bros.  & 
Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Walthill,  Nebraska,  was  born  June 
17,  1880,  in  Golconda,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eight  years.  Mr.  Blanchard  has  been  unusually 
successful  and  built  up  a  splendid  reputation  through  unique 
advertising.  He  was  Manager  of  McGregor  Bros.  &  Co.  at 
Winnebago,  Nebraska,  before  being  transferred  to  his  pres- 
ent  location. 

DAVID  J.  IIHAKEMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  York. 
Nebraska,  was  born  November  9,  1858,  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years.  Pre- 
vious to  going  into  business  for  himself,  Mr.  Brakeman  was 
for  eleven  years  with  J.  Morrison  in  York,  the  first  coal 
man  in  the  city.  Mr.  Brakeman  came  to  York  when  only 
two  small  houses  were  there,  though  no  one  had  ever  lived 
in  them,  they  having  been  built  for  pioneers  of  the  county. 
The   city   is   now   one   of  the   best   in   the   state. 

EDWARD  W.  BRYANT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Tekamah, 
Nebraska,  was  born  December  13,  1848,  at  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-three 
years. 

ARMSTRONG  O.  BURKET  of  the  firm  of  Burket  &  Feld- 
kirchner,  retailers  of  coal  at  Beatrice,  Nebraska,  was  born 
December  23,  1863,  at  Dixon,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  six  years.  He  was  formerly  Manager  of 
A.  O.  Burket  &  Co. 

A.  F.  CAMERON,  Sales  Agent  of  the  Aztec  Coal  Mining 
Co.  of  Hastings,  Nebraska,  was  born  October  9,  1884,  at 
Mason  City,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eight  years.  Mr.  Cameron  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Oakdale  Coal  Co.  of  Denver,  Colorado,  and  the  Southwestern 
Coal  Co.  of  Amarillo,  Texas. 

GEO.  E.  CHENEY,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  John- 
son &  Cheney,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Fremont,  Nebraska, 
was  born  August  31,  1887,  at  Griswold,  Iowa,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  about  six  years. 

FRANK  E.  COE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Nebraska  City, 
Nebraska,  was  born  in  1860  in  Nebraska  City,  and  has  been 
handling  coal  for  fourteen  years. 

W.  S.  COHNUTT,  Manager  L.  F.  Cornutt  &  Son,  Nebraska 
City,  Nebraska,  was  born  February  27,  1862,  in  Nebraska 
City,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 
The  firm  started  in  coal  exclusively  in  1879,  but  since  1884 
have  been  handling  lumber  and  coal. 

L.  L.  CORYELL,  JR.,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Auburn,  Ne- 
braska,  has  been   in  the  coal   business  for  twelve  years. 

JOHN  A.  CRAVEN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Exeter,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  in  1854  in  Cheshire  County,  England,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years.  Mr. 
Craven  is  also  interested  in  the  Craven  Lumber  Co.,  Osceola, 
Nebraska. 

.  J.  H.  DAVISON,  proprietor  J.  H.  Davison  &  Son,  Ains- 
worth,  Nebraska,  was  born  June  30,  1860,  in  New  Jersey, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr. 
Davison   was   formerly   connected   with   Davison   &   Harrie. 

FRED  DE  LA  MATYR,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Fremont. 
Nebraska,  was  born  December  18,  1853,  at  Middleton,  Wis- 
consin, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four 
years. 

JOHN  A.  DOIIIIS,  proprietor  John  A.  Dobbs  Grain  Co.,  re- 
tailers of  coal  at  Beatrice,  Nebraska,  was  born  February  23, 
1863,  in  Beatrice,  and  uas  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Dobbs  also  retails  coal  at  Virginia,  Tate 
and   Armour.    Nebraska. 

JOHN  DOLEKAL,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Wahoo,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  May  13,  1862,  in  Bohemia,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for   eleven   years. 

WILLIAM  O.  EICHELBERGER,  Manager  Eichelberger 
Lumber  Co.,  Tilden  and  Norfolk,  Nebraska  retail  coal  mer- 
chants, was  born  March  7,  1880,  at  Western  Star,  Ohio,  and 
has  been  in   the  coal  business   fourteen  years. 

E.  FELDKIRCHNER  of  the  firm  of  Burket  &  Feldkirch- 
ner.  who  conduct  coal  and  wood  yards  at  Beatrice,  Nebraska, 
was  born  in  1860  in  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  six  years.  He  was  with  A.  O.  Burket  &  Co.  before 
forming   his  present  connection. 

LOUIE  GRAFF,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Beatrice,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  March  3.  1862,  in  Beatrice,  and  has  been 
handling   coal   for   twenty-eight   years. 

HARRY  E.  HARDY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Norfolk,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  February  2,  1861,  at  Decatur,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years.  He  is 
one  of  the  progressive  retailers  in   his   section. 


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.|\<IKS  II.  Ill  Itsil,  Manager  Bossemeyer  Bros.,  retailers 
of  coal  at  Superior.  Nebraska,  was  born  July  23,  1861,  at 
Newville.  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty  years.  Mr.  Hursh  was  previously  connected 
with  Thos.  Cochrane. 

NEI.s  MARTIN  Johnson.  President  and  Treasurer  John- 
son A  Cheney,  retailers  of  coal  at  Fremont.  Nebraska,  was 
born  March  9,  1873,  in  Sweden,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twelve  years. 

O.  A.  JOHNSON.  Manager  Johnson,  Evers  &  Co.,  retail 
coal  merchants  of  Laurel.  Nebraska,  was  horn  August  14, 
1877.  at  St.  Paul.  Minnesota,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  nine  years. 

A.  K.  I.f— M,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hartington, 
Nebraska,  was  born  June  23,  1870,  at  St.  Helena,  Nebraska, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

Mil. Ill  l<  G.  LIGGETT,  Manager  Liggett  Lumber  &  Coal 
Co..  retail  coal  merchants  of  York,  Nebraska,  was  born  De- 
cember 14,  1880,  in  Fremont  County,  Iowa.  The  business 
was  established  in  1886  at  Riverton,  Iowa,  by  Manley  Lig- 
gett, and  carried  on  under  that  name.  In  1891  the  business 
was  started  under  the  name  of  M.  Liggett  &  Son  at  Ham- 
burg, Iowa,  until  1909.  and  since  then  it  has  been  run  very 
Buccessfully  at  York,  Nebraska,  as  Liggett  Lumber  &  Coal 
Co. 

LOT  IS  B.  MA.NN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Creighton,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  May  4,,  1870,  at  Walcott,  Iowa,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  Previous  to 
entering  business  for  himself  Mr.  Mann  was  connected  with 
the  Peavey  Elevator  Co. 

IRVING  ILAVTON  MAl'ST,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Falls 
City,  Nebraska,  was  born  May  15,  1868,  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years.  I.  C. 
Maust   is  the   successor  of  Maust  &  Son. 

(1.AREXCE  J.  MILES,  Hastings.  Nebraska.  President  of 
the  Grand  River  Coal  Co.,  Cainsville,  Missouri,  was  born 
May  25,  1866,  in  Jerseyville,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  ten  years.  He  also  operates  a  line  of  grain 
elevators.  Mr.  Miles  was  formerly  with  the  Cambria 
Mining  Co. 

CHARLES  E.  MILKS.  Manager  Hays  Lumber  Co.,  retail- 
ers of  coal  at  Crete,  Nebraska,  was  born  September  16.  1873, 
at  Freeport.  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
fourteen  years.  Mr.  Milks  was  previously  with  the  Brillard 
Lumber  Co.  of  Palisade,  Nebraska,  for  five  years,  and  the 
Chicago  Lumber  Co.  of  Osceola,  Nebraska,  for  seven  years. 

H.  MORGENSTERN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Auburn.  Ne- 
braska, was  born  June  17.  1859.  at  Havana.  Illinois,  and  has 
been  in  the  lumber,  coal,  grain,  stock  and  banking  business 
twenty-eight  years.  He  has  been  in  every  state  and  ter- 
ritory in  the  United  States,  around  the  world,  from  North 
to  South   America,  and   in   the   islands  of  the  seas. 

.IIJIES  B.  NORTHCUTT..  retail  coal  merchant  at  Ne- 
braska City,  Nebraska,  was  born  January  11.  1832.  at 
Millersburg,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  many  years.  Previous  to  going  into  business  for  himself 
Mr.    Northcutt   was  connected   with   Northcutt  &  Dickey. 

II  Wiol.n  EDWARD  OI.INK.  General  Manager  Lightner- 
Dusatke  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Lynch.  Nebraska,  was  born 
January  14,  1892,  at  Monroe,  Nebraska,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  four  years. 


ALBERT  B.  Ol  THOl'SE,  President  and  Manager  Keystone 
Lumber  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Loup  City,  Nebraska,  was 
born  May  22.  1862,  at  Carlyle.  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty-five  years. 

DAVID  PETERS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Valentine,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  in  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal   business  for  twenty-five   years. 

MEHION  A.  PHELPS,  President  and  General  Manager  D. 
R.  Phelps  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Wahoo,  Nebraska,  was  born 
June  10,  1871,  in  Saunders  County,  Nebraska,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  The  business  was 
established  in  1879  by  D.  R.  Phelps,  and  in  1907  was  incor- 
porated as  the  D,  R.  Phelps  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  with  D.  R. 
I 'helps  as  President  and  M.  A.  Phelps  as  Secretary  and 
General  Manager.  After  the  death  of  D.  R.  Phelps  in 
August.  1907,  M.  A.  Phelps  succeeded  him  as  President  and 
General  Manager,  and  is  now  operating  yards  at  Wahoo. 
Valley,   Ithaca,  and  Touhy,   Nebraska. 

J.  O.  ROWLAND.  Secretary  Rowland. Lumber  &  Coal  Co., 
Bethany,  Nebraska,  was  born  January  27.  1869,  at  Brighton, 
Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  twenty- 
five  years.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the  Avoca 
Lumber  Co. 

AUGUST  SACK,  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  Sack  Lum- 
ber &  Coal  Co.  of  Dorchester,  Nebraska,  was  born  March 
13,  1891,  at  Sutton,  Nebraska,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  two  years.  Mr.  Sack  also  has  retail  yards  at  Crete, 
Ord  and  Polk,  Nebraska. 

WILLIAM  SACK,  Manager  Sack  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Ord, 
Nebraska,  was  born  May  4,  1889,  in  Sutton,  Nebraska,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years.  The  Sack 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  also  operates  coal  yards  at  Crete,  Dor- 
chester and  Polk,  Nebraska. 

W.  S.  SHANEYFELT,  Manager  W.  S.  Shaneyfelt  Lumber 
Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Aurora,  Nebraska,  was  born  January 
20,  1880,  in  Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  eight  years.  Mr.  Shaneyfelt  is  also  retail- 
ing coal  at  Bertrand,  Smithneld,  Beaver  City  and  Long  Pine, 
Nebraska.  He  was  formerly  interested  in  the  A.  W.  Hick- 
man   Lumber    Co. 

J.  E.  SHEARER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hebron,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  October  13,  1860,  at  Cambridge,  Wiscon- 
sin, and   has  been   in   the  coal   business  since   1894. 

H.  L.  STUART,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lexington,  Ne- 
braska, was  born  September  25,  1878,  in  Polk  County,  Iowa, 
and  has  handled  coal  off  and  on  for  twelve  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected   with   Geo.   A.   Hoagland. 

FRANK   W.   WEST,  member  of  the    firm   of  F.   W.   &  A.   J. 

West,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Wisner,  Nebraska,  was  born 
March  2,  1858,  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-nine  years. 

CHARLES  WESLEY  WOOD  of  Aurora.  Nebraska,  travel- 
ing salesman  for  the  Sheridan  Coal  Co.  of  Omaha,  was  born 
April  27,  1855,  at  Danville,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-one  years.  His  entire  business  experi- 
ence has  been  with  the  Sheridan  Coal  Co.  He  is  also  stock- 
holder in  the  Roundup  Coal  Mining  Co..  with  mines  at 
Roundup,  Montana.  Mr.  Wood  is  one  of  the  best  known 
coal  salesmen   in   the   West. 


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NEVADA 


NEVADA,  with  its  sister  state  of  California,  escapes 
by  the  narrow  margin  of  one  ton  having  the  low- 
est square  mile  consumption  record  of  any  sec- 
tion of  the  Union.  Arizona  with  her  one  ton  per  square 
mile  holds  first  honors  in  that  respect.  Upon  a  per 
capita  basis,  however,  the  showing  for  Nevada  is  more 
favorable,  its  bituminous  consumption  of  2.12  tons  be- 
ing slightly  above  the  average.  Because,  however,  no 
anthracite  is  used,  the  general  average  falls  below  that 
for  the  country  as  a  whole.  In  point  of  total  tonnage 
used  Nevada  is  also  dangerously  near  the  bottom  of  the 
list  of  states,  but  here,  too,  it  yields  the  prize  to  Arizona 
by  a  comfortable  margin  of  safety.  Figures  for  1915 
show  an  approximate  total  consumption  of  217,412  tons 
in  Nevada.  The  greater  part  of  this,  169,928  tons, 
came  from  Utah.     Together  with  that  state  it  burned 


2,526  tons  of  Colorado  coal.  During  the  year  under 
review  a  small  quantity  of  coal  produced  within  the 
state  was  also  consumed.  This  tonnage  is  included  in 
totals  shown  under  California.  Wyoming  contributed 
44,523  tons,  West  Virginia  300,  and  New  Mexico  135 
tons,  to  Nevada's  requirements. 

Nevada  entered  the  ranks  of  coal-producing  states  in 
a  tentative  way  in  1911,  when  development  was  started 
on  a  bed  of  lignite  at  Coaldale,  in  Esmeralda  county. 
Production  was  maintained  on  a  very  small  scale  during 
the  period  1911-1915,  but  the  mine  was  idle  in  1916. 
The  Nevada  output  for  1911,  1912  and  1913  is  included 
with  the  production  reported  under  Idaho,  and  for  1914 
and  1915  is  combined  with  California  and  Idaho  pro- 
duction. 


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IN  no  other  section  of  the  country  perhaps  is  the  close 
relationship  between  coal  and  commercial  advance- 
ment better  illustrated  than  in  the  New  England 
States.  It  is  true  that,  with  the  exception  of  limited 
anthracite  deposits  in  Rhode  Island,  which  have  never 
attained  any  marked  degree  of  successful  exploitation, 
so  far  as  known  this  section  of  the  United  States,  so 
aptly  characterized  as  the  great  workshop  of  the  coun- 
try, is  without  coal  resources  of  its  own,  rbut  its  close 
proximity  to  the  high  grade  com  Is  of  West  Virginia  and 
Pennsylvania,  particularly  by  water  routes,  combined 
with  the  other  advantages  of  its  location,  such  as  early 
settlement  and  development,  the  character  of  its  chief 
manufacturing  industries  and  its  outlets  to  the  markets 
of  the  interior  and  overseas,  have  given  it  a  front  rank 
position  in  coal  trade  history.  So  clearly  has  the  neces- 
lity  of  taking  advantage  of  its  highly  specialized  indus- 
trial equipment — made  possible  in  the  first  instance  by 
its  transportation  nearness  to  important  coal  fields — 
been  recognized  by  the  United  States  Government  that, 
in  a  sense,  the  New  England  States  today  are  wards  of 
the  United  States  Fuel  Administration  in  the  matter  of 
coal  supply. 

In  common  with  other  important  Atlantic  seaboard 
sections,  under  normal  times,  the  New  England  states 
drew  their  fuel  supplies  from  relatively  few  producing 
fields.  In  1915,  for  example,  out  of  a  total  domestic 
bituminous  consumption  of  20,511,987  tons,  by  far  the 
greatest  percentage  was  furnished  by  two  states,  West 
Virginia  and  Pennsylvania.  Over  65  per  cent,  of  the 
total  bituminous  coal  receipts  of  the  year  were  handled 
through  tidewater  ports.  The  reported  all-rail  move- 
ment totaled  7,238, KM)  tons,  while  the  receipts  via  tide- 
water aggregated  13.273.581  tons.  New  England  is  by 
far  the  greatest  factor  in  the  tidewater  coastwise  move- 
ment, its  normal  receipts  constituting  approximately  80 
per  cent,  of  the  coastwise  movement  and  over  40  per 
cent,  of  the  total  tidewater  shipments,  including  bunker 
and  railroad  fuel.  All-rail  receipts  for  the  year  were 
divided  as  follows:  Maryland.  630,097  tons;  Pennsyl- 
vania, 6,587,890;  and  West  Virginia,  20,419  tons.  Con- 
sumption of  Pennsylvania  anthracite  reached  13,767,000 
tons.  In  addition  to  this  the  Xew  England  states  of- 
fered the  largest  market  for  imported  coal.  Drawing 
upon  Nova  Scotia,  the  receipts  were  654,703  tons,  or 


approximately  38  per  cent.,  of  the  total  coal  imports  of 
the  country.  Montana  and  Idaho,  drawing  upon  British 
Columbia  and  Alberta  for  part  of  their  requirements, 
came  next  with  432,721  tons,  or  25  per  cent.,  and  the 
Pacific  Coast  states  accounted  for  24  per  cent. 

Upon  the  per  capita  consumption  basis  New  England 
ranked  fourth,  being  exceeded  by  Delaware,  Illinois  and 
Montana.  The  Xew  England  average  of  4.64  tons  (2.69 
bituminous  coal  and  1.95  anthracite)  was,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  Delaware,  the  highest  along  the  Atlantic  sea- 
board. The  concentration  of  industrial  enterprises  in 
Chicago,  where  a  per  capita  in  excess  of  eight  tons  has 
been  reported,  explains  the  rank  of  Illinois,  while  the 
metallurgical  activities  on  the  one  hand  and  the  small 
population  on  the  other  give  Montana  its  leadership  over 
New  England,  the  latter  having  a  population  over  four- 
teen times  as  great  in  an  area  less  than  half  the  size. 

"Coal,"  says  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  in 
explaining  the  relation  of  the  consumption  of  fuel  to 
the  value  of  the  manufactured  products  turned  out,  "is 
the  principal  source  of  energy  in  the  processes  of  manu- 
facturing and  the  quantity  so  used  bears  a  certain  rela- 
tion to  the  value  of  the  manufactured  products.  The 
relation  can  be  studied  properly,  however,  only  by  con- 
sidering simply  the  value  of  the  products  in  making 
which  coal  was  used  for  power,  or,  if  the  value  of  all 
the  manufactured  products  is  considered,  by  adding  to 
the  coal  used  in  any  locality  the  equivalent  in  terms  of 
coal  of  whatever  fuel  oil,  natural  gas,  or  water  power 
may  have  been  used  in  that  locality. 

"It  will  be  noted  that  the  value  of  the  manufactured 
products  per  1,000  tons  of  coal  ($85,000)  consumed  is 
greater  in  New  England  than  in  any  other  area  except 
the  west  south  central  ($156,000)  and  Pacific  Coast 
regions  ($605,723).  The  reason  for  this  is  obvious;  in 
these  two  regions,  fuel  oil  is  used  almost  to  the  exclusion 
of  coal  in  manufacturing  plants  and  the  average  ob- 
tained by  dividing  the  total  value  of  manufactures  by 
the  quantity  of  coal  used  is  correspondingly  high.  The 
per  capita  consumption  of  coal  in  New  England  is 
nearly  fourteen  times  as  great  as  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
and  more  than  nine  times  as  great  as  in  the  southern 
states  west  of  the  Mississippi  River." 

This  point,  as  made  by  the  Geological  Survey,  is 
further  illustrated  by  a  comparison  of  the  value  of  the 


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manufactured  products  in  the  three  sections.  In  the 
west  south  central  division  (four  states)  the  total  is 
$802,733,000;  in  the  Pacific  Coast  region  (three  states) 
it  is  $1,067,890,000,  or  a  combined  total  for  seven  states 
of  $1,870,623,000.  The  total  value  of  the  manufactured 
products  in  the  six  states  comprising  the  New  England 
group  reaches  $2,02  1.218.000. 

Boston,  of  course,  is  the  principal  receiving  point  for 
the  New  England  tonnage.  Over  20  per  cent,  of  the 
total  amount  of  coal  consumed  within  New  England 
passes  through  this  port.  The  receipts  of  coal  of  United 
States  origin,  both  anthracite  and  bituminous  coal,  have 
grown  from  1,176,954  tons  in  1874  to  6,019,874  gross 
tons.  Receipts  by  routes  and  kinds  of  coal  for  the  past 
three  years  have  been  as  follows: 


WATER 

1915  1916  1917 

Anthracite     1,509,960         1,480,896         1,388,670 

Bituminous,   U.   S 4,609,936    '     4,910,687         4,153,277 

Nova  Scotia      440,615  344,792  275,612 

RAIL 

1915       1916       1917 

Anthracite     192,442  292,599  217,408 

Bituminous,   U.    S 79,385  113,389  119,991 

Nova   Scotia    

Among  the  other  important  New  England  coai  cen- 
ters may  be  mentioned  Providence,  E.  I.,  where  the  1917 
receipts  totaled  2,090,843  tons,  of  which  377,273  tons 
were  anthracite  and  1,713,570  tons  were  bituminous. 
These  totals  include  coal  for  local  trade,  for  transship- 
ment by  rail  to  interior  points  and  water  tonnage  to 
Pawtucket. 


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\  i  1:1   it  I     H.    POWELL,    New    Haven.    Connecticut, 

President  A.  H.  Powell  &  Co.,  Inc.,  New  Haven,  was  born 
November  15,  1878.  He  is  also  President  Mill  River  Retail 
Coal  Co.  of  New  Haven  and  of  the  Connecticut  Transpor- 
tation Co.,  a  Long  Island  Sound  barge  line,  a  Director 
of  the  Mechanics  Bank  of  New  Haven,  a  member  of 
the  New  Haven  City  Board  of  Finance,  and  a  Director  of 
the  New  England  Wholesale  Coal  Association.  Mr.  Powell 
takes  an  active  interest  in  civic  matters  in  his  city. 


CHARLES    i:.    IIIIK  KI.KV,    lloHton      » I .- .  — .-..  ■,..-..-■•■.. 

Manager  A.  H.  Powell  &  Co.,  Inc.,  at  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  November  24,  1891,  in  Boston  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  four  years.  Mr.  Brickley  is  a  grad- 
uate of  Harvard  and  one  of  Its  most  famous  football  stars. 


CHAKLKS    L.    BHIG49S,   \r«    York   City, 

New  York  Sales  Manager  A.  H.  Powell  &  Co.,  was  born  in 
Stamford.  Connecticut,  September  8.  1874,  and  has  been 
Identified  With  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Briggs 
was  formerly  with  E.  Russel  Norton,  Black.  Sheridan  & 
Wilson  Co.  and  Dickson  ,NL-    Eddy, 


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JAMES    A.    HAMILTON,    New   Haven,   Conneetient,  GEO.  H.  NOL.F.N.  New  Haven,  Connecticut, 

President  and  Treasurer  W.  P.  Gilbert  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Sales  Agent  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  for  Dickson  & 
was  born  May  21,  1875,  in  Caledonia,  New  York,  and  has  been  Eddy,  New  York,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  is  well  and  favor-  one  years.  He  was  born  December  24,  1870,  in  Washington, 
ably  known  to   the  trade  of  Connecticut.  D.  C.    Mr.  Nolen  has  many  friends  in  the  New  England  coal 

trade. 


THOMAS    M.    RICHARDS,    Boston,    Massachusetts,  WM.    A.    CLARK,    Northampton,    Massachusetts, 

General  Eastern  Agent  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Treasurer  of  W.  A.  Clark  Coal  Co.  of  Northampton,  Massa- 
Iron  Co.,  with  offices  at  Boston,  was  born  February  18,  1868,  chusetts,  was  born  in  Northampton  March  2,  1868,  and  has 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Richards  has  been  in  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years.  Mr.  Clark 
the  coal  business  since  August  1,  1885,  and  enjoys  a  wide  was  formerly  connected  with  wholesale  anthracite  and  bl- 
and  favorable   acquaintance   in   anthracite   circles.  tuminous   coal   firms,    before   going   in   business   for   himself. 

Mr.  Clark  has  served  most  successfully  for  a  number  of 
years  as  President  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation and  is  also  "Vice  President  of  the  National  Retail  Coal 
Merchants'  Association.  He  is  considered  an  authority  on 
demurrage  and  traffic  questions. 


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WILLIAM  W.  WILLETT,  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
President  and  Treasurer  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  Agency  Co.,  Bos- 
ton, was  born  June  19,  1858,  in  North  Granville,  New  York,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years.  Mr.  Willett  first  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business  in  1879,  being  given  a  position  as  clerk  in 
the  coal  department  of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railway  Co.  at  New 
York  and  associated  with  the  late  Calvin  B.  Orcutt.  In  1895  the 
Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  Agency  Co.  was  formed,  Mr.  Orcutt  being 
made  President  and  Mr.  Willett  Treasurer  and  on  the  death  of  Mr. 
Orcutt  in  February,  1911,  Mr.  Willett  was  made  both  President  and 
Treasurer,  which  position  he  now  holds.  S.  B.  Willett  is  Vice  Presi- 
dent and  E.  S.  Turpin  General  Agent,  the  latter  located  at  Richmond, 
Virginia.  Since  the  spring  of  1913  the  principal  office  of  the  com- 
pany has  been  located  at  Boston.  The  interests  with  which  Mr.  Wil- 
lett has  been  associated  were  the  pioneers  in  the  marketing  of  New 
River  steam  coal  in  the  eastern  territory  and  for  nearly  a  quarter  of 
a  century  had  the  exclusive  handling  of  New  River  coal  covered  by 
markets  east  of  the  mines. 


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FRKUKRICK    McCANN,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

President  Edward  M.  Alden  Co.,  Boston,  was  born  May  7, 
1876,  in  Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   twenty-six   years. 


WILLIAM     J.    OSGOOD,     Boston,    Massachusetts, 

Treasurer   Edward   M.   Alden   Co,  Boston,   was   born   in   1875, 
at  Xewton,   Massachusetts. 


EDWARD  M.  ALDEN  COMPANY 

Boston,  Massachusetts 


The  well-known  Edward  M.  Alden  Co.  represents 
a  successful  business  career  of  nearly  fifty  years.  The 
enterprise  was  started  by  John  C.  Alden  who  embarked 
in  the  coal  business  at  Boston  some  years  prior  to  1876. 
later  operating  under  the  firm  name  of  John  C.  Alden 
&  Son,  which,  in  turn,  was  succeeded  by  Alden  &  Nevin. 
Mr.  Alden  later  operated  the  business  again  as  an  indi- 
vidual and  after  his  death  the  business  was  incorporated 
by  Frederick  McCann  as  the  Edward  M.  Alden  Co. 
This  was  in  1914.  The  following  year  William  J.  Os- 
good became  Treasurer.  Mr.  McCann  became  President 
of  the  Company  after  an  association  with  Dickson  & 
Eddy  at  New  York  for  twenty-one  years,  while  Mr. 
Osgood  had  obtained  his  practical  experience  in  the 
Boston  office  of  Dickson  &  Eddv  for  fifteen  years. 

Splendid  opportunities  are  offered  the  anthracite  and 
bituminous  interests  in  New  England  by  reason  of  its 
rapidly  growing  industries.  The  great  handicap,  how- 
ever, has  been  the  inadequate  transportation  facilities, 
the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  and  the  Boston 
&  Maine  railroads  failing  to  keep  pace  with  the  rapid 
growth  of  the  manufacturing  interests  of  New  England. 
Barges,  tugs  and  steamers  have  been  the  big  factor  in 
supplying  the  fuel  needs  of  New  England  manufac- 
turers. 


In  the  earlier  days  coal  was  transported  to  New  Eng- 
land by  sailing  vessels.  However,  the  methods  of  load- 
ing and  unloading  at  terminals  were  crude  and  the 
movement  of  the  sailing  craft  was  slow  and  uncertain. 
As  the  New  England  industries  increased  in  efficiency. 
prompt  receipt  of  fuel  became  more  exacting  and  there 
was  developed  a  steady  improvement  in  the  water  trans- 
portation of  fuel.  Schooners  of  from  300  to  500  tons 
have  been  succeeded  by  barges  of  4.000  tons  capacity, 
operating  on  regular  schedule.  Terminal  facilities  have 
improved  even  more  remarkably. 

Even  as  late  as  1890  it  would  take  five  to  six  days 
to  discharge  a  300-ton  schooner  while  today  the  modern 
barge  of  4,000  tons  is  conveniently  unloaded  in  one  day. 
Progressive  coal  merchants  in  New  England  have 
quickly  adjusted  themselves  to  both  rail  and  water  trans- 
portation and  by  their  splendid  service  in  supplying 
fuel  requirements  at  normal  costs  are  enabling  New 
England  not  only  to  maintain  its  industrial  activities 
but  to  expand  rapidly. 

The  Edward  M.  Alden  Co.  when  incorporated  in 
1914  did  a  comparatively  modest  business  but  their  ton- 
nage has  taken  rapid  growth  since  and  soon  passed  an 
annual  aggregate  of  more  than  a  half  million  tons. 


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'  i  Mil  \i  I  M  COBB,  BoMton,  MaHHarhuHPttH, 
President  and  Treasurer  M.  L.  Cobb  Co.,  10  Post  Office 
Square.  Boston,  was  born  July  21,  1889,  in  Melrose,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years.  He 
is  a  son  of  M.  L.  Cobb,  who  founded  this  well-known  whole- 
sale  coal   business. 


WAI.TKH    F.    WARD,    lioxlon.     >1 .- .  ~  ^ .■ . . - 1 . . ■  - .  i  •  - . 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  M.  U  Cobb  Co.,  10 
Post  Office  Square,  Boston,  was  bora  February  27,  1882,  In 
Boston,  and  was  associated  In  the  coal  business  with  the 
late  M.  L.  Cobb  for  twenty  years.  He  has  been  a  Director 
of  the  National  Coal  Jobbers'  Association  since  Its  organiza- 
tion. 


>li:i,VII,I,K,     t,.    COBB,      II..-I..1I.      llM.var -II.. 

Who  died  October  12,  1917,  was  for  over  thirty  years  one 
Of  the  most  prominent  and  best  known  factors  in  the  New 
Kngland  coal  trade.  He  was  renowned  as  a  shrewd  mer- 
chant and  enjoyed  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  entire 
coal  trade.  He  was  born  at  Dlghton,  Massachusetts,  Sep- 
tember 11,  1853,  and  was  63  years  old  at  the  time  of  his 
death. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


FHUD    G.    SCHIPPER.  Boston,   Massachusetts, 

President  Schipper  Bros.  Coal  Mining  Co.,  141  Milk  Street, 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  August  14,  1884,  at  Pekin, 
Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 
Mr.  Schipper  is  widely  known  in  the  coal  trade  and  has 
many  warm  friends  in  both  the  east  and  west. 


CARL  P.  SCHIPPER,  Boston,  Massachusetts, 

General  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  Schipper  Bros.  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  141  Milk  Street,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
August  5,  1876,  at  Pekin,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  over  sixteen  years,  the  company  having  been 
organized  in  1902  and  now  operates  ten  mines  in  the  Broad 
Top   region   of  Pennsylvania. 


I,  JOHN    SCHIPPER,  Philadelphia,  Pa.. 

Manager  of  Mines  Schipper  Bros.  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Pekin,  Illinois. 
January  2,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  seventeen  years. 


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RICHARD   S.    i  <>\\  \M.\n.    ii. .-i. .11.  Mannachunettn, 
President    and    Treasurer   of    the    E.    B.    Townsend   Coal    Co., 
27    Kilby    Street,    Boston,    Massachusetts,   was    born    July    27, 
1885,    at   Roxbury,    Massachusetts,   and   has   been   in   the   coal 
business  for  eight  years. 


IPBHCBH    T.    WILLIAMS,   Ronton,    i .-i.-Ihim-mv 

Late  General  Manager  and  Assistant  Treasurer  E.'  B. 
Townsend  Coal  Co..  27  Kilby  Street,  Boston.  Massachusetts, 
was  born  April  15.  1853,  at  Charlestown.  Massachusetts,  and 
had  been  In  the  coal  business  forty-one  years  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death  September  24,  1918.  Mr.  Williams  was  one  of 
the  best  and  most  favorably  known  coal  men  in  New  Eng- 
land and  was  formerly  associated  with  Bright  Thomas  & 
Co.,  Philadelphia.  S.  H.  Brown  <•<..,  New  York.  Stickney. 
Conyngham  &  Co.,  New  York,  and  Susquehanna  Coal  Co. 


KIIWAHD    II.    TOW\SK\U,    Ronton.     Mannarhunettn, 

Former  head  of  the  E  B.  Townsend  Coal  Co.,  27  Kilby  Street, 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  November  20,  1848,  at  Bos- 
ton. Massachusetts,  and  had  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
forty-four  years  at  the  time  of  his  death,  building  up  a 
splendid   reputation  during   that   time. 


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GEORGE}  EDDY  WARREN,  RoHton,  tl  .in~.mIi  u-.l  l», 
President  George  E.  Warren  Co.,  35  Congress  Street,  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  was  born  October  20,  1868,  at  Brattle- 
boro,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twen- 
ty-five years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Morrellville  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Warren  Collieries  Co.  of  Johnstown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  Warren  Transportation  Co.  of  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. Mr.  Warren  is  one  of  the  prominent  wholesale 
coal  merchants  of  New  England  and  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 
from    1893    to   1898. 


GEORGE    P.    OSWALD,    Ronton,    MaNMachusette, 

Vice  President  of  the  Geo.  E.  Warren  Co.  of  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  July  4,  1877,  at  Boston  and  is  also 
Vice  President  of  the  Morrellville  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Warren 
Collieries  Co.,  Guernsey  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Warren  Trans- 
portation Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Con- 
solidation   Coal    Co. 


GEORGE  WALTER  ANDERSON,  Ronton,   Massachusetts, 

Treasurer  George  E.  Warren  Co.,  35  Congress  Street,  Bos- 
ton, was  born  January  6,  1879,  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  over  seventeen  years.  Mr. 
Anderson  is  also  Treasurer  of  the  Morrellville  Coal  Mining 
Co.  and  the  Guernsey  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Morrisdale  Coal  Co. 


RORERT     Y.     HROWN.     .loliiiMi.ini. 

General  Manager  Morrellville  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,  Johnstown,  President  Guern- 
sey Coal  Co..  Houtzdale,  Pennsylvania, 
and  Warren  Collieries,  Ltd.,  Toronto, 
Canada,  and  Manager  Johnstown  of- 
fice of  the  George  E.  Warren  Co.,  Bos- 
ton. Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Leices- 
ter, Massachusetts,  in  April,  1888,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven 
years.  Early  in  his  coal  career  he  was 
with  the  Morrisdale  Coal  Co. 


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H.  BRAT  HlllMMI  \\.  It, .si, ,n.  MnMNiichiiNettN, 
President  The  Wravin  Coal  Co  ,  Inc  .  Boston,  is  the  son  of  Horatio  C.  Rohrman, 
and  probably  has  the  distinction  of  being  the  youngest  President  of  a  coal  corpora- 
tion in  New  England.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Tufts  College,  where  he  was  captain  of 
the  track  team,  and  a  member  of  Alpha  Tau  Omega  fraternity  and  of  the  "William 
Parkman  lodge  of  Masons.  The  day  after  war  was  declared  Mr.  Rohrman  enlisted 
in  the  L'nited  States  Navy,  and  has  been  stationed  at  the  large  European  aviation 
base.  <  n  July  4,  1918.  Mr.  Rohrman  was  selected  to  represent  the  American  team 
in  track  events,  and  had  the  pleasure  of  winning  a  silver  cup  in  h's  race,  which 
was  presented  by  the  English.  When  given  his  honorable  discharge  from  the  Navy 
he  expects  to  return  to  his  position  in  The  Wravin  Coal  Co. 


IIOKATIO    C.    KOHRMA.V    Winchester.    MaxNarhuNettx. 

Treasurer  The  Wravin  Coal  Co..  Inc.,  Boston,  was  born  No- 
vember 24.  1869,  in  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  more  than  twenty  years.  Previously  he  was 
confidential  man  for  the  late  John  W.  Gates.  Mr.  Rohrman 
was  raised  in  the  mining  regions  of  Pennsylvania  and  is 
probably  as  well  versed  on  Pennsylvania  coals  and  their 
values  as  any  man  doing  all-rail  business  in  New  England. 
He  is  a  member  of  William  Parkman  Lodge  of  Masons  and 
Hugh  DePayens  Commandery.  Knights  Templar,  and  a 
Director  of  the  Winchester  National  Bank  and  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts  Industrial   Plan   Bank. 


FRANK    «'.    HODCNHTB,    Boxton.     iin.vi.i,,, 

Sales  Manager  The  Wravin  Coal  Co.,  Inc,  Boston,  was  born 
May  17.  1872,  In  Toronto.  Ontario,  Canada.  He  Is  well  known 
among  both  the  wholesale  and  retail  coal  trade  with  which 
he  has  been  connected  for  the  past  twelve  years. 


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COAL   MEN   OF  AMERICA 


SWAN    HABTWELL,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

President  H.  N.  Hartwell  &  Son,  Inc.,  Boston,  was  born  in 
Somerville,  New  Jersey,  in  1875  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-four  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Cuban  Coal  Co.  of  Havana,  Hartwell  &  Lester  of  New  York, 
and  the  Traders  Coal  Co.  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  Whitney  &  Kemmerer,  Coxe 
Bros.  &  Co.,  Inc.,  and  Natalie  Coal  Co. 


HARRY     \.    MATTHEWS,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

Treasurer  H.  N.  Hartwell  &  Son.  Inc.,  70  Kilby  St.,  Boston, 
was  born  in  1881  in  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Matthews  is  also 
Treasurer  of  the  Cuban  Coal  Co.  of  America  and  Hartwell 
&  Lester,   Inc.,   of  New   York   City. 


E.    RUSSELL,    NORTON,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

Well  known  coal  merchant  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  December  22,  1871,  at  New  York  City,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Norton 
started  his  business  in  1896  as  Sturtevant  &  Norton.  Two 
years  later  he  continued  under  his  own  name,  representing: 
Black,  Sheridan  &  Wilson,  specializing  in  Pennsylvania 
bituminous  coals,  and  now  maintains  offices  in  both  New 
York   and   Boston. 


E.    F.    MELENDY,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

Manager  for  E.  Russell  Norton  at  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  January  28,  1873,  at  Weld,  Maine,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years,  the  entire  time 
with    E.    Russell   Norton. 


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CHRISTIAN    P.    ANDERSEN,    Boston,    Maasachaaetta, 

Proprietor  of  the  Andersen  Coal  Sales  Co.,  120  Milk 
St.,  Boston,  was  born  December  6,  1864,  at  Svaneke,  Den- 
mark, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty 
years.  He  was  formerly  President  of  the  Andersen  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  operating  mines  in  Cambria  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, has  given  some  attention  to  exporting  coal  to  Europe 
and  South  America,  and  is  one  of  the  largest  shippers  of 
cordwood  and  other  fuel  wood  in  New  England. 


CHARLES  C.  ALLEN,  Boston.  Massachusetts, 

Late  Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Lehigh  & 
Wilkes-Barre  Coal  Co.  of  Massachusetts,  with  offices 
at  141  Milk  St.,  Boston,  was  born  June  29,  18G5,  at  Leo- 
minster. Massachusetts,  and  died  March  17,  1918.  He  was 
in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years.  Mr.  Allen  was 
also  Treasurer  of  the  Lowell  Terminal  Co. 


LOI  is  EBFFLBB,  Ronton.  Max*.. 
Of  the  firm  of  Zepfler  &  Childs,  141 
Milk  Street,  Boston,  was  born  Febru- 
ary 8,  1866,  in  Boston,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  buainess  thirty-six  years.  Mr. 
Zepfler  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  firm  of  Joseph  S.  Burton  &  Co. 
before    forming    his    present    company. 


FRED    L.    CHILDS,    Ronton,    Mass.. 

Of  the  firm  of  Zepfler  &  Childs,  141 
Milk  St.,  Boston,  was  born  in  1869  at 
Framingham,  Massachusetts,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years.  His  present  company  was  or- 
ganized March  1,  1909,  and  handles  both 
anthracite  and  bituminous  coal. 


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NATHANIEL    C.    ASHCOM,   Boston,   Massachusetts, 

Manager  B.  Nicoll  &  Co.,  85  Devonshire  St.,  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  in  1877  at  Baltimore.  Maryland,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Pennsylvania  Coal  &  Coke  Corp. 


ARTHUR    P.    BRYANT,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

Secretary  Spring  Coal  Co.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
October  7,  1877,  in  Newton,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  since   1905. 


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HENRY    F.    CANNON,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

President  Darrow-Mann  Co.,  40  Central  St.,  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  July  29,  1862,  at  Lancaster,  Ohio,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  ten  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  Castner,  Curran  &  Bullitt,  Inc.,  and 
Manager  of  their  Boston  office.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  New  River  Consolidated  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and   the  New  England  Coal  &   Coke  Co. 


SIMEON     CRUMB,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

Eastern  Sales  Agent  of  Dickson  &  Eddy,  50  Congress  St., 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  1855  at  Smyrna,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  thirty 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Andrew  Langdon 
&  Co.  and  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  He 
has  represented  Dickson  &  Eddy  at  Boston  since  April  15, 
1894,    or   almost   twenty-five   years. 


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ROYAL.   C.   GILLESPIE,    it,.*,,,,,.    MaiiHarhuHetts, 

Manager  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  at  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  December  18,  1876,  in  Baltimore  County,  Mary- 
land, and  has  been  connected  with  the  Consolidation  Coal 
Co.    (or   over   twenty-six    years. 


WILLIAM    A.    JEPSON,    BoHton,    MaNnaehusetta, 

New  England  Manager  of  Dexter  &  Carpenter,  Inc.,  85 
Devonshire  St.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  August 
10,  1872,  in  Detroit  Lake  City,  Minnesota,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  over  thirty-three  years.  Mr.  Jepson  was 
General  Manager  and  Sales  Agent  of  the  Carbon  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  eleven  years  and  organized  and  developed  the 
Southern  Illinois  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  was  its  Vice  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  for  five  years.  He  has  a  wide 
acquaintance  in  the  trade. 


O.  B.  mil  \-n\.  ii. .-.Mm  Maimachuiirtta, 
.Manager  of  the  Boston  office  of  the  Lehigh  Coal  &  Naviga- 
tion Co.,  was  born  February  1,  1873,  In  Boston  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years,  for  the  last  ten 
years  with  his  present  company.  Previous  to  that  he  was 
connected  with  Bangs  &  Horton  and  the  Lehigh  &  Wllkes- 
Barre  Coal  Co. 


EAHL    !•".    I    Mill  Mil    I       IloKton,     \l;.  — ...  ).•.-..<•- 

Eastern  Sales  Manager  of  Thorne,  Neale  &  Co.,  Inc.,  40 
Central  St.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  May  26,  1886, 
at  Bridgton,  Maine,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Whitney  & 
Kemmerer  and  Is  favorably  known  among  the  New  Eng- 
land  coal   trade. 


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WILLIAM    A.    MEHAFFET,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

Wholesale  coal  merchant  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  with 
offices  at  4  Liberty  Square,  was  born  in  Harrisburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1876.  He 
established  his  present  business  in  1893,  handling  both  an- 
thracite and  bituminous  coal.  He  formerly  represented  in 
New  England  Walter,  Donaldson  &  Co.,  Donaldson  &  Thom- 
as, and  Percy  Heilner  &  Son.  Since  1893  he  has  devoted 
his  energy  largely  to  the  sale  of  the  coal  of  the  Philadelphia 
&  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  At  present  he  is  one  of  their 
largest   factors    in   New   England. 


W.  M.   \\  .   SPRING,  Boston,  Massachusetts, 

President  Spring  Coal  Co.  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  in  1804  at  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  Mr.  Spring  is  well 
known  in  the  New  England  coal  trade  and  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Spring  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Garfield  &  Proc- 
tor Coal  Co.  and  Denison  Eros.  Co.,  New  Bedford. 


JOHN    A.    STETSON,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 

President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Stetson  Coal  Co.,  92 
State  Street,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  July  28,  1844, 
at  South  Boston,  Massachusetts.  This  firm  is  a  pioneer  re- 
tail coal  concern  of  New  England,  having  been  established 
in  1836.  Mr.  Stetson  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over 
fifty-five  years  and  President  of  the  Boston  Coal  Exchange 
for  the  last  ten  years. 


GARFIELD  &  PROCTOR,  Boston,  Mass., 

Went  into  the  coal  business  in  Boston 
in  1867  as  a  partnership.  In  1868  it 
was  incorporated.  The  capital  at  the 
incorporation  was  $125,000.  J.  F.  D. 
Garfield  was  President  and  W.  E.  Ma- 
curda  was  Treasurer.  Following  Mr. 
Garfield  in  the  Presidency  was  Mr. 
Geo.  N.  Proctor.  After  his  retirement 
from  business  Mr.  F.  W.  Pray  was 
elected  President  and  Mr.  Pray  and 
Mr.  Macurda  are  the  present  officers. 
The  company  deals  in  both  Anthracite 
and  Bituminous  coal  and  are  distribu- 
tors of  Delaware  &  Hudson  coal  in 
Northern    New    England. 


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MORTIMER    ii.    WILLIAMS,  Boston,  Massachusetts, 

Eastern  Sales  Agent  Whitney  &  Kemmerer,  141  Milk  Street, 
Boston,  was  born  February  2,  1880,  in  Boston,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Williams  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  Wesleyan  University  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in 
fraternal  and  political  life.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Metropolitan  Coal  Co.,  Edward  M.  Alden  and  Percy  M. 
Heilner  &   Son. 


JAMBS   J.   STORROW,   Ronton,  Massachusetts, 

Federal  Fuel  Administrator  for  New  England,  with  offices 
at  44  State  Street,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  associated 
with  Lee,  Higginson  &  Co.  until  receiving  his  appointment 
from  H.  A.  Garfield,  the  National  Fuel  Administrator,  and 
since  then  during  the  Great  War  has  taken  an  active  part 
in  handling  the  fuel  problem  of  the  New  England  states  for 
the   federal  government. 


KRWK    LINCOLN    POWF.RS.   Worcester,    ih I>  "-•  h  -. 

President  of  the  F.  E.  Powers  Co.,  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  In  Millbury.  Massachusetts,  June  12,  1883,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  is  highly  re- 
spected and   well   known   in  the  coal   trade  of  New   England. 


HIRAM    STEVENS   POWERS.  Worcester,    Mnssni ■ -i  i-. 

Treasurer  of  the  F.  E.  Powers  Co.  of  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  at  Millbury,  Massachusetts,  on  September 
29,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 
He  is  associated  in  business  with  his  brother,  Frank  L>. 
Powers,  and  the  firm  is  one  of  the  well-known  retail  com- 
panies  in   that   section. 


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THOMAS   EDWARD    STERNE,  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Scranton  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Fred  A.  Mann  Coal  Co.  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  at  Chatham,  New  York,  September  5,  1858,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  lor  thirty-seven  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  W.  G.  Morton,  Albany,  New  York, 
the  Fitchburg  Coal  Co.,  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts,  and 
the  Brighton  Coal  Co.,  Brighton,  Massachusetts.  The  Scran- 
ton Coal  Co.  was  established  in  1897  and  in  1909  a  corpora- 
tion was  formed  by  Mr.  Sterne  and  his  two  sons.  He  and 
his  sons  are  also  interested  in  the  F.  A.  Mann  Coal  Co. 


THOMAS  EDWARD  STERNE,  JR.,  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 

Son  of  Thomas  Edward  Sterne,  is  Secretary  of  the  Scranton 
Coal  Co.  and  the  F.  A.  Mann  Coal  Co.  of  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  born  at  Chatham,  New  York,  on  October 
17,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost  ten  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Gorman-Leonard  Coal 
Co.,  Whitney  &  Kemmerer,  Bader  Coal  Co.  and  Staples  & 
Bell. 


EDWARD  JAMES   DOHERTY,  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 

Of  the  Doherty  Coal  Co.,  Worcester,  was  born  in  Worcester 
February  24,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost 
twenty-five  years.  He  is  now  taking  care  of  the  business 
established  by  his  father,  Patrick  Doherty,  in  1878,  since  the 
death   of  his   brother,   Martin   J.   Doherty,   October  28,   1917. 


OLAF  G.    Ill  .1(1.1   \  !i.   Worcester,  Massachusetts, 

Owner  of  the  O.  G.  Hedlund  Coal  Co.  of  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Wermeland,  Sweden,  on  February  15, 
1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for  thir- 
teen years.  This  company  was  established  in  1906  and  han- 
dles anthracite  and  bituminous  coal  at  wholesale  and  retail. 


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CONNECTICUT  —  Hartford 


FREDERICK  II.  FISHER.  Hartford.  Connecticut.  Is 
Treasurer  and  General  Manager  for  The  O'Connor  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.,  Inc,  and  has  been  in  the  business  eleven  years, 
lit'   was  born  at  Glastonbury.  Connecticut,  January   20,   1873. 

WILLIAM  WATSON  FHAYEH,  Hartford.  Connecticut,  is 
President  and  Treasurer  of  Prayer  A  Foster,  Inc.,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  He  was 
born  at  Coxsackle,  New   York,  November  27,   1873. 

GEORGE  T.  mill:  BE  Sisson  Ave..  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Robert  Price  Coal  Co., 
Office  and  yard  located  at  84  Francis  Ave.  He  has  been  in 
the  business  thirty  years.  He  was  born  at  Hartford  May  13, 
1864. 

CHARLES  .1.  siiEKETOPP.  Vice  President  American  Coal 
Co.,  Hartford.  Connecticut,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
March  1,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven 
years.  During  his  absence  In  the  Service  in  France  the 
details  of  the  business  are  being  handled  by  H.  Levine, 
President  and  Treasurer,  and  A.  Sherry   Harris,  Secretary. 

JAMES  S.  STEVENS,  36  Pearl  St.,  Hartford  Connecticut, 
is  the  Sales  Agent  for  \<  w  England  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Coal  &  Coke  Corp.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Nor- 
folk &  Western  Railroad,  where  he  advanced  from  office 
boy  to  be  Assistant  to  the  President.  He  has  been  President 
of  the  Connecticut  Valley  KoKoal  and  lecturer  on  "Power 
Costs,"  "Soft  Coal  for  Power,"  and  "A  Lump  of  Coal."  He 
organized  one  hundred  Liberty  Choruses  for  the  Connecticut 
Slate  Council  of  Defense  war  work,  and  composed  numer- 
ous poems  and  songs  and  edited  several  song  publications 
on  war  work.  He  was  born  at  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin, 
November    11.    1867. 


CONNECTICUT  — New  Haven 


F.MIIJIO  HALSA.MO,  member  of  the  retail  coal  firm  of 
Verdi  &  Balsamo,  444  Grand  Ave.,  New  Haven,  Connecticut, 
has  been   identified  with    the   local  trade   for  fourteen  years. 

HAHHY  W.  HITCHCOCK,  well-known  coal  salesman, 
Chamber  of  Commerce  BIdg.,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  was  born 
February  11.  1872,  at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Hitchcock  has  been  con- 
nected  with  the  New  England  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  C.  H.  Sprague 
&  Son,  and  Williams,  Wells  &  Co. 

ROBERT  E.  MANROSS  is  President  of  The  Benedict  & 
Pardee  Co.  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and  has  been  in  the 
business  of  wholesaling  coal  for  forty-five  years.  He  was 
born   at    Forestville,   Connecticut,   February    17,    1852. 

JOHN  P.  McCUSKER,  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  is  a 
partner  in  the  coal  Arm  of  McCusker  &  Schroeder,  which 
has  been  In  business  without  change  for  thirty-seven  years. 
!!•■  formerly  was  connected  with  French  Bros,  and  The 
French  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  a  term  as  President  of  the 
Connecticut  Tidewater  Coal  Dealers'  Association,  as  well  as 
Vice  President  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion.       He    was    born    in    New    Haven    May    2,    1860. 

AHRAimi  MOLSTEIN  of  Perlman  &  Molstein,  New  Ha- 
ven. Connecticut,  was  born  October  25,  1883,  In  Russia,  and 
lias    been    in    the  coal   business   ten    years. 

CHARLES  WILLIAM  P  \STORFIKLI>,  formerly  salesman 
for  Weston  Dodson  &  Co.,  Inc.,  at  177  Church  St..  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  was  born  July  24,  1891,  in  Royal  Oak,  Maryland, 
and   has  been  in   the  coal  business  six  years.      On  February 

1.  1918,  he  entered  the  employ  of  Francis,   Friend  &  Stiene- 
man.   Inc.,   177  Church  St..  New  Haven. 

HARRY  PERLMAN  of  Perlman  &  Molstein,  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  was  born  in  Russia  in  1867  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  ten  years. 

ELMORE  W.  PLATT  is  Manager  of  the  office  of  Weston 
Dodson  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  He  was  formerly 
with  Williams,  Wells  &  Co.,  five  years  as  bookkeeper  and 
ten  years  as  salesmen.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty  years.  He  was  born  December  25,  1874,  at  New 
Haven.  Mr.  Piatt  covers  Connecticut,  Massachusetts  and 
Rhode  Island. 

ELMER  F.  SCHROEDER  Is  one  of  the  equal  partners  in 
the  firm  of  McCusker  &  Schroeder,  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 
He  has  been  thirty-seven  years  a  member  of  the  firm  or 
since   It   was  formed.     He  was  born   In   New  York  City  June 

2,  1862. 

MOltlT/,  SPIER,  senior  member  of  Spier  &  Co.,  New- 
Haven.  Connecticut,  has  been  President  of  the  New  Haven 
Coal  Dealers'  Club  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  since 
1868.  He  was  born  In  Germany  August  10,  1850.  His  two 
sons.  Leopold  A.  and  Benjamin  H.,  are  associated  with  him 
in    business. 


ANTHONY  J.  VERDI  is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Verdi 
&  Balsamo,  444  Grand  Ave.,  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  He 
has    been    in    the    retail    coal    business    for    fourteen    years. 


CONNECTICUT 


GEORGE  E.  ACKLEY  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  The 
George  E.  Ackley  Co..  New  Milford.  Connecticut,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  He  was 
born   In    New   Milford   October   8,   1869. 

ALBERT  AHEHN,  East  Windsor,  Connecticut,  is  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  the  business  of  Ahern  Bros.  He  has 
been  in  the  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  born 
at     Fast     Windsor    September    30,    1884. 

DAVID  J.  AHERN  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Ahern 
Bros.,  coal  merchants  at  East  Windsor  Hill,  Connecticut. 
He  has  been  in  the  business  since  1897.  He  was  born 
February   24,    1880,  at   East  Windsor. 

RALPH  W.  ALLEN,  Winsted,  Connecticut,  is  owner  of 
the  retail  coal  business  of  H.  Allen  &  Son,  with  which  he 
has  been  connected  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  born  at  East 
Wilton.   Maine,  November   4,    1882. 

ANDREW  Y.  REACH,  successor  to  Sharon  Y.  Beach,  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years  at 
Seymour,  Connecticut.  He  was  born  at  Seymour  October 
27,   1836. 

GEORGE  W.  BENEDICT,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Nauga- 
tuck,  Connecticut,  was  born  October  13,  1856,  at  Bridgeport, 
Connecticut,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

CLINTON  PHELPS  BLACKMER  is  Assistant  Manager  for 
L.  E.  Blackmer,  coal  merchant  at  Thomaston,  Connecticut, 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  business  for  ten  years. 
He  was  born  at  East  Granby,  Connecticut,  February  7, 
1889. 

L.  E.  BLACKMER,  Thomaston,  Connecticut,  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  at  Thomaston  eighteen  years  on  his 
own  account,  having  been  formerly  with  G.  W.  Curtiss.  He 
was  born  December  12,  1861,  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

L.  M.  CAMP,  Treasurer  The  Citizens'  Coal  Co.,  Waterbury, 
Connecticut,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1883,  for- 
merly with  Frank  Miller  &  Co.  He  was  born  in  Durham, 
Connecticut,  February  23,  1855. 

JOSEPH  C.  CARTER  is  the  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Manchester,  Connecticut.  He  has  been  in  the 
trade  for  twenty-eight  years,  twenty  of  which  were  spent 
with  E.  Griswold.  He  was  born  at  South  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut,   December    12,    1863. 

EDGAR  T.  CLARK  owns  his  coal  business  at  Milford, 
Connecticut,  and  has  carried  it  on  for  eleven  years.  He 
was  born  in  Milford  December  14,  1859.  He  was  elected 
President  of  the  Milford  Business  Men's  Association  in  1917 
and  re-elected  in  1918.  He  has  been  Treasurer  of  the 
Village   Improvement   Association    for   eight   years. 

J.  IRVING  DIBni.E,  President  and  Treasurer  of  The  Fer- 
ris Coal  Co.  at  South  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  has  been  in 
the  business  for  forty-six  years,  or  since  he  was  a  boy  o? 
fifteen.  He  was  born  sixty  years  ago  at  South  Norwalk. 
Associated  with  him  is  Frank  N.  Ferris,  a  brother  of  the 
founder. 

GEORGE  s.  ELLIOTT  is  Vice  President  of  The  Parker- 
Elliott  Coal  Co..  Willimantic.  Connecticut.  Mr.  Elliott  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-four  years  and  in 
May,  1917,  sold  out  to  the  present  company,  of  which  T.  R. 
Parker  of  Willimantic  is  President.  Mr.  Elliott  was  born 
at    Willimantic   May   20,   1867. 

FERDINAND  GiLDElts lee\  E..  President  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Gildersleeve  Fuel  Co.,  (iilderslceve,  Connecticut,  was 
born  August  20,  1840,  in  Gildersleeve  and  has  been  in  the 
ooal  business  for  thirty-three  years.  He  Is  also  a  stockholder 
in  the  Texax-Pai-ltlc  Coal  Co.,  Thurher,  Texas. 

THOMAS  GLENN'ON,  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Glen- 
non  &  Llllis  at  New  Milford,  Connecticut,  is  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  concern  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  nine  years.    He   was  born  at  New   Milford  July   22,    1864. 

JAMES  B.  GREGORY  is  President  of  the  firm  of  Ira 
Gregory  &  Co.,  coal  merchants  at  Bridgeport.  Connecticut, 
and-  has  been  in  the  business  for  fifty-six  years.  He  was 
born  at  Bridgeport  April  6,  1845.  Ira  Gregory,  his  father, 
established   the   business  in   1843. 

OSCAR  H.  II  \  \ si:.  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Terryville 
Coal  &  Wood  Co.,  Terryville,  Connecticut,  was  born  May  11, 
1875,  in  Terryville  and  nas  been  In  the  coal  business  twelve 
years. 

EDWARD  L.  HAWICK,  traveling  salesman  for  Heilner 
&  Son,  West  Haven,  Conn.,  was  born  July  5.  1883.  at  Troy. 
New  York,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  nine  years. 
Mr.  Hayner  was  formerly  connected  with  Percy  Heilner  & 
Son  and  A.   H.   Powell  Co. 


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ANDREW  V.  HEATH,  Secretary  of  the  Meeker  Coal  Co., 
Norwalk,  Connecticut,  was  born  December  20,  1858,  at 
Staten  Island,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-five   years. 

BENJAMIN  LATHAM  HOLMES,  Mystic.  Connecticut,  is 
Executor  of  the  Isaac  D.  Holmes  Eriate  and  is  in  charge 
of  the  coal  business  established  by  Isaac  D.  Holmes  in 
1847.  Mr.  Holmes  was  born  in  Mystic  July  16,  1852,  and 
has  been  in  the  business  since  boyhood.  His  father,  Isaac 
D.  Holmes,  passed  away  in  his   87th  year. 

JOHN  W.  HOWE,  senior  member  of  the  coal  firm  of  J. 
W.  Howe  &  Son  at  South  Glastonbury,  Connecticut,  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  business  for  the  past  thirty- 
three  years.  Formerly  he  was  connected  with  Barrows  & 
Howe.     He  was  born  at  Glastonbury  February  23,  1835. 

LOUIS  W.  HOWE  is  Manager  and  equal  partner  in  the 
coal  business  of  J.  W.  Howe  &  Son  at  South  Glastonbury, 
Connecticut,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  firm  for  twen- 
ty.seven  years.  He  was  born  at  Glastonbury  October  25, 
1870. 

FREDERICK  G.  HUMPHREY  is  Secretary  of  The  Citi- 
zens' Coal  Co.  at  Waterbury,  Connecticut,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  since  1879.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  City  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  and  has  filled  the 
office  of  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association 
of  the  New  England  States.  He  was  born  at  Norfolk, 
Connecticut,  September  23,  1857.  He  is  President  of  The 
Tunnel   Coal   Co.,   Hartford,   Connecticut. 

HARRY  E.  HUSTED,  General  Manager  of  the  City  Ice  & 
Coal  Co.,  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  was  born  March  14,  1874. 
in  Bridgeport  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  firm  of  Wheeler 
&  Howes. 

ROBERT  INNES,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Thomaston, 
Connecticut,  has  been  in  the  business  thirty-seven  years. 
He  was  born  in  Scotland  April  26,  1853.  Mr.  Innes  is  the 
father  of  thirteen  children,  nine  of  them  alive.  Three  of  the 
sons  are  in  the  United  States  Navy  and  a  fourth  was  re- 
jected in  the  draft. 

MINOS  IRVING  JESTER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  New 
Britain,  Connecticut,  was  born  July  27,  1871,  at  Milford, 
Delaware,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 
Mr.  Jester  has  served  as  Alderman,  President  of  the  Com- 
mon   Council   and   Acting   Mayor    of   the    city. 

WILLIAM  S.  JOHNSON,  President  of  the  Putnam  Coal  & 
Wood  Co.,  Putnam,  Connecticut,  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness sixteen  years.  William  P.  Warren,  Treasurer  of  the 
company,  has  been  with  the  firm  three  years. 

FRANK  H.  JOHNSTON,  New  Britain,  Connecticut,  is 
President,  General  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  The  City  Coal 
&  Wood  Co.  This  company  was  incorporated  by  him  in  1889. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  New 
England  Coal  Dealers'  Association,  former  Vice  President 
New  England  Builders'  Supply  Association,  former  President 
New  Britain  Chamber  of  Commerce,  former  President  Con- 
necticut State  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  a  Director  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
Mr.  Johnston  was  born  in  New  Britain,  Connecticut,  August 
10,   1861. 

HENRY  F.  JOURDAN  is  the  owner  of  the  business  of  F. 
Jourdan  &  Son  at  Branford,  Connecticut,  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  firm  as  partner  and  proprietor  for  forty- 
two   years.     He   was   born  May   31,    1855,   at  Branford. 

JOHN  KALTENSTEIN,  Danbury,  Connecticut,  has  been 
engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business  sixteen  years  and  is 
President  of  the  Union  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  in  Hungary 
March  20,   1872. 

JAMES  E.  LALLY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Windsor 
Locks,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  1878  at  Windsor,  Connec- 
ticut, and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

DANIEL  F.  LEACH  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Windsor 
Locks,  Connecticut,  and  has  been  in  business  there  for  five 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  L.  H.  Barrett  &  Co.  He  was 
born   at   Hartford,   Connecticut,   in   December,   1877. 

PETER  McDONALD  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  twenty-six  years  and  is  President  of  The  Peter  Mc- 
Donald Co.  at  Bethel,  Connecticut.  He  was  born  December 
15,   1851,  at  Redding,   Connecticut. 

AURELIUS  JUDD  MEEKER  is  Treasurer  and  Director  of 
the  Meeker  Coal  Co.,  Norwalk,  Connecticut.  He  established 
his  coal  business  in  1858  and  carried  it  on  formerly  as 
Meeker  &  Benedict  and  as  A.  J.  Meeker  &  Bro.  Mr.  Meeker 
was   born   at   Westport,    Connecicut,   November   25,    1833. 

CHARLES  H.  MOORE,  Manager  C.  H.  Moore  Co.,  Stafford 
Springs,  Connecticut,  was  born  June  24,  1883,  in  Staffordville, 
Connecticut,  and  has  been  in  tne  coal  business  seven  years. 


JOHN  CALVIN  MORGAN  is  the  proprietor  of  the  coal 
business  of  John  A.  Morgan  &  Son  at  Norwich,  Connecticut, 
which  was  established  in  1864  by  his  father.  He  was  born 
in   Norwich    September    18,    1846. 

ALFRED  E.  PHELPS  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Glas- 
tonbury, Connecticut,  who  has  been  in  the  business  for 
over  forty  years,  succeeding  his  father,  Philo  F.  Phelps. 
He  was  born  at  Glastonbury  December  2,   1847. 

BENJAMIN  B.  PHILLIPS  owns  the  business  of  The  Tor- 
rington  Coal  &  Oil  Co.,  Torrington,  Connecticut,  and  has 
been  in  Torrington  thirteen  years.  He  was  born  at  North- 
port,   Long   Island.   September   19,   1867. 

DANIEL  J.  ROBERTS  of  Meriden,  Conn.,  is  a  retail  coal 
merchant  who  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-three 
years.  He  was  born  at  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  Feb- 
ruary  7.   1862. 

RAYMOND  S.  ROCKWELL  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
S.  D.  Rockwell  &  Son  at  Morehouse  Point,  Connecticut, 
and  has  been  in  the  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was 
born   February    15,   1877,   at   Morehouse   Point. 

T.  S.  ROURKE  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Unionville, 
Connecticut,  who  has  been  in  business  there  since  April, 
1900.      He  was  born  at  Unionville  December  26,   1865. 

JOHN  JACOB  SCHWARZ,  General  Manager  Schwarz  Bros., 
Rockville,  Connecticut,  was  born  June  18,  1853,  in  Rockville 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 

WILLIAM  SCHWARZ,  junior  member  of  Schwarz  Bros., 
Rockville,  Connecticut,  was  born  September  12,  1856,  in  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
five  years. 

E.  H.  SHATTUCK  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Loomis  Bros.  Co.,  Granby,  Connecticut.  He  has  been 
active  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was 
born  at  Granby  June  4,  1874. 

EZEKIEL  SPITZ,  New  London,  Connecticut,  is  sole  owner 
of  the  City  Coal  Co.  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  six 
years.      He   was   born    in   Russia   January   11,    1888. 

HOWARD  C.  THOMPSON  is  the  owner  of  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Plainville,  Connecticut,  and  has  carried  it  on 
successfully  for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  West  Avon, 
Connecticut,   September   5,   1860. 

GEORGE  W.  THORPE  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  West  Cheshire,  Connecticut,  for  ten  years.  He  was 
born    at    Hamden,    Connecticut. 

ASA  WELLS  THURLOUGH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Deep 
River,  Connecticut,  successor  to  John  S.  Lane,  has  been  doing 
business  since  1900  at  the  same  place  on  the  Connecticut 
River  as  established  in  1865.  He  was  born  in  Monroe,  Maine, 
March  18,   1854. 

HIRAM  C.  VIETS  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  East  Gran- 
by, Connecticut,  and  has  been  in  the  business  for  fourteen 
years.       He   was   born   at   East   Granby  August   23,   1871. 

ALLEN  EDWARD  VINCENT,  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  is 
President  and  Treasurer  of  The  Vincent  Brothers  Co.,  coal 
merchants.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-four 
years.  He  was  born  September  4,  1864,  at  Sherman,  Con- 
necticut. 

CHARLES  F.  WATERBURY  is  the  proprietor  of  the  coal 
business  of  David  Waterbury  &  Son  at  Stamford,  Connec- 
ticut, and  has  been  in  the  business  for  forty-three  years. 
He  was  born  May   15,  1855,  at  Stamford. 

DAVID  WATERBURY  is  Manager  of  the  firm  of  David 
Waterbury  &  Son,  retail  coal  merchants,  Stamford,  Con- 
necticut, and  has  been  connected  with  the  business  for 
eighteen  years,  being  the  grandson  of  its  founder,  who  es- 
tablished it  forty-three  years  ago.  He  is  thirty-six  years 
old  and   was  born   at  Stamford. 

REBECCA  RUTH  WHITE,  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years  and 
is  now  bookkeeper  for  The  City  Ice  &  Coal  Co.  She  was 
formerly  with  The  East  End  Coal  Co.  and  was  born  at 
Torrington,  Connecticut,  November  13,  1888. 

J.  H.  WOOD  is  Secretary  of  the  W.  H.  Scott  Co.,  coal 
merchants  at  Pequabuck,  Connecticut,  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  born 
in  England   September   4.   1879. 

COSMER  A.  YOUNG,  Danielson,  Connecticut,  is  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Young  Brothers  Co.,  coal  merchants.  He  was 
partner  formerly  in  the  firm  of  C.  A.  Young  &  Co.  and 
has  been  thirty-one  years  in  the  business.  He  was  born 
in    1851    at   Danielson,   Connecticut. 


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MAINE 


HIM.  H.  ADAMS,  Treasurer  The  Cash  Fuel  Co.,  Portland. 
Maine,  was  born  In  Gray,  Maine,  September  30,  1861,  and 
has  been  in  the,  coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  has  served 
as  President  of  the  Portland  Coal  Club. 

CLARENCE  JOHN  AVERV  of  Avery  Bros.,  North  Lubec, 
Maine,  was  born  in  North  Lubec,  Maine,  November  30,  1870, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  George 
H.  Avery  is  President  of  the  company. 

BOYD  BARTLETT,  Secretary-Treasurer  Castlne  Coal  Co., 
Castine,  Maine,  was  born  in  Ellsworth,  Maine,  January  15 
1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

WILLIS  I.  BICKFORD,  Gorham,  Maine,  Manager  of  tho 
W.  I.  Bickford  &  Son  Co.,  was  born  at  Parsonfleld  Novem- 
ber 1,  1851,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  fourteen 
years. 

GEORGE  D.  BOl'LTER,  Kittery.  Maine,  was  born  in 
Tamworth,  New  Hampshire,  June  19,  1864,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  Mr.  Boulter  takes  an 
active  part  in  civic  matters  as  well  as  operating  a  success- 
ful retail  coal  business. 

CHARLES  E.  BRETT,  South  Paris,  Maine,  was  born  in 
South  Paris,  Maine,  April  3,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Arm   of  Shurtleff   &   Brett. 

EDWIN  L.  Ill  smell,  Treasurer-Manager  Gardiner  Coal 
&  Supply  Co.,  Gardiner,  Maine,  was  born  in  Passadumkeag, 
Maine,  September  25,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eight  years. 

E.  s.  CARY  of  E.  S.  Cary  &  Co..  Presque  Isle,  Maine,  was 
born  In  Howland,  New  York,  July  8,  1859,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

JOHN  PLRCBLL  CULLINAN,  Norway,  Maine,  was  born 
In  Innes-Clan  County,  Ireland,  December  5,  1862,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 

EDWIN  CUMMINGS  of  Cummings  &  Norton,  West  Jones- 
port,  Maine,  was  born  in  Columbia,  Maine,  in  January,  1871, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business   for  sixteen   years. 

HARVEY  W.  DUNBAR,  Junior  member  of  Dunbar  Bros., 
Sullivan,  Maine,  was  born  in  Sullivan  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty-two  years.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
original  incorporators  of  the  Bar  Harbor  Coal  Co..  which 
was  afterwards  merged  with  the  Clark  Coal  Co.  He  still 
retains  his  interest  in   the   new  company. 

MELYIN  J.  GOOGIN,  President-Manager  Googin  Fuel  Co., 
Lcwlston  Maine,  was  born  in  Old  Orchard,  Maine,  in  1854, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  Mr. 
Googin  has  served  as  President  of  the  Maine  Coal  Operators' 
Association. 

H.  W.  GREELEY,  Manager  of  Ayer  &  Greeley,  Oakland, 
Maine,  was  born  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Maine,  December  30,  1857, 
and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years. 

CLYDE  BARTLETT  HOLMES,  President,  Treasurer  and 
General  Manager  Consumers  Fuel  Co.,  Belfast.  Maine,  was 
born  in  Waldo,  Maine,  May  27,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  eight  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  HOOPER,  President  Castine  Coal  Co..  Cas- 
tine, Maine,  was  born  in  Castine,  Maine,  December  18,  1865, 
and   has  been  in  the  coal   business  for  eighteen  years. 

JAMES  A.  HUS8EY,  Manager  of  the  North  Berwick  Fuel 
Co.,  North  Berwick,  Maine,  was  born  in  North  Berwick. 
Maine,  May  28,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nine  years. 

P.  I.AVOIE  of  the  P.  Lavoie  &  Co..  Auburn.  Maine,  was 
born  in  Canada  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about 
six  years. 

LI  >l  \\  KIN<;>I\N  LEE,  Treasurer-Manager  Dover  & 
Foxcroft  Fuel  Co.,  Foxcroft,  Maine,  was  born  in  Foxcroft, 
Maine,  April  25,  1867,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years.  Mr.  I-.ee  has  served  as  President  of  the  Maine 
Coal  Dealers'  Association,  Vice  President  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  Is  one  of  the  leading 
retail  coal  merchants   In   the  state. 

ANSEL  II.  I. ELAND,  General  Manager  The  Clark  Coal  Co., 
Bar  Harbor,  Maine,  was  born  In  Bar  Harbor  April  24,  1861, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

NATHAN  C.  MeCAlSLAXD.  Treasurer-Manager  McCaus- 
land  Co.,  Old  Town,  Maine,  was  born  In  Detroit,  Maine, 
August  14,  1846,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twen- 
ty-four years. 

Ill  \NK  S.  MILLIKEN  of  the  firm  of  B.  F.  Milllken  &  Son. 
Eastport.  Maine,  was  born  In  Eastport  June  7.  1854.  and  hag 
been  in  the  coal  business  covering  a  period  of  twenty  years. 
B.  F.  Milllken.   father  of  Prank   S..  died   In   1913. 


J.  H.  MOI'XTFORT,  Portland,  Maine,  was  born  in  North 
Yarmouth,  Maine,  February  5,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-eight  years.  He  is  one  of  the  well- 
known   retailers  of  Maine. 

ULYSSES  C.  NORTON  of  Cummings  &  Norton,  West 
Jonesport,  Maine,  was  born  In  Jonesport  in  August,  1873, 
and   has   been   in   the   coal   business  for  about  sixteen  years. 

LAFOREST  V.  PRESCOTT,  Wilton,  Maine,  was  born  in 
Dixfield,  Maine,  April  10,  1872,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  five  years. 

JAMES  B.  PULSIFER.  President  and  General  Manager 
Pulsifer  &  Young,  Auburn  Maine,  was  born  in  Auburn, 
Maine,  October  7.  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years.  Mr.  Pulsifer  is  Vice  President  of  the  Maine 
Coal  Dealers'  Association. 

HEBERT  L.  SHEPHERD,  Rockport,  Maine,  President  of 
the  S.  E.  &  H.  L.  Shepherd  Co.,  was  born  in  Rockport,  Maine, 
June  10,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  some 
forty  odd  years.  Mr.  Shepherd  is  also  Interested  in  the 
Camden  Yacht  Building  &  Railway  Co.,  Camden,  Maine, 
and  was  formerly  with  •the  Merriam  &  Shepherd  and 
Shepherd-Jones   companies,   Rockport,   Maine. 

WILLIS  H.  SOULE,  Freeport.  Maine,  was  born  in  Freeport 
February  14,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-one  years. 

FRED  ROBINSON  SPEAR,  Rockland,  Maine,  was  born  In 
Rockland  September  30,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  forty-six  years.  Mr.  Spear  is  proprietor  of  the 
pioneer  coal  yard  in  the  city  of  Rockland,  having  succeeded 
in  1881  his  father,  Alfred  K.  Spear,  who  established  the 
business  in  1861.  Mr.  Spear  is  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers  Association. 

MRS.  MARY  BARNARD  STINCHFIELD.  Skowhegan, 
Maine,  was  born  in  Skowhegan,  Maine,  July  25,  1875,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years,  succeeding  her 
husband,   W.   M.   Stinchfield,   deceased. 

GILBERT  STOCKTON,  Superintendent  Pocahontas  Fuel 
Co.,  Inc.,  Portland,  Maine,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York, 
February  14,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
four  years.  He  studied  mining  engineering  at  Lehigh  Uni- 
versity, South  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania,  finishing  there  In 
1909,  and  then  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  mining  engi- 
neering at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  Bos- 
ton, completing  it  in  1910.  He  is  a  member  of  Squadron  A. 
Club,  New  York,  the  Cumberland  Club  and  Portland  Country 
Club,  Portland,  Maine.  On  September  15,  3915,  in  Buffalo, 
New  York,  he  married  Rebecca  Rodman  Shreve  of  San 
Mateo,   California. 

ALBERT  W.  WALKER,  President  A.  W.  Walker  &  Son, 
Inc..  South  Paris,  Maine,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  April 
6,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  in  Maine  for 
twenty-six  years.  Percy  M.  Walker  is  the  junior  member 
of  the  firm.      He  was  born   in  1878. 

FRED  A.  WALLS,  Manager  of  John  T.  R.  Freeman  Estate, 
South  West  Harbor.  Maine,  was  born  in  South  West  Harbor, 
Maine,  June  30,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
five   years. 

ELMER  E.  WENTWORTH,  Springvale,  Maine,  was  born 
April  23,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years. 

OVONDO  P.  WH1TTIER.  Farmington,  Maine,  was  born  In 
Vienna,  Maine,  January  6,  1850,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen   years. 

FRANK  S.  WING  ATE,  Hallowell,  Maine,  was  born  in  Hal- 
lowell  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 
This  business  was  established  in  1842  by  George  F.  Wlngate, 
father  of  Frank  S.,  and  was  the  first  firm  to  handle  coal  In 
that  part  of  the  state.  Mr.  Wingate  has  served  as  President 
of  the  Maine  Coal  Dealers'  Association. 


MASSACHUSETTS  — Boston 


LEWIS  III  HNIIAM,  President  Suffolk  Coal  Co.,  178  Bor- 
der St.,  East  Boston.  Massachusetts,  was  born  April  23, 
1844,  at  Essex,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   sixteen   years. 

ARNOLD  B.  CROSBY  of  the  Suffolk  Coal  Co,  East  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  in  Boston 
and   vicinity   for   nearly   thirty  years. 

DANIEL  F.  DOHERTY,  Manager  of  the  D.  Doherty  Co.. 
220  Freeport  St.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  April  16, 
1861,  In  Boston,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty- 
seven    years. 


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ROBERT  H.  GROSS,  President  The  New  River  Co.,  85 
Devonshire  St.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  December 
28,  1864,  at  Pine  Run,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   eight   years. 

CHARLES  P.  HUTCHINS,  Treasurer  of  William  C.  At- 
water  Co.  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  April  14, 
1863,  at  Hartford,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness   for   thirty   years. 

MAURICE  H.  KLOIJS,  President  Staples  Coal  Co.,  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  December  28,  1878,  in  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  He  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Metropolitan  Coal  Co. 
and  the  Maritime  Coaling  Co.  and  was  formerly  President 
of  the  Boston  Coal  Co.  and  the  Union  Fuel  Co.  He  is  Ex- 
ecutive Secretary  of  the  Boston  Fuel  Administration,  Com- 
mittee of  Distribution. 

WILLIAM  E.  MACtlRDA,  Treasurer  Garfield  &  Proctor 
Coal  Co.,  92  State  St.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in 
Clinton,  Massachusetts,  in  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-four  years.  Mr.  Macurda  has  also  various 
other  retail   interests. 

WILLIAM  R.  MeDONALD,  Eastern  Sales  Agent  Williams 
&  Peters,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  September  9, 
1868,  at  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
William   A.   Mehaffey. 

H.  P.  MYERS,  Eastern  Sales  Agent  of  the  Lehigh  Valley 
Coal  Sales  Co.,  141  Milk  St.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  in  1853  at  Boston  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  over  forty-seven  years.  Mr.  Myers  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  Weld,  Rice  &  Co.,  Weld,  Sherwin  &  Co.,  Phila- 
delphia &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  and  Quintard,  Ward, 
Allen   &  Co. 

FRANK  S.  PRATT,  wholesale  coal  merchant  at  35  Con- 
gress St.,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  was  born  March  6,  1851, 
at  Boston,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
two  years.  Mr.  Pratt  specializes  in  Pennsylvania  bitumi- 
nous coals. 

FRAXKLIJi  WALTER,  Treasurer  of  the  Coastwise  Coal 
Co.,  with  offices  at  113  State  Street,  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  twenty-five  years. 


MASSACHUSETTS  — Springfield 


MELVILLE  S.  CONVERSE,  Treasurer  of  the  M.  S.  Con- 
verse Co.  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Monson, 
Massachusetts,  December  26,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  Converse  &  Nason  and  M.  S.  Converse  of  West- 
boro,  Massachusetts. 

CHARLES  J.  DAVIS,  Sales  Agent  of  the  Lehigh  Coal  & 
Navigation  Co.  at  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  on  September  28,  1880,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  Mr.  Davis  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Williams  &  Peters. 

CHARLES  E.  HALSTEAD,  Vice  President  and  a  Director  of 
the  M.  S.  Converse  Co.  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  at  Hillsdale,  New  York,  in  1850  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty-one  years.  Mr.  Halstead  was  formerly 
connected  with  Halstead  &  Pierson  of  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  has  been  Treasurer  of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers 
Association  of  New  England  States  for  nearly  ten  years. 

ROSCOE  R.  MOODY,  President  of  the  Clifty  Consolidated 
Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
Greenville,  Tennessee,  on  June  14,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nine  years.  The  mines  of  this  company 
are  located  at  Clifty,  Tennessee,  and  Clay,  Kentucky,  with 
main  office  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  executive  office  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Moody  is  also  head  of  the 
banking  firm  of  Moody  Bros.  &  Co.  of  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

WILLIAM  G.  TAIT,  President  of  the  Tait  Coal  Co.,  of 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, on  September  24,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Tait  is  one  of  the  well- 
known  retail  coal   merchants  of  New   England. 


MASSACHUSETTS  — Worcester 


FREDERICK    J.    DANIELS    is    Salesman    for    the    Wm.    E. 

Marks  Coal  Co.,  Worcester,  Mass.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
United  Coal  Co.,  Darrow,  Mann  &  Co.,  and  A.  H.  Powell  & 
Co.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
aix  years.     He  was   born  at  Oxford,  Massachusetts,   in   1854. 


JOSEPH  WILSON  GORMAN,  President  of  the  Gorman- 
Leonard  Coal  Co.,  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in 
1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Riverside  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Riv- 
erside Coal  Co.,  Kennebec  Coal  &  Wharf  Co.,  Center  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  and  Stine  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Worcester  Coal  Co.  and  M.  C.  Boyd  &  Bro. 

WILFRED  J.  HAMEL,  Treasurer  and  Manager  Greendale 
Coal  Co.,  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Warren, 
Massachusetts,  October  13,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   six   years. 

WILLIAM  E.  MARKS,  proprietor  of  the  Wm.  E.  Marks 
Coal  Co.,  doing  a  wholesale  business  at  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Port  Matilda,  Pennsylvania,  on  Janu- 
ary, 8,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Mount  Airie  Coal  Mining  Co.  of 
Mehaffey,   Pennsylvania. 


MASSACHUSETTS 


CHARLES  G.  AKIN,  Treasurer  of  the  Akin-Denison  Co. 
of  New  Bedford.  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  New  Bedford 
April  12.  1870.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  F.  T.  Akin  & 
Co. 

JAMES  ANDERSON,  proprietor  of  James  Anderson  &  Co. 
of  Ware,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Ovid,  Seneca  County, 
New  York,  June  1,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
Gilbert  &  Anderson.  His  son,  James  H.  Anderson,  is  a 
yeoman  in  the  I  nited  States  Navy. 

JOHN  E.  ARNOLD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Adams,  Mas- 
sachusetts, was  born  in  Adams  August  IS,  1868,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  eight  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  firm  of  Cook  &  Arnold. 

FRED  L.  ATKINSON,  Treasurer  of  the  Atkinson  Coal  Co. 
of  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Charleston, 
Maine,  in  1856  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
four  years. 

JOHN  H.  BALCH,  JR.,  a  retailer  of  Newburyport,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Newburyport  in  1866  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Advisory  Committee  of  the  New  England  Coal 
Dealers'    Association. 

CHARLES  S.  BARBER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bernards- 
ton,  Massachusetts,'  was  born  August  22,  1852,  at  Rowe, 
Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself 
for  over  twenty  years. 

STANLEY  F.  BARTON,  a  clerk  with  the  Luther  Paul  Co. 
of  Newton  Center,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Tunbridge 
Wells,  England,  on  December  14,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

LAFOREST  BEALS,  member  of  the  firm  of  E.  A.  Wilson 
&  Co.  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  North  Anson, 
Maine,  on  September  12,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1893.  Mr.  Beals  has  been  active  in  the  civic, 
social   and   fraternal   life   of   his   community. 

OVILA  BEAPCHAMP,  a  retailer  of  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  in  Canada  on  May  28,  1875,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  He  is  also  interested  in 
the  charcoal   industry. 

LAUKIN  E.  BENNETT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Wakefield, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Sandwich,  New  Hampshire, 
November  29,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  He  was  formerly  Treasurer  of  the  Moore  &  Bennett 
Coal  Co.  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  but  sold  out  his  interests 
before  the  consolidation  of  his  company  with  others  in 
Lowell.  In  1902  he  purchased  the  coal  business,  real  estate 
and  property  of  Charles  A.  Cheney  of  Wakefield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  has  conducted  a  successful  business  ever  since. 

EUGENE  B.  BLAKE,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Greenfield, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Hill,  New  Hampshire,  on  De- 
cember 5,  1845,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  him- 
self for  twenty-five  years. 

EDWIN  D.  BRIGHAM,  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Ashburn- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Marlboro,  Massachusetts, 
November  13,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
himself  for   thirty-two   years. 

FRANK  R.  BIRR,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
The  Burr  Co.  of  Ludlow,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Lud- 
low on  December  10,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for   fifteen   years. 


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JOSEPH  111  TI.KH,  a  handler  of  coal  at  retail  at  Stone- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  was  horn  at  Nov:i  Scotia,  Canada,  June 
19,  1869,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

i.i  »TAV  E.  IARSTEIN,  President  of  the  Carsteln  Coal 
Co.  of  Cambridge.  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mas- 
sachusetts, on  July  24,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirteen  years. 

FRED  DWIGHT  CARV,  President  of  the  Kimball  &  Cary 
Co.  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Northamp- 
ton on  April  27.  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years.  This  firm  was  established  in  1881  and  incorpo- 
rated in  1896.  Stuart  M.  Campbell  is  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  company. 

JMIKS  KDW  \HD  t'HADWICK,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Edgartown,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Edgartown  on 
March  16,  1868,  where  he  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-nine  years. 

AI.KKKI)  H.  IHVKFKE,  President  of  Chaffee  Brothers  Co., 
Oxford,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Oxford  August  IS,  1859, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 

HlvMIV  W.  CHANDLER.  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the 
Whitman  Grain  &  Coal  Co.  of  Whitman,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  at  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  October  16,  1870,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

WILLIAM  E.  CHENERY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Fram- 
ingham  Centre,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Medfleld,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  March  1.  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for  thirty-four  years. 

LOUIS  ALFHIC  I'HI'TE,  a  member  of  the  Arm  of  Cum- 
mings  &  Chute  of  Woburn,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
Woburn  December  24,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  fifteen  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  CLKJIKXTS,  President  of  Wm.  H.  Clements 
Co.  of  North  Easton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Quincy, 
Massachusetts,  on  August  1,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Goward  Coal  &  Ice  Co. 

ALBKRT  F.  CONANT  of  Conant  &  Co.,  Littleton,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  in  Acton,  Massachusetts,  on  June  8, 
1843,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost  half  a  century. 
His  associates  in  business  are  Everett  Kimball  and  Charles 
K.    Houghton. 

GEORGE  H.  COOPKR  of  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  at  Lee,  Massachusetts,  on  August  15,  1867,  and  for 
ral  years  was  associated  with  W.  G.  Morton  of  Albany, 
New  York.  He  was  President  of  the  New  England  Retail 
Coal  Dealers  Association,  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  Order  KoKoal,  and  is  editor  of  "Cooperostties."  Mr. 
Cooper  has  also  specialized  in  advertising  and  the  sale  of 
real   estate. 

i  i  LSWOH  in  .1.  cu  LLEN.  proprietor  of  the  Danvers  Coal 
Co.  of  Danvers,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  May  12,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Somer- 
ville  Coal  Co. 

J.  WATLAMJ  DAVEXPORT,  founder  of  J.  H.  Davenport 
&  Son,  a  retail  firm  at  Winchendon.  Massachusetts,  was 
born  at  West  Boyleston.  Massachusetts,  July  4,  1853,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  almost  half  a  century. 

STEARNES  L.  DAVEXPORT,  proprietor  of  S.  L.  Daven- 
port &  Son  of  North  Grafton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  on  June  14,  1854  and  has  been 
in    the   coal    business    for   iiiteen    years. 

EDGAR  HtXT  DEAXE,  a  veteran  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Canton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Canton,  Massachusetts. 
on  October  22,  1846,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-six    years. 

t.KORGE  H.  DEGENKOLR,  Treasurer  of  the  Hoosac  Valley 
Coal  &  Grain  Co.,  Adams,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Adams 
November  18,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven 
re,    having   been   connected    formerly   with   Oliver   A.   Up- 
ton. 

JOHN  DEIVTON,  retail  coal  merchant,  Chelsea,  klaaaaohn- 
■etts,  was  born  In  Birmingham,  England,  in  1868,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal  business   twenty-four  years. 

GEORGE  O.  DIXX'ELL,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  North- 
field,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Colerain,  Massachusetts, 
on  March  4,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years.  He  has  taken  his  son,  F.  Myron  Dunnell,  Into  part- 
nership with  him. 


It.  KARL  KH'III.EH,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
tin-  W'altham  Coal  Co.  of  Waltham,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
at  Waltham  on  September  11,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years.  He  is  also  interested  as  Presi- 
dent in  the  Nonantum  Coal  Co.  of  Newton,  Massachusetts, 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Weston  Coal  Co.  of  Weston,  Massa- 
chusetts. Mr.  Elchler  was  formerly  Vice  President  of  the 
Suburban   Coal  Club. 

Al  Gi  STI  s  c.  ELLIS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Chatham, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Chatham  on  September  3,  1880, 
and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

ELBRIDGE  O.  ELLIS,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  South- 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Charlton,  Massachusetts, 
in  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of 
a  century.  He  was  formerly  associated  with  10.  S.  Ellis,  his 
father,  who  established   the  business  in  1878. 

EUGENE  S.  EARNUH,  a  well-known  coal  merchant  of 
Uxbridge,  Massachusetts,  was  formerly  connected  with  Wm. 
Nichols  &  Co..  Gregory  C.  Kelly  &  Co.,  O'Boyle-Fay  Coal 
Co.  and  Pittston  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Uxbridge,  Janu- 
ary 14,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one 
years. 

FREDERICK  W.  FARRAR,  a  retailer  at  Warren,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Keene,  New  Hampshire,  in  1849  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years. 

FRAXK  A.  FISHER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Walpole, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Walpole  on  December  16,  1867. 
and   has  been   in   the  coal   business  for  thirty  years. 

WILBUR  WARREN  FISK,  proprietor  of  Wilbur  W.  Fisk 
&  Co.,  of  Stoneham,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Marlboro, 
Massachusetts,  on  November  25,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

OTHO  H.  FISKE,  a  retailer  of  Huntington,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  in  Chester,  Massachusetts,  on  August  29,  1866, 
and  has  been   in    the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

ALBERT  H.  FOSTER,  a  retailer  of  North  Brookfield, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  at  New  Braintree,  Massachusetts, 
on  November  12,  1839,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  himself   for   thirty-seven   years. 

FREDERICK  E.  ERASER,  Manager  of  the  Charles  Fraser 
Estate,  Clinton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Clinton,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  August  7.  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for   twenty-eight   years. 

PRYOR  FULTON,  proprietor  of  the  New  England  Coal  Co., 
of  Waltham,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia,  Can- 
ada, December  10,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Fulton  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers'  Association. 
He   is  a  firm   believer  in  trade  organizations. 

JAMES  GRADY,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Williamstown, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Pownal,  Vermont,  July  8.  1861, 
having  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  He  was 
formerly   associated   with    Fred   Mather  and   Clark   &   Co. 

WALTER  L.  HALE,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Wilming- 
ton. Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Lawrence,  Massachusetts, 
February  13,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven 
years. 

GEORGE  M.  HALL,  proprietor  of  the  Benson  Coal  Co.  of 
Melrose,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Rockland,  Maine,  on 
June  19,   1851,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  since  1871. 

JOHN  J.  HARRIGAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Beverly, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  May  4,  1864,  at  Cork,  Ireland,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury. 

FREDERICK  HERDER,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hol- 
yoke,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  New  York  on  August  17, 
1873,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  charcoal  business  for 
fifteen  years  and  has  handled  coal  for  the  past  three  years. 

BENNIE  E.  HILL,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Methuen, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Methuen  November  20,  1872, 
and  has  been   in   business  for  two  years. 

JESSE  M.  HOLDER,  junior  member  of  Holder  Coal  Co. 
of  Lynn.  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Lynn  February  9,  1874, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  Holder  &  Breed,  Wm.  C. 
Holder   &    Son,   and   Honors,   Holder   &    Sons. 

JOHN  A.  Hoi.iiiiook,  retailer  at  Ashland,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  at  Belllngham,  Massachusetts,  July  28,  1852,  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years. 

WILLIAM  C.  HOLDER,  senior  member  of  the  Holder 
Coal  Co.  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Washington, 
New  Hampshire,  on  March  7,  1841,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  half  a  century.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  Holder  &  Breed.  Wm.  C.  Holder  &  Son,  and  Honors, 
Holder  &   Sons. 


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JOHN  B.  HULL,  a  retailer  at  Great  Barrington,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts,  on  July 
17,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Hull  has  been  active  in  politics,  having  been 
Senator  and  Representative  at  Massachusetts  General  Court 
for  five  years. 

MBS.  CLARABELLE  W.  JEJiNEV  of  Middleboro,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Lakeville,  Massachusetts,  in  1865  and 
has  been  handling  the  retail  coal  business  of  the  James  L. 
Jenney  Estate  for  four  years.  She  is  one  of  the  enter- 
prising women  in  the  coal  business. 

CHESTER  B.  KENDALL,  veteran  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Gardner,  Massachusetts,  was  born  October  18,  1842,  at  Hub- 
bardstown,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  almost   half  a  century. 

AUGUST  J.  KIENLE,  Manager  A.  J.  Kienle  Coal  Co.,  East- 
hampton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  South  Hadley  Falls, 
Massachusetts,  July  8,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
Burt   &    Kienle. 

JOHN  KILLEN,  a  retailer  at  Nantucket,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  in  Great  Britain,  April  7,  1847,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business   for   twenty-seven   years. 

HERBERT  A.  KNIGHT,  proprietor  of  A.  T.  Knight  Co., 
Hudson,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Marlboro,  Massachu- 
setts, August  16,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
since    1899. 

ERNEST  T.  LABOSSILIE,  bookkeeper  for  the  Ware  Coal 
Co.  of  Ware,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Ware  October  2, 
1894,   and   has   been   in   the   coal   business   two   years. 

MICHAEL  E.  LEAHY,  proprietor  of  the  Randolph  Coal 
Co.  of  Randolph,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Randolph 
November  22,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
about   twenty   years. 

CHARLES  T.  LEIAVITT,  a  retailer  of  East  Weymouth, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  July  21,  1857,  at  Hingham,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen 
years. 

VICTORIEN  LECLERC,  a  retailer  of  Lawrence,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  in  Dorchester  County,  Canada,  March 
21,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  LIVINGSTON,  President  of  Wm.  E. 
Livingston  Co.  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in 
Lowell  on  June  25,  1832,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  sixty-seven  years.  This  firm  was  established  in  1828 
and  occupies  its  original  site,  thus  being  one  of  the  oldest 
retail   coal  firms   in   the   United  States. 

CHARLES  L.  LOVELL,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ipswich, 

Massachusetts,  was  born   in   East  Boston,  Massachusetts,  on 

October    31,    1878,    and    has    been  in    the    coal    business    for 
himself    for    eight   years. 

CHARLES  J.  MAC  LEAN,  formerly  New  England  agent 
Frederic  A.  Potts  &  Co.  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
at  Cape  Breton,  Nova  Scotia,  in  1873,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  eight  years. 

JOHN  A.  MARTIN,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  John 
S.  Martin  Co.  of  Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
Marblehead  on  February  1,  1857,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-one  years. 

NATHAN  H.  MATTHEWS,  a  retailer  at  Yarmouthport, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Yarmouthport  October  19,  1850, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years,  for- 
merly being  connected  with  Matthews  &  Payne. 

DANIEL  MCCARTHY,  a  retailer  of  Turners  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Bellows  Falls,  Vermont,  in  1856  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  thirty  years. 

JOHN  H.  McENANY,  a  retailer  of  Pittsfield,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  at  Pittsfield  on  June  10,  1874,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  C.  C.  Gamwell  and  Stone  &  Co. 

JAMES  H.  McGRADY,  proprietor  of  the  James  H.  McGrady 
Coal  Co.  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Law- 
rence on  December  21,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for   five    years. 

JOHN  C.  McNALLY,  proprietor  of  the  Shawmut  Coal  Co. 
of  Somerville,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
on  March  20,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years. 

FRED  A.  McNEELAND,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the 
Bridgewater  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  September  25,  1877,  in  Bridgewater,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for   over   twelve   years. 


FRANK  P.  MILLS,  General  Manager  of  the  G.  F.  Green 
Coal  Co.  at  Brockton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  October  18, 
1862,  at  Augusta,  Maine,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-four  years. 

JOHN  L.  MITCHELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Allerton. 
Massachusetts,  was  born  November  15,  1859,  at  Hull,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  at  Allerton 
for  the  past  twenty  years. 

CORNELIUS  MURPHY,  President  and  Treasurer  of 
Stoughton  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  of  Stoughton,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  in  Ireland,  January  1,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-five  years. 

DAVID  A.  NELSON  of  the  retail  firm  of  Noyes  &  Nelson, 
Avon,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Sweden  October  8,  1883, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

DE  CLINTON  NICHOLS,  a  retailer  of  Southboro,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  in  Southboro  August  13,  1846,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal   business  for  nine  years. 

WILBERT  JAMES  NICHOLS,  a  retailer  of  North  Adams, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  at  North  Adams  in  1864,  and  has 
been  in   the  coal  business  since  January  1,   1892. 

EDWARD  P.  NOYES  of  Noyes  &  Nelson,  retail  coal  mer- 
chants of  Avon,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Randolph,  Mas- 
sachusetts, February  1,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-three  years. 

JOSEPH  E.  OBER,  founder  and  senior  member  of  Jos.  E. 
Ober  &  Son,  a  retail  firm  at  West  Medford,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  at  Hollis,  New  Hampshire,  on  June  23,  1834,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  almost  forty  years.  His 
son,  William  E.  Ober,  is  now  associated  with  him  in  busi- 
ness. 

WILLIAM  E.  OBER,  junior  member  of  Jos.  E.  Ober  &  Son 
of  Medford,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Arlington,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  June  17,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-five  years. 

JAMES  P.  O'NEILL,  a  retailer  at  Somerville,  Massachu- 
setts, with  two  yards,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
on  August  21,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  al- 
most twenty-five  years.  He  is  assisted  by  his  three  broth- 
ers,  John   J.,   Bernard  L.   and  Lawrence  J.   O'Neill. 

WALTER  S.  OSBORNE,  a  retailer  of  Edgartown,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Edgartown  on  October  25,  1859,  and 
has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  thirty-four  years.  He 
has  a  well  equipped  yard  and  water  front  plant. 

MABCUS  E.  OSGOOD,  proprietor  of  E.  Osgood  &  Son  of 
Gardner,  Massachusetts,  was  born  October  15,  1869,  at  Gard- 
ner, where  he  has  been  in  business  for  twenty-eight  years. 
This  firm  was  established  in  1859  by  Mr.  Osgood's  father, 
who  died  in   1910. 

EMEBSON  HEABD  PACKABD,  Managing  Partner  of  El- 
mer C.  Packard  Co.,  Brockton,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
October  25,  1884,  at  Brockton,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  This  firm,  established 
for  over  sixty  years,  being  founded  by  Ellis  Packard,  de- 
scended to  Elmer  C.  Packard  and  then  to  Emerson  H. 
Packard. 

WALTEB  L.  PALMEB,  President  and  Treasurer  of  W.  L. 
Palmer  Co.  of  Medway,  Massachusetts,  born  at  Plainfield, 
Connecticut,  on  April  23,  1857,  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-five  years  and  was  formerly  connected  with 
Hitchcock  &  Palmer  at  Turner-  Falls,  Massachusetts. 

HABBY  L.  PABKHURST,  a  retailer  at  Chelmsford,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  February  22,  1865,  at  Chelmsford,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  thirty-two 
years. 

FRANK  SMITH  PATCH,  President  and  Treasurer  of  Cyrus 
Patch  &  Son,  Inc.,  of  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
Amherst,  New  Hampshire,  on  January  26,  1860,  and  has 
been   in  the   coal  business   for  forty  years. 

LOUIS  E.  PATTISON,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Webster, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  en  De- 
cember 30,  1843,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  him- 
self for  forty-two  years. 

IKVING  C.  PAUL,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Luther 
Paul  Co.  of  Newton  Center,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
Newton  Center  on  June  29,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  twenty-two  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  PEVEAB,  President  and  Treasurer  of  W.  H. 
Pevear  &  Co.,  Inc.,  of  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
at  Watertown  on  January  IS,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1868.  Mr.  Pevear  was  formerly  connected 
with  Royal  Gilkey  and  Pevear  &  Russell. 

CHARLES  A.  POOKE,  proprietor  of  the  Union  Lumber  Co. 
of  Natick,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Charlestown.  Massa- 
chusetts, May  14,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
almost  half  a  century. 


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KHKH  E.  POOR  of  Marcy  Bros.  &  Co.,  Inc.,  of  Belmont, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  In  Belmont  July  31,  1876,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

DAVID  W.  POWERS,  proprietor  of  D.  W.  Powers  &  Co. 
of  Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Johnsonvllle,  New 
York,  March  7,  1861,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  trade  for 
twenty  years,  and  prior  to  that  time  In  the  railroad  busi- 
ness. 

JOHN  H.  PRESTON,  Manager  of  the  Preston  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  was  born  In  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire,  on  August  25,  1881,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Moore  &  Preston  Coal  Co.  of  Manchester,  New 
Hampshire. 

JOHN  A.  II  \l>(  111  I  i).  Manager  of  The  Albert  Culver  Co. 
of  Rockland,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Rockland  In  Sep- 
tember, 1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven 
years. 

FREDERICK  M.  RAND,  Manager  branch  office  of  Philips, 
Bates  &  Co.  of  Marshfleld,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
North  Reading,  Massachusetts,  August  24,  1869,  and  has 
been    in    the    coal    business    for   twenty-two    years. 

RALPH  W.  REDMAN,  President  The  Fischer-Churchill  Co., 
Dedham,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  North  Isleboro,  Maine, 
June  15.  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
twenty-six    years. 

ARTIUH  B.  REED,  proprietor  of  the  E.  P.  Reed  Lumber 
Co.  of  North  Abington,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  North 
Abington  on  September  8,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eight  years.  This  business  was  established  in 
1846  by  A.  S.  Reed,  his  grandfather. 

CHARLES  EDWIN  RILEY,  part  owner  of  W.  H.  Riley  & 
Son,  a  retail  firm  at  North  Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  at  North  Attleboro  on  November  17,  1861,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Riley  is 
also  interested  in  the  Attleboro  Coal  Co.  of  Attleboro,  Mas- 
sachusetts. His  business  associate  Is  his  brother,  Elmer 
Irving  Riley,   twelve  years  his  senior. 

CHARLES  F.  ROBINSON,  Secretary  and  Assistant  Treas- 
urer of  the  Robinson  &  Jones  Co.  of  Natick,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  at  Natick  on  August  15,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years.  Mr.  Robinson  is  a  life 
member  of  three  Masonic  orders.  He  is  a  son  of  Walter  B. 
Robinson. 

FRANK  II.  ROBINSON,  Vice  President  of  the  Robinson  & 
Jones  Co.  of  Natick,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Natick  on 
November  24,  1885,  having  been  associated  with  this  com- 
pany for  ten  years.  He  is  a  son  of  Walter  B.  Robinson  and 
a   member   of  the    Boston   Chamber   of  Commerce. 

WALTER  B.  ROBINSON,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Robinson  &  Jones  Co.  of  Natick,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
September  20,  1846,  in  Bedford,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  over  fifty  years.  Mr.  Robinson  is 
connected  with  the  Natick  Five-Cent  Savings  Bank  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce  as  well  as 
having  been  Auditor  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation. 

FRED  H.  ROl'RKE,  a  retailer  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  in  Lowell  on  May  23,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  previously 
connected  with  Rourke  &  Sullivan  and  is  Treasurer  of 
Lowell  at  the  present  time. 

BYRON  H.  SARGENT,  sole  owner  of  the  Sargent  Coal 
Co.  of  Merrimac,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Merrimac  on 
February  26,  1882  and  has  been  doing  a  retail  business  for 
eighteen    years. 

JOHN  F.  SEVERANCE,  a  retailer  of  Shelburne  Falls. 
Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Shelburne  Falls  on  January  24, 
1835,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  almost  thirty 
years. 

GEORGE  arms  SHELDON,  a  well-known  retailer  at 
Greenfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Greenfield  on  July 
16,  1872,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  thirteen 
years.  He  is  also  Treasurer  of  the  New  England  Coal  Deal- 
ers' Association,  Inc. 

Illlilllin  D.  SMITH,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hatfield, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  on  April 
30,  1867,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
seventeen  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  SNVDER.  a  retailer  of  Housatonlc.  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  in  Chatham,  New  York,  on  December  8, 
1881.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
thirty-seven  years. 


WILLIS  G.  SNYDER,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  North 
Adams,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  North  Adams,  October 
12,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost  thirty 
years.  Mr.  Snyder  was  formerly  associated  with  F.  A. 
Brooks  and   W.   G.   Snyder  &  Co. 

NELSON  R.  STILES,  Manager  of  the  Saugus  Coal  Co.  of 
Saugus,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Middleton,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty 
years.  He  was  in  business  for  himself  for  thirty-six  years, 
until   coming   with   the  above   firm.  , 

PERCY  N.  SWEETSER,  a  retailer  of  Reading,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  at  Wakefield,  Massachusetts,  on  June  20, 
1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  Edward  M.  Alden  of  Boston. 

HENRY  L.  TAYLOR,  proprietor  of  H.  L.  Taylor  &  Co., 
Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Haverhill  on  May  14, 
1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  sixteen 
years. 

WILLIAM  J.  THOMPSON,  President  of  the  Thompson  Coal 
Co.  of  Somerville,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Somerville, 
April  23,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
three  years.  He  was  formerly  associated  with  Robert  Faw- 
cett  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  Louis  Ernst  is  Treasurer 
of  the   company. 

JOSEPH  P.  TYRRELL,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Sheffield, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Egremont,  Massachusetts,  Feb- 
ruary 1,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four 
years. 

HENRY  W.  WARE,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Shelburne 
Falls,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Shelburne  Falls  Decem- 
ber 7,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two 
years. 

SUSAN  RICHARDS  WAHTHEN.  sole  owner  of  Augustus 
J.  Richards  &  Son,  a  retail  firm  doing  business  at  Weymouth, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  March  9,  1871,  and  has  been  active 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years,  succeeding  her  father 
and  two  brothers  since  their  demise. 

GEORGE  M.  WEBBER,  retailer  of  East  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  October  18,  1871,  at  East  Bridge- 
water.  Massachusetts,  where  he  has  been  a  retail  coal  mer- 
chant for  thirteen  years. 

HENRY  COWLES  WELLS,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Deer- 
field,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Deerfield  December  20, 
1862.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
twenty  years. 

HERMAN  J.  'WELLS,  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  Geo. 
F.  Welch  Co.  of  Scituate,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at 
Huntington,  New  York,  May  29,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with   Wells   &   Jennings  of  Greenport.   New   York. 

FRANK  A.  'WHITING,  late  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the 
Holyoke  Coal  &  Wood  Co.  of  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  in  Holyoke  April  7,  1856,  and  was  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-two  years,  until  his  death.  May  5,  1918.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  New  England 
Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  one  of  the  well-known  retail- 
ers  of   New   England. 

ALVIN  L.  WILEY,  a  retailer  at  Wellfleet,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  in  Wellfleet  August  6,  1866,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Mercantile  Wharf  Co.  and  also  the  Cen- 
tral Trading  Co.  Mr.  Wiley  states  that  up  to  the  time  of 
his  entry  into  the  coal  business,  coal  was  always  brought  to 
his  town  by  vessel,  but  because  of  the  decline  in  the  sein- 
ing of  mackerel  the  wharves  became  unfitted  for  landing 
and  all   coal   has   since   been  received   by   rail. 

ERWIN  A.  WILSON,  senior  member  of  E.  A.  Wilson  & 
Co.  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  was  born  In  Pomfret,  Ver- 
mont, June  10,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty  years  He  is  President  of  the  Lowell  Terminal  Co. 
and  Vice  President  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers  As- 
sociation, representing  Massachusetts,  and  is  considered 
one    of   the    leading   coal    merchants   of   New   England. 

JOSEPH  WILLETT,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Needham. 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Boston.  Massachusetts,  July  4, 
1847,  and  had  been  In  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
thirty-five  years  up  to  July  1,  1918,  when,  witli  ('.  A.  Chart- 
wick  of  Newton  I'pper  Fulls.  Massachusetts,  he  formed  the 
Willett  &  Cliadwlek  Coal  Co.,  doing  business  in  Needham. 
He  is  a  Past  President  of  the  Suburban  Coal  Club. 

WALLACE  II.  WIl.sov  Manager  of  the  Akin-Denlson  Co. 
of  New  Bedford,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  New  Bedford 
on  June  14,  1864,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  Denison  Bros. 
Co. 


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NEW    HAMPSHIRE 


CLABE.NCE  W.  ADAMS,  retailer  at  Warner,  New  Hamp- 
shire, was  born  at  Sutton,  New  Hampshire,  in  1873,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  five  years.  He  also 
handles   lumber   in   connection   with   his  coal   business. 

HERBERT  C.  ADAMS,  a  retailer  of  Belmont,  New  Hamp- 
shire, was  born  at  Hill,  New  Hampshire,  on  November  12, 
1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for  the 
past  Ave  years. 

JAMES  A.  BALDWIN,  a  retailer  at  East  Jaffrey,  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  at  Dublin,  New  Hampshire,  September 
11,  1855,  and  has  been  in  business  for  twenty-seven  years. 

JOSEPH  BERN1ER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Greenville, 
New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  St.  Johns,  Quebec.  Canada, 
October  12,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years. 

LORING  B.  BODWELL,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Manches- 
ter, New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Salem,  New  Hampshire,  on 
April  20,  1844,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over 
half  a  century.  Mr.  Bodwell  is  being  assisted  by  his  two 
sons,  Charles  B.  and  H.  Irving. 

ALICE  P.  BRADLEY  has  done  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Rochester,    New    Hampshire,    for    the    past    four    years. 

EDGAR  T.  BROWN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Raymond, 
New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Raymond,  October  12,  1863, 
and  has   been   in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

ALMOIN"  S.  CARPENTER,  Treasurer-Manager  of  the  D.  M. 
Poore  Coal  Co.  of  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  in 
Chichester,  New  Hampshire,  in  1869,  and  having  been  book- 
keeper and  clerk  for  D.  M.  Poore  for  sixteen  years,  nine 
years  ago  formed  the  present  company.  He  is  Secretary- 
Treasurer  of  the  Manchester  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Asso- 
ciation. 

EDWARD  M.  CLARK,  proprietor  of  E.  M.  Clark  &  Son, 
retail  coal  merchants  at  North  Haverhill,  New  Hampshire, 
was  born  at  Benton,  New  Hampshire,  June  16,  1871,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

CLARENCE  EDWARD  CLOUGH,  Manager  and  co-partner 
of  N.  P.  Clough  &  Co.  of  Lebanon,  New  Hampshire,  was  born 
at  Danbury,  New  Hampshire,  on  February  25,  1872,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  is  associated 
with  George  B.  Clough,  who  is  senior  member  of  this  com- 
pany. 

GEORGE  B.  CLOUGH,  senior  member  of  N.  P.  Clough  & 
Co.,  a  retail  firm  at  Lebanon,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at 
Warner,  New  Hampshire,  September  30,  1848,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  This  company  also 
does   an   extensive   lumber   and   ice   business. 

HENRY  L.  COTTON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Warren,  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  at  Warren,  October  11,  1860,  and  has 
been  in   the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

■WILLIAM  G.  CRAM,  retailer  of  Lakeport,  New  Hamp- 
shire, was  born  at  Boston,  Massachusetts,  March  19,  1865, 
and   has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  twenty  years. 

EVERETT  LENDALL  DAVIS,  retailer  at  Penacook,  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  in  Warner,  New  Hampshire,  June  27, 
1863,  and  has  been   in  the   coal  business  thirty  years. 

Bl'ET  S.  DEARBORN,  Manager  of  the  Wallace  Building 
Co.  of  Laconia,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Thornton,  New 
Hampshire,  February  18,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   six  years. 

CHARLES  H.  DOW,  owner  and  only  surviving  member  of 
J.  H.  Dow  &  Son,  doing  a  retail  business  at  Lakeport,  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  in  Lakeport  November  4,  1872.  Mr. 
Dow  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years. 
His  company   is   the   pioneer   coal   firm   of  Lakeport. 

J.  PRANK  GOODWIN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Wolfeboro, 
New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Emery  Mills.  Maine,  August  2, 
1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  two  years. 

HENRY  NORMAN  HODGDON,  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  C.  N.  Hodgdon  Co.  of  Berlin,  New  Hampshire,  was 
born  at  Milan,  New  Hampshire,  on  July  7,  1869,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  seventeen  years.  Mr. 
Hodgdon  is  a  son  of  Charles  Norman  Hodgdon,  the  pioneer 
coal  man  of  Berlin,  who  died  in  1908.  Mr.  Hodgdon  was 
associated  with  his  father  before  his  death. 

■WILFRED  A.  HODGDON,  President  of  the  C.  N.  Hodgdon 
Co.  of  Berlin,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Milan,  New 
Hampshire,  in  December,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  ten  years,  previously  having  been  engaged  in 
the    grain   business. 


ALMON  T.  HOVKV,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Peterboro, 
New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Peterboro  September  17,  1846, 
and  has  passed  his  whole  life  there,  ten  days  being  the 
longest  time  he  was  ever  away  from  the  town.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years,  and  has  four 
coal  silos,  two  of  130-ton  capacity,  and  two  of  100-ton 
capacity. 

JOSEPH  LEWIS  JACOBY,  Manager  of  the  Consolidation 
Coal  Co.  at  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  July  23,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 
at  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  having  charge  of  that  com- 
pany's  docks   at  Salem   and  Newburyport. 

HARRY  W.  LADD,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Plaistow,  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  in  Fremont,  New  Hampshire,  March 
14,  1891,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years. 

LESTER  LIBBY  LANGLEY,  junior  member  of  C.  S.  Lang- 
ley  &  Son,  retailers  at  Durham,  New  Hampshire,  was  born 
in  Durham  May  9,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  two  years. 

WILLIS  A.  MARTIN,  retailer  at  Goffstown,  New  Hamp- 
shire, was  born  at  Goffstown  on  April  3,  1884,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 

ALBERT  E.  McREEL,  Treasurer  of  A.  E.  McReel  Co.  of 
Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Athol,  Massachusetts, 
on  March  28,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seven    years. 

HERMAN  E.  MILES,  Superintendent  of  the  yard  of  the  C. 
N.  Hodgdon  Co.  of  Berlin,  New  Hampshire,  and  a  Director 
of  that  company,  was  born  at  Stark,  New  Hampshire,  in 
1877,  and  has  been  with  this  company  since  its  incorpora- 
tion in  1908.  Mr.  Miles  was  formerly  Cashier  in  the  Berlin 
National    Bank. 

PRANK  E.  MOONEY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Farmington, 
New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Alton,  New  Hampshire,  on 
May  20,   1859,  and  has  been  in  business  for  thirty  years. 

ENOCH  E.  NEAL,  a  retail  merchant  of  Maiden,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  at  Brookfleld,  New  Hampshire,  on  Janu- 
ary 20,  1867,  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  thirty 
years.     He  is  a  firm  believer   in  selling  coal  for  cash. 

HERMAN  ABBOTT  OSGOOD,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of 
the  Nashua  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Nashua,  New  Hampshire, 
was  born  at  Hyde  Park,  Massachusetts,  May  4,  1873,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  is 
Vice  President  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers  Associa- 
tion and  for  a  number  of  years  has  successfully  managed 
the  exhibit  of  coal  dealers'  supplies  at  the  annual  conven- 
tions. 

CHARLES  H.  PETTEE,  owner  of  the  Durham  Coal  Co., 
Durham,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Manchester,  New 
Hampshire,  February  2,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  almost  twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  C.   S.   Pettee  &  Co. 

FREDERICK  B.  PRESTON  of  Manchester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, associated  with  John  H.  Preston  in  the  ownership 
of  the  Preston  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  is 
also  interested  in  the  Moore  &  Preston  Coal  Co.  of  Man- 
chester, New  Hampshire,  and  identified  with  the  Amoskeag 
National    Bank    of   Manchester. 

MARY  D.  RANDALL  was  born  in  Northfield,  Vermont, 
January  2,  1858,  and  since  the  death  of  her  husband,  C.  E. 
Randall,  in  1912  has  been  carrying  on  a  retail  coal  business 
at  Woodsville,  New  Hampshire,  where  she  has  more  than 
doubled  the  amount  of  business  done. 

J.  L.  ROBERTS,  retail  coal  merchant,  late  of  Laconia, 
New   Hampshire,   was   born   at  Belmont,   New  Hampshire,   In 

1858,  and  died  January  10,  1918.  He  was  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty  years.  The  business  is  being  continued  under 
the   same  name  by  his  son,  Edwin  J.  Roberts. 

LOUIS  RUEL,  proprietor  of  Ruel  &  Co.,  Somerworth,  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  in  Canada  in  August,  1853,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

JOHN  E.  ROSSELL,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Sweden  M,.rch  5,  1868,  and 
has  been   in   business   for  himself   fifteen   years. 

WALTER  E.  SABEN,  retailer  at  Winchester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, was  born  at  Winchester,  August  6,  1858,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

WILLIS  A.  SHEDD,  Manager  of  W.  A.  Shedd  &  Co.  of 
Nashua,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Hollis,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four- 
teen  years,   the   entire   time   with   the   above   company. 

HERMAN  T.  SHEPARD,  retail  coal  merchant  at  West 
Epping,    New   Hampshire,    was   born   at   Epping,   October   11, 

1859,  and  has  been  in  business  for  the  past  six  years. 


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KHUAHD  A.  SH1TK,  proprietor  of  the  Exeter  Coal  Co., 
Inc..  of  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  In  Exeter  July  7, 
1S68,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Peoples  Co_l  Co. 

i  iiim>  CHESTER  SMITH.  First  Vice  President  of  the 
Frank  Smith  Co.  of  Lancaster,  New  Hampshire,  was  born 
at  Lancaster  In  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty    years. 

HKMH  E.  STAHL.  Secretary  of  Simon  Stahl  &  Son  of 
Berlin,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Oorham,  New  Hamp- 
shire, August  12,  1882,  and  has  been  with  this  firm  for 
about  fifteen   years. 

SIMON  STAHL,,  Treasurer  of  Simon  Stahl  &  Son,  a  firm 
of  retailers  at  Berlin,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Ger- 
many on  November  17,  1842,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

A.  G.  STEVENS,  President  Concord  Lumber  Co.,  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  has  incidental  to  that  connection  been  in 
the  coal   business   for  the   past    twenty-five   years. 

A.  W.  STKVENS,  Manager  and  Assistant  Treasurer  of  the 
Concord  Lumber  Co.  of  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  was  born 
at  Concord  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years. 

Ill  RXIE  G.  TAYLOR,  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  White- 
field,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Whitefield,  January  8, 
1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
twenty-one    years. 

GEORGE  R.  TAILOR,  proprietor  of  George  R.  Taylor  & 
Co.  of  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  at  Chelsea,  Mas- 
sachusetts, February  22.  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
W.  A.  Mehaffey,  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co.,  and  E.  Russell 
Norton,  and  was  one  of  the  valued  Skouts  of  the  Order 
KoKoal. 

CLARENCE  E.  WARD,  managing  partner  of  Ward  Bros., 
retail  coal  merchants  at  Marlboro,  New  Hampshire,  was 
born  at  Marlboro  in  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  seven  years,  and  is  the  active  member  of  the  above  firm. 

FRANK  E.  WARD,  silent  partner  of  Ward  Bros.,  retail- 
ers at  Marlboro,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  1878  at  Marl- 
boro, and  has  been  Interested  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years. 


RHODE     ISLAND— Providence 


THOMAS  H.  EARLY,  Treasurer  Thomas  H.  Early  &  Co., 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  December  25,  1854,  in 
Providence,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty- 
eight  years. 

EKintMio  M.  GRKBNE,  Manager  Olneyville  branch  of 
the  Eastern  Coal  Co.,  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  was  born 
In  Scituate,  Rhode  Island,  March  23,  1868,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Greene  was  for- 
merly connected  with  R.  B.  Little  &  Co.,  George  B.  Arnold, 
and  for  several  years  was  junior  partner  of  Bowen  & 
Greene. 

S.  J.  GREENE.  Treasurer  Eastern  Coal  Co.,  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  was  born  October  9,  1870,  in  Felix,  Illinois, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr. 
Greene  was  formerly  connected  with  R.  B.  Little  &  Co. 

CHARLKS  I\  OLNEY.  President  Jos.  Olney  &  Son,  Inc.. 
retail  coal  merchants  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  was  born 
in  Smithfield.  Rhode  Island.  August  9,  1856,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  forty-three  years.  His  father,  Joseph 
Olney,  was  born  in  1814,  and  conducted  the  business  for 
thirty  years  before  his  death. 

F.  D.  SIMMONS,  President  Eastern  Coal  Co.,  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  was  born  In  Providence  February  17,  1857,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty  years.  Mr.  Simmons 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Providence  Coal  Co., 
Tucker  &  Little,  and  R.  B.  Little  &  Co.  This  company  oper- 
ates three  tidewater  yards  with  six  branch  inland  yards. 

MIKWIN  WHITE,  President  and  Manager  John  R.  White 
&  Son,  Inc.,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  established  In  1862, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty  years. 


RHODE    ISLAND 


OLIYER  C.  ANDREWS,  member  of  the  firm  of  Andrews  & 
Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Westerly.  Rhode  Island,  was  born  In 
Newport,  Rhode  Island,  March  25,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  Mr.  Andrews  was  formerly 
connected  with  Coxe  Bros,  of  New  York  City. 


L.  P.  ROSWORTH,  born  in  1856  and  assisted  by  his  son 
Albert  L„  born  in  1892,  operates  the  coal  business  started  by 
L.  S.  Bosworth  in  1851  at  Barrington,  Rhode  Island.  The 
yard  occupies  the  site  of  the  first  trading  post  in  Rhode 
Island,  taken  more  than  150  years  ago  by  the  Bosworth 
family,   who   came   over   in    1635. 

ALLAN  A.  CAMPIIELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Phenix, 
Rhode  Island,  was  born  March  20,  1862,  in  Washington, 
Rhode  Island,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  and  feed  business 
twenty-six   years. 

ADIN  M.  CAPRON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Centerdale, 
Rhode  Island,  was  born  December  2,  1882,  at  Stillwater, 
Rhode  Island,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  two 
years. 

WILLIAM  H.  CLARKE,  Treasurer  and  Manager  Pinniger 
&  Manchester  Co.,  Inc.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Newport,  Rhode 
Island,  was  born  in  Newport  October  5,  1867,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four  years.  The  firm  was 
formed  by  David  T.  Pinniger  and  A.  Russell  Manchester  in 
1871   and   incorporated   in   1904. 

HARRY  ELLIS  DAVIS,  member  of  the  New  England  Coal 
Co.  of  Woonsocket,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  May  1,  1868,  In 
Noi'thboro,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  nineteen  years.  Mr.  Davis  has  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  New  England  Coal  Dealers 
Association  since  1915.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Rhode 
Island  State  Legislature,  1909-1911,  and  has  always  been 
active   in  all  plans  for  the  betterment  of  Woonsocket. 

WILLIAM  H.  FROST,  proprietor  of  the  retail  firm  of  W.  H. 
Frost  of  Auburn,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  August  27,  1889, 
at  Rochester,  New  Hampshire,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  six  years. 

JOHX  D.  GLOVER,  Manager  M.  A.  Pennington  &  Co.,  re- 
tailers at  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  in  Canada, 
October  25,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen 
years. 

ALBERT  A.  HUDSON,  member  of  the  New  England  Coal 
Co.  of  Woonsocket,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  in  Esmond, 
Rhode  Island.  January  10,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-nine  years.  Mr.  Hudson  was  formerly  con- 
nected  with   Frank    E.   Holden. 

P.  D.  HI  MPHREY.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  was  born  December,  1843,  in  Tiverton,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  about  twenty-five  years. 

WILLIAM  S.  JEFFERDS,  Manager  W.  S.  Jefferds  &  Co., 
retailers  of  coal  at  Lonsdale,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  March 
17,  1857,  at  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   sixteen   years. 

GEORGE  MACAULEY,  Manager  A.  E.  Bullock  &  Co.,  re- 
tail coal  merchants  of  Lonsdale,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  in 
Lonsdale  June  27.  1874.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
about  seven   years. 

PATRICK  J.  MEE,  proprietor  O.  J.  Mee  Coal  Co.  of  Woon- 
socket, Rhode  Island,  was  born  June  10,  1863,  in  Woonsocket, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 

ELMER  H.  REYNOLDS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Nason- 
ville,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  June  8,  1869.  at  Glocester, 
Rhode  Island,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 

MISS  ELIZABETH  IIREESE  SMITH,  Manager  George 
Bowen  Coal  Co.,  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  In  Dun- 
ellen.  New  Jersey,  November  28,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-three  years.  This  business  was  orig- 
inally started  in  1800  by  Miss  Smith's  great  grandfather 
as  a  shipping  business,  and  in  1821  was  continued  by  his 
two  sons,  Stephen  and  George  Bowen.  After  the  death  of 
Stephen  Bowen,  about  1845,  George  Bowen  entered  into 
the  wood  and  coal  business,  which  he  carried  on  until  his 
death. 

DRUMS  J.  SVLLIVAX.  President  The  D.  J.  Sullivan  Co., 
Newport.  Rhode  Island,  was  born  in  1855  In  Newport  and 
has  been   in   the  coal  business   for  twenty  years. 

II.  .1.  F.  sillivan.  Vice  President  The  D.  J.  Sullivan  Co. 
of  Newport.  Rhode  Island,  was  born  In  Newport  In  Novem- 
ber,  1888. 

WILLIAM  E.  srLLIVAN.  Secretary  The  D.  J.  Sullivan  Co. 
of  Newport.  Rhode  Island,  was  born  in  Newport  April  8, 
1891,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  four  years. 

WILLIAM  It.  WHIPPLE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Wash- 
ington, Rhode  Island,  was  born  In  Washington  March  14, 
1870,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  three  years. 

FRANK  X.  WILCOX,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Westerly, 
Rhode  Island,  was  born  In  Hopklnton.  Rhode  Island,  May  7, 
1868,  and   has  been   In  the  coal  business  ten  years. 


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VERMONT 


JOHN  FREDERICK  ALEXANDER,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Saxtons  River,  Vermont,  was  born  February  21,  1838,  at 
Chesterfield,  New  Hampshire,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  eighteen   years. 

GEORGE  M.  ANDREWS  of  the  retail  firm  of  G.  M.  An- 
drews Coal  &  Wood  Co.,  Montpelier,  Vermont,  was  born  June 
20,  1863,  at  Duxbury,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seven  years. 

WALTON  F.  ANDREWS,  member  of  the  firm  of  Rich  & 
Andrews,  retailers  of  coal  at  Manchester  Depot,  Vermont, 
was  born  January  13,  1861,  at  East  Otto,  New  York,  and  has 
been  in   the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 

CHAS.  D.  BARBER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Windsor,  Ver- 
mont, was  born  in  Windsor  September  4,  1874,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

EDWIN  I.  BENSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Woodstock, 
Vermont,  was  born  September  19,  1867,  in  Woodstock,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  five  years.  Mr.  Benson  is  also 
interested  in  building  material,  lumber,  milling,  flour  and 
grain. 

ERNEST  ASA  BRODIE,  Treasurer  and  Manager  Citizens 
Coal  Co.  of  Burlington,  Vermont,  was  born  in  Stanstead, 
Quebec,  Canada,  July  20,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  nineteen   years. 

E.  B.  CHASE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Barnet,  Vermont, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years, 

EDGAR  R.  COOK,  proprietor  of  E.  R.  Cook  Coal  &  Lumber 
Co.,  Barton,  Vermont,  was  born  at  Craftsburg,  Vermont, 
March  30,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve 
years. 

R.  W.  H.  DAVIS,  Treasurer  and  Manager  Davis  Coal  & 
Transfer  Co.,  Newport,  Vermont,  was  born  September  24, 
1886,  in  Newport,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years. 

CHARLES  L.  FRENCH,  proprietor  of  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness of  C.  L.  French,  Hardwick,  Vermont,  was  born  in  1851 
at  Hardwick,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five 
years. 

CHARLES  E.  HAMBLET,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Barton, 
Vermont,  was  born  December  4,  1857,  at  Morgan,  Vermont, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

FRITZ  WENDELL  JACKSON,  partner  of  the  retail  coal 
firm  of  Morse  &  Jackson,  Barre,  Vermont,  was  born  at 
Springfield,  Vermont,  February  18,  1876.  Mr.  Jackson  was 
previously  connected  with  Towne  &  Leonard. 

DAN  M.  JOHNSON,  member  of  the  firm  of  W.  B.  Johnson 
&  Son,  retailers  of  coal  at  Essex  Junction,  Vermont,  was 
born  June  5,  1876.  at  Williston,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty  years. 

W.  B.  JOHNSON,  senior  member  of  the  retail  coal  firm  of 
W.  B.  Johnson  &  Son,  was  born  at  Jericho,  Vermont,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1849,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-nine 
years. 

M.  CLARENCE  KNIGHT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  New- 
bury, Vermont,  was  born  in  Newbury  September  24,  1861, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 

WILLIAM  B.  LADD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Enosburg 
Falls,  Vermont,  was  born  in  Enosburg  January  1,  1872,  and 
has   been   in    the   coal    business   eighteen   years. 


LENO  A.  LAPELLE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Swanton, 
Vermont,  was  born  in  Swanton,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  about  five  years. 

MERRILL  L.  LAWRENCE,  President  and  Manager  Law- 
rence &  Wheeler,  Inc.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Springfield,  Ver- 
mont, was  born  June  14.  1841,  in  Windham,  Vermont,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 

GEORGE  P.  MOORE,  President  Geo.  P.  Moore  Co.,  retail- 
ers of  coal  at  St.  Johnsbury,  Vermont,  was  born  September 
4,  1842,  at  Bradford,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness since  1888." 

H.  W.  MYERS,  President  H.  W.  Myers  &  Son,  Inc.,  retail 
coal  merchants  at  Bennington,  Vermont,  was  born  January 
10,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 

WM.  H.  MYERS,  Treasurer  H.  W.  Myers  &  Son,  Inc.,  Ben- 
nington, Vermont,  was  born  January  27,  1886,  in  Pownal, 
Vermont,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

H.  M.  O'DELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Montpelier,  Ver- 
mont, was  born  September  3,  1868,  in  O'Delltown,  Quebec, 
Canada,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 
Mr.  O'Dell  was  previously  connected  with  Taft  &  O'Dell. 

RICHARD  B.  OSHA,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Randolph, 
Vermont,  was  born  November  5,  1872,  at  West  Braintree, 
Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

NED  E.  PIERCE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Elias  Lyman 
Coal  Co.,  Burlington,  Vermont,  was  born  in  1879  at  North 
Shrewsbury,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirteen  years.  Mr.  Pierce  has  held  the  position  of  Vice 
President  of  the  New  England  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Associa- 
tion and  has  been  a  Director  of  the  Central  New  York  and 
New  England  Coal  Association. 

HOLLAND  C.  REED,  President  and  Manager  The  Reed 
Coal  Co.,  Fair  Haven,  Vermont,  was  born  January  14,  1857, 
in  Fair  Haven  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-three 
years. 

HORACE  A.  RICHARDSON  of  the  retail  coal  firm  of  Cal- 
der  &  Richardson,  Barre,  Vermont,  successors  to  G.  I.  Jack- 
son &  Co.,  was  born  October  4,  1870,  at  West  Corinth,  Ver- 
mont. 

GEORGE  C.  SHEDD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Springfield, 
Vermont,  was  born  in  1852  at  West  Windsor,  Vermont,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  twelve  years. 

MRS.  ROSE  CORNELIA  SHEPLE,  well  known  coal  mer- 
chant at  Waterbury,  Vermont,  "was  born  April  11,  1853,  in 
Waterbury,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two 
years.  Mrs.  Sheple  became  Manager  of  this  retail  business 
at  the  death  of  her  husband,  H.  S.  Sheple,  i  l   1895. 

FRANK  RICHARDSON  SHERMAN,  member  of  the  retail 
coal  firm  of  F.  M.  Sherman  &  Co.,  Newport,  Vermont,  was 
born  in  Newport,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty    years. 

LUTHER  TUCKER  SPARHAWK,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Randolph,  Vermont,  was  born  February  11,  1831,  at  Roches- 
ter, Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  thirty- 
eight  years. 

FRED  STICKLES,  Manager  Henry  M.  Tuttle  Co.,  retailers 
of  coal  at  Bennington,  Vermont,  was  born  June  16,  1870,  at 
Churchtown,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
nine  years. 

JAMES  HENRY  WHELDEN,  President  and  Treasurer  of  J. 
H.  Whelden  Coal  Co.,  Brandon,  Vermont,  was  born  December 
10,  1876,  at  Ludlow,  Vermont,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eleven  years.  Mr.  Whelden  was  previously  connected 
with    the   Whelden    Coal   Co.    of   Ludlow. 


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NEW  JERSEY 


FROM  the  point  of  view  of  real  consumption  of  coal 
New  Jersey  is  outranked  only  by  Pennsylvania,  the 
premier  state  in  the  production,  total  and  square 
mile  consumption.  Using  the  1918  figures  as  a  basis, 
New  Jersey,  despite  its  relatively  small  territorial  ex- 
tent, was  seventh  in  the  list  of  coal  consumers,  being 
exceeded  in  actual  consumption  by  Pennsylvania,  Illi- 
nois, New  York,  the  New  England  group,  Ohio  and 
Indiana.  l'pon  a  square  mile  basis,  however,  its  rank  is 
eighth.  Upon  a  per  capita  basis  it  ranks  eighth.  While 
its  anthracite  consumption,  2.9  tons,  is  more  than  three 
and  one-half  times  greater  than  that  for  the  country  as 
a  whole,  its  bituminous  coal  consumption  per  capita 
is  only  1.29  tons,  against  the  general  average  of  2.04 
tons.  The  total,  both  anthracite  and  bituminous  coal, 
is  4.19  tons,  which  shows  up  very  favorably  in  compari- 
son with  the  country  average  of  2.82  tons. 

Although  a  heavy  consumer  of  fuel  New  Jersey,  in 
common  with  other  states  in  the  same  general  territory, 
draws  its  supplies  from  few  producing  zones.  Michi- 
gan, for  example,  which  follows  New  Jersey  in  point  of 
total  consumption,  called  upon  ten  producing  states  to 
fill  its  needs  in  1915;  New  Jersey  shipments  came  from 
but  three.  This  is,  of  course,  in  a  large  measure  ex- 
plained by  the  predominance  of  anthracite  as  the  lead- 
ing fuel  in  the  Middle  Atlantic  and  New  England  group 
of  states.  In  New  Jersey,  for  example,  anthracite  re- 
ceipts of  8,375,000  tons  in  1915  constituted  over  75  per 
cent  of  the  total  tonnage  used  in  that  state  during  that 
year.    Pennsylvania  bituminous  came  next  with  3,489,- 


656  tons.  In  other  words  one  state  furnished  New  Jer- 
sey with  over  94.5  per  cent  of  its  total  fuel  supply. 
West  Virginia  contributed  045,000  and  Maryland  33,561 
tons  to  the  grand  total  of  12,543,817  tons. 

Aside  from  its  importance  as  a  consumer  both  of 
domestic  and  steam  sizes  for  internal  enterprises — and 
New  Jersey,  even  before  the  war,  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing manufacturing  states  of  the  Union — it  is  also  the 
gateway  through  which  a  large  share  of  the  coal  supply 
of  New  York  City  passes.  The  greater  number  of  the 
discharging  piers  for  handling  coal  to  supply  Manhat- 
tan are  located  on  the  Jersey  side  of  the  river.  They 
include  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  piers  at  South  Am- 
lioy,  with  a  daily  capacity  of  300  ears ;  the  Lehigh  Valley 
facilities  at  Perth  Amboy,  where  250  cars  per  day  can 
be  handled  under  favorable  conditions;  the  Philadel- 
phia &  Beading  terminals  at  Port  Reading  with  a  daily 
capacity  of  500  cars;  the  Central  Railroad  of  New  Jer- 
sey's facilities  at  Elizabethport,  250  cars  daily,  Port 
Johnston,  150  cars,  and  Port  Liberty,  100  cars;  the 
350-car  capacity  Hoboken  piers  of  the  Delaware,  Lack- 
awanna &  Western  Railroad ;  the  New  York,  Ontario 
&  Western  Railway's  terminals  at  Weehawken,  where 
175  cars  can  be  handled  in  a  day,  and  the  Erie  Rail- 
road's facilities  for  handling  250  cars  per  day  under 
favorable  conditions  at  Undercliff.  In  other  words, 
eliminating  the  Arlington  piers,  New  York  harbor 
facilities  for  handling  coal  have  an  aggregate  capacity 
of  approximately  2,000  cars  per  day.  Facilities  for  han- 
dling 1,676  ears  of  this  total  are  on  the  New  Jersey  side. 


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JOHX    W.    111)1. Lis.    Hoboken,    New    Jersey, 

President  Jagels  &  Bellis,  well-known  retail  coal  merchants 
at  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  was  born  September  8,  1871,  in 
Oradell,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-nine  years.  Before  taking  over  his  present  inter- 
ests Mr.   Bellis  was  connected   with  Williams  &   Peters. 


C.  H.   C.  JAGELS,  Summit,  New  Jersey, 

Treasurer  Jagels  &  Bellis,  large  retail  coal  merchants  at 
Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  was  born  September  3,  1870,  in  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-four 
years.  Mr.  Jagels  has  been  President  of  the  Hudson  County 
Coal   Merchants'  Association. 


NEW    JERSEY  — Newark 


MRS.  E.  L.  kiii  ill!.  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  E.  L. 
Koller  Manufacturing  &  Coal  Chute  Co.,  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, was  born  in  Alsace-Lorraine  of  French  parentage,  and 
has  been  manufacturing  and  handling  coal  dealers'  supplies 
for  twenty-two  years.  She  has  a  wide  acquaintance  among 
retail  coal   merchants   in   the   East. 

JOSEPH  H.  LUCKING,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  April  12,  1870,  in  Newark  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

JOHX  FRAXKLIX  POST,  well  known  retailer  at  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  February  24,  1857,  at  Butler,  New 
Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two 
years. 

ALEXANDER  H.  ROSS,  senior  member  of  the  retail  firm 
of  A.  H.  Ross  &  Co.,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
September  11.  1848,  in  New  York  City,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fifty-two  years.  Mr.  Ross  was  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  connected   with   the   Delaware   &   Hudson  Co. 

ROBERT  LINCOLN  ROSS,  junior  member  of  A.  H.  Ross 
&  Co.,  Newark,  New  Jersey,  is  fifty-two  years  of  age  and 
has   been   in   the   coal   business  for   thirty-five   years. 

ANTON  STEINES,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  October  29,  1851,  in  Germany  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business   twenty-eight   years. 

ERNEST  C.  STREMI'EL,  member  of  the  firm  of  S.  Trim- 
mer &  Co.,  Newark,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  1863  in  Newark 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  thirty  years.  Mr. 
Strempel  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  New  Jersey  Coal 
Dealers'    Association. 


NEW   JERSEY 


J.  NELSON  AKE,  President  Egg  Harbor  Coal  &  Lumber 
Co.,  Egg  Harbor  City,  New  Jersey,  was  born  April  3,  1878, 
in  Hillsdale,  Indiana  County,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  han- 
dled coal  twenty-one  years,  fifteen  years  in  business  and  six 
years  in  the  mines.  Mr.  Ake  is  also  President  of  the  Ham- 
monton  Lumber  Co.  at  Hammonton.  New  Jersey,  Director 
of  the  Commercial  Bank  of  Egg  Harbor  City,  and  Director 
of  the  Hammonton   Trust   Co.   of  Hammonton. 


DAVID  W.  RAM.,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  David 
W.  Ball  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  of  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  January  2,  1858,  in  East  Orange,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  Mr.  Ball  is  also  Auditor 
of  the  New   Jersey   Coal  Dealers  Association. 

JOHN  J.  BLOXDEL,  President  John  Blondel  &  Son,  Inc., 
retail  coal  merchants  at  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
July  2,  1873,  at  Montclair,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Blondel  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the   New   Jersey   Coal   Dealers'  Association. 

ALFRED  W.  BOOTH,  President  Alfred  W.  Booth  &  Bro., 
Inc.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Bayonne,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in 
1850  in  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
forty-four   years. 

THOMAS  M.  BREWSTER,  President  Brewster  &  Son,  Inc., 
retail  coal  merchants  of  Ridgefield  Park,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  in  Fairview,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-four  years. 

MYROX  V.  BROWS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Red  Bank, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  October  2,  1882,  in  Red  Bank,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Up  to  June  1, 
1918,  when  Louis  E.  Brown,  the  junior  member,  retired, 
the  firm  has  been  M.  V.  Brown  &  Co.  Mr.  Brown  handles 
a  varied  line  of  farm   implements  and   feed. 

CHARLES  H.  BRL'ETT,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  John 
Blondel  &  Son,  Inc.,  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
December  10,  1882,  in  Bloomfleld,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal   business  for  eleven  years. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  CAWLEY,  JR.,  President  and  Treas- 
urer Consumers  Supply  Co.,  Somerville,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  February  3,  1873,  in  Frenchtown,  New  Jersey,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal   business   for  eight   years. 

JACOH  CISER,  President  J.  Ciser  &  Sons,  retail  coal 
merchants  at  East  Rutherford,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in 
1848,  and   has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 

IRVING  A.  COLLINS,  President  and  Treasurer  of  J.  S. 
Collins  &  Son,  Inc.,  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
September  29,  1872,  in  Moorestown,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   twenty-seven   years. 

JAMES  H.  COXXOR,  President  J.  H.  Connor  Coal  Co.,  well 
known  retail  coal  merchants  of  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  August  17,  1864,  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Connor  was 
previously  interested  in  the  firm  of  Dabney  &  Connor  and 
has  been  a  Director  in  the  New  Jersey  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation.    He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Montclair  Trust  Co. 


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JOHN  W.  COYLE,  Jit..  Vice  President  James  Coyle,  Inc., 
Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,   was  born  in   1894   in  Jersey  City. 

JOHN  C  COXOVER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  September  10,  1860,  at  Holmdel,  New 
Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six 
years. 

THORNTON  CONOVKR,  Manager  Conover  &  Matthews, 
retail  coal  merchants  of  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
in  1875  in  Princeton,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
sixteen  years.  Mr.  Conover  was  previously  connected  with 
Conover  &    Murray. 

JOHN  D.  CONTANT.  handling  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Lodi,  New  Jersey,  was  born  May  5,  1877,  in  the  Netherlands, 
and   has  been   in   the  coal   business   for  seven   years. 

HELEN  G.  <  <>1  GHLIN  is  the  sole  owner  of  Coughlin 
Bros.,  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  since  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band, Thomas  M.  Coughlin.  The  coal  yard  has  been  in 
operation  over  twenty-five  years. 

DANIEL  DAHMS,  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  was  born  July  10.  1867,  in  Switzer- 
land, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two  years.  Pre- 
vious to  going  into  the  coal  business  Mr.  Darms  was  in  the 
newspaper  business  for   »en  years. 

CHARLES  E.  DAYMOND.  proprietor  Daymond  &  Wenzel, 
retail  coal  merchants  of  Trenton.  New  Jersey,  was  born 
August  26,  1853,  in  Trenton  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-two  years  Mr.  Daymond  was  Secretary 
of  the  Trenton  Coal   Dealers'   Association    for  several   years. 

EDWARD  W.  DAYMOND.  son  of  Charles  E.  Daymond, 
and  very  active  in  business,  has  been  with  Daymond  & 
Wenzel,  retailers  of  coal  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  for 
eleven    years. 

EDWIN  DEMAREST.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Tenafly, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  November  30,  1861,  at  Cresskill,  New 
Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

GEO.  H.  DONALDSON,  Secretary  James  Coyle,  Inc.,  suc- 
cessors to  the  late  James  Coyle,  well  known  retail  coal  mer- 
chant of  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  1867,  in  New 
Jersey,   and   has   been    In   the  coal   business   for   two   years. 

WILLIS  R.  DOYLE,  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Trenton,  New  Jersey,  was  born  September  2,  1856,  at  Frank- 
ford,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty  years.  Mr.  Doyle  was  previously  connected  with  J.  B. 
Richardson  and  J.  T.  Barry  of  Trenton. 

D.  8.  DRAKE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Netcong,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  November  18,  1871,  in  Netcong  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years.  Mr. 
Drake  was  previously  connected  with  The  Drake-Bostedo  Co. 

WM.  A.  iiiNixr.  Secretary  The  Osborne  &  Marsellis  Co., 
of  Upper  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  was  born  November  1,  1871, 
in  New  York  City,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years. 

WALTER  H.  EASTLACK.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  East- 
lack  Coal  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  at  Merchantville,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  February  8,  1864,  in  Germantown,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years.  Mr.  Eastlack  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association  and  of  the  Philadelphia 
Coal    Club. 

PETER  EELMW,  President  Eelman  &  Co.,  retailers  of 
coal  at  Garfield,  New  Jersey,  was  born  March  7,  1865,  In 
Holland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen 
years, 

GEO,  W.  ESSLINGER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  West  Engle- 
wood.  New  Jersey,  was  born  June  4,  1864,  at  Newark,  New 
Jersey,   and    has   been    in    the   coal    business   for   seven   years. 

STEPHEN  M.  FEHENC7,!,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bay- 
onne,  New  Jersey,  was  born  November  3,  1893.  In  Bayonne. 
Mr.  Ferenczi  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  ten  years, 
succeeding    his   father,   Joseph    Ferenezi,   at    his   death. 

B.  ('.  FESSENDEN.  President  and  Treasurer  Dumont  Coal 
&  Lumber  Co.,  Dumont,  New  Jersey,  was  born  January  11, 
1843,  at  Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  ten  years. 

GEO.  T.  FREEMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Whlppany. 
New  Jersey,  was  born  February  8,  1863,  In  Whlppany  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years. 

WM.  I\  FHI'MAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Rockaway, 
New  JerBey,  was  born  August   10.   1874.   In   Rockaway. 

IIKMM  <  LARK  C.ITIIIONN.  retail  coal  merchant  at  Atco, 
NSW  JerBey,  was  born  September  8,  1879,  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  about 
two  years. 


GILL  M.  HANNOLD,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Paulsboro,  New  Jersey,  was  born  November  7,  1865,  in  Pauls- 
boro,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  Before  going  into  business  for  himself,  Mr.  Hannold 
was  associated  with  his  father,  T.  C.  Hannold,  for  eight 
years. 

JOSEPH  HARHIGAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Plainfteld, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  March  1,  1857,  at  Albany,  New  York, 
and   has  been   in   the  coal   business  for  sixteen  years. 

FRED  J.  HARRIS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Consumers' 
Coal  Co.,  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  was  born  at  Plainfleld  in 
1869,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirty  years. 
His  previous  connections  were  with  Harris  Bros.,  Fred  J. 
Harris,  and  Weber   &    Harris. 

GEORGE  HERRMANN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  December  9,  1868,  in  Paterson  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  Mr.  Herrmann 
was    formerly    interested   in    Herrmann  &   Titus. 

CLARENCE  M.  HETFIELD,  Sales  Agent  at  Plainfield, 
New  Jersey,  for  W.  H.  Bradford  &  Co.,  Inc.,  was  born  June 
4,  1889,  in  Plainfield,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nine  years.  Mr.  Hetfield  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  Bulah  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  Geo.  D. 
Harris   &   Co. 

CHARLES  F.  HIRSCH,  General  Manager  Hirsch  Bros., 
retail  coal  merchants  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
January  14,  1886,  in  Trenton  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seven  years. 

ALFRED  T.  HOLLEY,  President  Holley  &  Smith,  Inc., 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Hacken- 
sack,  was  born  February  15.  1872.  in  Hackensack,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Hol- 
ley is  also  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association. 

FREDERICK  JAGELS,  Treasurer  Jagels,  Inc.,  doing  a 
retail  business  at  East  Orange  and  Belleville,  New  Jersey, 
was  born  April  8,  1873,  in  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years. 

RALPH  ELMER  JERHELL.  proprietor  Jerrell  &  Son,  han- 
dling a  retail  coal  business  at  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  February  9,  1892,  at  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey.  This  busi- 
ness was  established  by  Wm.  Jerrell  thirty  years  ago,  and 
until  his  death,  June  8,  1914,  was  run  by  himself  and  son, 
Howard  W.  Jerrell.  Ralph  Elmer  Jerrell  was  taken  into 
the  business  at  this  time,  and  since  the  death  of  his  father, 
Howard  W.  Jerrell,  March  22,  1915,  has  kept  the  business 
going  under  the  name  of  Jerrell  &  Son. 

CHAS.  A.  LINDSLFY,  Treasurer  S.  &  C.  A.  Lindsley,  Inc., 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  was  born  April  30,  1859,  in  Orange, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four  years. 
Mr.  Lindsley  is  also  Treasurer  of  the  New  Jersey  Coal 
Dealers'  Association.  This  firm  is  successor  to  J.  M.  Linds- 
ley &  Sons  and  N.  &  G.  Lindsley,  and  has  been  doing 
business  since   1806. 

JOHN  MALI, ON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  March  28,  1842,  in  Ireland,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal  business  for  about  seven  years. 

ARTHVR    S.   MARSELLIS,   President   Osborne  &   Marsellis 

Co.,  retailers   of   coal    at   Upner  Montclair,   New  Jersey,   was 

born    in    1872    in    Brooklyn.  New   York,   and   has  been    in   the 
coal   business  for   twenty  years. 

ALFRED  HARRISON  MATTHEWS.  President  and  Treas- 
urer A.  M.  Matthews  &  Co.,  Inc.,  of  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
was  born  March  2,  1869.  In  Orange  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Matthews  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co.  He  Is  also  a 
Director  of  the  New  Jersey  Coal  Dealers'  Association. 

GEORGE  VAIL  MieilMOHE,  well  known  retail  coal 
merchant  of  Summit,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  1854  in  Mor- 
rlstown,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
forty  years.  Mr.  Mnchmore  was  for  a  number  of  years 
Sales  Manager  for  the  retail  firm  of  Day  &  Muchmore,  at 
Morristown,  New  Jersey,  of  which  his  father  was  an  active 
partner. 

WM.  A.  O'llRIEN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Passaic,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  In  1880  In  Passaic  and  has  been  In  the 
coal   business  for  eleven  years. 

FRED  J.  OGDEN,  member  of  the  firm  of  Ogden  &  Cad- 
mus, retailers  of  coal  at  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
March  23,  1868,  In  Parslppany,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-four  years.  Mr.  Ogden  was  a 
member  of  the  Executive  Hoard  of  the  New  jersey  Coal 
Dealers  Association. 

GEORGE  II.  PAYSOX,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Englewood, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  In  October.  I860,  at  Brooklyn,  New 
York,    and    has    been    In    the    coal    business    thirty    years. 


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WILLIAM  R.  POINSETT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Swedes- 
boro,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  1860  at  Moorestown,  New 
Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five 
years. 

JOHN  R.  in  IGLE1  ,  Manager  J.  R.  Quigley  Co.,  Gloucester 
City,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  Ireland  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  for  twenty-three   years. 

HARRY  REEVES,  General  Manager  Consumers  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.,  Ocean  Grove,  New  Jersey,  was  born  October  10, 
1878,  at  Ellisdale,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   fifteen    years. 

EDWARD  M,  RODROCK,  President  and  General  Manager 
E.  M.  Rodrock  Co.,  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  was  born  July 
12,  1886,  in  Blaine,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  fourteen  years.  His  son,  Harold  E.,  having  become 
21  years  of  age  July  4,  1918,  was  taken  into  the  firm  as 
Treasurer    July   5,   1918. 

RAYMOND  G.  RUMMEL,  Manager  Coughlin  Bros.,  Jer- 
sey City,  New  Jersey,  was  born  August  24,  1892,  in  Albany, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

RAY  W.  SALMON,  Manager  T.  B.  Miller  Co.,  retailers  of 
coal  at  Summit,  New  Jersey,  was  born  July  14,  1883,  at 
Hackettstown,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for  ten  years. 

THOMAS  A.  SHIELDS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Shields- 
Chamberlain  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Hackettstown, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  September  22,  1885,  in  Hackettstown, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

BENJAMIN  T.  SMITH,  General  Manager  Milford  Coal  & 
Lumber  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  in  April,  1890,  in  Elizabeth,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  five   years. 

ELMER  T.  SMITH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Middlebush, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  December  8,  1880,  at  Belle  Meade, 
New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about 
nine    years. 

STEPHEN  J.  SPEER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Caldwell, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  in  October.  1870,  at  Montclair,  New 
Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years.  Mr.  Speer  was  previously  connected  with  Fairlie  & 
Wilson  Coal  Co.,  Newark,  New  Jersey. 

THOMAS  S.  STEVENS,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Cape 
May  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Cape  May  City,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
December  8,  1S67,  in  Cape  May,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   there   for   fifteen   years. 

ELWOOD  H.  STOKES,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  was  born  November  24,  1873,  at  Jackson- 
ville, New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
fifteen  years.  Mr.  Stokes  is  one  of  the  best  known  retailers 
in   that   section. 

JAMES  ROBBINS  TAPPER,  sole  owner  of  the  Stockton 
Coal  Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Camden,  New  Jer- 
sey, was  born  June  3,  1873,  at  Newtown,  New  Jersey,  and 
has  been  in   the  coal   business  for   fourteen  years. 

JAMES  C.  TATTERSALL,  President  and  Treasurer  of  The 
Tattersall  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  October  13,  1872,  in  Trenton  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Tattersall  is  a  well 
known  retailer  and  has  served  as  President  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association  and  as  a 
Director  of  the  National  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 


SIDNEY  S.  THOMPSON,  proprietor  J.  &  S.  S.  Thompson, 
retail  coal  merchants  at  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
in  1846  in  Elizabeth,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
forty-seven  years.  This  business  was  established  in  1842 
by  Aaron  Q.  Thompson,  and  until  his  death  in  1875  was  run 
as  A.  Q.  &  J.  Thompson.  Since  then  the  firm  has  been  do- 
ing business  under  the  name  of  J.   &  S.  S.  Thompson. 

JOSEPH  TOKER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  in  1874  in  Austria,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twelve  years.  Mr.  Toker  was  formerly  Presi- 
dent of  Canton,  Halprin  &  Toker. 

HOWARD  W.  VAN  ARTSDALEN,  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Titusville,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  1855  at  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
nine   years. 

W.  E.  VAN  COURT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Oak  Tree, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  January  31,  1867,  in  Oak  Tree  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years. 

JOHN  I.  VAN  ORDER,  President  and  Treasurer  of  The 
Slayback-Van  Order  Co.,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Caldwell, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  September  9.  1864,  in  Caldwell,  and 
has   been   in   the   coal   business   for   thirty   years. 

SAMUEL  H.  WEATHERBY.  sole  owner  of  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Woodstown,  New  Jersey,  was  born  November  25, 
1879,  in  Woodstown  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  Mr.  Weatherby  was  previously  connected 
with  the  retail  firm  of  Weatherby  &   Son. 

JAMES  WIGHT,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lake- 
wood,  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  North  Belmar,  New  Jersey, 
and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 

FRED  D.  WIKOPF,  President  Fred  D.  Wikoff  Co.,  retail- 
ers of  coal  at  Red  Bank,  New  Jersey,  was  born  September 
27,  1863,  in  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty  years. 

R.  F.  WILLIS,  member  of  the  firm  of  R.  F.  Willis  &  Bro., 
Inc.,  well  known  retail  coal  merchants  of  Penns  Grove,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  in  Maryland  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  seventeen  years,  sixteen  years  in  his  present 
location. 

H.  F.  WILSON,  Line  Sales  Agent  for  the  Lehigh  &  Wilkes- 
Barre  Coal  Co.  at  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  was  born  April  19, 
1876,  in  Elizabeth,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nine  years.  Previous  to  taking  his  present  position  Mr. 
Wilson   was   in    the   railroad   business   for   several   years. 

JAMES  WILSON,  JR.,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  James 
Wilson  &  Son,  Inc.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  was  born  August  19,  1874,  in  Paterson,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Wilson 
is  also  President  of  the  Paterson  Coal   Dealers'  Association. 

S.  JARRETT  WOOLMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Vincen- 
town,  New  Jersey,  was  born  April  20,  1870,  at  Rancocas, 
New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine- 
teen years. 

CHARLES  HENRY  ZEHNDER,  Allenhurst,  New  Jersey, 
President  of  The  Austen  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Austen,  West 
Virginia,  was  born  April  16,  1856,  in  Pennsylvania,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Zehnder  is 
also  President  of  the  Benedict  Coal  Corp.  at  St.  Charles, 
Virginia. 


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NEW   MEXICO 


NEW  MEXICO  holds  a  high  place  among  the 
coal-producing  states  of  the  historic  Southwest, 
lis  coal  fields,  like  most  of  those  of  the  Rocky 
Mountain  region,  are  geologically  of  the  Cretaceous 
age.  In  quality  they  range  from  sub-hituminous  to 
anthracite.  The  anthracite  beds,  however,  are  of  lim- 
ited area  and  the  annual  production  does  not  exceed 
fifty  thousand  tons.  The  coal  fields  of  the  state  are 
widely  scattered.  The  United  States  Geological  Sur- 
vey reports  five  known  coal-bearing  areas,  viz.,  the 
Raton,  San  Juan  River,  Valencia-Bernalillo,  the  Los 
Cerillos  and  the  White  Oaks  fields. 

The  Raton  field  in  Colfax  county  is  the  most  im- 
portant commercially  of  this  qnintet.  This  district, 
which  is  ;i  southern  extension  of  the  Trinidad  field  of 
Colorado,  contributes  over  two-thirds  of  the  total  pro- 
duction of  the  state.  While  the  largest  coal-bearing 
areas  in  the  state  are  sub-bituminous  in  character,  that 
of  the  Raton  field  is  a  high  grade,  true  coking  bitumin- 
ous and,  in  recent  years,  nearly  750,000  tons  of  the 
Colfax  county  output  has  been  manufactured  into  coke 
at  the  mines  and  distributed  in  that  form  over  a  wide 
consuming  territory.  Smelters  in  Arizona  and  New 
Mexico,  which  have  been  forced  in  years  past  to  rely 
almost  wholly  upon  the  eastern  ovens,  offer  a  fruitful 
field  of  exploitation  for  the  coke  output  of  New  Mexico 
and  Colorado.  The  Raton  field  is  known  to  contain  at 
[east  five  beds  of  sufficient  thickness  to  he  of  economic 
importance,  but  developments  have  been  largely  con- 
fined to  the  lowest  bed. 

The  San  Juan  River  coal  region,  extending  south- 
ward from  Durango,  Colorado,  through  Rio  Arribo, 
San  Juan  and  MeKinley  counties,  New  Mexico,  to  Gal- 
lup and  Mount  Taylor,  contains  about  13,000  square 
miles  and  is  the  largest  field  in  the  state.  The  New 
Mexico  centers  of  production  are  at  Monero  in  the 
north,  where  the  coal  is  bituminous,  and  Gallup,  in  the 
south,  where  the  coal  is  high-grade  sub-bituminous. 
While  the  Los  Cerillos  field  in  Santa  Fe  county  and 
the  White  Oaks  in  Lincoln  county  are  relatively  small 
in  area,  they  contain  true  bituminous  coal.  In  the 
former  county  part  of  the  coal  lias  been  locally  meta- 
morphosed into  anthracite,  the  output  of  which  has 
been  in  the  neighborhood  of  35,000  tons  per  annum. 
Lincoln  county  operations  have  been  limited  to  local 
production.     Coking  coal  is  found  in  Socorro  county. 


Year. 

1900. 

1901.. 

1902. 

1903. 


Government  production  statistics  for  the  state  begin 
with  1882,  when  157,092  tons  were  mined.  The  growth 
in  output  was  marked  by  many  up  and  down  tenden- 
cies during  the  years  following  and  it  was  not  until 
1899  that  the  1,000,000-ton  mark  was  passed.  Produc- 
tion since  that  date  is  shown  in  the  following  tabulation: 

Ton.  Year.  Ton. 

1,299,299       1909 2,801,128 

1,086,546       1910 3,508,321 

1,048,763      1911 3,148,158 

1,541,781      1912 3,536,824 

1904 1,452,325      1913 3,708,806 

1905 1,649,933       1914 3,877,689 

1906 1,964,713      1915 3,817,940 

1907 2,628,959       1916 3,793,011 

1908 2,467,937 

While  the  records  of  191.")  production  and  distribu- 
tion show  that  28  per  cent,  of  the  output  was  used 
within  the  state,  the  greater  part  of  this  local  consump- 
tion was  for  coke  manufacture  and  much  of  this  in 
turn  reached  various  interstate  destinations.  The  mines 
consumed  28,868  tons  for  steam  and  heating  purposes 
and  sold  33,277  tons  to  the  local  trade.  Coking  opera- 
tions absorbed  734,713  tons  and  intrastate  shipments  ac- 
counted for  259,580  tons  of  the  total  of  1,056,438  tons 
reported  as  used  within  the  state.  The  railroads  took 
1,635,752  tons,  or  43  per  cent.  All-rail  exports  to 
Mexico  totaled  155,030  tons,  or  approximately  four  per 
cent.,  while  approximately  live  per  cent.,  or  193,283 
tons,  were  shipped  to  Texas  ports  on  the  Gulf  of  Mex- 
ico for  use  as  bunker  fuel.  Approximately  20  per  cent., 
or  777,437  tons,  reached  markets  in  other  states,  the 
distribution  being  as  follows :  Arizona,  158.273  tons; 
California,  75,025;  Colorado,  107.877;  Kansas,  98,103; 
Nebraska,  339;  Nevada,  135;  Oklahoma,  24,096  and 
Texas,  313,589  tons. 

The  per  capita  consumption  within  the  state  is 
naturally  low,  .80  ton,  and  the  square  mile  consump- 
tion, nine  tons,  is  also  far  below  the  general  average. 
New  Mexico  depends  upon  home  mines  for  over  97  per 
cent,  of  the  total  fuel — other  than  railroad — used 
within  the  state.  In  1915,  out  of  a  total  consumption 
of  1,079,466  tons.  New  Mexico  contributed  1,066,438 
tons  (including  coal  coked  at  the  mines).  Colorado 
shipped  22,948  tons  into  New  Mexico,  while  the  Penn- 
sylvania and  West  Virginia  receipts,  29  and  50  tons 
respectively,  no  doubt  represent  smithing  coal. 


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NEW    MEXICO 


JOHN  S.  BEAVEN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Albuquerque. 
New  Mexico,  was  born  January  5,  1862,  at  Lebanon,  Ken- 
tucky, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years. 

EDWARD    BARCIIS    BULLOCK,    retail  coal    merchant    of 

Artesia,   New    Mexico,   was    born   October  11,    1874,    in   Clark 

County,    Arkansas,    and    has    been    in    the  coal    business    for 
seven   years. 

DAVID  W.  CONDON,  retail  merchant  of  E.  Las  Vegas, 
New  Mexico,  was  born  April  5,  1866,  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

GEORGE  EDMUND  COOK,  proprietor  of  the  G.  E.  Cook 
Garage  &  Transfer  Co.,  Socorro,  New  Mexico,  was  born 
July  11.  1877,  at  Parsons,  Kansas,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

HENRY  G.  COORS,  President  Coors  Lumber  Co.,  E.  Las 
Vegas,  New  Mexico,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal   business  twenty-five  years. 

EDWARD  T.  HANN  of  the  Lowe  &  Hann  Coal  Co., 
Silver  City,  New  Mexico,  was  born  in  1868  at  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

GEORGE  MURRAY  HANSON,  General  Manager  Dawson 
Fuel  Sales  Co.,  Dawson,  New  Mexico,  was  born  November 
9,  1869,  at  Sidney,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twelve  years.  Mr.  Hanson  is  also  General  Sales  Agent  and 
Auditor  of  the  Phelps  Dodge  Corp.,  Stag  Canon  branch. 

LARS  W.  HENDRICKSON,  operating  the  Kirkland  mine 
at  Kirkland,  New  Mexico,  was  born  July  19,  1861,  in  Sweden 
and  has   been   in   the  coal   business  for  thirty  years. 


JOHN  CUSTER  LARKIN,  Sales  Manager  Swastika  Fuel 
Co.,  Raton,  New  Mexico,  was  born  July  14,  1877,  in 
North  Carolina,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-two  years.  Mr.  Larkin  is  one  of  the  most  energetic 
and  popular  coal  men  in  the  West,  and  previous  to  taking 
his  present  position  was  in  charge  of  the  retail  department 
of  the  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  at  Denver,  Colorado. 
He  has  an  unusual  number  of  warm  personal  friends  in  the 
coal   trade. 

THOMAS  L.  LOWE  of  the  Lowe  &  Hann  Coal  Co.,  Silver 
City,  New  Mexico,  was  born  September  24,  1872,  at  Sigourney, 
Iowa,   and   has   been   in   the   coal   business   for   fifteen   years. 

AMADEO  LUCHETTI,  Manager  Luchetti  coal  mine, 
Monero,  New  Mexico,  was  born  October  16,  1874,  in  Italy 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

PRANK  E.  NUDING,  Vice  President  and  Manager  of  the 
Capital  Coal  Yard  in  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  was  born  in 
1878  at  Red  Bank,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fourteen  years.  He  also  is  interested  in  the 
Fresno  Fuel  Co.  at  Fresno,  California. 

ROBERT  R.  POLLOCK,  Vice  President  Diamond  Coal  Co., 
Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  was  born  May  13,  1871,  in  Zear- 
ing,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Western  Fuel  Co. 

WORTHINGTON  W.  RISDON.  State  Coal  Mine  Inspector 
at  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  was  born  March  10,  1861,  at 
Genoa  Bluffs,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Gallup  Coal  Co..  Crescent  Coal  Co.,  Primrose  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  Aubuquerque    &  Cerrillos  Coal  Co. 

D.  Y.  TOMLINSON,  JR.,  proprietor  of  the  Tomlinson  Coal 
Co.,  Roswell,  New  Mexico,  was  born  April  2,  1878,  in  Belton. 
Texas,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 


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NEW  YORK 


NEW  YOKK.  although  not  a  coal  producing  state, 
ranks  third  in  point  of  consumption.  Its  wide- 
spread manufacturing  enterprises,  its  important 
shipping  activities  and  its  climatic  conditions  make  it 
a  most  attractive  market  to  the  coal  men  in  the  four 
states  that  normally  serve  it  with  fuel,  while  the  loca- 
tion of  its  two  largest  cities  have  made  them  among 
the  most  important  distributing  headquarters. 

Since  almost  50  per  cent,  of  the  state's  1915  receipts 
of  coal  were  reported  as  consumed  within  the  area  of 
Greater  New  York,  the  metropolis  of  the  country  will 
he  considered  first.  The  railroad  isolation  of  the  city 
from  a  freight  traffic  terminal  point  of  view  is  held  by 
those  who  have  studied  the  situation  to  be  a  handicap 
to  the  trade  there,  hut  no  suggestion  tor  change  has  yet 
been  made  that  has  met  with  general  favor  that  has 
been  translated  into  action.  Unlike  Chicago,  Pitts- 
burgh, Philadelphia,  Baltimore,  and  other  large  cities 
of  the  country,  the  rails  of  no  coal-carrying  line  reach 
New  York  directly.  Kail  deliveries  terminate  on  the 
west  side  of  the  harbor  and  of  the  Hudson  River  and 
the  coal  must  be  transferred  to  the  east  side  by  barges 
and  floats.  This  means,  of  course,  that  Xew  York  City 
proper  is  without  rail  yards,  and  complaint  is  fre- 
quently made  that  the  reserve  storage  capacity  of  the 
water-front  yards  is  such  that  the  city  must  place  an 
unusual  degree  <>i'  dependence  upon  current  receipts 
for  its  requirements.  The  greater  investment  required 
for  a  water  front  yard,  however,  and  the  scarcity  of 
available  locations  have  operated  to  bring  down  the  num- 
ber of  companies  engaged  in  the  retail  business  in  Man- 
hattan so  that,  in  place  of  200  to  300  companies,  as  in 
certain  other  communities  of  lesser  population,  Man- 
hattan at  last  reports  boasted  of  less  than  70. 

While  final  delivery  of  anthracite,  which  constitutes 
the  bulk  of  the  fuel  consumed  within  the  city,  is  made 
by  barges  or  floats  to  the  yards,  this  traffic  is.  never- 
theless, in  its  essential  aspects  all-rail  business.  The 
true  water-borne  traffic  is,  for  the  most  part,  confined 
to  shipments  from  West  Virginia.  Most  of  these  car- 
-  are  in  transit  to  Xew  England  or  are  intended  for 
bunkering  trade.  During  the  war,  the  bunkering  in 
New  York  harbor  was  naturally  augmented  and  in  some 
Cases  vessels  destined  for  overseas  points  were  coaled 
directly  from  colliers  in  the  harbor. 


Estimates  reported  to  the  United  States  Geological 
Survey  for  1915  showed  an  approximate  consumption 
of  12,614,560  tons  of  anthracite  out  of  total  receipts  of 
15,864,800  tons,  and  5,957,200  tons  of  bituminous  out 
of  total  receipts  of  11,116,000  tons.  The  difference 
between  the  receipts  and  consumption  represented 
coastwise  shipments  and  bunker  coal.  The  total  con- 
sumption reported  was  18,561,760  tons;  the  total  re- 
ceipts, 26,980,800  tons. 

An  important  factor  in  New  York  City  is  the 
fuel  used  by  public  utilities.  Incomplete  reports 
showed  that  such  companies  serving  the  metropolitan 
district  used  211,000  tons  of  anthracite  and  1,843,000 
tons  of  bituminous.  These  figures  were  exclusive  of 
fuel  used  in  the  power  houses  of  the  surface,  subway 
and  elevated  railways  and  the  roads  entering  the  Grand 
Central  and  Pennsylvania  terminals. 

Buffalo  assumes  importance  in  coal  trade  statistics, 
not  so  much  as  a  consuming  center — because  the  com- 
petition of  natural  gas  (less  potent  during  the  last  few 
years)  and  of  water  power  generated  from  Niagara  has 
made  the  fuel  requirements  less  than  they  would  other- 
wise be— but  because  it  is  a  gateway  for  moving  a  large 
share  of  the  coal  traffic  to  Canada  and  an  assembling 
and  loading  point  for  heavy  shipments  of  anthracite  to 
points  reached  via  the  Great  Lakes.  The  Canadian 
shipments,  both  rail  and  water,  as  reported  by  the  col- 
lector of  customs,  have  been  as  follows  for  the  past 
three  years: 

Coke,       Anthracite,  Bituminous,      Total, 
Year.  Gross  tons.  Gross  tons.  Gross  tons.  Gross  tons. 

1915 418,917         1,GG0,598         2,229,313         4,308,828 

1916 447,984         2,095,355         2,473,787         5,017,126 

1917 373,042         2,911,208         3,021,403         6,305,653 

The  anthracite  lake  trade  for  the  past  five  years  at 
Buffalo  is  shown  in  the  following  tabulation  of  ship- 
ments from  that  port.  The  figures  used  in  the  tabula- 
tion are  in  net  tons: 

1913  1914  1915  1916  1917 

Chicago    1,697,945  1,119,980      901,450      598,500      893,175 

Milwaukee     .    612,528      565,400      721,884      415,400      740,100 

Duluth     320,963      399,427      385,569      327,650      584,750 

Superior    ...1,697,445  1,273,136  1,219,834      735,5211,127,550 
Other     TJ.   S. 
ports    376,687      499,912      446,000      409,979      432,195 

Total,  U.  S. 4,705,568  3,857,855  3,674,737  2,487,050  3,797,770 
Canadian    . .    580,151      472,393      209,305      313,690      340,131 


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During   1915,  the   consumption   for  the   state  as   a  even  at  that  early  date  were  beginning  to  make  their 

whole  was  37,975,685  tons,  of  which  20,789,494  tons  appearance.     The  per  capita  consumption  for  the  state 

were  anthracite.     The  17,186,191  tons  of  bituminous  that  year  was  3.58  tons,  as  compared  with  a  country 

consumed   came   from  the   states   of   Maryland,    Ohio,  average  of  2.82  tons;  the  bituminous  per  capita,  1.52 

Pennsylvania  and  West  Virginia.     The  Maryland  re-  tons,  was  .52  ton  less  than  the  general  average,  while 

ceipts,  including  a  small  quantity  exported  by  rail  to  the  anthracite  per  capita,  2.06  tons,  was  far  above  the 

Canada,  totaled  567.421  tons.  Pennsylvania  contributed  average  of  .78  ton.     On  a  square  mile  basis  the  New 

14,430,879  tons  of  the  Empire  State's  quota  and  West  York  figure,  772  tons,  was  nearly  six  times  the  country 

Virginia  shipped  2,072,670  tons.     The  Ohio  shipments  average,  being  exceeded  only  by  Pennsylvania  and  the 

of  115,221  tons  represent  in  a  degree  the  war-wrought  New  England  states. 
abnormal  changes  in  the  currents  of  coal  traffic  which 


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LEMUEL  BURROWS, 
President  Castner,  Curran  &  Bullitt,  Inc. 


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KDWARD    EUGENE    IiOOMIS,   New    York    City. 

Edward  E.  Loomis,  President  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad  Co.,  is  one 
of  this  country's  conspicuous  figures  in  transportation,  coal,  traffic  and  finan- 
ciering. He  was  born  near  Ilion,  New  York,  in  1865,  the  son  of  Chester  and 
Esther  Loomis,  and  after  receiving  a  collegiate  education,  entered  railroad 
service  in  the  Law  Department  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railway  Co. 

In  1894  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the  Tioga  Division  of  the  Erie 
Railroad,  at  the  same  time  being  Superintendent  in  charge  of  the  bituminous 
and  lumber  interests  of  the  Blossburg  Coal  Co.  In  1898  he  was  made  General 
Superintendent  of  the  New  York,  Susquehanna  &  Western  Railroad  and  the 
Wilkes-Barre  &  Eastern  Railroad. 

One  year  later  he  became  Superintendent  of  the  coal  mining  department 
of  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western,  and  in  1902  was  made  Manager  of 
the  entire  coal  department  with  charge  of  the  company's  mining,  shipping  and 
sales  of  anthracite.  On  April  28,  1902,  Mr.  Loomis  was  elected  Senior 
Vice  President  of  the  Lackawanna  Railroad.  He  became  a  member  of  its 
board  of  managers  and  a  Director  and  officer  of  all  of  its  subsidiary  com- 
panies. These  positions  Mr.  Loomis  retained  until  February,  1917,  when  he 
resigned  from  the  Lackawanna  organization  on  his  election  to  the  presidency 
of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad  and  its  subsidiary  companies. 

Aside  from  his  railroad  activities,  Mr.  Loomis  is  a  Director  of  the  Temple 
Iron  Co.  and  President  and  a  Director  of  the  Mark  Twain  Co.,  a  trustee  of 
the  American  Surety  Co.,  a  Director  of  the  Liberty  National  Bank,  a  member 
of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  the  Metropolitan  and  Recess  Clubs  of  New  York  City, 
the  Westmoreland  of  Wilkes-Barre  and  the  Baltusrol  Golf  Club. 


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WILLIS  G.  TOWNES,  New  York  City, 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Archibald  McNeil  &  Sons  Co., 
Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  Edgefield,  South  Carolina,  April 
2,  1871,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  industry  twenty-two 
years.  Mr.  Townes  has  passed  a  large  portion  of  his  time  during 
recent  years  in  Europe,  investigating  European  markets  for  Ameri- 
can coals.  The  distributing  and  colliery  interests  which  he  represents 
maintained  their  own  office  and  distributing  coal  depots  in  France  and 
have  been  supplying  the  French  railways,  continental  gas  companies 
and  other  industries  with  American  coals. 


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THOMAS  H.  WATKINS,  New  York  City, 
President  Pennsylvania  Coal  &  Coke  Corp.,  was  born  in  Pittston, 
Pennsylvania,  May  17,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty 
years.  He  was  connected  with  Simpson  &  Watkins  tor  twenty  years 
and  was  President  of  the  Temple  Iron  Co.  two  years.  Mr.  Watkins 
served  on  the  Roosevelt  Anthracite  Strike  Commission  in  1902.     . 


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HEXBY   DREYER,  New  York   City, 

President  Cramer-Meyer-Dreyer  Co.,  Inc.,  was  born  in  Han- 
over, Germany,  October  28,  1854,  and  has  been  identified 
with    the   coal    industry   ten   years. 


HICKMAN    IJ.  CRAMER,  New  York  City, 

Treasurer  Cramer-Meyer-Dreyer  Co.,  Inc.,  was  born  In 
Germany  May  7,  1873.  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  sixteen  years. 


JOHN   HENRY  MKVKR,  New  York  City. 

Secretary  Cramer-Meyer-Dreyer  Co.,  Inc.,  was  born  In 
Bremen,  Germany.  December  4,  1872.  Mr.  Meyer  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  seventeen  years  and  was  formerly 
connected   with   G.    Robltzek   &   Bro. 


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GUSTAVE    WILLIAM    SEILEH,    New   York    City, 

President  Seiler-Rogers-Brown  Co.,  was  born  in  New  York 
City  March  3,  1879,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal 
trade  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Seiler  was  previously  connected 
with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Sales  Co.,  Whitney  &  Kem- 
merer,  Haddock,  Blanchard  &  Co.,  H.  H.  Lineaweaver  Co., 
Pattison  &  Bowns,  and  Seiler-Blanchard  Co. 


WILLIS   H.   BHOWJi,  New  York  City, 

Formerly  Vice  President  Seiler-Rogers-Brown  Co.,  was  born 
in  Pittston,  Pennsylvania,  June  28,  1872,  and  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  coal  trade  twenty  years.  Mr.  Brown  was 
previously  associated  with  C.  C.  Bowman  and  Righter  & 
Marshall.  He  retired  from  the  Seiler-Rogers-Brown  Co. 
April  1.   1918. 


GEORGE    T.   ROGERS,   New  York   City, 

Formerly  Treasurer  Seiler-Rogers-Brown  Co.,  was  born  in 
Chatham,  Massachusetts,  September  7,  1856,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  Before 
he  became  connected  with  his  present  company,  Mr.  Rogers 
was  associated  with  Ward  &  Olyphant.  He  retired  from  the 
Seiler-Rogers-Brown  Co.  April  1,  1918. 


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JUSTUS  COLLINS,  (  in.  -in  ii.ii  I.  Ohio, 
President  Smokeless  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in  Clayton,  Barbour  County,  Alabama, 
in  1SS7.  When  he  was  fifteen  years  old  he  struck  out  for  himself,  making  his  own 
living  doing  what  he  could  do  in  the  village.  From  that  town  he  went  to  Pratt 
Mines,  Alabama,  as  a  bookkeeper  with  the  Comer  &  McCurdy  Mining  Co.  Two 
years  later  Mr.  Collins  became  Superintendent  of  a  division  of  the  Pratt  Coal  & 
Iron  Co.'s  operations  fcr  a  short  time.  His  ability  was  recognized  and  it  was  not 
lone;  before  he  was  offered  the  position  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Wood- 
ward Iron  Co.  of  Woodward,  Alabama.  Shortly  afterward  he  went  into  the  Poca- 
hontas and  New.  River  districts  of  West  Virginia,  and  now  has  large  interests. 
Mr.  Collins  is  also  President  of  the  Winding  Gulf  Colliery  Co.  and  Superior- 
Pooahontas   Coal   Co.,   as   well   as    interested    in   several    mining   operations. 


JOHN     \U'Ul:l>   lli:\\ll\\.   \.->v  York  City, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Smokeless  Fuel  Co., 
was  born  In  Sandusky,  Ohio,  December  23,  1865,  and  lias  ben 
Identified  with  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years.  Mr. 
Renahan  was  instrumental  in  organizing  the  first  Kanawha 
Operators  Association  and  the  New  River  Operators  Asso- 
ciation. He  has,  with  others,  constructed  a  model  briquet- 
ting  plant  known  as  the  Delparen  Anthracite  Briquet  Co., 
of  which  he  is  President.  Mr.  Henahan  is  also  President  of 
the  Algonquin   Coal  Co. 


I.I'.OHCI:  |\  DWir.l.S,  Cliu-iiimitl,  Ohio, 
Sale!  M.magir,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Smokeless  Fuel  Co., 
was  bora  in  England  January  8,  1876,  and  has  been  In  the 
C<MU  business  for  twenty-six  years  and  Is  a  well  known  coal 
operator.  He  has  been  associated  with  the  same  Interests 
during  all  his  coal  career. 


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SAMUEL   TRIMMER,   New   York    City, 

President  S.  Trimmer  &  Sons,  was  born  in  New  Jersey  July 
31,  1844,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years. 
Mr.  Trimmer  is  also  interested  in  S.  Trimmer  &  Co.  of 
Newark,  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Coal  Mer- 
chants Protective  Association  and  Coal  Merchants  Associa- 
tion   of    New    York   City. 


ALVA   B.  TRIMMER,  IVew  York  City, 

Secretary  S.  Trimmer  &  Sons,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  May  3,  1884,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  indus- 
try twelve  years. 


THEODORE    S.   TRIMMER,  \'ew   York   City, 

Treasurer  S.  Trimmer  &  Sons,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  March  2,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years.  He  has  served  as  Vice  President  of  the  Coal 
Merchants  Association   of  New  York  City. 


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CHARI.ES   LAW   W ATKINS,  Sew  York  City, 

President  Watkins  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Peckville,  Pennsyl- 
vania, February  11,  1886.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years.  He  has  served  with  the  French  Artillery  in 
France   in  the   present  war. 


JAMES  MILFUHU  TOWN  SEND,  New  York  City, 

Vice  President  Watkins  Coal  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born 
in  Pelham  Manor,  New  York,  June  20,  1886,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  is  also  Vice 
President  of  the  Watkins  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  is  now  in 
the   Service  as   Lieutenant  in   the  Infantry. 


KIHHIII)  HOWAHU  TOWXHKXD,  Mrw  York  City,  THOMAS    t'OOI.IIMJE    FOWLER,   New   York    City, 

Treasurer   Watkins   Coal   Co.,   New   York   City,    was    born    In  Managing    Director    Watkins    Coal    Co.,   was    born    In    Glens 

Pelham   Manor,    New    York.    February   8,    1890.   and   has   been  Falls,    New   York,    February    15,    1886,    and    has   been    in    the- 

Interested  In   the  coal  business  two  years.  coal    business   nine   years. 


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HKNBT    H.    HEEDS,    IVew    York    City, 

President  Brothers  Valley  Coal  Co.,  was 
born  in  Canton.  Ohio,  August  9,  1867, 
and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  nine  years.  He  began 
his  business  career  with  the  Allen  Coal 
Mining  Co.  at  Del  Roy,  Ohio,  in  1884, 
but  in  a  few  months  switched  to  the 
engineering  problems  of  railroading, 
being  associated  with  many  large  en- 
terprises in  this  country.  At  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Brothers  Valley  Coal 
Co.   in   1909   he   became   its   President. 


JOHN    MATHER    LEONARD,  Km   York    City, 

Salts  Manager  Brothers  Valley  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Par- 
kersburg,  West  Virginia,  March  14,  1884,  and  has  been 
interested  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr.  Leonard 
is  a  Director  of  the  New  York  Wholesale  Coal  Trade  Asso- 
ciation.    He   resides   in   Brooklyn,   New   York. 


GEORGE    MARSHALL    DEXTER.   Sew   York    City. 

President  Dexter  &  Carpenter,  was  born  in  Three  Rivers, 
Michigan,  January  19,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty  years.  Mr.  Dexter  ia  also  President  Dexcar 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Leland  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Lloydell  Coal 
Mining  Co.  and  Ashville  Supply  Co.  He  was  formerly  asso- 
ciated with  Kelsey  &  Loughlin  and  Frost  Bros.  Coal  Co. 
He  is  also  President  of  the  Wholesale  Coal  Trade  Associa- 
tion  and   of  the   National   Coal   Jobbers  Association. 


WILLIAM  H.  CARPENTER,  New  York  City, 

Vice  President  and  Treasurer  Dexter  &  Carpenter,  was  born 
in  Nyack,  New  York,  October  26,  1878,  and  has  been  iden- 
tified with  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  is  also  in- 
terested in  the  Leland  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Dexcar  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  Lloydell  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Ashville  Supply  Co.,  and 
was  previously  with  Pilling  &  Crane,  managing  their  New 
York  office  up  to  June,   1908. 


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THOMAS  LAWRKKCE  EYRE,  New  York  City, 

Of  the  Eyre  Fuel  Co.,  has  been  indirectly  connected  with 
Pennsylvania  bituminous  coal  properties  fifteen  years.  He 
is  interested  in  the  Eyre  Colliery,  Brush  Valley,  Roaring 
Run,  Tunnelton,  Conemaugh,  Knickerbocker  and  Pembrooke 
mines. 


WAIXACE   DELAMATER   EYRE,   New  York  City, 

Of  the  Eyre  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in  West  Chester,  Pennsyl- 
vania, August  27,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
five  years.  His  firm  is  acting  as  New  York  agent  for  Clark 
Bros.  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  is  much  interested  in  several 
operations.  Mr.  Eyre  was  formerly  connected  with  Graff 
Bros.  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Blairsville,  Pennsylvania,  Knicker- 
bocker Fuel  Co.,  New  York  City,  and  Clark  Bros.  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,   Philadelphia. 


WILLIAM    IIKMIY  IJAHTT,  New  York   City, 

President  Haaren-Dartt  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Weather- 
fleld,  Vermont,  September  12,  I860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-two  years.  Mr.  Dartt  was  previously  asso- 
ciated with  Dartt  &  Co. 


CHARLES  W.  HAAREN,  New  York  City, 

Treasurer  Haaren-Dartt  Coal  Co.,  was  born  In  New  York 
City  August  26,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  D.   O.    Haaren   &   Son,   established   in   1875. 


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ARTHUR    W.   H1LLKBRA\D,   New   York    City, 

President  A.  W.  Hillebrand  Co.,  was  born  in  Trenton,  New 
Jersey,  June  10,  1865,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal 
business  thirty  years.  He  is  also  President  Grazier  Coal 
Mining  Co.  and  Hillworth  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Hillebrand  was  con- 
nected with  Williams  &  Peters  before  establishing-  his  pres- 
ent company. 


WALTER    F.    AIXSWORTH,    New    York    City, 

Secretary  A.  W.  Hillebrand  Co.,  was  born  in  Newburgh, 
New  York,  July  31,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years,  starting  in  the  retail  business  in  1902  at 
Fishkill,  New  York.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the  Grazier 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  James 
White  Mining  Co.  and  the  Hillworth  Coal  Co.,  and  inter- 
ested in  the  Millerton  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  W.  A.  Marshall  &  Co.   and  Whitney  &  Kemmerer. 


BKN.IAMIN   B.   MARCO,  New  York  City, 

President  Marco  Bros.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New 
York  City  October  10,  1861,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  thirty  years. 


JULIUS   L.  MARCO,  New  York  City, 

Treasurer  Marco  Bros.,  was  born  in  New  York  City  Sep- 
tember 14,  1867,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  trade 
thirty  years. 


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IKYING   I,.  CAMP,     New    York    City, 

Sole  Proprietor  Martin-Camp  Co..  New  York,  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Connecticut.  September  2, 
1879;  attended  public  schools  there  and  was  graduated  from  Wilbraham  Academy,  Wilbraham, 
Massachusetts,  as  president  of  the  class  of  1900.  Returning  to  Waterbury.  he  became  connected 
with  his  father,  who  was  a  partner  of  the  Frank  Miller  Co.,  until  October  1.  1903.  when  he 
went  to  New  York  City  and  entered  the  employ  of  Dickson  &  Eddy  as  salesman  in  the  Hudson 
River  territory  and  line  salesman  on  the  Ontario  &  Western  Railway  as  far  north  as  Sidney, 
New  York,  at  the  same  time  devoting  part  of  his  time  as  salesman  in  the  Greater  New  York 
territory. 

When  Dickson  &  Eddy  became  the  selling  agents  at  tidewater  for  the  Delaware  &  Hud- 
son Co.'s  D.  &  H.  coal,  he  was  assigned  to  cover  a  part  of  the  Greater  New  York  territory  and 
also  Long  Island,  in  which  connection  he  continued  until  April  1,  1917.  Upon  resigning  from 
Dickson  &  Eddy  he  organized  and  controlled  the  Martin-Camp  Co.,  with  offices  at  143  Liberty 
street,  New   York   City. 

September  23,  1918,  Mr.  Camp  purchased  Mr.  Martin's  interest  in  the  company  and  gives  his 
entire   efforts   to   the    management    of   this   company. 


CKOHKK    K.    Ml  Ml  AM.    New    York    City. 

President  Meyer-Denker-Slnram  Co..  was  born  In  New  York 
City  January  3,  1883,  and  has  been  interested  In  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Slnram  has  also  served  as  a 
Director  of  the  Coal  Merchants  Association  of  New  York 
City. 


HENRY  U.  MINHAM.  New  York  City. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  Meyer-Denker-Slnram  Co.,  was  born 
in  New  York  City  August  20,  1888,  and  has  been  engaged  In 
the   coal    business   thirteen    years. 


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GARDNER  PATTISON,  New  York  City, 

Of  Pattison  &  Bowns,  was  born  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey, 
February  18,  1872,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty  years.  Mr.  Pattison  is  also  Treasurer  of  the 
Buck  Ridge  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Sales  Agent  for  the  Wilkes- 
Barre  Anthracite  Coal  Co.,  Excelsior  Coal  Co.,  and  Buck 
Ridge  Coal  Mining  Co. 


)  by  Us  U. 

EDWARD    S.   BOWNS,   New   York    City, 

Of  Pattison  &  Bowns,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
January  28,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
four  years.  He  is  President  of  the  Buck  Ridge  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  Shamokin,  Pennsylvania,  and  Sales  Agent  Wilkes-Barre 
Anthracite  Coal  Co.,  Excelsior  Coal  Co.,  and  Buck  Ridge 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  is  interested  in  several  other  individ- 
ual operations.  Mr.  Bowns  was  formerly  associated  with 
Henry  E.   Bowns. 


JAMES  CARLTON  THORNTON,  New  York  City, 

Former  Treasurer  Watkins  Coal  Co.,  New  York  City,  who 
was  born  in  Ford,  Kentucky,  July  11,  1884,  is  a  First  T  ieu- 
tenant  in  the  Field  Artillery.  Before  going  into  the  service 
Lieutenant  Thornton  had  seven  years'  experience  in  the 
coal  business. 


GEORGE  A.  McILROY,  New  York  City, 

Senior  partner  Parrish,  Phillips  &  Co., 
was  born  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey, 
March  20,  1862.  Mr.  Mcllroy  has  been 
interested  in  the  coal  business  forty 
years  and  has  been  with  this  company 
since  he  began  his  career  as  a  coal- 
man. The  firm  was  started  by  Rich- 
mond Talbot  in  1877  and  upon  Mr. 
Talbot's  death  the  firm  name  was 
changed  to  that  under  which  it  is  op- 
erating  at   present. 


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FHEUERII     AI'fcilSTl  S   POTTS,  \ew   York  City, 

Senior  partner  in  the  present  firm  of  Frederic  A.  Potts  & 
Co..  New  York  City,  was  born  July  2,  1860.  in  Lenosg  Massa- 
chusetts, and  his  entire  business  career  has  been  in  connec- 
tion with  this  firm.  He  was  graduated  from  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, New  York  City,  in  1880,  and  completed  his  education 
in  the  University  of  Berlin. 


EDWARD   RENWICK   BREVOORT,   New  York  City, 

A  partner  in  the  firm  of  Frederic  A.  Potts  &  Co.,  New  York 
City,  was  born  April  19,  1875,  in  Millburn,  New  Jersey,  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  when  16  years  of  age.  He 
became  a  partner  in  1910. 


HERBERT  CJ.   STREAT,  New  York   City, 

President  Streat  Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
July  10,  1861,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Streat  was  formerly  identified  with 
the   Harlem  coal   pockets  and   the  Curtis-Blaisdell  Co. 


HERBERT  <;.  STREAT,  JR..  New  York  City. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  Streat  Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  was  born  In 
New  York  City  October  16,  1884.  and  has  been  engaged  In 
the  coal  business  ten  years. 


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GITSTAVUS    ROBITZEK,    Bronx,    New    York    City, 

Founder  G.  Robitzek  &  Bro.,  was  born  in  Germany  May  28, 
1851,  anO  finding  difficulty  in  1880  to  secure  coal  for  a  pot- 
tery business  in  which  he  was  interested,  started  the  pres- 
ent retail  coal  business.  Later  he  devoted  his  whole  time 
to    coal. 


EDWARD    ROBITZEK,   New    York   City, 

President  G.  Robitzek  &  Bro.,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
December  28,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty 
years. 


EDWIN   ROBITZEK,   New   York   City, 

President  Edwin  Robitzek,  Inc.,  Mt.  Vernon,  New  York,  was 
born  in  New  York  City  May  21,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He  was  Secretary  of  G. 
Robitzek  &  Bro.,  Inc.,   of  New  York  City  seventeen  years. 


FLOYD    W.   PARSON,    New    York    City, 

Editor  "Coal  Age,"  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Keyser,  West 
Virginia,  January  23,  1880,  and  is  a  graduate  of  Lehigh  Uni- 
versity, 1902,  with  degree  of  E.  M.  He  has  been  associated 
in  an  engineering  capacity  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co., 
Stonewall  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  New 
River  Co.,  and  Victor  American  Fuel  Co.  For  a  time  he  was 
Assistant  Professor  of  Mining  in  the  Michigan  College  of 
Mines  at  Houghton.  When  "Coal  Age"  was  started  in  1911  he 
became  its  first  editor,  and  has  been  influential  in  its  success. 


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I  id  in  mi  iv  I  ijw  \  mi  SAWARD,  \'ew  York  City, 
Founder  The  Coal  Trade  Journal  in  1869.  died  December  4, 
1917,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  He  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1846.  As  the  owner  and  editor  of  the  oldest  coal 
trade  publication  in  the  United  States,  he  was  considered 
an  authority  on  coal  statistics.  He  was  connected  with 
the  coal  firms  of  C.  E.  Detnold  and  Samuel  Bonne'l.  Jr., 
prior   to    1872. 


PHEDEHICK   WILLIAM    SAWARD,    New  York   City, 

Editor  and  General  Manager  Saward's  Journal,  a  weekly 
coal  trade  publication  established  May  4,  1918,  eldest  son 
of  P.  E.  Saward  and  connected  with  him  in  business  thirty- 
two  years,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  1869,  and 
was  associated  with  The  Coal  Trade  Journal  from  1886  to 
early    in    1918. 


I-IIWK  I)  COLBY.  \civ  York  City. 
Of  E.  A.  Ward  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Os- 
wego, New  York.  May  18.  1874,  and  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years.  Mr.  Colby  was  in  the 
Coal  Traffic  Department  of  the  New 
York  Central  Railroad  twelve  years 
and  with   .1.   H.   Weaver  &   <"o.  one  year. 


EDGAR  A.  WARD,  New  York  City, 

Of  E.  A.  Ward  &  Co.,  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  April  13,  1880. 
Mr.  Ward  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty  years.  He  was  previously  asso- 
ciated  with    the    L'nited   Coal   Co. 


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D.ViVlEL    ANTHONY,    New    York    City, 

Assistant  General  Agent  Lehigh  &  Wilkes-Barre  Coal  Co., 
New  York  office,  was  born  in  Allendale,  New  Jersey,  Au- 
gust 1,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-two 
years,  the  entire  time  with  his  present  company.  He  en- 
tered the  employ  of  this  company  as  office  boy  to  the  Presi- 
dent in  1886  and  received  his  present  appointment  in  1914. 


M.  I,,  itlitl).  New  York  City, 
Proprietor  M.  L.  Bird  Co.,  was  born  in  New  York  City  Au- 
gust 8,  1873,  and  has  been  handling  coal  twenty-three 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  Joseph  Gordon  as  Manager 
Mr.  Bird  is  a  member  of  the  Coal  Merchants'  Association  of 
New  York  City,  Coal  Trade  Protective  Association  and  the 
New  York  State  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 


A.   SIDNEY   DAVISON,    New   York   City, 

Treasurer  A.  Sidney  Davison  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Fitch- 
burg,  Massachusetts,  February  10,  1882,  and  served  his 
apprenticeship  as  mechanical  engineer  with  the  Simonds 
Manufacturing  Co.  He  entered  the  employ  of  the  Garfield 
&  Proctor  Coal  Co.  in  1900.  became  New  York  Manager  in 
1907,  and  continued  in  that  position  until  1914,  when  he 
formed  the  A.  Sidney  Davison  Coal  Co. 


OTTO   R.    KKKI.I  \.   New  York  City, 

New  York  Manager  Elkins  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  December  25,  1875,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Erklin 
was  formerly  connected  with  Theo.  F.  Tone  &  Co. 


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THOMAS   F.   KAKRELL,  New  York  City,  JOHX   J.   GORDON',  New   York   City, 

Of  William  Farrell  &  Son,  was  born  in  New  York  July  27,  President  Robert  Gordon  &  Son.  Inc.,  was  born  in  New  York 
1870,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  thirty  city  September  14,  1868,  and  has  been  identified  with  the 
years.  coal     industry     thirty     years.       The     present     business     was 

started   by   his   father  in   1869. 


«.\l>\i;i     A.   II\I.F„    New  York   City, 

•or  of  The  Coal  Trade  Journal,  New  York  City,  was  born 
In  Chicago  August  1,  1888.  and  has  been  with  his  present 
connection  Mnce  October  1,  1914,  first  as  Western  Uepre- 
sentatlve  and  Utter,  in  1918,  being  called  to  become  its 
editorial  head,  His  previous  newspaper  and  traffic  experi- 
ence peculiarly  lit  him  for  the  position  that  lie  now  holds 
on  the  oldest  coal  trail.-  paper  in  the  United  states 


iii:ii.m<:i<  &  sox, 

1    Broadway, 
New    York    City. 

One  of  the  old  established  and  favor- 
ably known  wholesale  coal  firms  in 
.New  York  City  is  that  of  Heilner  & 
Son.  Geo.  C.  Heilner.  who  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  thirty  years, 
Is  now  sole  owner  of  the  business  since 
the  death  of  his  brother.  Butler,  in 
1916.  Both  are  sons  of  Marcus  G. 
lleilner.  who  with  his  father,  Samuel 
H.  Heilner,  founded  the  company  in 
1835  under  the  name  of  S.  Heilner  & 
Son. 

Their  first  activities  were  mining  op- 
erations in  Schuylkill  County.  Pennsyl- 
vania, on  Wolf  Creek  in  the  famed 
Black  Heath  vein.  Their  mining  activ- 
ities ran  along  in  various  anthracite 
districts  until  1867,  when  they  came  to 
New  York  City  to  engage  in  the  whole- 
sale  coal    trade. 


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PERCIVAI,    BUTLER   HEILNEB,   \'ew   York   City, 

Vice  President  and  General  Agent  Lehigh  &  Wilkes-Barre 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Minersville,  Pennsylvania,  and  has 
been  thirty-five  years  in  the  coal  business.  Before  coming 
with  this  company  Mr.  Heilner  was  with  Heilner  &  Son. 
Robinson,  Haydon  &  Co.,  and  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading: 
Coal   &   Iron  Co. 


HENRY  HENCKEX,  Hew  York  City, 

Retail  coal  merchant,  was  born  in  New  York  City  Septem- 
ber 7,  1875,  and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness   twelve   years 


1JAVID  de  LA1VCEY   HESiDRICKSOX,  New  York   City, 

New  York  Sales  Manager  W.  H.  Piper  &  Co.,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  New  York, 
May  28,  1373,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  business 
twenty   years,   the   entire  time   with   his   present   company. 


JAMES   A.   HILL.  New  York  City, 

President  Knickerbocker  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in  Ashbourne, 
Pennsylvania,  June  17,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness sixteen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  Buck  Ridge  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Shamokin,  Pennsylvania,  and  Wilbur  Coal  Co., 
Blairsville,   Pennsylvania. 


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DICKKKMAX    dt    K.VULIS, 

43    Rroadnar, 
>>w  York  City, 

One  of  the  younger  and  progressive 
wholesale  coal  firms  of  New  York  City 
is  that  of  Dickerman  &  Englis,  who 
specialize  in  bituminous  coal.  The 
firm  is  composed  of  A.  L>.  Dickerman, 
Jr..  and  W.   v.  Bngllg. 

They  are  General  Agents  of  the  Potts 
Run  T.and  Co.  of  Clearfield,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  exclusive  agents  in  the  New 
York    market. 


JAMES    L.    HVT(HISO>,    New    York    City, 

Coal  Purchasing  Agent  Standard  Oil  Co.  of  New  Jersey 
up  to  April  1,  1918,  when  he  resigned  because  of  failing 
health,  was  born  in  New  York  City  December  6,  1874,  and 
had  been  active  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years. 
His  present  residence  is  The  Evergreens,  Montgomery,  New 
York. 


I.I  <IK\    1111,1,,  New-  York  City, 

Sales  Manager  Imperial  Coal  Co.  of 
Pennsylvania  at  New  York  City,  was 
born  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  Novem- 
ber 23,  1875.  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  trade  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Hill 
was  formerly  with  the  United  Coal  Co. 
and   Merchants  Coal  Co. 


EMIL,    W.    KAH.V.    \e«    York    City, 

\\  holesale  coal  merchant,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  No- 
vember 25,  1873.  He  has  been  in  the  wholesale  coal  business 
twenty-eight  years,  recently  engaging  in  business  on  his  own 
account.  He  was  for  many  years  identified  with  the  Haddock 
coal  interests,  having  been  Secretary  of  John  C.  Haddock  & 
Co.  and  Vice  President  of  Haddock  Coal  Sales  Co.  of  New 
York  City.  Mr.  Kahn's  knowledge  of  interstate  commerce 
affairs  made  him  a  prominent  factor  in  the  leading  anthra- 
cite cases  that  came  before  that  body. 


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WARREN    AYMAR   LEONARD,  New  York  City, 

President  and  Treasurer  Leonard  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  New 
York  City  April  3,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-nine  years.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Coal 
Merchants  Association   of  New  York   City   since   1907. 


GEORGE  F.  LESHER.  New  York  City, 

Manager  West  Virginia  &  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co.,  is  a  native 
of  Pennsylvania,  born  in  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-two  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  Hite  ft 
Rafetto.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Morrisdale 
Coal  Co. 


CHARLES   E.   LESTER,  New  York   City, 

President  Hartwell  &  Lester,  Inc.,  since  1912,  was  born  in 
Connecticut  in  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty  years,  starting  with  F.  A.  Potts  &  Co.,  New  York 
City,  as  an  office  boy.  After  eighteen  years  with  that  com- 
pany, he  became  associated  with  W.  C.  Mason  &  Co.  of 
Hartford.  Connecticut,  and  New  Y'ork  City.  Ten  years 
later  he  became  Sales  Agent  of  Smith,  Lineaweaver  &  Co. 
of  Philadelphia.  By  reason  of  his  active  association  with 
the  Order  of  KoKoal  he  has  an  unusually  wide  circle  of 
friends  in  the  coal  trade. 


LEANDER    D.    LOVELL,    New   York    City. 

Senior  member  Borden  &  Lovell,  was  born  in  New  York 
City  April  19,  1868,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal 
business  for  thirty  years.  This  company  was  established 
in   1836. 


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.IOHN  MAIJKI.i:,  Xeiv  York  City, 
President  G.  B.  Markle  Co.,  was  born  in  Hazleton,  Pennsyl- 
vania,  December   15.    1853,  and   has  been    identified    with   the 
coal   business  thirty-eight   years.      He  has   been   General   Su- 
perintendent and   Managing  Partner  of  G.   B.   Markle   &   Co. 


EDGAR   LEWIS    MAHSTON,  New   York    City, 

President  Texas  &  Pacific  Coal  &  Oil  Co.,  was  born  in  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  March  8,  1860,  and  has  been  identified 
with  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Marston  is 
also  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Clinch- 
field  Coal  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
Mr.  Marston  was  associated  with  R.  D.  Hunter.  This  com- 
pany was  organized  in  1888  and  in  1897  he  purchased  Colonel 
Hunter's  interests,  since  which  time  he  has  been  President. 
He  is  also  interested  in  a  large  number  of  ether  companies. 


HENRI  BVGEITH  HBKKJBB,  New  York, 

Of  Meeker  &   Co.,   was  born   In   Bridge- 
port,  Conecticut.    in   1867,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  twen-  ■ 
ty-eight    years. 


EJIMET   .1.    MrCOHMACK,    »w    York    City, 

President  Commercial  Coal  Co.,  was  born  In  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  September  2,  1880.  Mr.  McCormack  is  also  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  I-ocust  Colliery  Co.  He  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  sixteen   years. 


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WILL  C.  MOCLTON,  Seranton,   BVn  ein  vi  van  in. 
New    York    Representative    of    the    Sheldon    Mining    Co.,    42 
Broadway,    New    York    City,    and    President    of   the    Moulton 
Coal   Mining   Co.   of   Scranton,    Pennsylvania. 


JOSKPH    EDWARD    PARSONS,   New  York  City, 

New  York  Manager  of  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
in  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania,  April  10,  1881,  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co.  and  Williams  & 
Peters. 


GAVIN   HOWE,  New  York  City, 

Well  known  wholesaler,  was  born  in  Lesmahagow,  Scotland, 
November  4,  1843,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Rowe  succeeded  H.  N.  Holt, 
who  was  engaged  in  the  coal  business  fifty  years. 


CHAKL.ES  LAWRENCE  SMITH,  New  York  City, 

With  Whitney  &  Kemmerer,  New  York  City,  was  born 
February  28,  1881,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
previously  Manager  for  J.  Samuel  Smoot  and  Deputy  Com- 
missioner of  the  Coal  Merchants'  Association  of  New  York 
City.  Mr.  Smith  is  also  the  Eastern  Representative  of  The 
Retail  Coalman  and  has  a  wide  circle  of  friends  among  East- 
ern coalmen  in  all  three  branches  of  the  industry. 


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WILLIAM  H.  TAILOR,  New  York.  City, 

President  St.  Clair  Coal  Co.  and  Franklin  Coal  Co..  was  born 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  September  30,  1859.  He  has  been 
interested  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  above  interests  Mr.  Taylor  is  President  of  the 
Goodwin  Car  &  Mfg.  Co.  of  New  York  and  a  Director  of 
the  Coal  &  Iron  National  Bank  of  New  York. 


JAMES   DEAN    VAN   PELT,  New  York;  City, 

Well  known  wholesaler,  was  born  in  South  Amboy,  New 
Jersey,  July  28,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
since  1881.  Before  going  into  business  for  himself  Mr.  Van 
Pelt  was  associated  with  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.,  Graeff,  Wilcox  & 
Co.,  Cambria  Coal  Mining  Co.,  A.  W.  Hillebrand  Co.,  and 
Thorne,  Neale  &  Co. 


DA  KIEL  I'KKKV  STANTON, 
President  Humphreys  Coal  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  horn  in  Wellesley, 
Massachusetts,  in  1865,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He 
is  also  interested  in  the  Logan  Coal 
Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Ohio  & 
Western    Coal   &   Iron   Co. 


SAMUEL  PARSONS  VATCHER,  New  York  City. 

New  York  Manager  The  Morrlsdale  Coal  Co.,  was  born  In 
Newfoundland  December  4,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years.  Mr.  Vatcher  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  George  E.  Warren  Co.  of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  bar  of  Suffolk  County,  Massachusetts. 


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MATTHEW    WILSON,    New   York    City, 

President  and  Treasurer  Matthew  Wilson  &  Co.,  New  York 
City,  was  born  in  Ireland  March  25,  1860,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  for- 
merly associated  with  Taylor  &  Wilson  and  Wilson,  Flack 
&  Co.  Mr.  Wilson  has  served  on  the  General  Committee 
of  the  Coal  Merchants  Association  of  New  York  City. 


LUNSPOHD    P.    YAJIDELL,    New    York, 

President  Kentucky  Block  Cannel  Coal 
Co.,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
March  8,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  three  years.  He  is  also  a 
Director  of  the  American  Coal  Co.  of 
Allegheny   County. 


Parrish,  Phillips  &  Co., 

1   Broadway,  New  York  City 

One  of  the  highly  regarded  and  substantial  wholesale  coal 
firms  in  New  York  City  is  that  of  Parrish,  Phillips  &  Co.,  which 
was  organized  in  1877  by  the  late  Richmond  Talbot.  At  the 
present  time  it  is  a  partnership  consisting  of  George  A.  Mcllroy, 
senior  partner,  and  Charles  S.  Phillips,  special  partner,  who  is  at 
present  Vice  President  of  the  American  Ambulance  Corps  in 
France.  Henry  A.  Ashley  and  Charles  P.  Hunt  are  also  active 
partners  and  are  former  operators  of  the  Wilkes-Barre  field. 

This  well-known  firm  ships  a  large  tonnage  into  Canada  and 
along  the  coast.  They  formerly  controlled  the  Parrish  Coal  Co., 
which  now  belongs  to  the  Lehigh  &  Wilkes-Barre  Coal  Co.,  and 
still  handle  their  coal. 


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WILLIAM   F.    M  I  \  »i  \  \.   Albany,   New   York, 
Manager  of  W.  C.   Saxton  &  Co.,  coal  merchants  of  Albany, 
New    York,    was    born    September    20,    1882,    at    Chazy,    New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  fifteen 
years. 


JOHN    S.    M.  i:\\   \  \.   Albany,   New   York, 

President  and  General  Manager  William  McKwan  Coal  Co. 
Albany,  New  York,  was  born  March  11,  1871,  in  Chesapeake 
Bay,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
eight  years.  This  business  was  founded  by  the  late  William 
McEwan    in    1863. 


WILLIAM    KKII1.    Albany,    New    York. 

Proprietor  of  the  Albany  Wood  &  Coal  Co.,  672  Broadway, 
Albany,  New  York,  was  born  in  1859  at  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  twenty  years. 


<  II  Mil  i  -  niKIIIKKlt  STAATS,  Albany,  New  York, 
President  E.  W.  Howell  Co.,  25  Washington  Ave.,  Albany, 
was  born  in  Albany  September  21,  1864,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  since  December  19,  1881.  Major  Staats 
Is  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  successful  retail  coal 
merchants  In  central  New  York.  He  is  Treasurer  of  the 
New  York  State  Coal  Merchants  Association,  Treasurer  Coal 
Merchants  Mutual  Insurance  Co.,  President  West  End  Coal 
Co.,  all  of  Albany,  Treasurer  Nay  Aug  Coal  Co.,  Rackett 
Brook  Coal  Co.  and  Scandia  Coal  Co.  of  Scranton.  Penn- 
sylvania, Director  T.  R.  Thorn  &  Co.  of  New  York  City,  and 
Treasurer   New    York    A    N'.w    Kngland   Coal   Co.    of  Albany. 


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WILLIAM    B.   VERNOY,    Albany,   New   York, 

President  and  General  Manager  Marquette  Coal  Co.,  Albany, 
was  born  June  4,  1SS3,  in  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Vernoy  is 
also  Commissioner  of  the  Coal  Merchants  Association  of  Al- 
bany. He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  sales  department 
of  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.  and  was  New  England  Man- 
ager of  the  Penfield  Coal  Co. 


CHARLES  N.  BLANCHARD,  Binghamton,  New  York, 

Managing  Director  C.  N.  Blanchard  Coal  Co.,  and  Hart- 
mann-Blanchard  Coal  Co.  of  Binghamton  and  New  York 
City,  was  born  June  2,  1871,  in  Binghamton,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  since  1889.  Mr.  Blanchard  is 
widely  known  in  the  coal  trade  and  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  Meagley  &  Blanchard,  Blanchard  &  Co.,  Arch- 
bald  Coal  Co.,  the  Seiler-Blanchard  Co.,  and  the  Blanchard- 
Bunnell  Coal  Co.   of  Binghamton. 


FREDERIC    S.    CONVERSE,    Ring  li.n New    York, 

President  of  F.  S.  Converse  Co..  Inc.,  the  well-known  manu- 
facturers of  coal  yard  equipment,  whose  factory  is  at  John- 
son City,  New  York,  was  born  near  Mount  Upton,  New  York, 
December  22,  1862.  and  was  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-eight  years,  from  1880  to  1908.  About  1900  he  began 
the  manufacture  of  improved  coal  handling  appliances. 


CHARLES    EDWARD    TOI1EY.    Binirhamton,    New    YorK. 

President  of  the  Tobey  Coal  Co.,  Binghamton,  was  born 
March  22,  1863,  in  Morris,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  over  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Tobey  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  & 
Western  Coal   Co.   as   Superintendent   of  Mines 


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i  i:  i  in  UK  K  JOHN  in  mi  \  V  Buffalo,  New  York. 
Marine  National  Bank  Building,  Buffalo,  was  born  in  Niagara 
Falls,  Ontario,  February  8.  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Howard 
Coal  Co.  of  Buffalo  and  the  Monongahela  River  Consolidated 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. 


J.  in  i:  I  ROSS,  Hun.-, I...  New  York. 
President  J.  Bert  Ross  Coal  Co..  Buffalo,  was  born  in  James- 
town, Pennsylvania,  May  6,  1871.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-six  years.  He  is  President  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Fairview  Mining  Co.  and  was  formerly  with  the  H.  K. 
Wick  Co.,  Inc.,  and  the  Rochester  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  &  Iron 
Co. 


BAML'EI     MITCHELL.  STANLEY,  Buffalo,  New  York, 

Western  Manager  The  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.,  Buffalo, 
was  born  in  Rockford,  Illinois,  in  1865,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  thirty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Coxe 
Bros.  &  Co.  and  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co. 


IRVING  8.  I  NDKHH1LL.  Buffalo,  New  York, 

President  Underhlll  Coal  Co..  Buffalo,  was  born  In  Fulton. 
New  York,  March  18.  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Cherry 
Run  Mining  Co.  and  President  of  the  W.  H.  Cox  Coal  Co., 
Toronto,  Ontario.  Mr.  Underhlll  was  formerly  with  the  J. 
Langdon  Co.,  Elmlra,  New  York. 


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CHARLES    BRADSHAW,    Rochester,    New    York, 

Was  born  in  Rochester  September  21,  1859,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  forty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
C.  H.  Babcock  Co.  He  is  President  of  the  Rochester  Retail 
Coal  Merchants'   Association. 


u.l.i:\    A.    DO  VLB,    Rochester,    New    York, 

President-Treasurer  Doyle  &  Gallery  Coal  Co.,  Rochester, 
was  born  in  Rochester,  New  York,  in  1880,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  has  served  as 
President  of  the  local  association  of  Rochester  coal  mer- 
chants. 


LIIWIS  EDELMAN,  Rochester,  Xeiv  York, 
Was  born  in  Haden,  Germany,  July  15,  1845,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  about  forty-three  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  Geo.  Engert  and  Geo.  Worrill  and  has  been  active  in 
coal  association  work.  He  is  well  known  throughout  the 
trade. 


FRANK    J.    SCHWAL.B,    Rochester,    New    York, 

President  The  Schwalb  Coal  Co.,  Rochester,  was  born  in 
Niles,  Ohio,  in  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty- 
one  years. 


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LEONARD  TKKMW,   Kochenter,   New  York, 

Representing  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co., 
at  Rochester,  was  born  in  Trumansburg,  New  York,  in  1856, 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  since  1882. 


EDWARD  B.  ASHTON,  Seheneetady,  Xew  York, 

President  Schenectady  County  Coal  Co.,  Schenectady,  New 
York;  Saratoga  Coal  Co.,  Saratoga  Springs.  New  York; 
Ballston  Coal  Co.,  Ballston  Spa,  New  York;  and  Glens  Falls 
Coal  Co.,  Glens  Falls,  New  York,  was  born  in  Argyle,  New 
York.  August  7,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Ashton  has  served  in  positions  of 
honor  in  the  coal  associations  of  the  state. 


W.  K.  111:11  mm..  Srhrnri'lml),  Xew  York. 
Was  born  in  Amsterdam,  New  York,  March  21.  1879,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Berning  also 
controls  a  half  interest  in  the  Amsterdam  Coal  &  Feed  Co. 
He  has  held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of 
the  state. 


WILLIAM  C.  BAXTER,  Troy,  Xew  York. 

Treasurer  Craver,  Cowee  &  Baxter,  Inc.,  Troy,  was  born  In 
Watervliet.  New  York,  in  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-four  years.  Mr.  Baxter  is  also  interested  in 
The  David  Judson  Coal  Co.,  and  has  held  positions  of  honor 
in  the  coal  associations  of  the  state,  as  well  as  serving  as  a 
Member  of  the  Assembly.  Third  District.  Albany  County.  He 
is  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the  community  and 
the  trade. 


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IGNATIUS    SAWMILLKK,   Syracuse,   New    York, 

Best  known  as  "Nate  Sawmiller,"  was  born  in  Germany 
May  20,  1844,  entered  the  coal  business  in  1888,  and  con- 
tinued to  be  active  therein  until  his  death,  September  6, 
1916.      The   business   is   now   conducted   by   his   sons. 


FRANK  G.  SAWMILLER,  Syracuse,  New  York, 

Manager  Nate  Sawmiller  Estate,  was  born  in  Syracuse, 
New  York,  July  25,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
all  his   life.     He  is  well  known  as  a  coalman. 


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NEW     YORK- Albany 

JOHN  T.  D.  BLACKS!  KN.  highly  respected  retail  coal 
merchant  of  Albany,  New  York,  was  born  December  29,  1863, 
at  Troy,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-four  years.  Mr.  Blackburn  has  a  splendid  reputation 
in  trade  circles  and  has  served  as  President  of  the  Albany 
Retail  Coal  Merchants  Association  for  ten  years. 

DAVID  J.  FITZGERALD,  proprietor  of  Stevens  &■  Co., 
Albany,  New  York,  was  born  February  17,  1876,  in  Albany 
and    has    been    in    the    coal    business    for    seventeen    years. 

IKL^WKLL  P.  FLOWKH,  well  known  retail  coal  merchant 
of  Albany,  New  York,  was  born  July  28,  1881,  at  Albany, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen 
y.'iirs.      He   was  formerly   connected   with   K.   A.   Wallace. 

Mini. I'll  J.  FRASER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  A.  J.  Fra- 
Mr  &  Bros.,  Albany.  New  York,  was  born  February  12, 
1864,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
four  years.  He  is  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Albany  Coal  Merchants  Association. 

DE  LAIS  Wi  HKHKICK,  senior  member  of  D.  W.  Herrick 
&  Sons,  the  oldest  retail  coal  merchants  of  Albany,  New 
York,  was  born  in  1830  in  Schenectady  County.  His  present 
Arm  is  successor  to  the  Arm  of  Leonard  &  Herric':. 

I.KS'l'KH  W.  in  k/<i/.  Secretary  of  Righter  &  Son  Coa! 
Co.,  Albany,  Nov?  York,  was  born  April  18,  1882,  in  Albany, 
and    has   been   in    the   coal   business  four  years. 

WILLIAM  IRA  HILLS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Albany, 
New  York,  was  born  September  6,  1871,  in  Albany,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal   business   for  eighteen   years. 

A.VDRKW  KLEIN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Albany,  New 
York,  was  born  February  3,  1850.  in  Germany,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 

MOTH  W.  MORTON,  partner  of  W.  G.  Morton,  wholesale 
coal  merchants  of  Albany.  New  York,  was  born  January  27, 
1882,  at  Pittsfield.  Massachusetts,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Morton  is  a  Director  of 
the  National  Coal  Jobbers  Association  and  President  of  the 
Central  New  York  and  New  England  Wholesale  Coal  Trade 
Association. 

w .  G.  MORTON,  wholesale  coal  merchant  of  Albany,  New 
York,  was  born  March  2,  1861,  at  Pittsfield.  Massachusetts. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  almost  half  a  century 
and  is  highly  respected  in  the  trade. 

JOHN  S.  RIGHTER,  President  Righter  &  Sons  Coal  Co.  of 
Albany.  New  York,  was  born  September  24,  1865,  at  Scho- 
harie, New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five    years. 

ii  i<  ii  mid  B.  ROCK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Albany,  New 
York,  was  born  September  29,  1832.  at  Rensselaer,  New  York, 
and  has  been   in   the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 

LEWIS  STERN,  member  of  Stern  &  Uhl,  Albany.  New 
York,  was  born  January  14,  1846,  in  Albany,  and  has  been 
in    the   coal   business    for   thirty-six   years. 

CHARLES  M.  sti  ART.  President  C.  M.  Stuart  Coal  Co., 
Albany,  New  York,  was  born  in  1855  in  Albany,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  forty-five  years.  He  succeeded 
John  Stuart,   who  started    tile   present  business  in   1857. 

CHARLES  M.  STUART.  JR..  of  the  C.  M.  Stuart  Coal  Co., 
Albany.  New  York,  was  born  In  1887  in  Albany  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

EDWARD  A.  WEEBER  of  the  Weeber  Coal  Co.,  Albany, 
Blew  York,  was  born  May  15.  1876.  in  Albany  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  has  been  active 
in  the  Albany  Association  and  was  the  first  coal  retailer  in 
his  city  to  use  motor  trucks. 

■  \l  RICE  ML  WVLE.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Albany,  New 
Y.iik,  was  born  November  22,  1875,  in  Albany  and  has  been 
In  the  coal   business  for  ten  years. 


NEW     Y  0  R  K  —  Brooklyn 


JOHN  C,  (REVELING,  retail  coal  merchant  of  792  Liberty 
Avenue.  Brooklyn.  New  York,  was  born  June  30,  1863.  in 
Bloomsburg.  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness over  thirty-five  years, 

GEORGE  FLEER,  President  Fleer  Bros.,  Inc.,  281  Tom- 
kins  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  in  1843,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

JOSEPH  GREASON,  President  Greason,  Son  &  Dalzell. 
Inc.,  160  Third  Ave..  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 9.  1836.  in  England,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for  sixty  years.  Mr.  Greason  served  as  President  of  the 
Brooklyn  Coal  Exchange  from  1887  to  1895  and  has  been  a 
Trustee  and  Director  from   1895  to  the  present  time. 

EDWARD  F.  KELLY,  proprietor  Brooklyn  Coal  Co..  90 
Kent  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  October  29,  1878, 
in  Brooklyn,  and  has  been  In- the  coal  business  twenty  years. 


ROBERT  H.  KHl'GEH,  Manager  Frost  Bros.  Coal  Co.,  71 
John  St.,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  March  1,  1874,  in 
New  York  City,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine- 
teen years.  Mr.  Kruger  was  formerly  with  J.  T.  Story,  A. 
J.  &  J.  J.  McCollum,  Scranton  &  Lehigh  Coal  Co.,  and  Uni- 
versal Coal  Co. 

EDWARD  THEODORE  MINOR,  President  Edward  T.  Minor 
Co.,  7118  Third  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 11,  1874,  at  Kingston,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

WALTER  H.  NELSON,  President  Z.  O.  Nelson  &  Sons,  490 
Segraw  St.,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  in  1858  at  Ro- 
chester, New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  forty  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Holden 
Bros,  at  Syracuse,  and  has  served  as  President  of  the  Brook- 
lyn  Coal   Exchange    for   the   past   ten   years. 

WILLIAM  S.  POWELL,  President  Powell  &  Titus,  212 
Third  St.,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  October  16,  1853, 
in  Plain  View,  Long  Island,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-six  years.  Henry  Titus  is  Vice  President  and 
Treasurer  of  the  company  and  has  been  in  the  coal  trade 
for   thirty   years. 

RUDOLPH  REIMER,  JR.,  retailer  at  2814  Atlantic  Ave., 
Brooklyn.  New  York,  was  born  in  1875  in  Brooklyn,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  has  served  as 
Vice  President  of  the  Brooklyn  Coal  Exchange. 

FRANK  D.  TIITTLE,  senior  partner  of  S.  Tuttle  Sons  & 
Co.,  40  Broadway,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  October 
11,  1864.  in  Brooklyn,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  thirty  years.  He  is  associated  with  his  brother,  Win- 
throp  M.   Tuttle. 

FREDERICK  WILLENBROCK,  Treasurer  Heneken-Wil- 
lenbrock  Co.,  130  St.  Marks  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was 
born  December  16,  1846,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business    for   practically   fifty  years. 


NEW    YORK  —  Buffalo 


HOWARD  M.  ii  in  I.  coal  merchant,  Mutual  Life  Bldg., 
Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  December  7,  1870,  in  Buffalo, 
and    has    been    in    the   coal    business    twenty-five    years. 

EDWARD  T.  III. I  M'..  General  Sales  Agent  Pennsy  Coal  Co., 
Prudential  Building.  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  October 
22,  1880,  at  Da  Platte,  Nebraska,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Havens-White  Coal  Co.  and  C.  B.  Havens  &  Co.  of 
Omaha. 

ALBERT  E.  BUYERS,  President  Buyers  Bros.,  1172  Niag- 
ara St.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  April  26,  18S2,  in  Buf- 
falo,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

EADGAIt  H.  CASE,  General  Sales  Agent  Buffalo  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  6  Russel  Ave.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 1,  1884,  In  Buffalo,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eight  years. 

JOHN  O,.  CLARKE,  Manager  and  Owner  of  the  Mononga- 
hela-Youghiogheny  Coal  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born 
March  26,  1879,  near  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Monongahela  River  Consolidated  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  and  has  a  very  wide  acquaintance  in  the  coal 
trade. 

CHARLES  L.  COUCH,  President  Weaver  Coal  Co.,  Buffalo, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Fredonia,  New  York,  October  1,  1870, 
and  has  "been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-three  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.  and  the 
Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  Mr.  Couch  has 
held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of  the  state, 
and  has  been  a  Director  of  the  National  Coal  Jobbers  Asso- 
ciation  since   its  organization. 

DAVID  DONALDSON,  547  Grant  Street,  Buffalo,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Scotland  in  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-one  years. 

JOSEPH  J.  EAGAN,  President  and  Manager  J.  J.  Eagan 
Co:.l  Co..  810  Prudential  Building,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Buffalo  April  25.  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  H.  K. 
Wick  &  Co. 

JOSEPH  A.  GIBBONS,  Manager  of  the  Connell  Anthracite 
Coal  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Scranton,  Penn- 
sylvania, June  25,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eleven  years. 

JAMES  II  wit  MIAN.  1505  Main  Street,  Buffalo,  New  York, 
was  born  In  Ennis,  Ireland,  In  August,  1843,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  half  a  century.  He"  has  served  as 
Secretary   of    the   Buffalo   Coal    Exchange. 

GRANT  H.  JONES,  Vice  President  and  General  Sales  Agent 
The  Shawmut  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was 
born   In  Chemung  County,   New   York,  September   37,   1863. 


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JOHX  K.  Kiiili.  President  and  Treasurer  John  K.  Kerr, 
Inc.,  39  Erie  Street,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Salts- 
burg,  Pennsylvania,  October  11,  1881,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal   business  for  eleven   years. 

THEODORE  KING,  101  Pratt  Street,  Buffalo,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Buffalo  May  2,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   thirty-one   years. 

R.  A.  ivii  i  1:1,1  ii.  Northern  Sales  Agent  The  Youghio- 
gheny  &  Ohio  Coal  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  La- 
Salle,  New  York,  May  23,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  with  F.  J.  Durdan  and 
the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Sales  Co. 

NICHOLAS  E.  HAAR,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Buffalo  April  27,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-eight  years. 

WILLIAM  F.  McCLl'RG,  President  McClurg-Helsdon  Coal 
Co.,  694  Ellicott  Square,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Massillon,  Ohio,  May  1,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
H.   K.   Wick   Co.,   Buffalo. 

FRANK  J.  McGUINNESS,  Northern  Sales  Manager  Bader 
Coal  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania, 
May  21,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Pittsburgh  &  Erie  County 
Coal  Co.,  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Keystone  Coal  & 
Coke   Co.,   Cleveland,   Ohio. 

WILLIAM  A.  McMAHON,  President  R.  W.  Chisholm  &  Co., 
Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Buffalo  in  1864,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Hamilton  Coal  Co..  Powers.  Brown  &  Co.,  and  the 
Bell,  Lewis  &  Yates  Co. 

GEORGE  J.  MECHAN,  Vice  President  Montour  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Inc.,  1042  Prudential  Building,  Buffalo,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Mount  Morris,  New  York,  July  2,  1887,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was 
lormerly  with  the  Henderson  Coal  Co. 

CHARLES  W.  MOSS,  Vice  President,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer Weaver  Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Lockport,  New  York,  January  16,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 

JOSEPH  W.  NOBLE,  Manager  J.  W.  Noble  Coal  Co.,  Buf- 
falo, New  York,  was  born  in  Buffalo  July  29,  1870,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was 
previously  with  the  Frank  Williams  Co. 

E.  H.  READ  of  the  Buffalo  office  of  the  Delaware,  Lacka- 
wanna &  Western  Coal  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Quebec,  Canada,  July  31,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-four  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Delaware  &  Hudson  Co. 

EUGENE  C.  ROBERTS,  General  Manager  and  Treasurer 
Fairmount  Coal  Co.,  304  Ellicott  Square,  Buffalo.  New  York, 
was  born  in  Buffalo  August  18,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  forty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  E.  L.  Hedstrom,  and  has  served  in  positions  of 
honor   in   the   coal   associations   of   the   state. 

JOHN  T.  ROBERTS,  946  Ellicott  Square,  Buffalo,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Weatherly,  Pennsylvania,  in  1879,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Marion  Coal  Co.  and  the  Widnoon  Coal  Mining  Co. 

STEPHEN  W.  STICKNEY,  proprietor  of  the  D.  J.  Stick- 
ney  Coal  Go.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Ontario,  Can- 
ada, June  J2,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
two  years.  He  was  founder  of  the  Stickney-Price  Coal  Co. 
and  has  held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations 
of  the  state. 

CHARLES  A.  STORCK,  General  Manager  J.  B.  Jenkins 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Buffalo 
July  30,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Pittsburgh  &  Buffalo 
Coal  Co. 

A.  H.  TRACY  of  the  Tracy  Coal  &  Wood  Co.,  Buffalo,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Erie  County,  New  York,  April  17,  1839, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.  twenty  years. 

DELL  LELAXD  TITTLE,  Sales  Agent  The  Philadelphia  & 
Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in 
ICast  Otto,  New  York,  December  13,  1855.  He  entered  the 
service  of  the  company  in  1892  and  was  appointed  Sales 
Agent  in  1898.  He  has  been  honored  by  the  coal  trade  on 
many  occasions,  being  Gazook  in  1906  and  Imperial  Mazu- 
mer  in  1914  of  the  Order  KoKoal.  He  delivered  an  address 
Coalmen's  Day  at  the  World's  Fair  in  St.  Louis.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the   Central  Dock  &  Terminal  Railway. 

MAX  G.  VOELKLER,  President  Frontier  Coal  Co.,  Inc., 
Prudential  Building,  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Wil- 
liamsport,  Pennsylvania,  September  19,  1873,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  is  also  President 
of  the  Penn-Clarion  Coal  Co.  of  Pittsburgh  and  of  the  Lexie 
Mining  Co.,  with  operations  in  Butler  County,  Pennsylvania. 


SEYMOUR  WHITLEY,  Manager  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Buf- 
falo, New  York,  was  born  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  August  21, 
1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  twenty-six 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Youghiogheny  River  Coal 
Co.,  one  of  the  W.   L.  Scott  interests. 

B.  WYATT  WISTAR,  President  Wistar  Coal  Corp.,  Buffalo, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  September 
3,  1876,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years. 
Mr.  Wistar  has  many  other  coal  interests  and  is  well  known 
throughout  the   trade. 


NEW    YORK    CITY 


GEORGE  W.  APGAR,  Secretary  and  General  Manager 
Owens  &  Co.,  New  York  City,  is  a  native  of  New  Jersey, 
born  May  27,  1876,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty -two  years.  Mr.  Apgar  was  formerly  with  Peter 
DeWitt   &   Co. 

WILLIAM  H.  BARKLAGE  of  J.  H.  Barklage's  Son,  New 
York  City,  is  a  native  of  New  York  City,  born  July  29,  1861, 
and  has  been   in   the  coal  business  thirty-five  years. 

ARTHUR  BERGHORN,  Vice  President  Henry  Berghorn's 
Sons,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New  York  City  June  25, 
1890,  and  has  been   in  the   retail  coal  business  ten  years. 

FREDERICK  W.  BERGHORN,  Secretary  Henry  Berg- 
horn's Sons,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
April  21,  1888,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
ten   years. 

LOUIS  F.  H.  BERGHORN,  President  and  Treasurer  Henry 
Berghorn's  Sons,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New  Bremen, 
Ohio,  January  24,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-three  years.  Mr.  Berghorn  was  previously  connected 
with  Dickson  &  Eddy. 

HENRY  BREUNICH,  President  Henry  Breunich  Coal  Co., 
New  York  City,  was  born  in  Germany  January  11,  1849,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty  years.  Mr.  Breunich 
served  as  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Exchange  of  New 
York  City  for  twenty  years,  beginning  with   1896. 

JAMES  CARSON,  proprietor  of  The  Coal  Credit  Bureau, 
29  Broadway,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Ireland  August 
26,  18S3,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years. 

CHARLES  S.  CHESTNUT,  proprietor  Crescent  Coal  Co., 
New  York  City,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
November  15,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years.  He  is  also  Treasurer  Freeman-Chestnut  Coal  Co. 
Mr.  Chestnut  was  formerly  connected  with  McCaulley  Bros., 
Philadelphia  retailers. 

J.  McINTYRE  CREIGHTON  of  New  York  City  was  born 
in  Perth.  New  York,  December  19,  1871,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Creighton  was  formerly 
connected  with  Black,  Field  &  Emmons  and  George  D. 
Harris  &  Co. 

RICHARD  THEODORE  DAVIES,  General  Coal  Agent  The 
Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in 
Buffalo,  New  York,  October  3,  1850,  and  has  been  connected 
with  the  coal  business  forty  years,  the  entire  time  with  the 
above  company. 

CHARLES  H.  DAYTON,  President  Phoenix  Coal  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  August  6,  1881, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr.  Dayton 
was  formerly  connected  with  Hatfield  &  Hilles,  Lehigh  Val- 
ley Coal  Sales  Co.,  the  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.,  and 
the   Skeele   Coal   Co. 

JOSEPH  B.  DICKSON  of  Dickson  &  Eddy,  New  York  City, 
was  born  in  1861  at  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Dickson  is  one  of 
the  prominent  factors  in  the  anthracite  industry  and  is 
highly  regarded.  His  firm  is  distributor  of  the  D.  &  E. 
Scranton  coal  and  the  D.  &  H.  Lackawanna  coal  and  they 
handle   a   very   large    tonnage. 

EMORY  KELLY  DOWNEY,  Manager  Coal  Department  B. 
Nicoll  &  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, July  8.  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen 
years.  Mr.  Downey  was  formerly  associated  with  the  Davis 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  with  which  company  he  started  as  office 
boy.  When  he  left  this  company  in  1912  he  was  Vice  Presi- 
dent. 

DAVID  B.  DUNCAN  of  David  Duncan  &  Son,  New  York 
City,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  October  18, 
1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifty-one  years.  Mr. 
Duncan  was  previously  connected  with  the  Scranton  &  Le- 
high Coal  Co.,  New  York  City,  Donaldson  &  Duncan,  Phila- 
delphia, Popham  &  Co.,  and  the  North  River  Coal  &  Wharf 
Co.,  Beech  Creek  Cannel  Coal  Co.,  Beaver  Run  Bituminous 
Coal  Co.  and  Clearfield  Bituminous  Coal  Co.,  New  York 
City.  This  business  was  established  in  1825  by  his  father, 
David  Duncan,  a  pioneer  in  the  introduction  of  anthracite 
and  bituminous  coal. 


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JESSE  I..  EDDY  of  Dickson  &  Eddy,  New  York  City,  was 
born  in  Whitehall.  New  York,  January  9,  1858,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  forty-two  years.  He  is  also 
Treasurer  of  the  Price-Pancoast  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Coal  Co. 

W.  H.  KI.LRRY,  President  Coaldale  Mining  Co..  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  England  December  6,  1870,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years.  He  is  also 
Interested   in  the  Pyramid  Coal  Mining  Co.  of  Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE:  J.  ELTZ.  Treasurer  Thedford-Eltz  Coal  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  In  New  York  January  17,  1866,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-seven  years.  Mr.  Eltz 
was  formerly  with  J.  Eltz  &  Son  and  served  as  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the   Retail  Coal  Exchange. 

ROBERT  STUART  FEENEY.  Vice  President  Seiler-Rogers- 
Brown  Coal  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania,  February  13,  1891,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seven  years.  Mr.  Feeney  was  previously  connected 
with   H.    H.   Lineaweaver   &   Co. 

CLARENCE  Fl'HRER.  Coal  Expert  Eastern  Audit  Co., 
Inc.,  203  Broadway,  formerly  Statistician  Pocahontas  Fuel 
Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, June  11,  1882.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  Black  Band 
Fuel  Co.  and  Kanawha  Centra]  Railway  Co.  Mr.  Fuhrer 
was   formerly  connected    with   the   Pocahontas   Collieries   Co. 

JOHN  WALTER  GALLOWAY,  President  Maryland  Coal 
Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  In  Baltimore,  Maryland,  July 
26,  1873,  and  has  been  interested  In  the  coal  business  twen- 
ty-five years.  He  is  also  President  Maryland  Coal  Co.  of 
West  Virginia  and  Simpson  Creek  Coal  Co.  Before  enter- 
ing Into  the  coal  business  Mr.  Galloway  was  connected  for 
a  number  of  years  with  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad  and 
was  later  with  the  Continental  Coal  Co.,  Weaver  Coal  Co., 
Pawnee  Coal  Co.,  W.  K.  Niver  Coal  Co.,  and  Brothers  Valley 
Coal    Cn. 

JOSEPH  GORDON.  President  Joseph  Gordon.  Inc.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  1855,  and  has 
been    engaged    In    the    coal    business    thirty    years. 

CLARENCE  C.  HARRIS,  Treasurer  Geo.  D.  Harris  &  Co., 
New  York  City,  was  born  in  Fort  Edward,  New  York,  No- 
vember 27.  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eighteen    years 

HANCKE  HEXCKEN,  President  Hencken  &  Wil'enbrock 
Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Germany  September  5, 
1841,  and  has  been  handling  coal  fifty-three  years.  Before 
establishing  his  present  company  he  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  John  Hahn  &  Co. 

CLARENCE  !W.  HETFIELD.  Eastern  Sales  Agent  W.  H. 
Bradford  &  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Plainfleld, 
New  Jersey,  June  4,  1889,  and  has  been  interested  in  the 
coal  trade  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Bulah  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  Gramplon 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  George  D.   Harris  &  Co. 

FRANK  W.  HIGHBERGER  of  F.  W.  Highberger  &  Co., 
New  York  City,  was  born  in  Westmoreland  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, August  23,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
five  yr.ars.  Mr.  Highberger  was  formerly  with  E.  W.  Mudge 
&   Co. 

WILLIAM  P.  HILL,  Treasurer  F.  R.  Long  &  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  Owego,  New  York,  November  14, 
1865. 

G.  MASON  JANNEY,  General  Manager  Pennsylvania  & 
West  Virginia  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New  Or- 
leans, Louisiana,  November  26,  1873.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-two  years.  Mr.  Janney  was  formerly 
with   the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad. 

BENJAMIN  F.  JAYNE  of  B.  F.  Jayne  &  Co.,  New  York 
City,  was  born  at  Setauke,  Long  Island,  New  York,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1835,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  forty-five 
years. 

FREDERICK  R.  LONG.  President  F.  R.  Long  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  In  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania,  March 
29,  1877,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Long  Is  also  President  of  the  Long  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Roscoe 
Coal  Mining  Co..  and   F.   R.  Long  &  Co. 

s.  <;.  l.i  \D,  with  Whitney  &  Kemmerer,  New  York  City, 
started  in  the  coal  business  with  Whitney  &  Kemmerer 
in   1915.  and   was  appointed  Western  Sales  Agent   in    1918. 

ARTHUR  JONEPH  MarBRIDE,  Assistant  Manager  of 
Sales,  Pocahontas  Fuel  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  April  3,  1880,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness   sixteen    years. 

!•:.  .1.  MarXAMARA,  Treasurer  Victoria  Coal  Mining  Co., 
New  Vork  City,  was  born  In  Santa  Fe  County,  New  Mexico. 
Mr.    MarNamara  Is  also   Interested   in   the  O'Mara  coal  mine. 

WILBUR  A.  MARSHALL,  President  W.  A.  Marshall  & 
Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Walpole,  Massachusetts, 
March  25.  1877,  and  started  In  the  coal  business  In  Boston 
in  1893.  He-  is  also  President  of  the  Lincoln  Coal  Co.,  Wolf 
Den  Coal  Co.,  and  Bethel  Realty  Co.,  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Lincoln  Realty  Co.  Mr.  Marshall  was  formerly  connected 
with  Whitney  &    Kemmerer  and   Rlghter  &   Marshall. 


STEPHEN  G.  MATHEWSON,  New  York  Manager  Spring 
Coal  Co..  New  York  City,  was  born  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  June  27, 
1893,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  seven 
years. 

EMMETT  McLOUGHLIN,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Weber- 
McLoughlin  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  In  New  York 
City  In  1880  and  has  been  handling  coal  thirteen  years. 

HENRY  METZ,  JR.,  with  the  Northern  Coal  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  January 
19,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Spring  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Quemahoning  Coal  Co. 

HENRY  H.  MEYER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Henry  Meyer 
Co.,  was  born  in  New  York  City  December  29,  1878,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal   business   twenty-four   years. 

CLARENCE  PITMAN  MORRELL,  General  Manager  Bitu- 
minous Department  Pattlson  &  Bowns,  New  York  City,  was 
born  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  in  1873.  Mr.  Morrell  is  also 
President  of  the  George  M.  Morrell  Co.,  a  coal  transporta- 
tion company.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Robinson, 
Haydon  &  Co.,  Pennsylvania  Gas  Coal  Co.,  and  Bucholz  & 
Morrell. 

JOHN  R.  MORRIS,  Sales  Agent  The  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navi- 
gation Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Utica.  New  York, 
and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 

WALTER  HERBERT  NELSON,  President  Z.  O.  Nelson  & 
Son,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Rochester,  New  York,  in 
1858,    and    has    been    identified    with    the    coal    business   since 

1878.  Mr.  Nelson  was  formerly  connected  with  Holden 
Bros.,  Syracuse,  New  York,  and  has  served  as  President  of 
the   Brooklyn   Coal   Exchange. 

RICHARD  K.  OWENS,  President  Owens  &  Co.,  New  York 
City,  was  born  in  New  York  City  February  25,  1855,  and 
has   been    in    the    coal    business   forty-seven    years. 

JOHN  WESLEY  PEALE,  Manager  Anthracite  Department 
Peale,  Peacock  &  Kerr,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Lock 
Haven,  Pennsylvania,  in  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness since  1887. 

CHARLES  F.  RANDOLPH,  Sales  Agent  Thome,  Neale  & 
Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jer- 
sey, June  7,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
five   years. 

ARTHUR  HARRISON  ROBITZEK,  Treasurer  G.  Robltzek 
&  Bro.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New  York  City  Decem- 
ber 13,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years, 
the  entire  time  with   this  company. 

FREDERICK  C.  RUSSELL,  wholesale  coal  merchant,  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1870,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Before  going 
into  business  for  himself,  nineteen  years  ago,  he  was  with 
Cox  &  Rockwell  and  Graeff,  Wilcox  &  Co. 

MERVIN  R.  SCHENCK,  Treasurer  Jeremiah  Skidmore's 
Sons,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Flatbush.  Long  Island. 
New  York.  August  22,  1859.  and  has  been  actively  interested 
in  the  coal  business  forty-four  years. 

R.  R.  SCHOTE,  Secretary  Coaldale  Mining  Co.,  New  York 
City,  was  born  in  New  York  City  October  31,  1886,  and  has 
been  with  the  company  fifteen  years. 

CLARENCE  MAURICE  SCHWERIN,  President  Vinton  Col- 
liery Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Newbern,  North 
Carolina,  August  26,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eight  years. 

J.  W.  SEARLES.  Deputy  Commissioner  Tidewater  Coal 
Exchange,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Oil  City,  Pennsyl- 
vania, January  19,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
seventeen  years.  Mr.  Searles  is  also  Vice  President  and  Man- 
ager of  the  North  River  Coal  &  Wharf  Co.  and  General  Sales 
Agent  of  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  &  Coke  Corp.  He  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  New   York  Coal  Trade  Golf  Association. 

OLIN  J.  STEPHENS,  well-known  coal  merchant  of  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  New  York  City  October  29,  1859,  and 
has  been  engaged  In  the  coal  business  forty  years.  Mr. 
Stephens  was  formerly  connected  with  James  Stephens  and 
James  Stephens  &  Son.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the 
Coal  Merchants  Association  of  New   York  City. 

NICHOLAS  L.  STOKES,  President  Thomas  Stokes  &  Sons, 
New  York  City,  is  a  native  of  New  York,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  His  firm  has 
been  doing  business  for  over  sixty-one  years. 

HARRY  W.  TIIEDFORD.  President  G.  W.  Thedford  Coal 
Co.,    New   York    City,    was    born    In    New    York   City   May    21, 

1879,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five 
years. 

THOMAS  TIIEDFORD,  General  Manager  Thedford-Eltz 
Coal  Co..  New  York  City,  was  born  In  New  York  City 
September  29,  1881,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twen- 
ty-one years  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Stokes  & 
Thedford  and   Robert  Thedford. 


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PERCY  M.  THORN,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
T.  R.  Thorn  &  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  New  York 
City  in  1888  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 
Mr.  Thorn  has  other  coal  interests  at  Scranton,  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Silver  Ash 
Premium  Coal  Co.  and  the  Manufacturers  Coal  Co.  as  Presi- 
dent and  served  for  a  time  as  President  of  the  New  York  & 
New   England   Manufacturers  Association. 

FREDERIC  STONE  WALDEN,  Eastern  Manager  C.  G. 
Blake  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Covington,  Kentucky, 
in  1883,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  business  four- 
teen years.  Mr.  Walden  was  with  the  home  office  of  this 
company  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  before  opening  this  export 
office. 

LOUIS  S.  WERER,  President  Weber-McLoughlin  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  New  York  August  20,  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  resides  at 
Englevocd,  New   Jersey. 

LE  BARON  SANDS  WILLARD,  senior  partner  Willard. 
Sutherland  &  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  July  4,  1883,  and  has  been  identified  with  the 
coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  is  also  a  Director  of  the 
Vinton  Colliery  Co.  and  the  Atlantic  &  Eastern  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Willard  has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Wholesale  Coal 
Trade  Association,  of  New  York  City. 

J.  A.  \\  II. 1. 1  Alt,  wholesaler.  New  York  City,  is  a  native 
of  Maryland,  born  in  1865.  Before  going  into  business  for 
himself    Mr.   Williar   was   with   W.   A.    Marshall   &   Co. 

PRANK  W.  WILSHIRE,  General  Sales  Manager  Consoli- 
dation Coal  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  August  15,  1873,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  He  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Met- 
ropolitan Coal  Co.  and  Coastwise  Transportation  Co.,  Bos- 
ton Massachusetts.  Mr.  Wilshire  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Montana  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Fairmont  Coal   Co.   and   Somerset   Coal   Co. 

DAVID  WILSON,  Secretary  Matthew  Wilson  &  Co.,  New 
York  City,  a  son  of  Matthew  Wilson,  was  born  in  New  York 
City  April  5,  1886,  and  entered  the  coal  business  in  1903. 

CHARLES  STANLEY  WOODWARD,  Manager  Coal  Depart- 
ment Debevoise-Anderson  Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in 
Indianapolis,  Indiana,  May  6,  1853,  and  has  been  identified 
with  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  as- 
sociated with  Matthew  Addy  &  Co..  Warren  Wood  &  Co., 
M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co.  and  Domhoff  &  Joyce. 

FREDERICK  7.ERBST,  with  Matthew  Wilson  &  Co.,  New 
York  City,  was  born  in  Germany  August  20,  1866,  and  was 
previously  connected  with  Meyer,  Denker  &  Hoerig  and  G. 
Zerbst. 

GIISTAV  A.  J1ERBST,  Vice  President  Matthew  Wilson  & 
Co.,  New  York  City,  was  born  in  Germany  August  24,  1864, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He 
was   formerly  a  partner   in   the  firm   of  Havens   &  Co. 


NEW    YORK 


FRANK  B.  ABBOTT  of  Brewster  &  Abbott,  Troy,  New 
York,  was  born  at  Brunswick,  New  York,  May  30,  1861,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Troy  Fuel  Co.,  Inc. 

JOHN  LEWIS  ABREW,  Islip,  New  York,  was  born  at  Port 
Jefferson,  Long  Island,  June  30,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  also  operates  a 
coal  yard  at  Bay  Shore. 

GEORGE  W.  ALLEN,  Stapleton,  New  York,  President  of 
the  company  bearing  his  name,  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  three  years. 

WILLIAM  L.  ALLEN,  Treasurer-Manager  C.  W.  Allen  Co., 
Malone,  New  York,  was  born  in  Malone  March  16,  1874,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1905. 

DAVID  A.  ANDERSON,  Secretary  Craver,  Cowee  &  Bax- 
ter, Inc.,  Troy,  New  York,  was  born  in  Troy  September  17, 
1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  David  Judson,  Judson  Coal 
Co.,  and  Dawson  &  Craver. 

FREDERICK  BAETZEL,  Rochester,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Rochester,  April  7,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Lewis 
Edelman  and  has  served  as  a  Director  in  the  Rochester 
Coal   Merchants'   Association. 

ROBERT  S.  BAGSHAW,  General  Manager  Curk  &  Bag- 
shaw,  Waterloo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Derbyshire,  Eng- 
land, August  1,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eight  years. 

EDWARD  L.  BALDWIN,  Johnson  City,  New  York,  was 
born  at  Le  Raysville.  Pennsylvania,  in  April,  1859,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 


JAMES  SCOTT  BALDWIN,  101  East  Market  street, 
Elmira,  New  York,  was  born  in  Elmira,  New  York,  Janu- 
ary 4,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty- 
nine  years.  Mr.  Baldwin  has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  New 
York  State  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association  and  is  well 
known  throughout  the  trade. 

G.  W.  BALL,  Massena,  New  York,  was  born  at  Canton, 
New  York,  May  24,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eleven  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  BALL  of  the  Semet-Solvay  Co.,  Syracuse, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  August  23,  1863, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  He 
is  also  interested  in  the  Solvay  Collieries  Co.,  and  was  pre- 
viously with  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co.,  J.  H.  &  W.  H.  Ball, 
Henry   E.  Smith  and  Lee  Smith  &  Moore. 

JOSEPH  W.  BALLARD,  proprietor  J.  W.  Ballard  Co.,  Blng- 
hamton,  New  York,  was  born  in  1865  at  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty 
years. 

ALBERT  L.  BARNES,  Owner  and  Manager  of  A.  L.  Barnes 
&  Co.,  Mechanicsville,  New  York,  was  born  at  Mechanics- 
ville  July  13,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years. 

JOHN  F.  BARTELS  of  Warner  &  Kimman,  Syracuse,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Aurora  January  13.  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business   eight  years. 

FLOYD  C.  BARTON  of  Barton  &  Hoysradt,  Ancram,  New 
York,  was  born  November  25,  1880,  at  Ancramhead  Mine, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years. 

ALVAH  M.  BAYLIS,  Manager  and  Vice  President  Hunting- 
ton Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Huntington,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Huntington  August  16,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   for  eleven   years. 

DANIEL  L.  BAYLIS,  Treasurer  Huntington  Lumber  & 
Coal  Co.,  Huntington,  New  York,  was  born  in  Huntington 
August  28,  1845,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
one  years. 

CLARENCE  A.  BEACH,  Patchogue,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Brooklyn.  New  York,  June  2,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Patchogue  Coal  &  Feed  Co.  and  Dayton  Hedges. 

FRANK  H.  REACH,  President  Frank  H.  Beach  Co.,  Bing- 
hamton,  New  York,  was  born  May  16,  1867,  in  Pennsylvania, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nearly  twenty-five 
years.  Mr.  Beach  has  served  as-  President  of  the  New  York 
State  Coal  Merchants  Association  and  is  an  unusually  enter- 
prising and  progressive  coal  merchant.  He  has  made  a 
special  study  of  the  costs  of  doing  business,  and  has  exerted 
a  most  helpful  influence  for  good  in  spreading  this  impor- 
tant information  to  other  retailers. 

STEPHEN  M.  BECKER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Atlanta, 
New  York,  was  born  August  28,  1855,  at  Collins,  New  York, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  one  year. 

LAURENCE  BECKERLE,  Manager  Spring  Valley  Coal 
&  Lumber  Co.,  Inc.,  Spring  Valley,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Pearl  River,  New  York,  June  3,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Hacken- 
sack   Coal  &   Lumber   Co. 

HERBERT  E.  BEECHER,  Manager  and  partner  in  the 
Beecher  Coal  Co.,  Granville,  New  York,  was  born  in  Gran- 
ville October  1,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven 
years. 

GEORGE  BENKERT,  Central  Park,  Long  Island,  New 
York,  has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
about  twenty-eight  years. 

E.  E.  BLACKMAN,  President  Blackman  &  Stanton,  Free- 
vllle,  New  York,  was  born  in  Oswego,  New  York,  in  1857, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  the  last  twelve 
years. 

PUFFER  X.  BLAKE,  Potsdam,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Ranshville,  New  York,  August  25,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  three  years. 

W.  H.  BLIGHT,  Elmira,  New  York,  Sale,s  Agent  for  the 
South  Side  Coal  Co.  and  the  Meadow  Hill  Coal  Co.  of  Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1855,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty-one  years. 
He  is  at  present  opening  a  bituminous  coal  mine  in  Jeffer- 
son  County,  Pennsylvania. 

R.  W.  BLOOMER.  Manager  for  Mrs.  J.  H.  Garrison,  re- 
tailer of  coal  at  Tully,  New  York,  was.  born  in  Cortland, 
New  York,  April  29,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  six  years. 

HENRY  BOHNE,  Whitestone,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Whitestone  February  22,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirteen  years. 

HARRY  HOLMES  BOURN.  Mt.  Upton,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Guilford,  New  York,  December  31,  1877,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 


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WIl.l.AHD  BOICK  of  Boyce  &  Roberson,  Saranac  Lake, 
New  York,  was  born  fifty-three  years  ago  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  for  about  nine  years,  associated 
with  Chas.   F.  Roberson. 

WILLIAM  BOYD,  Medina,  New  York,  was  born  in  Ireland 
March  10,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
six  years. 

in  \.mn>  O.  BREWSTER  of  Brewster  &  Abbott,  Troy, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Brunswick,  New  York,  March  20, 1853, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Troy  Fuel  Co.,  Inc. 

i  m.o.  BRINK  of  Brink  Bros.,  Lake  Katrine,  New  York, 
was  born  at  Lake  Katrine  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years. 

i:i>\\  in  H.  BHOCKWAY,  Fancher,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Hulburton,  New  York,  November  19,  1880,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

HOWARD  LYNN  BROOKS,  Solsville,  New  York,  was  born 
in  North  Norwich,  New  York,  April  6,  1877,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 

HARRY  H.  BROUGHAM.  Schenectady,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Schenectady  County,  New  York,  November  6,  1871, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 

WAYNE  R.  BROWN,  Scotia.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Schenectady,  New  York,  November  3,  1874,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  thirteen  years. 

GEORGE!  W.  BUFFHAM  of  Geo.  W.  Buffham  &  Son.  New- 
ark, New  York,  was  born  in  Madrid,  New  York,  June  1,  1854, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years,  asso- 
ciated with  his  son,  G.  Leslie  Buffham. 

ARTHUR  EDWARD  BUHRMASTER  of  Buhrmaster  Bros., 
Scotia,  New  York,  was  born  in  Charlton,  New  York,  April 
26,  1888.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four  years. 

JOHN  HENRY  BUHRMASTER,  successor  to  Buhrmaster 
Bros.,  Scotia.  New  Y'ork  was  born  in  Aurisville,  New  York, 
March  27,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four 
years. 

WM.  E.  BURDICK  of  Stafford  &  Burdick,  Homer.  New 
York,  was  born  in  Scott.  New  York,  October  12,  1863,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  sixteen  years. 

SCOTT  H.  BURLINGAME,  North  Brookfleld,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Stockwell,  New  York,  May  3,  1865.  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  thirty-three  years. 

CLARENCE  H.  Bl'RTCH  of  G.  H.  &  C.  H.  Burtch,  Alexan- 
dria Bay.  New  York,  was  born  in  Alexandria  Bay  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 

JAMES  EDWARD  BUSH,  Manager  George  Bush  Estate, 
Ballston  Spa,  New  York,  was  born  July  27,  1884,  in  Ballston 
Spa.    His  coal  business  has  been  established  for  forty  years. 

LOUIS  BUSH  of  Lonsville,  New  York,  was  born  in  Lewis 
County.  New  York,  September  26,  1868.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  six  years. 

FRANK  E.  BUTTERFIELD,  Hancock,  New  York,  was 
born  at  Jackson,  Pennsylvania,  May  18,  1864,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  several  years. 

HARRY"  J.  BUTTS,  Oneonta.  New  York,  was  born  in  Lau- 
rens, New  York.  May  6,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness seven   years. 

AUGUSTUS  VIRGIL  BYRAM  of  the  A.  V.  Byram  Coal  & 
Wood  Co.,  Niagara  Falls,  New  York,  was  born  October  27, 
1866.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

W.  J.  CATRON,  General  Manager  W.  J.  Capron  &  Co., 
Oneida,  New  York,  was  born  in  Marcy,  New  York,  in  May. 
1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years. 

MARTIN  J.  CARLSON,  Mayville,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Mayville  July  20.  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-seven  years. 

OSCAR  A.  CARPENTER,  Kennedy,  New  York,  was  born 
In  Ellington,  New  York,  February  25,  1849,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
D.  Wilcox  &  Co. 

BRUCE  Tl  THILL  CARTER.  East  Quoque,  New  York,  was 
born  in  East  Quoque  January  3,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  nine  years. 

S.  WILBUR  CASE,  Rochester,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Gloversville,  New  York,  June  23,  1875.  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  six  years. 

JOHN  E.  CASSIDY,  East  Branch,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Warwick,  New  York,  June  10,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twelve  years. 

R.  F.  CHAI'I'INS,  Dryden,  New  York,  was  born  at  Knox- 
ville,  Tennessee,  January  19.  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-six  years. 

GUY  W.  CHENEY,  Secretary-Treasurer  Corning  Bloss- 
burg  Coal  Corp.,  Corning,  New  York,  was  born  in  Fort  Cov- 
ington, New  York,  February  26,  1886,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  four  years.  Mr.  Cheney  is  also  engaged  In 
the  practice  of  law. 


AUGUST  CHRISTIE,  retail  coal  rnerchant  of  Brinckerhoff, 
New  York,  was  born  December  11,  1884,  in  New  York  City, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

GEORGE  LANDERS  CHURCH,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Afton,  New  York,  is  a  native  of  Afton  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 

HARLEY  J.  CHUHCHELL,  Syracuse,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Spaftord,  New  York,  June  17,  1858,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  W.  K.  Niver  &  Co. 

ELMER  J.  CHURCHILL,  proprietor  Binghamton  Coal  Co., 
Binghamton,  New  York,  was  born  December  5,  1861,  at 
Great  Bend,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  over  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Delaware.  Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Co.  for  twenty  years. 

EDWARD  H.  CLARK  of  the  E.  H.  Clark  Coal  Co.,  Roches- 
ter, New  York,  was  born'  in  Conesus,  New  York,  August  30, 
1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  Clark  &  Fladd.  Mr.  Clark  is 
also  interested  in  farming.  His  son,  Edward  Payson  Clark, 
is  associated   with  him  in  the  coal  business. 

FRED  G.  CLARK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Addison,  New 
York,  was  born  June  11,  1873,  at  Sugargrove,  Pennsylvania, 
and   has  been   in   the  coal  business  for  two   years. 

MILLARD  J.  CLARK,  Hamilton,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Earlville,  New  York,  June  14,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years.  Mr.  Clark  owns  one  of  the  best 
equipped  electric  power  plants  in  the  vicinity. 

MINNIE  ELEANOR  CLARK,  Westport,  New  York,  was 
born  at  Westport  October  11,  1851,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eleven  years,  associated  with  her  two  sons. 
C.    D.    and   A.   P.   Clark. 

RICHARD  DWIGHT  CLARK,  Second  Vice  President  of 
the  Clark  &  Kimble  Co.,  Ellenville,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Grahamsville,  New  York,  July  11,  1857,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  thirty-two  years. 

RICHARD  EUGENE  CLARK,  President  of  the  Clark  & 
Kimble  Co.,  Ellenville,  New  York,  was  born  in  South  Falls- 
burg,  New  York,  August  14,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    five    years. 

W.  G.  CLEMENTS,  Edmeston,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  six  years.      ,,. 

GEO.  II.  CLUNE,  Rochester,  New  York,  Treasurer  The 
Rochester  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  Jefferson  & 
Clearfield  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  was  born  In  Burlington.  Iowa, 
June  11,  1860.  and  has  been  mining  and  wholesaling  bitumi- 
nous  coal    thirty-one   years. 

FRANK  A.  COAKLEY,  Utica,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Utica  August  12,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
nine  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  various  coal  associa- 
tions of  the  state. 

HERBERT  L.  COBB,  Ithaca,  New  York,  was  born  in  Alle- 
gany County,  New  York,  May  2,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   for  four  years. 

ENOS  BYRON  COLE  of  the  Lakewood  Coal  &  Lumber  Co., 
Lakewood,  New  York,  was  born  in  Bear  Lake,  Pennsylvania, 
July  22,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years.  He  is  Secretary  of  the  Coal  Association  of  Chau- 
tauqua County. 

CY  S.  COLLINS  of  the  Cy  S.  Collins  Koal  Co.,  Gloversville, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Gloversville  in  1857,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Coal  Co.   of  Fulton  County. 

JOHN  M.  COLSON  of  Colson  &  Stapley,  Geneseo,  New  York, 
was  born  at  Thurston,  New  York,  in  1863,  and  has  been  In 
the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  Curtis,  Carpenter  &  Co.  and  Colson,  Carpenter  &  Co. 

AURIE  J.  CONINE  of  Goodfellow  &  Conine.  East  Syracuse, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Manlius,  New  York,  December  14, 
1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

MATHEW  J.  CONLIN  of  Conlin  &  Co.,  Tuckahoe,  New- 
York,  was  bom  in  Mount  Vernon,  New  York,  April  19,  1866, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 

EDWARD  .1.  COOK,  Oaks  Corners,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Waterloo,  New  Y'ork,  May  28,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
roal   business   thirty-one   years. 

W.  si'ENCER  CORBIN.  Gouverneur.  New  York,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  in  1870,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business   for   twenty-five  years. 

FRANKLIN  C.  CORNELL,  Ithaca,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Ithaca,  New  York,  November  24,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected   with   Stephens   &  Cornell. 

FILLER  F.  CORNWALL,  Sole  Owner  of  A.  C.  Cornwall  & 
Son  of  Alexandria  Bay.  New  YorK,  was  born  October  13,  1879, 
In  Alexandria  Bay,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  a 
number  of  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  firm 
of  Cornwall  Bros. 


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E.  II.  CORWIN  of  Corwin  &  Co.,  Newfane,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Newfane  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  Ave  years. 

EDWARD  G.  CRANKELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Alta- 
mont,  New  York,  was  born  October  23,  1871,  at  Albany,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years. 

ELMER  H.  CRAVER,  President  Craver,  Cowee  &  Baxter, 
Inc.,  Troy,  New  York,  was  born  in  North  Greenbush,  New 
York,  February  21,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Lawson  & 
Craver. 

EARL  N.  CROSS,  Randolph,  New  York,  was  born  in  Ran- 
dolph in  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years. 

JAMES  CUNNING,  Watervliet,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Troy,  New  York,  in  1840,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-one  years. 

ALAN  M.  CURTIS  of  the  Curtis  Coal  Co.,  East  Syracuse, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Baldwinsville,  New  York,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  Ave  years,  associated  with  Edward 
F.  Curtis,  his  partner.  Mr.  Curtis  was  formerly  with  the 
Crescent   Coal   Mining   Co. 

EDWARD  F.  CURTIS  of  the  Curtis  Coal  Co.,  East  Syra- 
cuse, New  York,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years, 
associated  with  A.  M.  Curtis,  his  partner.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Crescent  Coal  Mining  Co. 

FRED  D.  CURTIS,  Oriskany  Falls,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Solsville.  New  York,  November  5,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 

FRANK  J.  CUTTER,  Utica,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Watorville,  New  York,  April  3,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail   coal   business   for   five   years. 

FRED  DAVEY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Amsterdam,  New 
York,  was  born  May  8,  1868,  at  Cherry  Valley,  New  York,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He  has 
served  as  Secretary  of  the  New  York  State  Coal  Merchants 
Association. 

SABINE  B.  DAVID,  Lebanon,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Parish.  New  York,  in  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-two  years. 

on  \  I  i.i.i  :  C.  DAVIS,  Secretary-Treasurer  Clark-Davis  Coal 
Co.,  Utica,  New  York,  was  born  August  6,  1868,  in  Verona. 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 

JOHN  R.  DEAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Alden,  New  York, 
was  born  November  13,  1879,  in  St.  Clair,  Pennsylvania,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

JOHN  DEANS  of  The  Greenlawn  Store,  Greenlawn,  New 
York,  was  born  in  New  York  City  February  4,  1872,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

JOHN  DE  CAMP,  West  Haverstraw,  New  York,  was  born 
at  Stony  Point,  New  York,  August  9,  1864,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business  for  thirty  years. 

CHARLES  P.  DeLONG  of  Charles  P.  DeLong  &  Sons,  Syra- 
cuse, New  York,  was  born  in  Canaseraga,  New  York,  March 
1.  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two 
years. 

WILLIAM  E.  DESPARD,  Honeoye  Falls,  New  York,  was 
born  in  LeRoy,  New  York,  August  9,  1881,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

HOWARD  G.  DEWEY,  Gloversville,  New  York,  late  Presi- 
dent Coal  Co.  of  Fulton  County,  was  born  in  Great  Barring- 
ton,  Massachusetts,  October  7,  1857,  and  had  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-three  years  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  Jan- 
uary 6,  1919.  He  was  also  connected  with  the  Nay  Aug 
Coal  Co..  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  the  Rocket  Brook  Coal  Co., 
Carbondale,  Pennsylvania,  and  the  New  York  &  New  England 
Coal  Co.,  and  had  served  as  President  of  the  New  York  Coal 
Dealers'  Association. 

A.  S.  DILLINGHAM,  Treasurer  Dean  Dillingham  Co.  of 
Auburn,  New  York,  was  born  December  25,  1874,  at  Elba, 
New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years.     B.   A.   Dean   is   President  of  the  company. 

JOHN  FREDERICK  DINKEL,  President  Dinkel  &  Jewell 
Co.,  Tarrytown,  New  York,  was  born  at  Irvington,  New 
York,  in  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine- 
teen years. 

JOHN  F.  iKii.  \  \.  Oriskany  Falls,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Oriskany  Falls  June  17,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  nine  years. 

THOS.  DONOVAN,  Middletown,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Bullville,  New  York,  in  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-six  years. 

JOHN  DOUGHERTY  of  the  Dougherty  Coal  Co.,  Oswego. 
New  York,  was  born  at  Otsego,  New  York,  October  26,  1859, 
and  has  been  in  coal  business  for  thirty-three  years. 

AUGUSTUS  DOUGHTY,  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  was 
born  in  New  York  in  1841  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-seven  years. 


FRED  NORTON  DOUNCE,  Elmira,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Elmira  January  1.  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Wm.  J.  Dounce 
&  Co. 

LEE  A.  DUBOIS  of  Kennedy  &  DuBois,  Johnson  City, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Vestal.  New  York,  November  30, 
1875,   and   has   been    In   the   coal   business   six   years. 

JOHN  P.  DUGAN,  Treasurer  John  P.  Dugan  &  Co.  of  Ams- 
terdam, New  York,  was  born  April  22,  1885,  at  Fonda,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 

HENRY  W.  DUGUID,  Syracuse,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Syracuse  October  4,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years. 

ARTHUR  T.  DUNN,  Owner  and  Manager  of  The  A.  T. 
Dunn  Co.  of  Cortland,  New  York,  was  born  in  Cortland  Octo- 
ber 13,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  Jennings  &  Dunn,  and  has 
held  positions  of  honor  in  the  state  coal  associations. 

JOHN  E.  EDDY,  Castile,  New  York,  was  born  at  Castile 
February  23,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nine  years. 

JOHN  W.  EDDY  of  Dickson  &  Eddy,  Utica,  New  York,  was 
born  at  Whitehall,  New  York,  in  1852,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

ARNER  G.  EEDE,  Manager  for  Mrs.  Emma  Eede,  Balls- 
ton  Spa,  New  York,  was  born  August  14,  1889,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal   business  for  five  years. 

JAMES  ELTON,  Manager  Riverhead  Coal  Co.,  Rlverhead. 
New  York,  was  born  in  Riverhead  in  1855,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

A.  K.  ENDERLIN,  Roxbury,  New  York,  was  born  in  Rox- 
bury  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-one 
years. 

COL.  WILLIAM  F.  ENDRESS,  Jamestown,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Dansville,  New  Y'ork,  August  2,  1855.  He  is  a  civil 
engineer,  a  graduate  of  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute, Troy,  New  York,  served  in  the  Spanish  War  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years.  Colonel 
Endress  was  for  five  years  President  of  the  New  York  & 
Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Association  and  of  the  Interna- 
tional  Council   of   Coal   Merchants   for   two   years. 

FRED  W.  EVANS,  President-Treasurer  F.  W.  Evans  Coal 
Co.,  Inc.,  Rochester,  New  York,  was  born  in  Vienna,  New 
York,  April  27,  1877.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  C.  C. 
West   Coal   Co. 

HERBERT  DAVID  FAIRCHILD,  Lowville,  New  York,  was 
born  in  West  Turin,  New  York,  January  14,  1869,  and  has 
been   in   the  coal  business  five  years. 

JOHN  H.  FAUCETT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bath,  New 
York,  was  born  July  31,  1874,  in  Bath,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  three  years,  succeeding  his  father,  James 
Faucett,  who  established  the  business  in  1871,  and  conducted 
it  until  his  death  in  January,  1915. 

W.  L.  FENNER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Almond,  New 
York,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  ten  years. 

G.  W.  G.  FERRIS.  President-Treasurer  The  Empire  Mfg. 
Co.,  Franklinville,  New  York,  was  born  in  Farmersville. 
New  York,  September  29,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   seventeen   years. 

WALLACE  FINCH,  Secretary-Treasurer  W.  W.  Finch  & 
Co.,  Broadalbin,  New  York,  was  born  December  4,  1874,  In 
Broadalbin,  and   has  been   in  the  coal   business  seven   years. 

FRANK  FISH,  Ticonderoga.  New  York,  was  born  at  Dres- 
den, New  York,  August  31,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years, 

GLENN  H.  FOOTE,  Ransomville,  New  York,  was  born  in 
County  Dine,  New  York,  February  19,  1878,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

HARRY  C.  FORCE,  Manager  J.  H.  Feroe  &  Sons,  Tivoli. 
New  York,  was  born  at  Tivoli,  New  York,  October  18,  1S72. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 

ALFRED  B.  FORD  of  A.  B.  Ford  &  Co.,  Chatham,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Canaan,  New  York,  in  1855,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years,  associated 
with  Caleb   F.   Dunham. 

EDWARD  TYRON  FRASER,  Y'oungstown,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Lewiston,  New  York,  December  12,  1876,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  four  years. 

LOUIS  F.  FRASER,  Secretary-Treasurer  Ferrin  &  Fraser 
Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  Lockport.  New  York,  was  born  at  Lockport 
June  30,  186S,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one 
years. 

CADMAN  H.  FREDERICH,  President  Freeport  Ice  &  Fuel 
Co.,  Freeport,  New  York,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  five   years,   associated  with  Roland   M.  Lamb. 

ERNEST  A.  FRIER  of  Frier  &  Niles,  Schenectady,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Hoosick  Falls,  New  York,  in  1876,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 


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i  n  UUJM  l..  FlliisT  of  C.  L.  Frost  &  Son,  Cherry  Creek, 
N.'\v  York,  is  engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business  in  Cherry 
Creek,   associated   with   George  S.    Frost. 

i  I.  IKK  \.  FHltsT  of  Clark  A.  Frost  &  Son,  Oneida,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Oneida  In  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   nineteen    years. 

GKURGR  SHELDON  FROST.  Manager  of  the  firm  of  C.  L. 
Frost  &  Son.  Cherry  Creek,  New  York,  was  born  in  Cherry 
Creek  April  4,  1896,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eight   .wars. 

in>M\  FRrMKIN,  Schenectady,  New  York,  Manager  of 
the  firm  of  M.  Frumkin,  was  born  in  North  Adams,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  12,  1894,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   ten   years. 

iMV  FKIMKIN,  Schenectady,  New  York,  was  born  in  Rus- 
sia In  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years, 
associated  with   his  son,  Hyman  Frumkin. 

HENRY  FILLER,  Glasco,  New  York,  was  born  in  Glasco 
February  28,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  seventeen  years. 

HARRV  C.  FIXSTON,  Manager  of  Funston  Bros.,  Schuy- 
lervllle,  New  York,  was  born  in  Schuylerville  July  5,  1883, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years,  associated 
with    his    father,    Robert   Funston. 

ROBERT  FUNSTON,  President-Treasurer  Funston  Bros., 
Schuylerville,  New  York,  was  born  in  Schuylerville  April  3, 
1852,   and  has   been    In   the   coal    business   fifteen   years. 

WILLIAM  T.  GAGEN.  Southold,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Southold  July  8,  1878.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness six   years. 

WILLIAM  D.  GARRISON,  well  known  retail  coal  mer- 
chant of  Bath,  New  York,  was  born  September  30,  1872,  in 
Rath  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years. 

FRANCIS  B.  GARVEY,  President  Long  Island  Seed  Co., 
New  Hyde  Park,  New  York,  was  born  in  Patchogue,  New 
York,  October  20,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven  years. 

\V.  H.  GEIB,  East  Aurora,  New  York,  was  born  in  Horton- 
ville,  New  York,  April  13,  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-five  years. 

BMIL  J.  GEORG,  Utlca,  New  York,  was  born  at  Utica  No- 
viinber  9,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
two  years.     He  was  formerly   with   Joseph  Georg's   Sons. 

JOHN  A.  GIBLIN,  Ilion,  New  York,  was  born  in  Frankfort, 
New  York,  July  6,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  forty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Roche 
&  Giblin  and  has  numerous  banking  interests  in  Utica  and 
I li<>n.   New   York. 

HENRY  GOODFELLOW  of  Goodfellow  &  Conine,  East 
Syracuse,  New  York,  was  born  in  DeWitt  December  20,  1849, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-nine  years,  the 
firm  previously  being  known  as  Goodfellow  Bros. 

K,  s.  <;oss,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Auburn,  New  York, 
was  born  October  22,  1854,  in  Auburn,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    for   thirty-five   years. 

THOMAS  B.  GRACE,  Jiimcsville,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Cuyler,  New  York.  May  1,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  thirty-two  years.  His  son,  Clovis  J.  Grace. 
born  in  Jamesville,  September  28,  1896,  is  now  associated 
with    him   in   business. 

GBO.  H.  (iHEENMAN,  Utica,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Bridgewater,  New  York.  May  4,  1865.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    for   four   years. 

»l  \  \  GRIMM,  Troy,  New  York,  was  born  in  Troy,  New 
York.  September  30,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-one  years. 

<  ll\ltll>  I'.  I. HI  MAN  of  flruman  Bros.,  Syracuse,  New 
fork,  was  born  in  Clinton.  New  York,  June  9.  1868.  and  has 
ii  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Gruman  has 
...1  ae  President  of  the  Syracuse  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  As- 
sociation. 

FRED  M.  II  \  as.  Machlas,  New  York,  was  born  in  Collins 
Center,  New  York.  March  25,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirteen  years. 

WILLIAM  I.  HALLEMIECK  of  the  Haines  Falls  Coal  & 
Lumber  Co.,  Haines  Falls.  New  York,  was  born  in  Athens. 
New  York  February  14.  1857,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business    thirteen    years. 

II  in  s  II.  II A  I. LOCK  of  Geo.  W.  Hallock  &  Son.  Orient. 
New  York,  was  born  in  Jamesport,  New  York.  April  16,  1863, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-eight  years, 
succeeding  his  father,  George  W.  Hallock. 

c. com. i;  HAMILTON  IIALSEY,  ( )rlsknny,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Wliitestown,  New  York,  July  18.1875,  and  has  been  In 
the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years,  succeeding 
Theo.   H.  Halsey. 

i   nu  Mill     p.     HANGEN,     Tnasur.r-Manager     Dlnkel     & 

k Jewell  Co.,  Tarrytown.  New  York,  was  born  In  Tarrytown 
September  20,  1886,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  six 
years. 


WILLIAM  C.  HARRIS  of  Dickson  &  Eddy,  Utica,  New 
York,  was  born  at  Rome,  New  York,  May  15,  1856,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty-three  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &'  Western  Coal 
Co. 

STANLEY  S.  HARRISON,  Milford.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Mt.  Vision,  New  York,  December  8,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  about  twelve  years. 

ELWIN  E.  HART,  Manager-Treasurer  Hart  Coal  Corp., 
Fulton,  New  York,  was  born  in  Fulton,  New  York,  In 
April,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
one  years.     He  was  formerly  with  Hart  &  Webb. 

JAMES  A.  HART,  JR.,  Vice  President  and  Treasurer  of 
The  Croton  Docks  Co.,  Croton-on-Hudson,  New  York,  was 
born  at  Ossining,  New  York,  in  1879,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   for   thirteen   years. 

CHARLES  HERSHBERGER  of  the  Winfield  Coal  Co.,  Win- 
field,  Long  Island,  New  York,  was  born  in  Altoona,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine- 
teen years. 

ADAM  HERSPERGER  of  the  Chautauqua  Lake  Mills, 
Mayville,  New  York,  was  born  at  Bellevue.  Pennsylvania, 
December  29,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirteen  years.  He  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Mayville 
in  March,   191  7. 

LEWIS  H.  HEWITT,  Cortland,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Locke,  New  York,  in  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness about  twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Hewitt  has  other  coal 
interests  in  Tully,  New  York. 

CLIFFORD  W.  HIGLEY  of  Higley  &  Barber,  Hudson 
Falls,  New  York,  was  born  in  Bennington,  Vermont,  October 
9.  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty- 
two  years. 

CLIFTON    SEYMOUR    HILL,    Rochester,    New    York,    was 

born  in  Rome,  New  York,  October  19,  1849,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 

J.  HENRY  HOLDEN,  Ossining,  New  York,  was  born  in 
New  York  City  April  1,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Nutler 
&  Holden. 

GEO.  S.  HOLMAN,  Fairport.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Hilton,  New  York,  July  12,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Chas. 
Efner   &   Co. 

GEO.  W.  HOLMES.  Manager  The  Holmes  Milling  Co.. 
Downsville,  New  York,  was  born  in  Downsville  February  22, 
1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years. 

NELSON  HOPPER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Amityville, 
Long  Island,  New  York,  was  born  July  8.  1887,  in  Amityville 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five   years. 

HENRY  G.  HORSTMAN  of  Horstman  &  Meyers,  Schenec- 
tady, New  York,  was  born  in  Brownsville,  Minnesota,  March 
19,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Schenectady  and  New  York  Coal 
Dealers'  Associations, 

EDJIIM)  W.  HOVEY,  South  New  Berlin,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Guilford,  New  York,  June  2,  1879,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 

JOHN  C.  HOWARD,  President  The  Hall  Coal  Co., 
Ogdensburg,  New  York,  was  born  in  Heuvelton.  New  York, 
September  16,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-seven  years.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the  Geo.  Hall 
Coal  Co.  of  Canada,  Ltd.,  Montreal.  George  Hall  is  Presi- 
dent   of   the    company. 

JOHN  HENRY  HOWARD,  retail  coal  merchant,  Albion, 
New  York,  was  born  August  23,  1868,  In  Albion,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years.  His  father,  William 
A.  Howard,  started  the  business  in  1870,  and  built  the  pres- 
ent yard  and  shed  In   1873. 

BENJAMIN  F.  how  ell,  Riverhead.  New  York,  was  born 
In  New  York  City  September  5,  1837,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  over  half  a  century  and  is  well  known 
throughout  the  community  and  trade. 

JOHN  D.  HOWELL,  East  Moriches,  New  York,  was  born 
in  East  Moriches,  New  York,  October  19,  1874,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

RAY  F.  ROWLAND,  Oneonta,  New  Y'ork.  was  born  in 
East  Worcester,  New  York,  November  1,  1887,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  buslntss  for  five  years  as  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Piatt  &  Howland. 

WILLIAM  M.  HI  HI. Ill  T.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Arkport, 
New  York,  was  born  December  18.  1854,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  thirty-three  years.  The  first  car  of  coal 
he  bought  in  1885  was  9,000  pounds  or  i%  tons.  He  recently 
unloaded   three   cars   at   over    100,000   pounds  each. 

DAN  II.  HI  SON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Adams,  New  York, 
was  born  April  1.  1874,  in  Adams  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  two  years.  Mr.  Huson  has  four  modern  silo 
coal  pockets. 


27  <) 


COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


SAJHEI,  HUTCHINSON,  Pittsford,  New  York,  was  born  in 
England  February  12,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   for  twenty-three   years. 

ISAAC  U.  HYATT  of  Hyatt  &  Wood,  Jamaica,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Newtown,  New  York,  January  23,  1856,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

CLARENCE  A.  i  \  < ;  \  is  in  .,  Oakfleld,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Oakfleld  March  17,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  four  years. 

RALPH  N.  IRISH,  Local  Manager  of  the  Connell  Anthra- 
cite Coal  Co.,  Syracuse,  New  York,  was  born  at  Buffalo,  New 
York,  January  25,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nine  years. 

HENRY  L.  JESSERER,  Rochester,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Rochester  December  23,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   sixteen   years. 

JOHN  E.  JONES  of  John  E.  Jones  &  Son,  Holland  Patent, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Floyd,  New  York,  November  24,  1842, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years, 
associated  with  his  son  who  was  born  in  Floyd,  New  York, 
in  1872. 

SHELDEN  F.  JONES,  Little  Falls,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Little  Falls  August  25,  1849,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-two  years. 

WARD  A.  JONES,  Canajoharie,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Canajoharie  December  23,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   five   years,   succeeding   his   father,    F.   Jones. 

ARTHUR  V.  KEITH  of  W.  V.  Keith  &  Son,  Clinton,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Clinton  December  21,  1885,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  some  time,  asso- 
ciated with  Wayne  V.   Keith, 

WAYNE  V.  KEITH,  Sales  Agent  for  W.  V.  Keith  &  Son, 
Clinton,  New  York,  was  born  in  Madison  County,  New  York, 
January  15,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years,  succeeding  C.  H.  Smyth. 

ROBERT  B.  KELLEY  of  R.  B.  Kelley  &  Son,  Poughkeep- 
sie,  New  York,  was  born  in  Marlborough,  New  York,  Sep- 
tember 9,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thir- 
teen  years. 

DARWIN  D.  KENT,  Manager  of  Kent  &  Smith,  Watkins, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Watkins  May  18,  18S3,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

ALFRED  R.  KETCHUM  of  Ketchum  &  Maloy.  Clyde,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Clyde  November  11,  1881,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal  business   eight   years. 

OTIS  W.  KINLEY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Breesport,  New 
York,  was  born  August  3,  1889,  in  Breesport,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

WILLIAM  H..  KINNE  of  Kinne  Bros.,  Ovid,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Ovid  in  1847,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-six   years. 

FRANK  KINNIE,  Liberty,  New  York,  was  born  in  Maple- 
wood,  New  York,  September  3,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  two  years. 

JOHN  R.  KIRBY,  partner  in  the  firm  of  Kirby  &  Root, 
Cooperstown,  New  York,  was  born  in  Bainbridge,  New  York, 
in  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

ELMER  KNAPP  of  Thompson  &  Knapp,  Pierrepont  Manor. 
New  York,  was  born  in  New  York  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for    three    years. 

FRED  KREISEL  of  Kreisel  Bros.,  Amsterdam,  New  York, 
was  born  October  9,  1867,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  over  twenty  years. 

KEORGE  KREISEL  of  Kreisel  Bros.,  Amsterdam,  New 
York,  was  born  August  18,  1866,  in  Germany,  and  has  been 
in   the  coal  business  for  twenty   years. 

JOHN  KREISEL,  senior  partner  of  Kreisel  Bros..  Amster- 
dam, New  York,  was  born  July  16,  1865,  in  Germany,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

HENRY  A.  KREISS  of  Henry  Kreiss  &  Son,  Troy,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Troy,  New  York,  April  18,  1866,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-seven  years,  succeeding 
his   father,   who   established  the  business  in   1867. 

JAMES  J.  LAFFERTY,  President  Clark-Davis  Coal  Co., 
rtica,  New  York,  was  born  at  Utica  November  23,  1877,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Coakley  &  Co.,  Utica,  New  York. 

ORRIN  C.  LAKE,  Manager  Ewart  &  Lake,  Groveland,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Mt.  Morris,  New  York,  February  15,  1864, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He 
also  has  coal  interests  at  Tuscarora,  Greigsville.  Wyoming 
and  Pavilion. 

ROLAND  M.  LAMB,  Treasurer  Freeport  Ice  &  Fuel  Co., 
Freeport,  New  York,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five 
years,   associated   with   Cadman   H.   Frederich. 

LOLLS  C.  LANGIE,  President-Treasurer  L.  C.  Langie  Coal 
Co.,  Rochester,  New  York,  was  born  in  Rochester  October 
25,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-six  years. 
He  was  formerly   with   H.   H.   Babcock. 


JAMES  A.  LATOUR,  Saranac  Lake,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Harriettstown,  New  York,  November  6,  1872,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

GORDON  LAW,  Middleville,  New  York,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania.  January  20,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

CHARLES  P.  LAWSON,  proprietor  C.  P.  Lawson  &  Sons, 
Brocton,  New  York,  was  born  March  17,  1857,  in  Brocton, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years. 

LAVERN  W.  LAZELL,  Stockton,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Stockton  April  24,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eleven   years.    Mr  Lazell   is  also   in   the   banking  business. 

JAMES  E.  LELAND,  President-Treasurer  Leland  Coal  Co., 
Hamilton,  New  York,  was  born  at  Morrisville,  New  York, 
October  3,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirteen  years. 

EMRECK  C.  LEWIS,  Saugerties,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Woodstock,  New  York,  July  11,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Finger  &  Lewis  for 
many  years. 

HARVEY  K.  LINES,  Flushing,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  April  19,  1873,  and  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  for  fourteen  years,  succeeding 
D.  S.  Jones  in  May,  1910. 

CHARLES  M.  LINK,  East  Greenbush,  New  York,  was  born 
in  East  Greenbush  May  8,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eight  years. 

ARTHUR  M.  LOOMIS,  Fairport,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Coventry,  Connecticut,  October  8,  1851,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail   coal   business  thirty  years 

JOHN  D.  LOWN,  Rhinebeck,  New  York,  was  born  in  Rhine- 
beck   in   1865   and   has   been   in   the   coal   business   for   fifteen 

years. 

JOHN  F.  MAHLSTEDT,  Vice  President  The  J.  A.  Mahl- 
stedt  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  was 
born  in  New  Rochelle  February  4,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twelve  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the 
Gramatan  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Bronxville,  New  York.  He 
enlisted  in  the  United  States  Navy,  and  is  now  Chief  Petty 
Officer. 

C.  W.  MAIER,  Secretary-Treasurer  Fred  Maier  &  Sons,  Inc., 
Seneca  Falls,  New  York,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  there 
for  thirty-four  years,  associated  with  Fred  Maier,  Sr.,  de- 
ceased, the  founder  of  the  business,  and  his  successor, 
Fred  Maier   &   Sons. 

FRED  MAIER,  President  Fred  Maier  &  Sons,  Inc.,  Seneca 
Falls,  New  York,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  there  for 
fifty-one  years  with  the  founder  of  the  business,  Fred 
Maier,  Sr.,  deceased,  and   his   successor,   Fred  Maier  &  Sons. 

DANIEL  P.  MALOY  of  Ketchum  &  Maloy,  Clyde,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Barrie,  New  York,  November  12,  1876,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years,  associated  with 
Alfred  R.   Ketchum. 

HIRAM  T.  MANNING  of  The  Manning  Co.,  Unionville, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Gardnerville,  New  York,  February 
14,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  branch  at  Sussex,  New  York,  and 
in  the  Manning  &  Clark  Co.  of  Unionville.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  Simpson  &  Manning. 

JUDSON  A.  MANNING,  Manager  C.  A.  Petrie  &  Co.,  Elmira, 
New  York,  was  born  November  17,  1864,  in  Horseheads,  New 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 

JAMES  MANNIX,  Saranac  Lake,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Peru,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  letail  coal  business  for 
ten  years. 

CHARLES  GLEN  MARTIN,  Perry,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Perry  June  12,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-three   years. 

THOMAS  H.  MARVIN,  Fulton,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Warners,  New  York,  August  26,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Webb  &  Marvin. 

ALBERT  E.  MAY  of  H.  H.  Babcock  &  Co.,  Rochester,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  October  5,  1860,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years.  He  has 
represented  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Co. 
as  local  agent. 

EDWARD  S.  MCCARTHY,  Victor,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Victor  June  4,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four- 
teen years.    He  was  formerly  with  Loomis  &  Woodworth. 

HUGH  C.  McDOUGALL,  Pattersonville,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Pattersonville  April  22.  1876,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail    coal   business   eleven   years. 

GEORGE  WALTER  McEATHRON,  Sales  Agent  of  the 
Syracuse  and  Oswego  agencies  of  the  Delaware,  Lacka- 
wanna &  Western  Coal  Co.,  Syracuse,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Brockville,  Ontario,  Canada,  November  13,  1858,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  Holden   &   Sons. 


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CHAHIiKS  A.NUKKW  MrUHKK,  Cambridge,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Fort  Ann,  New  York,  February  23,  1859,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years. 

KDWARD  T.  MeGILL,  Kingston.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Kingston  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven   years. 

\\  11.1,1AM  GEORGE  McINTOSH,  junior  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Temple  &  Mcintosh,  246  Dodge  Avenue.  Corning.  New 
York,  was  born  at  Dunbarton,  Canada.  August  30,  1867,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  A.  D.  Coye  of  Corning. 

JOHN  II.  McMURKICH,  Oswego,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Canada  in  1851  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty- 
tlve  yt  ars. 

SBO.  P.  MEAD  of  Mead  &  Mead,  Oxford,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Oxford  September  5,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  twenty-four  years.  He  was  formerly 
with   F.  G.  Clarke  &  Co.  and  Clarke  &  Mead. 

s.  II.  MEAD  of  Mead  &  Mi  ad.  Oxford.  New  York,  was  born 
in  Oxford  June  20,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years. 

in  iiiimii)  E.  MKTCAIF,  Corning,  New  York,  was  born 
in  New  York,  December  13,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   nine   years. 

('HAS.  J.  Mil. I. Kit.  Newfane,  New  York,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  about  thirteen  years,  connected  with  the 
Newfane  Coal  &  Cooperage  Co.,  Walke  &  Co.  and  Corwin 
&  Co. 

HENRY  F.  MILLER  of  H.  F.  Miller"  &  Co.,  Utica,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Oneida  County,  New  York,  in  1845,  and 
has   been   In   the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years. 

■TOWARD  JITDSON  MILLSPAUGH,  Utica,  New  York,  Presi- 
dent The  Millspaugh  &  Green  Co.,  was  born  in  New  York 
City  June  20.  1861.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Mohawk 
Valley  Coal  Co.  of  Utica.  New  York,  and  the  Genesee 
Valley  Coal  Co..   Inc.,  of  Rochester.  New   York. 

II A  HTM  AN  PERCY  MONTANYE,  who  conducts  the  busi- 
ness under  the  firm  name  of  G.  N.  Montanye  &  Son,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  New  York,  was  born  in  Sloansville,  New- 
York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  Durkee  &  Montanye  and  his  father,  G. 
X    Montanye. 

w  .  BOYD  MOORS  of  \V.  B.  Moore  &  Co.,  Spencerport,  New 
York,  was  born  December  1,  1887,  and  is  continuing  the 
r.tail  coal  business  in  which  he  was  associated  with  his 
father,   W.   B.   Moore,   for  about  twelve   years. 

RAYMOND  G.  MOREY,  Manager  S.  C.  Gooding  Co.,  Groton. 
(few  York,  was  born  at  Ellsworth,  Connecticut,  June  3,  1884, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

ANDREW  D.  MORGAN,  Ilion,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Illon  December  6.  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  A.  A. 
Morgan. 

JOHN  H.  Ml  IIRAY,  Waverly,  New  York,  was  born  in 
South  Waverly,  Pennsylvania,  September  5.  1867,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He  is  also  in- 
terested in  the  wholesale  coal  business,  handling  Shawmut 
bituminous  coal. 

GEORGE  W.  1MI7RTAVGH,  Ilion,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Lock  port.  New  York,  January  29,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  Wm.  Murtaugh,   Frankfort,  New  York. 

II.  F.  ML'RTAUGH.  Frankfort,  New  York,  son  of  William 
Murtaugh,  was  born  in  Lockport,  New  York,  September  27. 
1888,  and  has  been  associated  with  his  father  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  the   past  eight  years. 

WILLIAM  ML'RTAUGH.  Frankfort.  New  York,  was  born 
in  Frankfort  November  11,  1846,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    twenty-six    years. 

ELMER  J.  NASH,  Depew,  New  York,  was  born  In  South 
Bristol,  Ontario.  New  York,  in  1864,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

ARRAM  NEI.LIS.  Fort  Plain.  New  York,  was  born  at  Nel- 
llston,  New  York.  July  23,  I860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-six  years. 

THOMAS  m:\I\s,  Sehuylerville.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Selmvl,  tville  in  1860.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-one  years. 

HARVEY  H.  NOBLE,  Gouverneur,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Verona.  New  York.  August  14,  1847,  and  has  been  in  the  re- 
tall  coal  business  for  thirty-three  years. 

EDW,  ll.  M'lTIMi.  Watervliet,  New  York,  was  born  In 
Watetvllet  June  If,,  1S72.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
four  years.  He  was  formerly  with  T.  Richardson  and  Chas. 
,\.  Richardson. 

WILLIAM  I.  ODELL,  proprietor  of  William  I.  Odell  &  Co., 
Ardsley.  New  York,  was  born  December  14,  1861,  in  New 
York  City,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty 
years. 


JOHN  P.  O'HARA,  Moravia.  New  York,  was  born  at  Scipio, 
New  York,  February  3,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-three  years. 

THOMAS  J.  O'HARA,  Kingston,  New  York,  was  born  In 
Kingston  December  22,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  seventeen   years. 

I.  A.  OLMSTEAD,  Elmlra.  New  Y'ork,  was  born  in  Schuyler 
County.  New  York,  in  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  sixteen  years. 

JAMES  O'NEIL.  Troy.  New  York,  was  born  in  Troy  in 
1844,-  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  Jialf  a 
century. 

MELVIN  OSBORN  of  Osborn  &  Son,  Monticello,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Centerville,  New  York,  February  9,  1856,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years. 

RICHARD  B.  OVEHBAL'GH  of  the  Saugerties  Coal  &  Lum- 
ber Co.,  Saugerties,  New  York,  was  born  in  Saugerties  in 
1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal   business  twenty-six  years. 

STANLEY  S.  PALMER,  Seneca  Falls.  New  York,  was  born 
in  Seneca  Falls  November  10,  1851,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-three  years.  He  was  with  C.  S.  Hood  two 
years. 

GEORGE  H.  PARKER,  Bath,  New  York,  formerly  Agent 
for  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
June  22,  1854,  in  Ithaca,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-four  years. 

GEORGE  B.  PATERSON,  Burdett,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Hector,  Schuyler  County,  New  Y'ork,  August  18,  1853,  and 
has  been    in   the  coal   business   for   thirty-one  years. 

A.  EUGENE  PAYNE  of  Payne  &  Rogers,  Sodus,  New  York 
was  born  in  Cook  County,  Illinois,  December  4,  1856,  and 
has  been  in  the  coai  business  twenty-five  years.  He  was 
formerly  with   Tinklepaugh   Sc   Payne. 

EUGENE  W.  PECK,  Gloversville,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Johnstown.  New  York,  March  6,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Peck  was  formerly  with 
the  Coal  Co.  of  Fulton  County  and  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Y'ork   State   Coal   Merchants'   Association. 

C.  A.  PETRIE,  President  C.  A.  Petrie  &  Co.,  Elmira,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Herkimer,  New  York,  July  23,  1865,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  Sims,  Petrie  &  Co. 

ALBERT  S.  PETTIT,  President  A.  S.  Pettit  &  Sons,  Inc., 
Huntington,  New  York,  was  born  in  Hempstead,  Long 
Island,  in  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
thirty-six  years. 

JAMES  ELLSWORTH  PETTIT,  Wilson,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Wilson  November  28,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Gifford   &  Pettit  and  S.   H.  Pettit  &  Son. 

STANLEY  E.  PETTIT,  Vice  President  A.  S.  Pettit  &  Sons, 
Inc.,  Huntington,  New  York,  was  born  in  Westbury,  New 
Y'ork,  December  29.  1883.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   fifteen    years. 

WALTER  ROGERS  PETTIT  of  A.  S.  Pettit  &  Sons.  Inc., 
Huntington  Station,  Dong  Island,  was  born  in  Huntington. 
New  Y'ork,  June  21,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eleven  years.     The  business  was  established  in  1885. 

PERRY  J.  PHALEN,  Owner  of  the  Phalen  Coal  Co..  Syra- 
cuse, New  York,  was  born  at  Syracuse  March  8,  1864,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

ARTHUR  J.  PIERCE,  Little  Y'ork.  New  York,  was  born  at 
Cortland,  New  York,  June  19,  1885.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  ten  years. 

NEWTON  A.  PLATT,  Oneonta,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Maryland.  New  York,  January  1.  1S77.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  five  years,  associated  with  R.  F.  Howland 
under  the  firm  name  of  Piatt  &  Howland. 

HENRY'  POPPINK,  Rochester,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Rochester  August  4,  1879.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Poppink 
Bros. 

EDWARD  E.  POWELL.  President  Powell  Coal  Co.,  Blng- 
hamton,  New  York,  was  born  September  10,  1870,  at  Wales. 
England. 

WILL  PRESTON.  Karlville,  New  Y'ork,  was  born  in  Oaks- 
ville.  Otsego  County,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  eight  years. 

HENRY'  B.  PRUSER,  Mt.  Vernon,  New  York,  was  born  in 
New  York  City  September  5,  1857.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-two  years. 

WILLIAM  C.  PRYTHERCH  of  the  Acme  Coal  Co.,  Utica. 
New  Y'ork,  was  born  In  Wales  August  6.  1869,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

CHARLES  PURDY,  Oxford,  New  York,  was  born  in  Mc- 
Donough,  New  York,  February  2,  1860.  and  has  been  In  the 
coal   business  for  eleven   years. 


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CLAYTON  S.  PUTNAM,  Secretary-General  Manager  Dun- 
kirk Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Dunkirk,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Cassadaga,  New  York,  April  5,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   eight   years. 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  PUTNAM.  Waterville,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Waterville  in  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-eight  years,  suceeding  his  father,  George 
Putnam,  who  established  the  business  in  1867,  and  died  in 
1891. 

PRANK  PYE,  President  New  York  State  Coal  Co.,  Roch- 
ester, N,ew  York,  was  born  in  Ontario,  New  York,  in  1862, 
and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  three  years. 

HARRIS  P.  Q.UA,  President-Treasurer  Harris  F.  Qua  Co., 
Saratoga  Springs,  New  York,  was  born  in  Austin,  Minnesota, 
October  29,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six- 
teen years. 

JACOB  Q.UINCER,  Redwood,  New  York,  was  born  In  Jef- 
ferson County,  New  York,  in  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-one  years. 

GEO.  L.  A.  Q.UIRIN,  Olean,  New  York,  was'  born  at  North 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  in  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years. 

JOHN  REMSEN,  East  Pembroke,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Pembroke,  New  York,  May  28,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  seven   years. 

EDWARD  IRVING  RICE,  President  Edward  I.  Rice,  Inc., 
Syracuse,  New  York,  was  born  at  Syracuse  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 

LEWIS  BENEDICT  RICHARDS,  Mt.  Kisco.  New  York, 
was  born  in  Mt.  Kisco  February  11,  1843,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 

R.  RAYMOND  RIKERT,  General  Manager-Treasurer  of  the 
Rhinebeck  Coal  Co.,  Rhinebeck.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Rhinebeck  November  14,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for   sixteen  years. 

CHAS.  P.  ROBERSON  of  Boyce  &  Roberson,  Saranac 
Lake,  New  York,  was  born  in  Greenwich,  New  York,  Septem- 
ber 26,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine 
years. 

COURTLAND  T.  ROBINSON,  Mechanicsville,  New  York, 
was  born  at  Argyle,  New  York,  July  12,  1875,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

FRANK  E.  ROBINSON,  Nunda,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Nunda,  New  York,  February  25,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  about  twelve  years. 

ORVILLE  CLARK  ROBINSON,  General  Manager  D.  C. 
Robinson  &  Co.,  Fort  Edward,  New  York,  was  born  in  Ar- 
gyle, New  York,  October  16,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years,  succeeding  his  father,  D.  C.  Rob- 
inson. 

DAVID  G.  ROGERS  of  Payne  &  Rogers,  Sodus,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Sodus  March  25,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  about  twenty-four  years. 

W.  SCOTT  HOOT,  partner  in  the  firm  of  Kirby  &  Root, 
Cooperstown,  New  York,  was  born  in  Gilbertsville,  New 
York,  in  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
about  eight  years. 

■WILLIAM  J.  ROWE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Broekport, 
New  York,  was  born  October  24,  1877,  in  Broekport,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal   business   for  fourteen  years. 

IRVING  G.  ROWLEY,  Medina,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Lyndenville,  New  York,  July  5,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with  W.  F. 
Barry. 

AUGUSTUS  M.  RYON,  Flushing,  New  York,  was  born  in 
New  York  City  in  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-one  years. 

JOSEPH  HENRY  SANDERSON,  President  Lake  Keuka 
Fruit  Sales  Co.,  Inc.,  Penn  Yan,  New  York,  was  born  in  Bluff 
Point,  Yates  County,  New  York,  August  29,  1883,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  five  years. 

LeROY  A.  SANDLE,  Secretary  Charlotte  Coal  &  Supply 
Co.,  Rochester,  New  York,  was  born  in  Penfield,  New  York, 
April  28,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six 
years. 

JACOB  W.  SCHAUB  of  Chas.  Faass  &  Co.,  Utica,  New 
York,  was  born  in  Utica  November  25,  1875,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  various  coal  associations  of  the  state. 

BENJAMIN  SCHERMER,  Herkimer,  New  York,  was  born 
at  Herkimer  December  18,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-one   years. 

EDW.  SCHMIDT,  President  The  Birdsall  Coal  Co.,  Mineola, 
New  York,  was  born  in  New  Jersey  January  7,  1872,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  Mr.  Schmidt  has 
held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of  the  state. 

GEORGE  SEAMAN  of  Collingwood  &  Seaman,  Pough- 
kc-psie,  New  York,  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie  October  lo, 
1S54.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-six  years.  He 
was   formerly   with   Collingwood,   Millard   &   Co. 


H.  G.  SEELY,  Walden,  New  York,  was  born  at  Walden 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  Seely  &  Thorne. 

CHARLES  A.  SESSIONS  of  C.  A.  Sessions  &  Son,  Palmyra, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Marathon,  New  York,  in  1856,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 

CHARLES  F.  SHELDON,  Greenwich,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Rupert,  Vermont,  August  18,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

LEE  V.  SHEPARD,  Treasurer-Manager  Elmira  Coal  Co., 
Elmira,  New  York,  was  born  in  Belvidere,  Illinois,  December 
25,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  W.  H.  Blight  and  C.  "W.  Moore 
Co.,  and  has  held  the  position  of  Secretary  of  the  New  York 
State  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 

JOSHUA  SHILVOCK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Attica,  New 
York,  was  born  August  1,  1881,  at  New  Castle,  England,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

HARDING  SHOWERS  of  the  Tannersville  Coal  Co.,  Tan- 
nersville,  New  York,  was  born  in  Tannersville  January  23, 
1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Tannersville  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.  He 
is  representing  Greene  County  in  the  New  York  State 
Assembly. 

LeROY  M.  SHUTS,  Syracuse.  New  York,  was  born  at 
Bridgeport,  New  York,  March  7,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-three  years. 

EDWIN  V.  SIDELL  of  Sidell's  Black  Diamond  Fuel  Co., 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
May  14,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  all  his  life, 
being  one  of  a  second  generation  of  coalmen.  He  was  for- 
merly with  Sidell  &  Finn  of  Brooklyn  and  has  held  positions 
of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of  the  state. 

GEORGE  J.  SKINNER,  Camden,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Vienna,  New  York,  February  16,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business    for   seven    years. 

FRANK  B.  SMITH,  Spencer,  New  York,  was  born  in  Fleet- 
ville,  Pennsylvania,  April  7,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

FRANK  R.  SMITH  of  Far  Rockaway,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  July  20,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-nine  years,  operating  yards  at  Far 
Rockaway  and   Jamaica,  New  York. 

L.  P.  SMITH  of  the  L.  P.  Smith  Co.,  Fulton,  New  York,  was, 
born  in  Florence,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  located  at  Camden, 
New  York. 

RAYMOND  E.  SMITH,  Catskill,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Catskill  October  10,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  fifteen  years.     He  was  formerly  with   Smith   &   Smith. 

JAMES  H.  SPOTTEN,  Troy,  New  York,  was  born  in  Lan- 
singburgh.  New  York,  November  15,  1841,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  for   thirty-four  years. 

WALTER  J.  STAFFORD  of  Stafford  &  Burdick,  Homer, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Blodgetts  Mills,  New  York,  Septem- 
ber 16,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  nine- 
teen years. 

GEO.  H.  STANNARIUS,  Wayland,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Wayland  April  29,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
five  years. 

MILO  L.  STAPLEY  of  Colson  &  Stapley,  Geneseo,  New 
York,  was  born  at  Geneseo  in  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  about  twelve  years. 

DANIEL  GARDNER  STARK,  Waverly,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Montrose,  Pennsylvania,  May  5,  1873,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years 

JOHN  B.  STEELE,  Manager-Treasurer  F.  M.  Graves  Co., 
Marcellus,  New  York,  was  born  in  Camillus  August  10.  1874, 
and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

HENRY  G.  STILES,  Tottenville,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Jericho  Center,  Vermont,  December  11,  1862,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-four  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  S.  L.  Hopping  &  Sons. 

CLARENCE  A.  STONE,  Elbridge,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Camillus.  New  York,  December  24,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  four  years. 

ELTON  GARRETT  STORM,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bea- 
con, New  York,  was  born  March  3,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  ten  years.  This  business  was  established 
by  Garrett  Storm  and  conducted  by  him  for  forty-three 
years   until  his   death,   December   5,   1914. 

BERNARD  SUYDAM,  President-Treasurer  Elmhurst  Coal 
Co.,  Elmhurst,  New  York,  was  born  in  Queens,  New  York, 
August  10,  1865,  and  is  engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business. 

ADELBERT  SWARTHOUT,  Dresden,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Town  Torrey  July  5,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business    for   fifteen    years. 


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w  II. I. Aid)  H.  TAPPAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bald- 
wlnsville.  New  York,  was  born  August  1.  1856,  in  Baldwlns- 
ville  and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

BENJAMIN  UNDEHIHLI.  TAYl.OH.  President  of  the  B.  U. 
Taylor  Co.,  Olean,  New  York,  was  born  in  Linneus,  Maine,  in 
1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 
He  has  held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of 
the  state. 

MM  IS  x.  TEMPLK,  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Temple 
&  Mcintosh,  Corning,  New  York,  was  born  in  Tioga  County, 
Pennsylvania.  September  4,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen   years,   succeeding  A.   D.   Coye. 

WILLIAM  BERNARD  TENCH,  President  Monroe  Coal  Co., 
Monroe,  New  York,  was  born  in  Pittston,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1876,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  nine  years. 

JAMES  A.  THOMPSON  of  the  E.  H.  Clark  Coal  Co.,  Roch- 
ester, New  York,  was  born  in  Rochester  April  27,  1874,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Sales  Co. 

WM.  W.  THOMPSON  of  Thompson  &  Knapp,  Pierrepont, 
New  York,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1870,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  for  three  years. 

JOHN  JOSEPH  TOWN,  Sales  Agent  for  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Co.,  64  Martin  Building,  Utica, 
N.  u  York,  was  born  in  Syracuse,  New  York,  March  22, 
1849,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-four  years. 

CLIFFORD  E.  TOWNSEND.  Owner  of  the  South  Side  Coal 
Co.,  Ithaca,  New  York,  was  born  in  Genoa,  New  York,  March 
18,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  C.  D.  &  C.  E.  Townsend,  Myers,  New 
York. 

CHAS,  A.  TRAISTER,  Liverpool,  New  York,  was  born  at 
Liverpool  May  19,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twelve  years. 

JOHN  TRAUTWEIN  of  John  Trautwein  &  Son,  Watervliet, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Germany  June  30,  1841,  and  has  been 
in   the  coal   business  twenty-six  years. 

D.  H.  TRAVIS,  President  The  J.  H.  Strait  Manufacturing 
Co.,  Canisteo,  New  York,  was  born  in  Jasper,  New  York, 
and  has   been   in  the  coal  business  for   thirteen  years. 

HENRY  \V.  TRUE  of  Cattaraugus,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Maine  August  31,  1856,  and  is  engaged  in  the  retail  coal 
business. 

M.  C.  TURNER.  Fair  Haven,  New  York,  is  engaged  in  the 
retail  coal  business  and  is  a  man  of  twenty-six  years'  coal 
business  experience. 

HUHRITT  T.  TUTHILL,  Camden,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Camden  July  24,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six    years. 

FRED  B.  Tl'TTLE,  Poolville,  New  York,  was  born  In 
Poolville  June  8,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness  twenty    years. 

EDW.  A.  I  NDERHILL,  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  was 
born  in  New  Hackensack  August  7,  1865,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  over  thirty-four  years. 

WM.  H.  UPSON,  Lockport,  New  York,  was  born  at  Canis- 
teo, New  York,  July  23,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  forty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
Upson  &  Fenton.  Mr.  Upson  has  held  positions  of  honor  In 
the  coal  associations  of  the  state. 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  VAIL  of  Vail  &  Morford,  War- 
wick, New  York,  was  born  in  Chester,  New  York.  October 
23,  1843,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight 
years.  January  1,  1917,  Mr.  Vail  took  H.  C.  K.  Morford 
into  the  firm. 

JOHN  H.  VAN  ATTA.  Manager  J.  M.  Davidge  Coal  Co.  of 
Binghamton,  New  York,  was  born  February  25,  1863,  at  Point 
Mills.  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-six  years.  This  business  was  established  by  Abel 
Bennett  about   sixty   years   ago. 

CORNELIUS  VAN  III  REN.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ams- 
terdam. New  York,  was  born  July  25,  1840,  at  Glen,  and 
has   been   in   the  coal   business   since    1865. 

ilXiAH  T.  VAN  IIIREN,  Hobart.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Otsego  County  June  28,  1866.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  sixteen  years,  operating  yards  at  Hobart  and  South 
Kortrlght.  New  York. 

J.  El  Ollira  ■  AN  DEI  sen.  Oowanda,  New  York,  was  born 
In  Lamont.  New  York.  September  21,  1851.  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  for  forty-one  years.  He  has  held  positions 
of  honor  In  the  coal  associations  of  the  state. 

JOHN  A.  VAN  INi.l'.N,  I'n-sl.leni  I'll  ■  Van  Ingen  Coal  CO.. 
Rochester,  New  York,  was  born  In  Rooheatar  October  SI, 
1852,  and  has  been  In  tlM  coal  bueintea  over  half  a  century. 
He  was  with  Millspaugh  &  Green  ten  years  and  In  business 
for    himself    tha    remainder    of   the   time. 

MAI  mi  E  v.  VAN  HANTROORD.  Cohoes.  New  York,  was 
born  In  Albany,  New  York,  January  20,  1857,  and  has  been 
In   the  coal  business  for  sixteen   years. 


GEORGE  EDWARD  B.  VAN  WIGNER.  Hyde  Park-on- 
Hudson,  New  York,  was  born  In  Pleasant  Valley,  New  York, 
March  7,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve 
years. 

D.  B.  VAN  ZANDT,  Manager  of  Newman  Bros.,  Rochester, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Spencerport,  New  York,  December  15, 
1880.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

EUGENE  W.  VEEDER,  Schenectady,  New  York,  was  born 
In  Schenectady  June  11,  1887,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  four  years,  succeeding  his  father,  founder  of  the 
business,  in  1914. 

WM.  S.  VEEDER,  President-Treasurer  The  Crane-Veeder 
Co.,  Schenectady,  New  York,  was  born  in  Schenectady  May 
27,  ,1864,  and  has   been   in   the  coal  business   fifteen    years. 

CHAS.  H.  VERMII.YA.  Fleishmanns,  New  York,  was  born 
in  Fleishmanns  March  17,  1851.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Delaware  &  Hudson  Co. 

JAMES  G.  WALRADT,  Castleton-on-Hudson,  New  York, 
was  born  at  Castleton-on-Hudson  October  21,  1884,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

HARRY  R.  WARREN,  Port  Byron.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Port  Byron  June  7,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Richard 
Warren  &  Son. 

PLATT  V.  WASHBURN  of  Coxsackie,  New  York,  was 
born  at  Bacon  Hill  January  3,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  six  years. 

SAMUEL  M.  WATTS  of  Watts  &  Tammany,  Kingston, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Moscow,  Pennsylvania,  October  29. 
1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with   the  North   River  Coal   Co. 

ALONZO  HEPBURN  WELCH,  Dansville,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Georgetown,  District  of  Columbia,  now  Washington, 
November  4.  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thir- 
teen years,  operating  one  of  the  oldest  coal  yards  in  the 
vicinity,  having  succeeded  his  uncle,  Alonzo  Tunstall  Wood. 
Mr.  Welch  has  also  held  the  position  of  Vice  President  of 
the  -Retail  Coal  Dealers  of  Livingston  County,  New  York, 
and  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Dansville  Board  of  Trade 
since  June,   1916. 

HENRY  A.  WELCH.  President  Welch  Coal  Co.,  Niagara 
Falls,  New  York,  was  born  in  Niagara  Falls  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

GEO.  S.  WELLER.  Newburgh,  New  York,  was  born  in 
Newburgh  July  30.  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  partner  in  D.  S. 
Waring  &  Co.,  and  has  held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal 
associations. 

CHARLES  WENDEROTH  of  the  Winfleld  Coal  Co.,  Win- 
field,  Long  Island,  New  York,  was  born  at  Wilmore,  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about 
nineteen  years. 

F.  J.  WESSEL,  JR.,  Schenectady,  New  York,  was  born  In 
Schenectady,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one 
years. 

GEO.  H.  WESTON,  Port  Henry.  New  York,  was  born  in 
Port  Henry  February  26,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  seven  years. 

HEBER  E.  WHEELER  of  Wheeler  Bros.,  Holcomb,  New 
York,  was  born  in  North  Bergen,  New  York,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-three  years,  operating  a  modern 
coal   elevator. 

ROBERT  H.  WHEELER  of  Wheeler  Bros.,  Holcomb,  New 
York,  was  born  in  North  Bergen,  New  York,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  about  thirty-three  years,  associated 
with    his    brother,    Heber   E.    Wheeler. 

ROY  L.  WHEELER  of  R.  L.  Wheeler  &  Co.,  Mlddleport, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Johnson  Creek,  New  York,  June  8, 
1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

GEO.  B.  WILKIN'S  of  Geo.  W.  Wllkins  &  Son,  Kinderhook, 
New  York,  was  born  in  Kinderhook  April  7,  1875,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  twenty-eight  years,  suc- 
ceeding his  father,  Geo.  W.  Wilkins,  in  1913. 

W.  WILTON  WOOD,  Huntington.  New  York,  was  born  In 
Huntington,  and  baa  bean  In  the  coal  business  twenty-nine 
years,    the   business   having   been    established   in    1840. 

WILFRKD  WOODHEAD.  Partner  and  Active  Manager  of 
the  firm  of  Robinson  &  Woodhead,  Canton,  New  York,  was 
born  in  Blrtsall,  England,  December  17,  1870,  and  has  been 
In  tha  coiil  business  seven  years.  Mr.  Woodhead  is  well 
known  in  his  part  of  the  slate  He  is  now  serving  his  third 
term  as  Mayor,  and  prior  to  his  present  service  he  was 
Village   Trustee   four  yenrs. 

<IIARI.ES  o.  woilDEN.  Manager  Roberson-Fowler  Coal 
CO.,  Hlnghainton,  New  York,  was  born  January  12,  1879,  in 
Yat.svllle.  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  In  the  "coal  business 
three  years.     He  Is  also  Interested  In  the  Archbald  Coal  Co. 

TOM  s.  WOTKYNS.  Troy,  New  York,  was  born  In  Troy. 
New  V.irk.  April  29.  1882,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for    forty-six    years. 


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NOKTH  DAKOTA  shares  with  Illinois  and  Mon- 
tana the  honor  of  having  the  largest  coal-hearing 
areas  of  any  states  in  the  Union.  Lignite  beds, 
ranging  in  thickness  from  four  to  seven  feet,  underlie 
almost  the  entire  western  half  of  the  state  and  are  esti- 
mated to  cover  an  area  of  35,000  square  miles.  Accord- 
ing to  reports  of  the  North  Dakota  State  Geological 
Survey  at  least  one  hed  of  seven  feet  or  more  in  thick- 
ness is  found  in  parts  of  97  townships  and  100  other 
townships  contain  beds  of  from  four  to  seven  feet  in 
thickness.  While  the  heavy  moisture  content  has  lim- 
ited the  commercial  development  of  the  deposits  in 
competition  with  bituminous  and.  sub-bituminous  coals 
produced  in  territories  east  and  west  of  Xorth  Dakota, 
the  use  locally  has  received  considerable  impetus 
through  the  transportation  difficulties  limiting  produc- 
tion throughout  the  United  States  as  a  whole  during 
1916-1917. 

The  Fort  Union,  constituting  the  hard  rocks  under- 
lying most  of  the  western  half  of  the  state,  is  the  most 
important  lignite  bearing  formation  of  Xorth  Dakota. 
Beds  here  vary  in  thickness  from  a  few  inches  to  30 
feet.  Below  the  Fort  Union  is  the  Lance  formation, 
"which  contains  beds  of  lignite  that,  in  general,  are  too 
thin  to  be  considered,  but  in  places  may  be  classed  as 
workable.*'  This  formation  is  not  known  in  the  north- 
ern part  of  the  state,  hut  covers  a  large  area  extending 
southward  from  Bismarck  to  the  South  Dakota  state 
line  and  a  small  area  in  the  southwestern  corner  of  the 
state.  The  Turtle  Mountains  in  Bottineau  and  Rolette 
counties  also  contain  a  small  area  of  coal-bearing  rocks. 
While  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  believes 
that  considerable  areas  of  sub-bituminous  coal  of  usable 
quality  and  workable  thickness  underlie  portions  of  the 
lignite  areas  of  the  state,  no  attempt  has  been  made  to 
develop  the  sub-bituminous  beds. 

Lignite  has  probably  been  used  locally  since  the  time 
North  Dakota  was  a  territory,  but  government  produc- 
tion statistics  do  not  appear  before  1884,  when  an  out- 
put of  35,000  tons  was  reported.  Output  followed  a 
fluctuating  upward  tendency  until  1899.  when  the  pro- 


Figures  since  that  date 


Year. 

1909.. 

1910.. 

1911.. 

1912.. 

1913.. 

1914.. 

1915.. 

1916.. 


Ton.      . 

422,047 
399,041 
502,628 
499,480 
495,320 
506,685 
528,078 
634,912 


duction  reached  98,809  tons 

are  as  follows: 

Year.  Ton. 

1900 129,883 

1901 166,601 

1902 226,511 

1903 278,645 

1904 271,928 

1905 317,542 

1906 305,689 

1907 347,760 

1908 320,742 

Under  normal  conditions  over  98.4  per  cent,  of  the 
Xorth  Dakota  production  is  consumed  within  the  state. 
In  1915  out  of  a  total  production  of  528,078  tons  17,499 
tons  were  consumed  at  the  mines,  151,957  tons  were 
sold  locally  and  350,513  tons  shipped  to  various  Xorth 
Dakota  points.  Interstate  shipments,  confined  to  South 
Dakota,  approximated  5,000  tons.  The  railroads  took 
3,109  tons  for  station  use.  While  the  high  moisture 
content  and  rapid  disintegration  characteristics  of  the 
lignite  of  Xorth  Dakota  have  militated  against  it,  it 
lias  been  successfully  used  in  brick-burning  and  the 
manufacture  of  producer  gas.  Government  tests  of  the 
possibilities  of  briquetting  have  been  favorable. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  per  capita  consumption 
Xorth  Dakota  is  below  the  average  for  the  country.  In 
1915  the  state  per  capita  was  1.83  tons  of  bituminous 
coal  and  .50  ton  of  anthracite,  or  a  total  of  2.33  tons, 
against  the  average  of  2.82  tons.  The  more  widely 
scattered  population,  as  compared  with  eastern  states, 
drags  down  the  square  mile  consumption  to  24  tons,  or 
99  tons  under  the  average  for  the  country  as  a  whole. 
During  the  year  mentioned  the  total  bituminous  con- 
sumption was  1,340,884  tons;  Pennsylvania  anthracite 
receipts  approximated  360,000  tons.  Shipments  of  east- 
ern dock  coal,  totaling  553,000  tons,  outranked  the  ton- 
nage of  Xorth  Dakota  used  within  the  state,  which  was, 
as  before  stated,  519,969  tons.  All-rail  shipments  re- 
ceived from  other  states  were  as  follows:  Illinois,  106,- 
674  tons;  Indiana,  3,255;  Kentucky,  418;  Montana, 
44,814;  Pennsylvania,  380;  Virginia,  15,391;  West 
Virginia,  425,  and  Wyoming,  96,558  tons. 


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NORTH  DAKOTA 


W.  A.  BOLTON,  proprietor  Langdon  Ice  &  Fuel  Yard 
at  Langdon,  North  Dakota,  was  born  in  England  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

WALTER  H.  BOND  of  the  Bond  Lumber  Co.,  Minot,  North 
Dakota,  was  born  February  14.  1871,  in  Mayville,  New  York, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

E.  D.  BOOKER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Pembina,  North 
Dakota,  was  born  March  17,  1869,  at  Farnam,  Virginia,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 

DlMKI,  W.  BOWKER,  Manager  Wallace-Bowker  Coal 
Co.,  Minot,  North  Dakota,  was  born  February  27,  1872, 
In  Crystal  Lake,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
six  years.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Minot  Coal 
Dealers'  Association. 

OSCAH  FRANKLIN  BROOKS,  partner  in  the  Pioneer  Fuel 
Co,  Minot,  North  Dakota,  was  born  July  3,  1890,  at 
Logan,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  O'Gara  Coal  Co.,  Purity 
Coal  Co.,  and  Dakota  Coal  Co. 

K.  E.  BROWN,  lessee  of  the  Lidstorm  coal  mine  at  Glen 
Ullin.  North  Dakota,  was  born  in  1881  at  Plattsburg,  Wis- 
consin, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

W.  D.  CAMPBELL,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Edgeley,  North 
Dakota,  was  born  March  21,  1857,  at  Listowell,  Ontario,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

JAMES  A.  CHESLEY,  President  Chesley  Lumber  &  Coal 
Co.,  Fargo.  North  Dakota,  was  born  in  Fargo  sixty-six  years 
ago,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-nine  years. 

JOHN  W.  DEEMY,  President  National  Briquetting  Co.. 
Kenmare.  North  Dakota,  was  born  August  30,  1879,  in 
Mechanicsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Maplewood  Coal  Co.  and  Sholl  Bros,  of  Peoria,  Illinois.  This 
company  owns  a  lignite  mine  and  expects  later  to  manu- 
facture briquets.  Mr.  Deemy  is  also  Secretary  and  General 
Manager   of   the  Peoples  Coal   Co.,  Kenmare. 

FREDERICK  E.  DEITERS,  General  Sales  Agent  Dakota 
Lignite  Mine  Co.,  Dickson,  North  Dakota,  was  born  May 
8,  1886.  at  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  ten  years.  Mr.  Deiters  is  very  popular  in  the 
coal  trade.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Dakota 
Fuel   Co. 

LAWRENCE  DICKHORN.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Mar- 
mouth,  North  Dakota,  was  born  February  15,  1884,  at  Dick- 
inson, North  Dakota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
two  years. 

CHARLES  M.  ENGLISH  of  English  &  Pickard,  Niagara. 
North  Dakota,  was  born  in  1860  in  New  York  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 

CHARLES  A.  FINCH,  President  and  Manager  C.  A.  Finch 
Lumber  Co.,  La  Moure,  North  Dakota,  was  born  April 
1,  1861,  in  Ontario,  Canada,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Finch  operates  six  retail  yards  handling 
coal  and   lumber. 

F.  C.  FISHER  of  Duckhorn  &  Fisher  Coal  &  Transfer 
Co.  of  Marmouth,  North  Dakota,  was  born  in  Boston. 
Massachusetts,  July  15,  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  three  years. 

GEORGE  GAME,  JR.,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Jamestown, 
North  Dakota,  was  born  September  19,  1892,  in  Jamestown 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 


JAMES  E.  HARMON,  Manager  Cash  Feed  &  Fuel  Store, 
Minot.  North  Dakota,  was  born  August  16,  1876,  in  Minot 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

MACK  HINDKICKS,  Manager  Foxholm  Coal  Co.,  Foxholm, 
North  Dakota,  was  born  April  10,  1873,  at  Chatham,  Ontario, 
and  has  been  In   the  coal   business  for  sixteen  years. 

J.  ALBERT  HUSEBYE,  President  Williston  Coal  &  Ice  Co.. 
Williston,  North  Dakota,  was  born  March  26,  1873,  at  De- 
corah,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven 
years. 

IRA  C.  JONES,  proprietor  Pioneer  Fuel  Co.,  Minot,  North 
Dakota,  was  born  November  4,  1859,  in  Minnesota,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal  business  for  two  years. 

C.  E.  KNOX,  proprietor  of  Knox  Grain  Co.,  Oakes,  North 
Dakota,  was  born  October  14,  1862,  in  Hudson,  Wisconsin, 
and  has  been   in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty   years. 

H.  O.  KUNSEE,  Manager  and  Treasurer  H.  O.  Kunze  Coal 
Co..  Havelock,  North  Dakota,  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
five  years.     He  is  associated  with  Fred  S.  Kunze. 

LAKE  B.  LATZER,  retail  coal  merchant,  Wahpeton,  North 
Dakota,  was  born  July  15,  1866,  at  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was 
formerly   connected   with   the   North   Western   Fuel   Co. 

NICHOLAS  B.  LLDOWESE,  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger of  Black  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  Williston,  North  Dakota, 
was  born  October  6,  1881,  at  Hospers,  Iowa,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  five  years. 

C.  F.  MASSINGHAM,  wholesale  and  retail  coal  merchant 
of  Mandan,  North  Dakota,  was  born  in  1864  at  Stockton, 
Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

C.  E.  NUGENT,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  Magill  &  Co., 
Fargo,  North  Dakota,  is  a  native  of  Fargo  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business   thirteen  years. 

O.  S.  ORR  of  O.  S.  Orr  &  Sons,  Rugby,  North  Dakota, 
was  born  May  19,  1867,  at  Neilville,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

ALFRED  W.  PETERSON,  President  and  Manager  Cler- 
mont Coal  Co.,  Haynes,  North  Dakota,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 11,  1884,  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  ten  years.  Mr.  Peterson  settled  in 
Haynes  before  the  railroad  was  built  as  a  pioneer  in  the  coal 
industry  in  that  locality. 

HALFDAN  PETTERSON.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Finley, 
North  Dakota,  was  born  June  17,  at  Bergen,  Norway,  s>.nd 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

W.  L.  PICKARD  of  English  &  Pickard,  Niagara,  North 
Dakota,  was  born  in  1858  on  Manitou  Island,  Michigan,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 

L.  H.  PIPER,  General  Manager  Piper-Howe  Lumber  Co., 
Minot,  North  Dakota,  was  born  August  9,  1888.  in  Mankato, 
Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 
This  company  now  operates  forty-seven  retail  yards. 

F.  C.  POTTER,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager 
Crane-Johnson  Co.,  Cooperstown,  North  Dakota,  was  born 
August  11,  1880,  at  Sanborn,  North  Dakota,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Potter  has  served 
as  a  Director  of  the  Northwestern  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Northwestern  Traffic  and   Service   Bureau. 

HARRY  L.  SHERWOOD.  General  Manager  Chesley  Lum- 
ber &  Coal  Co.,  Fargo,  North  Dakota,  was  born  September 
18,  1878,  in  Renville  County,  Minnesota,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  started  in  with  the 
Charles  Belcher  Lumber  Co.,   Bird   Island,   Minnesota. 


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WHETHER  the  point  of  view  be  that  of  pro- 
duction or  consumption  Ohio  has  a  secure 
place  among  the  leading  states  of  the  Union. 
Its -output  is  fourth  among  the  bituminous  coal  pro- 
'  ducers,  while  the  great  manufacturing  enterprises  that 
are  possible  in  a  large  degree  because  of  its  own  coal 
resources  and  its  proximity  to  other  large  producing 
fields  give  it  a  consuming  demand  that  under  normal 
conditions  exceeds  the  tonnage  of  bituminous  coal  used 
by  the  entire  group  of  New  England  states.  Its  record 
in  this  respect  is  exceeded  only  by  those  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Illinois.  In  addition  to  these  local  factors 
making  for  coal  greatness  the  lower  Lake  Erie  ports 
of  Ohio  are  the  clearing  points  through  which  the 
greater  part  of  the  vast  water-borne  tonnage  supplying 
the  Northwest  and  Lake  Michigan  docks  moves. 

The  Ohio  coal  fields,  which  lie  entirely  within  the 
eastern  part  of  the  state,  are  part  of  the  Appalachian 
province.  The  original  coal-bearing  area  in  Ohio  is 
estimated  to  have  covered  12,600  square  miles,  but 
exhaustion  has  brought  the  workable  territory  con- 
siderably under  that  figure.  The  Ohio  coal-bearing 
formations  are  known  to  contain  at  least  sixteen  differ- 
ent beds.  Development  of  ten  of  these  has  been,  for 
the  most  part,  confined  to  small  mines  supplying  local 
trade.  The  remaining  six  beds,  however,  have  been 
worked  upon  a  large  scale.  These  beds  have  been  classi- 
fied as  follows :  No.  1,  Sharon  block ;  No.  2,  Wellston ; 
No.  5,  Lower  Kittanning;  No.  6,  Middle  Kittanning; 
No.  7,  Upper  Freeport;  No.  8,  Pittsburgh  and  the 
Pomeroy  and  Meigs  Creek  beds. 

Coal  No.  1  is  mined  in  the  northeastern  counties  of 
the  state,  more  particularly  in  Summit,  Stark  and  Ma- 
honing counties  and  to  a  lesser  degree  in  Portage  coun- 
ty. "This  coal,"  says  the  United  States  Geological  Sur- 
vey, "is  very  pure  and  is  used  principally  in  making 
pig  iron,  for  which  it  is  used  in  its  raw  state  in  the 
blast  furnaces.  It  is  dry,  free  burning  and  does  not 
coke.  As  a  domestic  fuel  it  is  known  as  Massillon  coal 
and  is  highly  prized  for  household  use  in  Cleveland  and 
other  cities  on  the  lakes."' 

Coal  No.  2,  the  Wellston  bed,  which  lies  above  the 
block  or  No.  1,  furnishes  the  chief  output  of  the  coun- 
ties in  the  southwestern  part  of  the  state.  It  is  from 
this  bed  that  the  well-known  Jackson  Hill  coal  is  pro- 
duced. 


Coal  No.  5,  the  Lower  Kittanning,  underlies  an  ex- 
tensive area  from  Mahoning  county  in  the  northeast  to 
Lawrence  county  in  the  southwest,  but  "it  is  not  ex- 
tensively mined,  being  of  workable  thickness  and  qual- 
ity in  but  a  few  places."  The  principal  center  of  pro- 
duction is  in  Lawrence  county. 

Coal  No.  6,  the  Middle  Kittanning,  is  the  celebrated 
Hocking  Valley  product  mined  so  extensively  in  Ath- 
ens, Hocking  and  Perry  counties.  Like  the  No.  1  coal, 
"it  is  freerburning,  non-coking  and  popular  as  a  blast 
furnace  fuel,  for  which  purpose  it  is  used  raw."  It  is 
also  highly  regarded  for  general  steam  and  domestic 
uses. 

Coal  No.  7,  the  Upper  Freeport,  is  mined  in  Muskin- 
gum, Gallia,  Lawrence  and  Guernsey  counties  and  in 
portions  of  Perry  county.  Although  a  coking  coal  it  is 
not  so  used  because  of  its  sulphur  content,  but  is  mar- 
keted as  a  high  grade  steam  product. 

Pittsburgh  No.  8  coal  in  Ohio  is  part  of  the  bed 
underlying  large  areas  in  Pennsylvania,  Maryland  and 
West  Virginia  and  Ohio  and  is  considered  by  the  United 
States  Geological  Survey  as  the  most  extensive  and 
valuable  bed  in  North  America.  The  Ohio  portion  of 
this  bed  is  estimated  to  cover  an  area  in  excess  of  1,000 
square  miles.  The  coal  is  mined  on  a  large  scale  in 
Belmont,  Jefferson,  Harrison  and  Noble  counties  and, 
to  a  lesser  degree,  in  Athens,  Gallia,  Guernsey,  Meigs, 
Monroe  and  Morgan  counties. 

The  Pomeroy  bed  lies  from  20  to  55  feet  above  the 
Pittsburgh  No.  8  and  is  geologically  correlated  with  the 
Redstone  of  Pennsylvania.  The  center  of  production 
is  in  Meigs  county,  although  some  coal  of  this  bed  is 
also  mined  in  Gallia  and  Lawrence  counties.  The  Meigs 
Creek  coal,  which  lies  from  80  to  100  feet  above  the 
No.  8,  is  correlated  with  the  Sewickley  bed  of  western 
Pennsylvania.  "It  is  workable  in  portions  of  Morgan, 
Noble,  Washington,  Muskingum,  Harrison,  Belmont 
and  Monroe  counties,  and  will  ultimately  prove  a  most 
valuable  reserve,  though  its  variable  thickness  and  lower 
grade  subordinate  it  to  the  Pittsburgh  and  its  exploita- 
tion is  at  present  local  and  generally  on  a  small  scale." 

The  fact  that  one  of  the  early  Ohio  reports  gives  the 
state  a  production  of  119,952  tons  in  1838  makes  it 
probable  that  operations  were  carried  on  before  that 
date.  Estimated  production  statistics  credit  the  state 
with  a  steady  growth  until  1858.  when  the  estimate  made 


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m;is  an  even  million.  Census  figures  for  18(50  place  the 
production  at  1,265,600  tons.  In  1867  production  had 
reached  2,093,33-1  tons  and  in  1872  5,315.39  1  tons.  Pro- 
duction records  were  uneven  until  1887  when  the  out- 
put was  10,300,708  tons.     Detailed   figures  since  that 


date  are  as  follows : 

Year.  Ton. 

1888 10,910,951 

1889 9,976,787 

1890 11,494,506 

1891 12,868,683 

1892 13,562,927 

1893 13,253,646 

1894 11,909,856 

1895 13,355,806 

1896 12,875,202 

1897 12,196,942 

1898 14,516,867 

1899 16,500,270 

1900 18,988,150 

1901 20,943,807 

1902 23,519,894 


Year.  Ton. 

1903 24,838,103 

1904 24,400,220 

1905 25,552,950 

1906 27,731,640 

1907 32,142,419 

1908 26,270,639 

1909 27,939,641 

1910 34,209,668 

1911 30,759,986 

1912 34,528,727 

1913 '....  36,200,527 

1914 18,843,115 

1915 22,434,691 

1916 34,728,219 


Study  of  Ohio  production  and  distribution  figures  for 
1915  must  take  cognizance  of  the  fact  that  conditions 
were  subnormal  because  of  the  disasterous  effects  of  the 
]'.']  1-1915  strikes.  During  the  year  in  question  nearly 
B0  per  cent,  of  the  output  was  consumed  within  the 
tate  or  sold  to  the  railroad  companies.  About  11  per 
cent,  of  the  output  was  shipped  to  the  lower  Lake  Erie 
ports  for  trans-shipment  to  the  Northwest,  Canada  and 
Lake  Michigan  docks.  All-rail  shipments  to  Canada 
accounted  for  60,811  tons,  while  approximately  15,000 
tons  were  shipped  to  tidewater.  This  latter  movement 
must,  of  course,  he  considered  an  offshoot  of  the  ab- 
normal conditions  further  east  as  a  result  of  the  present 
Greal  War.  In  detail  the  Ohio  distribution  for  the  year 
\\;i>  as  follows: 
Used  in  Ohio:  Ton. 

Used  at  mines  for  steam  and  heat 465,701 

Sold  to  local  trade,  not  shipped 1,916,188 

Made  into  coke  at  mines 1,217 

Shipped  to  Ohio  points 7,280,390 


Shipped  to  other  States: 

Illinois   287,561 

Indiana    350,251 

Iowa  1,666 

Kentucky  and  South  Dakota 371 

Michigan   1,453,869 

Minnesota    65,094 

New  York 115,221 

Pennsylvania 17,075 

West  Virginia   15,500 

Wisconsin   10,428 

Total  shipped  to  other  states,  all  rail 2,317,036 

Shipped  to  Great  Lakes  for  cargo 2,482,615 

Exported  by  rail 60,811 

Shipped  to  tidewater 15,000 

Used  by  railroads 7,895,733 

Total  production 22,434,691 

The  heavy  consumption  of  bituminous  coal  for  manu- 
facturing and  domestic  purposes  within  the  state  brings 
the  per  capita  up  to  4.09  tons,  which  is  more  than  dou- 
ble the  country  average.  Per  capita  anthracite  con- 
sumption, .12  ton,  was  approximately  15  per  cent,  of 
the  anthracite  average  of  .78  ton,  but  the  Ohio  total  av- 
erage of  4.21  tons  is  within  .02  ton  of  being  50  per  cent, 
greater  than  the  average  for  the  United  States  as  a 
whole.  The  square  mile  consumption,  560  tons,  is  over 
four  and  one-half  times  the  country  average  of  123  tons. 

The  total  receipts,  exclusive  of  railroad  and  bunker 
fuel,  were  22,668,036  tons.  In  detail  the  sources  of 
supply  for  the  year  were  as  follows: 

Source.                          Ton.  Source.                          Ton. 

Illinois    3,036  Bunker  fuel 1,461,593 

Kentucky   1,359,813  

Maryland    37,305  Net  bituminous 

Ohio    9,663.496  land    con- 
Pennsylvania    . . .     7,197,013  sumption    . . .   22,368,036 

Tennessee    23,974  Pennsylvania  an- 

Virginia   169,432  thracite    300,000 

West    Virginia...     5,375,560  

Total 22,668,036 

23,829,629 


Total  used  in  Ohio 9,663,496 


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COL.  E.   O.  DANA,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

President  of  The  Campbells  Creek  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Vanhornesville,  New  York,  February  22,  1861,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years,  all  the  time  with  his 
present  company. 


S.   F.   DANA,   Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  The  Campbells  Creek 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Otsego  County,  New  York,  in  1836, 
and  had  been  in  the  coal  business  from  1865  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  August  3,  1918.  The  company  with  which  he 
was  so  long  associated  is  unique  in  that  it  is  the  only  one 
of  the  old-time  West  Virginia  organizations  still  intact  and 
in   active   service. 


ROBERT    P.    GIUHAH,    Cincinnati,    Ohio, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  The  Campbells 
Creek  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  January  9,  1854. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nearly  half  a  century.  He 
was  formerly  with  George  W.  C.  Johnston,  John  Barrett. 
Moulton  &  Barrett,  but  has  been  with  the  present  company 
forty-three   years. 


MEI.VIN    EBERHARDT    LYNN,    Cincinnati,    Ohio, 

Manager  of  Sales  The  Campbell's  Creek  Coal  Co.,  918  Union 
Central  Building,  Cincinnati,  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  organized  The  Queen  City 
Coal  Co.  of  Cincinnati  and  for  fifteen  years  was  its  Treas- 
urer and  General  Manager.  His  experience  and  well-known 
ability  especially  fitted  him  for  his  position  as  Manager  of 
Sales  with  his  present  company,  which  position  he  assumed 
six  years  ago. 


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EDWARD  H.  DOYLE,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Middle  West  Coal  Co.,  was  horn 
in  Butler  County,  Ohio,  in  October,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business1  twenty  years,  lie  is  also  interested  in  the  North  East 
Coal  Co.  and  South  East  Coal  Co.,  mining  companies  whose  out- 
puts are  handled  by  the  Middle  West  Coal  Co. 

Mr.  Doyle  is  hijrhly  respected  and   has  many   friends  in  the 
coal  trade. 


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CHARLES    GROVERHAX   BLAKE,   Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

President  The  C.  G.  Blake  Co.,  was  born  in  Calvert  County, 
Maryland,  February  14,  1847,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness over  thirty  years.  Mr.  Blake  is  interested  in  several 
other  coal  companies  in  the  New  River  field  in  West  Virginia. 


FRANK   ELLISON,   Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

General  Manager  The  C.  G.  Blake  Co.,  was  born  in  Manches- 
ter, Ohio,  March  28,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  several  West 
Virginia  mines. 


WILLIAM    III   III.  I  M.  II  V  M.    Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

President  Burlingham  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  October  15,  1879.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Lens 
Creek  Colliery  Co.,  High  Carbon  Fuel  Co.,  and  was  the  first 
Western  Manager  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


PRENTICE   H.  BURLINGHAM,   Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Burlingham  Coal  Co., 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  October  14,  1881,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
Western  Manager  of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


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EDWARD    P.    AVE.VT,    JR..   Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Western  Manager  Bewley-Darst  Coal  Co  ,  was  born  in  Ver- 
sailles, Kentucky,  in  188!),  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
six   years. 


ERNEST   FRANK    i:\imhn     Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

President  MacBard  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Black  Creek,  North 
Carolina,  March  23,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
seventeen  years.  For  many  years  he  was  Western  Manager 
and  General  Western  Manager  of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  resigning  the  latter  position  to  become 
General  Sales  Manager  of  the  Wyatt  Coal  Co. 


RALPH     HAM.     BARTL1T,     Cincinnati. 

Vice  President  and  Treasurer  Darby 
Coal  Sales  Co..  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  He  is  also 
President   of  the  Old   Virginia  Coal 'Co. 


DORHIN(;TON    CAVE,  Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Cincinnati  Manager  Norfolk  &  Chesapeake  Coal  Co.,  was 
born  in  Barnwell,  South  Carolina,  January  22,  1871,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  Edwin  F.  Daniels  &  Co.  and  Superior  Coal  Co.,  Chicago, 
Illinois. 


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HALLSTEAD    I :.   CHRISTMAN,   Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Cincinnati  Manager  Southern  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in 
Utica,  New  York.  November  24,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Atlantic 
Ice  &  Coal  Corp.,  Atlanta,  Georgia. 


<    \  i.\  I  \    HOLMES,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Vice  President  Blue  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  June  21,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    twenty-three    years.      He    was    formerly    with    the 
R.    O.    Campbell   Coal   Co.    and   Bewley-Darst    Coal   Co. 


BENJAMIN    NEWTON    FORD,    Cincinnati,    Ohio, 

Vice  President  The  Matthew  Addy  Co.,  was  born  in  Bour- 
bon C.ounty,  Kentucky,  June  13,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  four  years. 


P.   H.   HENRY,   Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

President  Kentenia  Coal  Sales  Co.,  was  born  in  Port  Hope, 
Ontario,  Canada,  January  17,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  Manager  of  the 
Manufacturers  &  Consumers  Coal  Co.,  Fayette,  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  until  May  1,  1918,  Western  Manager  of  the  West 
Virginia   Coal  Co. 


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KITEH    HOOD,  Cincinnati.   Ohio, 

General  Manager  Houston  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Staunton, 
Virginia.  November  23,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Big  Hill  Coal 
Co.,  Kentucky   Fuel  Co.  and   the   R.  O.   Campbell  Coal  Co. 


ERXEST  J.   HOWE,  Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Manager  Pocahontas  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in  Kenton,  Ohio, 
April  11,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one 
years.  He  is  President  of  the  Welch  Coal  Co.  and  interested 
in  the  Welch  Coal  <&  Coke  Co.  and  Hemphill  Colliery  Co.. 
Welch,  West  Virginia.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Boomer 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Oregon  Coal  Co.. 
and  the  C.  M.  Anderson  Coal  Co.  He  served  as  President  of 
the  Cincinnati  Coal  Exchange  of  the  Cincinnati  Chamber  of 
Commerce  in   1915. 


in  ii  \  Mm  ill.  M  I  I  .  n  I  \-u\.  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
Cincinnati  Manager  Hutchinson  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Beechwood.  West  Virginia,  January  12,  1890,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  eight  years.  He  is  also  General  Mana- 
ger of  the  Empire  Fuel  Co.  and  Vice  President  of  the  Rich 
Creek  Coal  Co.  For  five  years  he  was  with  the  Logan 
Mining  Co. 


U.  H.  JEIKKS,  Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Secretary  and  General  Manager  Producers  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
October  30.  1882,  in  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  Castner.  Ourran  &  Bullitt  and  The  Thacker  Co.  Mr. 
Jenks  organized  the  Producers  Coal  Co.   in   1907. 


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u  .    It.    KERNOHAIV,    Cincinnati,    Ohio, 

Cincinnati  Manager  for  M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co.,  has  been  in  the 
business  for  twenty-two  years,  formerly  with  the  Kanawha 
Fuel  Co.,  the  Carbon  Fuel  Co.,  the  Zeigler  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Pocahontas  Coal  Sales  Co.  He  was  born  at  Perintown,  Ohio, 
September  10,  1879.  Mr.  Kernohan  has  served  as  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  Coal  Merchants'  Association  and  is  very 
popular  in  the  trade. 


WILLIAM   J.   MAfiKE,   Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Manager  and  Treasurer  The  Carbon  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in 
Owensville,  Ohio,  January  18,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Brier  Creek  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Kanawha  Fuel  Co., 
both  firms  now  out  of  existence.  He  was  the  first  President 
of  the  Cincinnati  Coal  Exchange. 


WILLIAM  ERNST  MINOR,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Reliance  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  February  10,  1878,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  six  years.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Hat- 
field Coal  Co.,  Plymouth  Coal  Co.,  Hickey  Transportation 
Co.,  Blue  Grass  Coal  Co.,  and  several  others.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Standard  Oil  Co. 


THOMAS   R.  MORGAN,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Sales  Manager  Eaton,  Rhodes  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Knoxville, 
Tennessee,  November  10,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-one  years.  He  is  Treasurer  of  Nats  Creek  Min- 
ing Co.  He  was  formerly  Sales  Manager  of  the  Kentucky 
Block  Cannel   Coal  Co. 


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CHARLES    R.    MORIARTY,   Cincinnati.    Ohio, 

Of  the  Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Indi- 
anapolis, Indiana,  August  22,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  has  held  many  positions 
of   honor   in   various   coal    associations. 


C.   WILLIAM    POYSELL,   Cincinnati,    Ohio. 

General  Manager  The  Marmet-Halm  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was 
born  in  Urbana,  Ohio,  February  19,  1868,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Poysell  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Consumers  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Covington,  Ken- 
tucky, and  Sales  Manager  of  The  Otto  Marmet  Coal  &  Min- 
ing Co.,  as  well  as  Receiver  and  Manager  of  the  Marmet 
Coal  Co.     He  was  formerly  with  the  Smokeless  Fuel  Co. 


W.    J.    QUI*'.    Cincinnati,    Ohio. 

Secretary  Logan  &  Hazard  Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati,  was  born 
In  Oirardville,  Pennsylvania,  April  7,  1894,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  six  years.  This  company  succeeded  the 
Ruffner  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Quin  is  also  Interested  in  the  Carbon 
Hill  Collieries  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Winlfrede  Coal 
Co.  and  New  River  &  Pocahontas  Consolidated  Coal  Co. 


Jll.llS    n.    HATTKRMAX,   Cincinnati.  Ohio, 

Manager  Blue  Ash  Coal  Co.  was  born  In  Cincinnati  August 
16,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  White  Oak  Coal  Co.  and  Con- 
tinental  Coal   Corp. 


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JAMES    A.    Ill    III  \  .    Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Manager  The  Queen  City  Coal  Co.  and  General  Manager 
Southern  branches  of  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Cin- 
cinnati September  25,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  the  past  twenty-eight  years,  starting  with  the 
Queen  City  Coal  Co.  when  a  boy.  Mr.  Reilly  takes  an  active 
part  in  civic  and  industrial  activities  of  the  city,  including 
the  coal  associations.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the 
Cincinnati  Coal  Exchange,  Vice  President  of  the  Retail  Coal 
Dealers  Credit  Association,  and  is  Vice  President  of  the 
Cincinnati   Chamber  of  Commerce. 


THOMAS  H.  HICHAKDSOIV,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Manager  The  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Glendale, 
Ohio.  He  was  formerly  Western  Manager  of  the  Youghi- 
ogheny  &  Ohio  Coal  Co.  and  has  served  as  President  of  thf- 
Cincinnati    Coal    Exchange    of    the    Cincinnati    Chamber  of 

Commerce. 


WILLIAM  P.  SLAUGHTER.  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

President  Glen  Alum  Fuel  Co.  and  Pocahontas  Coal  Sales 
Co.,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  is  also  General 
Sales  Manager  of  the  Thacker  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.  and  the  Thacker 
Coal  Co. 


O.  O.  SMITH,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

District  Manager  The  Sun  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Pomeroy, 
Ohio,  November  5,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  He  is  the  owner  of  the  Richmond  Coal  Co., 
Richmond,  Indiana.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Chesapeake 
&  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Bewley-Darst  Coal  Co. 


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JOHN   W.   STEVENSON',   Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Of  John  W.  Stevenson  Coal  Sales  Co.,  successors  to  Steven- 
son, Brown  &  Co..  was  born  in  Cincinnati  January  31,  1893, 
and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  distributive  end  of  the 
coal  business  since  leaving  school.  Mr.  Stevenson,  on 
October  30,  1917,  purchased  Mr.  Brown's  interest  in  Steven- 
son. Brown  &  Co.  He  is  a  grandson  of  the  former  John 
W.   Stevenson,  ex-Governor  of  Kentucky. 


CHARLES    A.   TRIRBEY,  Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

President  Tribbey  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Blanchester,  Ohio, 
in  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He 
is  also  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Midland  Mining  Co. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  C.  G. 
Blake  Coal  Co.,  and  White  Oak  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  Vice 
President  of  the  Cincinnati  Coal  Exchange. 


I.'LAKKM'K  E.  TITTLE,  Cincinnati.  Ohio, 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Tuttle  Coal  Co.,  Presi- 
dent Riverside  Coal  Co.,  and  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  Guthrie  Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  May  17,  1884, 
in  Hastings,  Minnesota,  ■  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen  years.  Mr.  Tuttle  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co..  the  Northern  Coal  &  Dock  Co.. 
Bcrwlnd   Fuel   Co.,    and    the  Carnegie    Fuel   Co. 


LEWIS  M,  WEIIB,  Cincinnati.  Ohio. 
President  and  Treasurer  Webb  Fuel  Co. 
and  Webb  Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  May  1,  1875,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine 
years. 


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GAYLE    E.    WEBER,    Cincinnati,    Ohio, 

Of    Cumberland    Coal    Co.,    Cincinnati,    Ohio,    was    born    In 
Newport,  Kentucky,   March   8,   1S87. 


CHESTER     M.     ANDERSON,     Columbus, 

Western  Sales  Manager  Elk  River  Coal 
&  Lumber  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Galion,  Ohio,  May  16,  1871,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
four  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Somers  Coal  Co.,  General 
Hocking  Coal  Co.,  Sunday  Creek  Coal 
Co..  Boomer  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  The 
C.  M.   Anderson   Coal  Co. 


BARTOW    CHARLES    TUCKER, 
Cleveland,   Ohio. 

President  Lake  City  Coal  Co.,  Jean 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  Brilliant  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Cleveland,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 21,  1873,  in  Cleveland.  He 
was  formerly  Vice  President  of  the 
Lorain  &  West  Virginia  Railway.  Mr. 
Tucker  represents  many  interests  in 
the  lake  transportation  business,  and 
is  active  as  a  Director  In  a  number  of 
Cleveland   industries. 


PORSTBAUER,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 

With  the  Lake  City  Coal  Co. 


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ROSWEI.I.   S.  PRICE,  Cleveland.  Ohio, 

President  Lake  Erie  Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born 
In  Newark.  New  York,  in  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  previously  connected 
with  the  Underbill  Coal  Co.,  Stickney-Price  Coal  Co.,  and  the 
Richland   Coal   Co. 


GEORGG    II.   ROWLAND,   Cleveland,  Ohio. 

President  and  General  Manager  The  Coal  Ridge  Mining  Co., 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  The  Apex  Coal  Co.,  andr 
Vice  President  and  Secretary  Lake  Erie  Coal  Co.,  all  of 
Cleveland,  was  born  in  Plymouth.  Ohio,  in  1870,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Richland   Coal  Co. 


F.  <;.   II  \M  El. SOX.  Olmxtead  Fall». 

Sales  Manager  Lake  Erie  Coal  Co., 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Chicago. 
Illinois.  January  16,  1883,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Youghiogheny 
&  Ohio  Coal  Co.  and  the  Cleveland  & 
Western   Coal   Co. 


•  .  i  i'iei.1     A.   HUGHES,   Cleveland.  Ohio. 
Treasurer    Lake    Erie    Coal    Co.,    Inc.,    and    Secretary    Coal 
Ridge  Mining  Co.,   Cleveland,   was   born    in   Aurora,   Ontario, 
in  1876,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 
He   was   formerly   with    the    D.   J.    Stickney  Coal   Co, 


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JOH1V  N.  GELLATLY,  Cleveland.  Ohio. 
President  and  General  Manager  Kanawha  Rail  &  River  Coal 
Co.,  Cleveland,  was  born  in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  November 
5,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 
He  was  previously  connected  with  the  H.  L.  Herbert  Co., 
prominent  New  York  retailers  at  one  time,  and  J.  N.  Gel- 
la  tly   &   Co.    of   Cleveland. 


WALTER  A.   SMITH,   Cleveland.   Ohio, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  Kanawha  Rail  &  River  Coal  Co., 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years, 
part  of  the  time  with  J.  N.  Gollatly  &  Co. 


.IOHIV    SMIIVCK   VAN    EPPS,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 

Western  Sales  Agent  The  Millspaugh  &  Green  Co.,  with 
headquarters  at  1013  Citizens  Building,  Cleveland,  was  born 
in  Cleveland  August  13,  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-nine  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  of  the 
Trevorton  Colliery  Co.,  Trevorton,  Pennsylvania.  Earlier 
business  connections  were  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.  and 
the  Hudson  Coal  Co  Mr.  Van  Epps,  because  of  his  interest 
in  all  trade  movements  and  his  personality,  has  probably 
as  wide  a  eircle  of  friends  and  acquaintances  as  any  man  in 
the  coal  trade. 


LESLIE    I.    VAN    EPPS,    Cleveland,    Ohio, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  The  Van  Epps  Coal  Co.,  1450  Rocke- 
feller Building,  Cleveland,  was  born  in  Cleveland  May  9, 
1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years,  part  of 
the  time  as  superintendent  of  the  anthracite  mine  of  the 
Trevorton  Colliery  Co.  at  Trevorton,  Pennsylvania.  The 
name  of  Van  Epps  is  a  well-known  one  in  anthracite  circles. 


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HAROLD   I*.  ARNT.  Clevrlnnd,   Ohio, 

Treasurer  and  General  Manager  The  Stillwater  Coal  Mining 
Co.  and  President  Indian  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Rockefeller  Build- 
ing, Cleveland,  was  born  in  Denmark,  October  4.  1869,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr.  Arnt  is 
influential   in  Ohio   coal   mining   circles. 


ROY    S.   BAIN,   Cleveland,   Ohio, 

Secretary  and  General  Sales  Manager  of  the  Central  Coal 
Mining  Co.  and  Sales  Manager  and  a  Director  of  the  River 
Ridge  Coal  Co..  Cleveland,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  November 
15,  1889,  and  has  been  fifteen  years  in  the  coal  business.  His 
experience,  while  with  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Glens  Run 
Coal  Co.,  and  as  Sales  Agent  of  the  Lake  Erie  Coal  Co., 
well  qualifies  him  for  his  present   position. 


I  i  I  I  HORMCKKL,,  Cleveland.  Ohio, 
President  and  General  Manager  Anchor  Coal  Co.,  Cleveland, 
was  born  in  Youngstown,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
l.usiness  for  over  forty  years.  As  a  youth  he  was  employed 
by  the  C.  H.  &  W.  C.  Andrews  Co.  and  the  Todd-Stambaugh 
Co.  in  the  Mahoning  Valley.  Later  he  was  connected  with 
tin-  Youghiogheny  Gas  Coal  Co.,  Panhandle  Coal  Mining  Co., 
the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  the  Monongahela  River  Consoli- 
dated Coal  &  Coke  Co..  and  the  M.  A.  Hanna  Co.  of  Cleve- 
land. 


FRANK   M.  KIRK.  Cleveland,   Ohio, 

Owner  of  the  Frank  M.  Kirk  Coal  Co.,  1216  Swetland  Build- 
ing. Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Jackson,  Ohio,  November 
5,  1863.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 
He  is  also  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Kirk-Dunn  Coal 
Co.  and  the  Beaver  Coal  Co.  and  Cleveland  agent  for  the 
Crozer-Pocahontas  Co.  of  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Kirk  was  for- 
merlv  connected  with  the  Hazel-Kirk  Coal  Co.  and  the  Kirk- 
W'lmds  Coal  Co. 


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LAWRENCE   H.  LANG,   Cleveland,  Ohio, 

Secretary  The  Stillwater  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Rockefeller  Build- 
ing, Cleveland,  was  born  in  Cleveland  July  29,  1886,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  began  at  the  age 
of  fifteen  with  the  Cuyahoga  Coal  Co.,  went  to  the  Steiner 
Coal  Co.  in  1905,  and  was  with  that  company  eight  years. 
Mr.  Lang  is  also  President   of   the   Quaker  Coal  Co. 


DOUGLAS  W.  MILLER,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  Rail  &  River  Coal  Co.,  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Red  Hook,  New  York,  May  25,  1865,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 


CLARENCE   L.    THOMPSON,    Cleveland,   Ohio, 

Sales  Agent  for  M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  January  21,  1862,  and  has  been 
previously  with  R.  W.  Russell,  R.  J.  Saltsman,  retailers, 
Erie,  1879  to  1885;  the  W.  L.  Scott  Coal  Co.,  1885  to  1905, 
and  the  Susquehanna  Coal  Co.,  1905  to  1917;  and  M.  A.  Hanna 
&  Co.  He  entered  the  coal  business  as  an  office  boy 
December  21,  1879,  and  May  1,  1885,  went  with  the  W.  L. 
Scott  Coa!  Co.,  and  continued  up  to  January  1,  1905;  from 
January  1,  1909,  to  1917,  General  Western  Agent  Susque- 
hanna Coal  Co.,  and   then  with  M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co. 


WHITNEY    WARNER,   Cleveland,   Ohio, 

Partner  in  the  firm  of  W.  H.  Warner  &  Co.,  Union  National 
Bank  Buiding,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  also  financially  inter- 
ested in  operating  companies  in  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  West 
Virginia  and  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Mineral  Ridge,  Ohio, 
June  3,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 
Mr.  Warner  is  a  well-known  and  progressive  operator. 


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mn  <;.  wolkk,  Cleveland,  ohiu, 

Western  Manager  of  the  Hutchinson  Coal  Co.,  942  Rocke- 
feller Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Grafton,  West 
Virginia,  December  19,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  seventeen  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Davis 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  L.  B.  Brydon  &  Co.,  and  the  Grafton  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  Mr.  Wolfe  is  well  known  and  has  many  friends 
in  the  trade. 


WALTER    R.    WOODFORD,    Cleveland,   Ohio, 

President  of  the  Hail  &  River  Coal  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
was  born  at  Dunkirk,  New  York,  November  9,  1857,  and  has 
been  in  the  railroad  and  coal  business  for  many  years.  Mr. 
Woodford  is  a  prominent  factor  in  operating  circles.  He  was 
formerly  in  the  railroad  service  and  has  been  President  of 
the  Wheeling,  Lake  Erie  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  Midvale- 
Goshen  Coal  Co.,  Vice  President  of  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
and  a  Director  of  various  coal  companies.  Mr.  Woodford 
was  for  two  years  President  of  the  Pittsburgh  Vein  Oper- 
ators' Association. 


JAMKS     II.     WOODS,     Cleveland,     Ohio, 

Manager  for  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
and  also  Secretary  of  the  Anchor  Coal 
Co..  was  born  at  Warren,  Ohio,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty  years.  He  was 
formerly  associated  with  the  Kirk- 
Woods  Coal  Co.  and  the  Hazel  Kirk 
Gas  &  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Woods  is  widely 
known  and  one  of  the  most  popular 
men  in  the  coal  trade  of  the  middle 
west. 


HOMER  C.  fill. I.,  ColumbUH,  Ohio, 

Well-known  retail  coal  merchant  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  Mr. 
Gill  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  bettering  coal 
trade  conditions  and  Is  President  of  the  Mlchigan-Ohlo- 
Indiana  Coal  Association. 


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I-:.    M.    POSTON,   ColumbuH,    Ohio, 

President  New  York  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Nelsonville,  Ohio, 
October  26,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen 
years.  He  is  also  President  of  several  subsidiary  companies 
controlled  by  the  New  York  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
President  of  the  Slater-Poston  Coal  Co.  and  the  Dover  Coal 
Co. 


JOHN   A.  TEKGAKDIJI,  Columbus,   Obio, 

Vice  President  New  York  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  in  charge  of 
sales,  was  born  in  Pickaway  County,  Ohio,  in  1879,  and 
entered  the  coal  business  in  1901  as  salesman  for  The  Slater- 
Poston  Coal  Co.  In  1906  he  was  appointed  Northern  Sales 
.Agent  of  the  New  York  Coal  Co.,  with  headquarters  at 
Detroit.  Michigan,  and  in  1908  was  appointed  General  Sales 
Agent  for  the  same  company  at  Columbus,  Ohio.  In  1915 
he  was  elected  Vice  President  of  the  company  in  charge 
of   sales,   which   position    he   still   occupies. 


CLARENCE  W.  THOMPSON,  ColumbilM,  Ohio, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  New  York  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Nashport,  Ohio,  June  21,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  several 
of  the  company's  subsidiary  companies.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Slater-Poston  Coal  Co.  and  the  Dover  Coal  Co. 


K.   K.  MoMANIGAL,  Columbux,   Ohio, 

Associated  with  the  New  York  Coal  Co. 


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i    i  "i  i    \  I  i    A.   inll.    ni.l.ii*.   Ohio, 

Of  Edmund  A.  Cole  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Barnesville,  Ohio,  No- 
vember 8,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-two 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Straitsville  Central  Min- 
ing Co.,  Columbus  &  Hocking-  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  President 
Hocking  Valley  Coal  Co.,  Treasurer  General  Hocking  Coal 
Co.,  and  President  Sunday  Creek  Co.' 


JOHN    HI   --II      c  cil  l   .    Colombo.*,    Ohio, 
Of  Edmund   A.   Cole   &   Co.,    was    born    in   Columbus  January 
21,  1886,  and   has  been   in   the  coal  business  ten   years. 


I  in  in  iin  G.  ii  \  I  I  ii  V  Colnmbua,  Ohio, 
President  Hatton,  Brown  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Delta,  Ohio. 
March  13,  1883,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  seventeen 
years.  He  Is  also  President  of  the  Blue  Ridge  Coal  Co.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Clinchfield   Coal   Corp. 


WILLIAM  M.  IIKOWV,  Itoannkr,  Vlriclnla, 
Vice  President  of  Hatton,  Brown  &  Co.,  Roanoke,  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Wilmington,  Ohio,  February  26.  1881,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Brown  was  for- 
merly with  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  later  Secretary  to 
the  President  of  the  Clinchfield  Coal  Corp.  Mr.  Brown  is  in 
charge  of  the  Roanoke  office  of  this  company,  while  Mr.  Hat- 
ton  makes   his  headquarters  at  Columbus. 


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HARRY    H.    !li:i\l   II.    Columbus,    Ohio, 

President  The  Maynard  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Washington, 
Ohio,  February  14,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-three  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Superior 
Coal  &  Dock  Co.  and  the  Daniel  Boone  Coal  Co.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Big  Mountain  Mining  Co.  and  the  Sunday 
Creek  Coal  Co. 


GEORGE     HOMER     BARKER,     CulumbuM,     Ohio, 

Vice  President  and  Treasurer  The  Maynard  Coal  Co.,  was 
born  in  Hocking  County,  Ohio,  July  27,  1873,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  is  also  Vice 
President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Daniel  Boone  Coal  Co.  and 
the  Superior  Coal  &  Dock  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  May- 
nard Brothers,  prominent  operators  in  the  Hocking  District 
of  Ohio.  Mr.  Barker  was  one  of  the  founders  and  the  first 
Treasurer    of    the    National    Coal    Association,    Washington. 


JOSEPH  WALLE'lT   BLOWER,   Columbus,   Ohio, 

President  The  Hisylvania  Coal  Co.  and  The  Piney  Fork 
Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  The  D.  C.  Thomas  Coal  Co., 
was  born  in  Bilston,  England,  May  24,  1862;  started  in  as 
a  trapper  boy  at  9'/2  years  of  age,  and  has  worked  at  every 
job  around  mines  from  trapper  to  operator.  He  came  to 
the  United  States  in  May,  1881,  and  attended  the  School  of 
Mines,  Ohio  State  University.  Later  he  was  with  the 
Equitable  Coal  Co.  and  the  Pittsburgh  &  Lake  Erie  Railroad. 
In  1901  he  opened  mines  in  the  Hocklnj  field  in  the  Sunday 
Creek  Valley.  He  has  resided  in  Columbus  the  past  twelve 
years. 


FREDERICK    W.    BRAGGINS,    Columhux.    Ohio, 

President  The  Lorain  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  was  born  in  Green- 
ville, Pennsylvania,  February  14,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Pittsburgh  &  Wheeling  Coal  Co.  and  Mid- 
vale  Goshen  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  Vice  President  of 
the  Pittsburgh  Vein   Operators  Association  of  Ohio. 


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\  1. 1  1:1.11  IIHK.V HOLTS,  Columbux.  Ohio, 
President  General  Hocking  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in  Zanesville, 
Ohio,  in  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-six 
years.  He  is  also  interested  In  the  Poston  Consolidated 
Coal  Co.  and  Pike-Floyd  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  General  Hocking  Coal  Co.  and  Imperial  Coa4  Mining  Co. 


PEARL    \  I  i.i  -  I  I    -    COE8V,  Columbian.  Ohio, 

President  Buckeye  Coal  &  Railway  Co.,  was  born  In  Old 
Washington.  Ohio,  September  26,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the 
Ohio  Land  &  Railway  Co.  He  was  previously  with  the 
Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Sans  Bois  Coal  Co.,  Rail  &  River  Coal 
Co.,  and  Sunday   Creek  Coal  Co. 


mi <  Olll:\  \l  H.  i  mbtiM,  Ohio, 

President  The  Alma-Thacker  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  In  Pekin, 
Illinois,  August  17,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  Is  also  Interested  in  the  Elmer  Miller 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Central  Hocking  Coal  Co.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Lehigh  foal  &  Coke  Co.,  St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 


s.    F.    L.    I)KA\.    ColiimbuM,   Ohio, 

President  Dean  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  In  Sugar  Grove, 
Ohio,  In  1869,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  thirty-one 
years.  He  is  President  of  the  West  Virginia  Rail  &  River 
Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  General  Manager  of  the  Co- 
lumbus &  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 


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ARTHUR  P.  DeVENNISH,  Columbus,   Ohio, 

Sales  Manager  Hocking  Valley  Products  Co.,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Columbus  &  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  The  W.  J. 
Hamilton  Coal  Co.  and  W.  A.  Gosline  &  Co. 


FREDERICK  ERERSBACH,  Pomeroy,  Ohio, 

Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Peacock  Coal 
Co.,  President  Martin-Ebersbach  Co.,  President  Peoples  Coal 
Co.,  and  President  Pomeroy  Machine  Co.,  was  born  in  Pom- 
eroy November  3.  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
forty-four  years.  He  is  well  and  favorably  known  through- 
out  the   trade. 


WILLIAM    J.    HAMILTON,   Columbus,   Ohio, 

General  Manager  W.  J.  Hamilton  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Columbus, 
was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  March  14,  1877,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with   the   Thacker   Coal   Co. 


ELMER  E.  LEARNED,  Columbus,  Ohio, 

Sales  Manager  and  Purchasing  Agent  The  Hisylvania  Coal 
Co.,  The  Piney  Fork  Coal  Co.,  The  Pan  Handle  Collieries 
Co.,  and  The  D.  C.  Thomas  Coal  Co.,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  nineteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Wil- 
liam Job  Coal  Co.   and  the  Elk  Coal  Co. 


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J.  8.  McVKV,  ColumbuH,  Ohio, 

President  Central  West  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  was  born  on 
a  farm  near  Lancaster,  Ohio,  July  12,  1884,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He  is  also  President  of 
the   Southern   Ohio   Coal   Co. 


WALTER  HARRISON   PLANT,  Columbus,  Ohio, 

Secretary  and  General  Manager  Colonial  Coal  &  Supply  Co., 
Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Columbus  July  27,  1881,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years.  He  Is  also 
General  Manager  Bell  Block  Coal  Co.,  Colonial  Pocahontas 
Coal  Co.,  and  the  Red  Ash  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Hamilton  Coal  Co.  and  the  Gillam-Min- 
shall  Coal  Co. 


A.  SIMONS,  New   Lexington,  Ohio, 

Of  A  Simons  &  Son,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Virginia 
in  1X53,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  thirty-two  years. 
Mr  Simons  is  a  thoroughly  experienced  coal  man  and  has 
held    positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  operators'  association. 


GEO.  CONRAD  WRITKKLL.  ColumhiiN,  Ohio, 
President  New  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  McConnells- 
ville.  Ohio,  August  25,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-three  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Great  Lakes  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  has 
served  as  President  of  the  Hocking  Coal  Operators  Asso- 
ciation and  was  one  of  seven  Commissioners  appointed  by 
former  Governor  Andrew  L.  Harris  of  Ohio  to  revise  and 
recommend   a   new   code   of  mining  laws. 


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WILLIAM   A.   GOSLINE,  Toledo,  Ohio, 

President  of  W.  A.  Gosline  &  Co.,  wholesalers,  with  offices 
in  the  Ohio  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Toledo, 
October  25,  1S73,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost 
twenty-five  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Bear  Run  Coal 
Co.  Mr.  Gosline  is  highly  respected  in  the  coal  trade  and  has 
served  as  President  of  the  Toledo  Chamber  of  Commerce. 


HARRY  J.  HEYWOOD,  Toledo,  Ohio, 

Member  of  W.  A.  Gosline  &  Co  ,  large  wholesalers  with  of- 
fices In  the  Ohio  Building,  Toledo.  Ohio,  was  born  at  New- 
bury, Ontario,  Canada,  June  27,  1863,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  almost  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Heywood  is 
also  interested  in  the  Bear  Run  Mining  Co.  and  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  J.  H.  Durkee  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Wainwright  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Heywood  has  served  as  Vice 
President  of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal  Association, 
President  National  Coal  Trade  Golf  Association,  and  is  one 
of  the   best   known   coalmen   in   the  Middle   West. 


HERBERT   G.   HEYWOOD.  Toledo,  Ohio, 

City  Sales  Manager  of  both  wholesale  and  retail  depart- 
ments for  W.  A.  Gosline  &  Co.  of  Toledo.  Ohio,  was  born  at 
Wardsville,  Ontario,  Canada,  in  1883,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  is  a  nephew  of  Harry 
J.   Heywood   and   has   many   friends   in   the   trade. 


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SCHUYLER  C.   SCHBlfOK,  Toledo.  Ohio, 

Was  for  more  than  thirty  years  before  his  death  a  promi- 
nent factor  in  the  coal  trade.  Representing  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  and  Western  Railroad  Co.,  he  operated  docks 
at  Toledo  and  Chicago  and  was  one  of  the  largest  handlers 
of  anthracite   in   the   West. 


DANIEL   IJOW   SCIIKXCK,  Toledo,  Ohio, 

Late  President  The  S.  C.  Schenck  Co.,  large  wholesalers 
with  offices  at  Chicago  and  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo 
December  9,  1875,  and  had  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Schenck  was  Sales 
Agent  for  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  Coal  Co. 
at  Toledo,  and  was  one  of  the  most  highly  respected  mem- 
bers of  the  anthracite   trade. 


LEWIS   It.   SCHENCK,  Toledo.  Ohio, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  S.  C.  Schenck  Co.,  prominent 
wholesalers  at  Toledo,  with  offices  at   tin-   Nicholas    Building. 
was  born  at  Toledo   in   1880,  and   has  been    in  th«  coal   busi- 
ness for  four  years. 


CHARLES    1.    DERI  NO,   <  hieaico.    llllnoiH. 

Manager  B,  C  Schenck  Co»  is  one  of  the  prominent  coalmen 
nf  Chicago.  He  served  for  two  years  as  President  of  the 
Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association  and 
also  as  President  of  the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce. 
Mr.  Dering  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  In  civic  and 
trade    affairs    and    is    highly    regarded. 


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CHARLES    T.    K  \  u  I  III   it.   Toledo,  Ohio, 

President  of  the  Central  States  Coal  Co.,  wholesalers  with 
offices  in  the  Second  National  Bank  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio, 
was  born  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  September  16,  1886,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Harther 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  New  York  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Johnson  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the  Michi- 
gan-Ohio-Indiana Coal  Association  and  very  popular  in  the 
trade. 


S.  T.  WALBOLT,  Toledo,  Ohio, 

General  Manager  of  the  Central  States  Coal  Co.,  wholesalers 
with  offices  in  the  Second  National  Bank  Building,  Toledo, 
Ohio,  was  born  at  Monclova,  Ohio,  June  9,  1880,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Walbolt  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Northwest  Coal  Co.,  the  New 
Pittsburgh  Coal   Co.,  and   the   Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 


THOMAS    A.    McNERlVEY,   Toledo,    Ohio, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  General  Western  Fuel  Co. 
with  offices  in  the  Ohio  Building,  Toledo,  was  born  in  Point 
Edward,  Ontario,  Canada,  September  6,  1871,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  Mr.  McNerney  was 
previously  connected  with  I.  W.  Copelin  of  Toledo,  whole- 
sale coal  and  coke,  for  nine  years. 


JOHN     V.    MAYHEW,    Toledo,    Ohio, 

Vice  President  and  Secretary  of  the  General  Western  Fuel 
Co.,  wholesalers  with  offices  in  the  Ohio  Building,  Toledo, 
Ohio,  'was  born  in  Toledo,  January  1,  1869,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Mayhew  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Hesser  &  Wickham,  snippers  of  coal 
and  coke,  and  with  the  Purchasing  Department  of  the  Mis- 
souri Pacific  Railway  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  I.  W.  Cope- 
lin, coal  and  coke  jobber,  Toledo. 


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ANTO.\    BIHSCHEX,   Toledo,   Ohio, 

Well  known  retailer  doing  business  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  was 
born  In  Germany  January  4,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Bueschen  formerly  owned  the 
W.  P.  Hubbs  Co.  Mr.  Bueschen  has  been  very  successful 
and  stands  well  in  the  trade. 


CHARLES   EVERETT   CARTWR1GHT,  Toledo,  Ohio, 

Vice  President  of  the  West-Crescent  Fuel  Co.,  wholesalers 
with  offices  at  620  Madison  Ave.,  Toledo,  was  born  in  Toledo 
May  17,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years.  Mr.  Cartwright  is  interested  In  the  Youghiogheny 
Gas  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  A.  G. 
Blair  Coal  Co. 


ALBERT  MACKENZIE  DONOVAN,  Toledo.  Ohio, 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Toledo  Fuel  Co., 
retailers  and  wholesalers,  with  offices  in  the  Second  National 
Bank  Building,  Toledo,  was  born  in  Chatham.  Ontario,  Can- 
ada, June  22,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
two  years.  Mr.  Donovan  was  formerly  connected  with  Stan- 
ley B.  Smith  &  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  Stanley  B.  Smith 
Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Toledo,  Ohio,  both  of  which  firms  are  now 
out  of  business.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Detroit  College 
of  Law,  and  active  in  Masonic  circles,  being  a  Past  High 
Priest  and   a  member  of   Zenobia   Temple,   A.   A.   O.   X.    M.   S. 


I   in.  mi    \V.   EHV1N,  Toledo.   Ohio. 

Northern  Sales  Manager  of  the  Pocahontas-Winifrede  Coal 
Co.,  with  offices  in  the  Ohio  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born 
at  Jackson,  Ohio,  September  29,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years,  having  had  ten  years'  ex- 
perience in  coal  production  and  ten  in  the  selling  end.  Mr. 
Ervin  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Geo.  M.  Jones  Co. 
and  the  Royal  Collieries  Co..  and  still  is  a  stockholder  and 
Director    in    the    latter    company. 


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LEWIS    JAY    GIFFOHD,   Toledo,    Ohio, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Oakland  Coal  Co.,  whole- 
salers with  offices  in  the  Ohio  Building,  Toledo,  was  born 
in  Bucyrus,  Ohio,  October  17,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Gifford  is  also  General 
Sales  Agent  of  the  Standard  Kanawha  Coal  Mining  Co.  and 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Crescent  Fuel  Co.  as  Vice 
President. 


ROY    O.    HAKT,    Toledo,    Ohio, 

Vice  President  of  the  Oakland  Coal  Co.,  well-known  whole- 
salers at  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo  in  August, 
1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Hart  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Gillam-Minshall  Coal 
Co.,  Minshall  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh  &  Indiana  Coal  Co.,  and 
Akron   Coal   Co.  , 


HARRY   B.  HEIXEH.  Toledo,  Ohio, 

Sales  Agent  for  the  Maynard  Coal  Co.  with  offices  in  the 
Nicholas  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Point  Pleasant, 
West  Virginia,  March  1,  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  five  years.  Mr.  Heiner  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Sunday  Creek  Co. 


WILLIAM   I».   HL'BBS,   Toledo,   Ohio, 

Well-known  wholesaler  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  with  offices  in  the 
Spitzer  Building,  was  born  in  Antioch,  Ohio,  March  18,  1862, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Hubbs 
was  formerly  connected  with  Gosline  &  Barbour,  I.  W. 
Copelin   and  the  General  Hocking  Fuel  Co. 


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I  I  Ml  It  MII.I.KK.  Toledo,  Ohio, 
President  of  the  Elmer  Miller  Coal  Co.,  well-known  whole- 
salers with  offices  in  the  Nicholas  Building.  Toledo,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Augusta  County,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Miller  is  President  of 
the  Ohio  Block  Cannel  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  of  the 
Kenmont  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Turney  &  Jones  Co.  of  Columbus  and  the  Powhatan  Coal  Co. 
of  Toledo. 


I.i:<>\    7..    m:  I  /.old..  Toledo,  Ohio. 

President  L.  Z.  Netzorg  Coal  Co.,  organized  April  1.  1918. 
Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Greenville,  Michigan,  in  1885,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years.  Mr.  Netzorg  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Michigan  College  of  Mines,  with  degrees  of 
Bachelor  of  Science  and  Mining  Engineer.  Before  his  en- 
trance into  the  coal  business  he  was  with  the  Calumet  & 
Hecla  Co.  and  the  American  Smelting  &  Refining  Co.  He 
was  associated  with  The  W.  H.  Warner  Coal  Co.  of  Toledo 
and   is  still    its  Vice   President. 


JOHN  T.  SOI, ON,  Toledo,  Ohio. 
Well-known  wholesaler  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  with  offices  in  the 
Nli  hulas  Building,  was  born  in  Green  Spring,  Ohio,  and 
haa  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Solon  was 
previously  connectxl  with  the  Knitwnee  Coal  Co.,  Columbus 
&  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Southern  Ohio  ('mil  &  Iron  Co., 
Solon  Coal  Co..  and  Coiirtrlghl.    Kislcr  &  Co. 


mull   n  I     JAMBS    WEST,   Toledo,   Ohio, 

President  of  the  West-Crescent  Fuel  Co.,  prominent  whole- 
salers engaged  in  business  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  at 
Toledo,  May  18.  1867.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over 
a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  West  was  formerly  connected 
with  Barker  &  Dwight,  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.,  and  the 
Phenix    Coal    Co. 


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W.   ED.    McCUE,  Akron,   Ohio, 

Manager  of  the  City  Coal  Co.,  Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
North  Lawrence,  Star  County,  Ohio,  June  7,  1877,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Davis  Coal  Co.  and  is  a  son  of  Thomas 
W.  McCue,  well-known  operator  and  jobber,  the  first  man 
to    introduce   Pittsburgh   coal    into   Akron. 


.11)11  \    A.   McALOXAX,   Akron,   Ohio, 

Treasurer  of  the  City  Coal  Co.  of  Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  at 
Cuyahoga  Falls,  Ohio,  June  7,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twelve  years.  The  wagons  and  trucks  of  this 
company  are  all  painted  white  with  red  lettering  and  they 
have  taken  many  first  prizes  in  horse  show  parades,  Mr. 
McAlonan   is   well   known  and   has  many   friends. 


LOUIS    A.    KLAGES,    Akron,   Ohio, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  The  Klages  Coal  &  Ice  Co.. 
Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Akron  May  27,  1884,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  is  the  son  of  the 
late  Henry  Klages,  founder  of  the  company. 


HOWARD   W.   HAUPT,  Akron,  Ohio, 

General  Manager  Klages  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  retailers  at  Akron 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Loyal  Oak,  Summit  County,  Ohio,  June  27, 
1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years. 


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RALPH  O.  GLESSNER,  Akron,  Ohio, 

General  Manager  of  the  City  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  doing  a  retail 
business  at  Akron.  Ohio,  was  born  at  Polk,  Ashland  Coun- 
ty, Ohio,  August  13,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  six  years.  Mr.  Glessner  was  formerly  In  the  railroad 
business  for  fifteen  years  before  going  with  this  company. 


CORA  E.   iiiuni.l  \.  Canton,  Ohio, 

Proprietor  of  the  Oberlin  Coal  Co.,  well-known  retail  coal 
merchants  at  Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Canton  May  11,  1891, 
and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  since  1909. 


THOMAS  H.  JOHNSON,  Rellalre,  Ohio. 

President  Ohio  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Mercer 
County,  Pennsylvania,  March  17,  1865,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  almost  half  a  century.  He  Is  a  Director  of  the 
West  Wheeling  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Johnson  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  Johnson  Brothers  Coal  Co.  and  Johnson  Coal  Co., 
and  has  held  every  position  from  water  bailer  up  to  General 
lit  nao;er. 


CARL   II.    EIIERTS,  Warwood,   Went   Virginia, 

Vice  President  and  Secretary-Treasurer  Ohio  Consolidated 
Coal  Co.,  Warwood,  was  born  in  Wheeling.  West  Virginia, 
December  18,  1888.  Before  starting  In  the  coal  business  Mr. 
Kberts  worked  In  the  Quarter  Savings  Bank  of  Wheeling, 
and  after  having  worked  his  way  up  in  this  bank  he  organ- 
ized the  Bank  of  Warwood  and  became  Its  cashier,  which 
position  he  still  holds.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the 
West  Wheeling   Coal  Co. 


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CHARLES  A.  McUONALD,  Canton,  Ohio, 

President   of   the    Canton    Coal   Co.,   Canton,   Ohio,   was   born 


and   has   been 
Mr.     McDonald 


in   Allegheny,   Pennsylvania,   April    4,    181 

the    coal     business    thirty-three     years. 

Treasurer  of  the  James  Mullins  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President 

of  The   Storm-Loomis   Coal  Co. 


D.  PRENTICE   LOOMIS,   Canton,   Ohio, 

Treasurer  Canton  Coal  Co.,  Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  New 
Philadelphia,  Ohio,  June  14,  1877.  He  is  Treasurer  of  The 
Storm-Loomis  Coal  Co.  and  of  The  Brown  Coal  Mining  Co., 
President  of  the  Myers  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Manager  of 
the  James  Mullins  Coal  Co.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eighteen  years,  part  of  the  time  with  the  Rhodes  & 
Beidler   Coal    Co.,    Cleveland,    Ohio. 


GEORGE  A.  WILLIAMS,  Canton,  Ohio, 

President  of  the  Storm-Loomis  Coal  Co.,  which  is  a  mining 
concern,  President  of  the  Navarre  Street  Coal  Co..  a  retail 
coal  concern,  and  Sales  Manager  of  The  Canton  Coal  Co.,  a 
wholesale  and  jobbing  company,  was  born  in  Thomastown, 
Ohio,  May  28,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
four  years.  Mr.  Williams  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Munter-Williams  Coal  Co.,  the  G.  A.  Williams  Coal  Co.  of 
Canton,  the  H.  S.  Odbert  Coal  Co.  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
the  Steiner   Coal   Co.   of  Canton. 


ADAM     F.    SON  XII  ALTER,    Canton,    O., 

Owner  of  the  Sonnhalter  Coal  Mining 
Co.  of  Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Mas- 
sillon,  Ohio,  October  4.  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Sonnhalter  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Sonnhalter  Coal 
Co.,  Massillon  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  the 
Elm  Run  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  is  well 
known  in  that  section. 


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WII.1.1AM   It.  YVOHI.KV.  Canton.  Ohio, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Steiner  Coal  Co.,  which  con- 
ducts the  largest  wholesale  and  retail  coal  business  in  the 
vicinity  of  Canton,  Ohio,  is  a  native  of  Canton,  born  Novem- 
ber 14,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
ten  years.     The  business  is  growing  steadily. 


T.    FRANK    SXYUER,   Canton,    Ohio, 

Secretary  of  the  Steiner  Coal  Co ,  engaged  in  business  at 
Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Oneida,  Ohio,  August  21,  1876, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  The  Steiner 
Coal  Co.  was  incorporated  in  1900  as  the  Indian  Run  Coal 
Co.  and  the  present  name  was  assumed  December  21,  1903. 
This   company   operates   four   yards   with   excellent  facilities. 


JAMKS    MII.TON    HITTKXOI  II.  Chlllloolhe,  Ohio, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Mohawk  Coal  Co.,  Chilli- 
cothe,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Chillicothe,  October  30,  1861,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  Mr.  Rittenour 
is  associated  with  J.  A.  I.ockard  of  Wellston.  Ohio,  and  they 
have  a  number  of  coal    interests   in   common. 


HAKKY    I'll  I1AIIT,    llnylon.    Ohio. 

Born  in  Dayton  August  16,  1865.  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Fluhart 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.  He  had  fifteen  years  practical  sales 
experience  on  the  road  before  going  into  the  business  for 
himself. 


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VIRGINIA   E.   MYERS,    Gailipolis,   Ohio, 

Of  V.  E.  Myers  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Gallipolis,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  She  is  also  proprietor  of 
the   Big  Bone  and   Giant   mines. 


C.   A.    SLOAN,   Jackxon.   Ohio, 

President  Jackson  Hill  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Harrisville, 
Ohio,  August  15,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years.  He  is  also  a  Director  in  the  Coalton  Fuel 
Co.,  proprietor  of  the  C.  A.  Sloan  Coal  Co.,  and  interested 
in  the  Jenkins-Lama  Coal  Co.  His  previous  experience  has 
been   with   the    Superior   Coal   Co. 


DAVID    ARMSTRONG,   Jackson,   Ohio, 

Of  the  Armstrong  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Waverly,  Ohio, 
March  7,  1873,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  mining  of  coa! 
since  1891.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Jackson 
Colliery  Co.  and  Jackson  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Vice  President 
Royal  Collieries  Co.,  Treasurer  Jenkins-Lama  Coal  Co.,  a 
Director  in  the  Sun  Coal  Co.,  Coalton  Fuel  Co.,  and  Jackson 
Hocking  Coal  Co.,  and  interested  in  the  Diamond  Coal  Co., 
Ohio  &  Kentucky  Coal  Co.,  Ohio  &  Indiana  Collieries  Co., 
Rowland  Block  Coal  &  Clay  Co.,   and  Power  Collieries  Co. 


JOHN    M.    ARMSTRONG,    Jackson,    Ohio, 

Of  the  Armstrong  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Waverly,  Ohio, 
April  19,  1869,  was  interested  in  coal  operations  since  1895. 
and  died  March  23,  1918.  He  was  a  Director  in  the  Jackson 
Colliery  Co.  and  the  Jackson  Hill  Coal  Co.  and  interested 
in  the  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  Ohio  &  Indiana  Collieries  Co.. 
Rowland  Block  Coal  &  Clay  Co.,  and  Power  Collieries  Co. 
Previous  to  his  entrance  in  the  coal  business  he  was  inter- 
ested  in  the   banking  business. 


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I'll  \lt<>\  M.  IH\M'.\ll(.i:i(.  Laura,  Ohio, 
A  progressive  retail  coal  merchant,  was  born  near  Pitts- 
burg. Ohio.  April  7,  1886,  and  embarked  in  the  coal  business 
in  May,  1917,  just  in  time  to  contend  with  the  most  serious 
conditions  that  have  ever  come  into  the  business  experience 
of  the  coal  trade.  Mr.  Hansbarger,  by  close  attention  and 
by  following  sound  business  principles  was  able  to  render 
excellent  fuel  service  to  the  community  in  which  he  resides. 


FRANK    W.   DRAKE,   Lima,   Ohio, 

Retail  coal  merchant,  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
November  22,  1852,  and  has  been  in  business  sixteen  years. 
He  also  is  in  the  supply  business  and  is  a  jobber  of  various 
lines  of  equipment. 


EI.MKH  B,  FOX,  M  .-I-- ill.. ii.  Ohio, 
President  and  General  Manager  Goshen  Central  Coal  Co.  and 
Treasurer  Coal  River  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Tuscarawas 
County,  Ohio,  February  4,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Warwick 
Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Central  Ohio 
Operators  Association. 


FRANK  FULTON  TAGGART.  Maaslllon,  Ohio, 

Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Spruce  River  CoaJ 
Co.,  was  born  in  Canal  Fulton,  Ohio,  August  27,  1873,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He  is  also 
Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  Jellico  Cannel  Co. 
and  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Goshen  Valley 
Coal  Co.  He  organized  the  Pigeon  Run  Coal  Co..  South 
Massillon  Coal  Co.,  Clendennin  Coal  Co.  and  City  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.  He  was  with  the  Midvale  Coal  Co.  and  the  Wheeling  & 
Lake  Erie  Co.  previous  to  his  connection  with  the  com- 
panies enumerated  above.  Mr.  Taggart  is  not  only  a  well 
known  coal  man  in  Ohio  but  is  a  man  active  in  local  and 
state  politics  and  a  member  of  the  leading  clubs  of  his  city. 


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CIIWM.KS    O.    SCOTT,     Midvale.    (» 

Of  the  Scott  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Mill 
Township,  Ohio,  July  2,  1876,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  operating  business 
twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  M.  A.  Hanna  Coal  Co.  and  the 
J.   W.  Ellsworth  Coal  Co. 


JOHN    S.    SCOTT,    Midvale,    Ohio, 

Of  the  Scott  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Mill 
Township,  Ohio,  February  25,  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  operating  busi- 
ness  seventeen   years. 


THOMAS     Ij.    SCOTT,    Midvale,    Ohio. 

Of  the  Scott  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Mill 
Township,  Ohio,  September  10,  1866, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-six  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  M.  A.  Hanna  Coal  Co.,  Wheel- 
ing &  Lake  Erie  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.,  Akron  Coal  Co.,  Fuller  Coal 
Co.,  Goshen  Coal  Co.  and  Beaver  Dam 
Coal   Co. 


GEORGE  J.  MARKL.EY,  Mineral  City,  Ohio, 

Owner  of  Acme,  Silver  Ash,  Huff  Run,  Massillon  Peacock, 
and  Acme  No.  6  mines,  was  born  in  Mineral  City  July  22, 
1854,  and  has  been  in  the  operating  end  of  the  coal  industry 
thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Cisco  Mining  Co.  and  Ohio  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  owned  at 
one  time  the  Sutter  mines  in  Indian  Territory.  He  is  an 
extensive  manufacturer  of  clay  products,  operating  four 
brick  factories.  He  supplies  Mineral  City  with  natural  gas 
from  his  own  well,  5,235  feet  deep,  the  deepest  in  the  state. 
He  has  also  extensive  real  estate  holdings.  At  the  age  of 
20,  he  paid  his  father  $350  for  his  freedom.  After  twelve 
years  he   bought  his  first  mine. 


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J.    WALT    GRAHAM,    Vel.onvllle,    ".. 

President  and  Superintendent  Graham- 
Rosser  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Middle- 
port,  Ohio,  July  30,  1881,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eight  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Imperial  Coal 
Co. 


C.  J.  ROSSEIt,   IMelMonvIlle,   Ohio, 

Vice  President  and  Secretary-Treasurer  Graham-Rosser  Coal 
Co.,  was  born  in  Nelsonville  December  14,  1859,  and  has 
been    in    the    coal    business    fourteen    years. 


JOHN      MeMIM,K\.     VrUonvllle,     Ohio, 

President  East  Hill  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
In  Meggs  County,  Ohio.  August  20, 
1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-nine  years.  He  is  also  Treas- 
urer and  General  Manager  of  the  Car 
Run  Coal  Co.  and  President  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Big  Bailey  Coal  Co. 


II  Kit  MAS    II.    WKISKK,    \.  „    I,exlnK«.n.   Ohio. 

Secretary  Lewiston  Block  Coal  Co.,  Lewiston,  West  Virginia, 
and  Ohio  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Bellaire,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Wheeling  West  Virginia,  in  1888,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  seven  years.  He  Is  also  interested  in  coal  lands, 
and  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  Kanawha  Coal  Oper- 
ators' Association  and  the  Kanawha  Coal  Shippers'  Asso- 
ciation. Mr.  Welske  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Hitchman  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Wheeling,  West  Virginia. 


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JOHN    A.    LOCKARD,    \\  .•  i  K1..11.    Ohio, 
Manager   Mohawk   Coal   Co..    was   born    in    Jackson    County, 
Ohio,   February  15,   1859,   and  has  been   in   the  coal  business 
fifteen   years. 


F.  XV.  WALKKR,   Xenia.   Ohio, 

Of  F.  W.  Walker  &  Co.,  was  born  near  Xenia,  Ohio,  August  21, 
1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  Wright  &  Carruthers  and  Carruthers 
&  Walker.  Mr.  Walker  takes  a  great  interest  in  civic 
affairs   of  his   community. 


JOHN    I'.    HORGER,    New    Philadelphia, 

President  and  General  Manager  The 
Horger-Heldt  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Port  Washington,  Ohio,  November  29, 
1878.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-eight  years.  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Andreas  Coal  Co. 
in  1917,  and  is  now  Vice  President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  company.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Midvale-Goshen 
Coal   Co.   and   the   Goshen   Coal   Co. 


H.    C.    SCHNEIDER,    New    Philadelphia, 

Owner  of  the  Goshen  Valley  mine,  was 
born  in  Lake  Baden.  Germany,  January 
18,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness nineteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Goshen  Valley  Coal  Co., 
Beaver  Dam  Coal  &  Mining  Co..  and 
the   Old   Town   Coal   Co. 


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JERRY  MORROW,  Wellston..   Ohio, 

President  Elko  Colliery  Co..  was  born  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio, 
October  18,  1843,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifty- 
three  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Wellston  Hill  Coal 
Co.  and  Morrow  Manufacturing  Co.  and  Vice  President  of 
the  Hickory  Ash  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Wells- 
ton Colliery  Co.,  Hitt-Davis  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Jackson 
-Mining  Co.,  Spring  Valley  Iron  Co.,  Federal  Creek  Coal  Co., 
Petrea  Coal  Co.,  Chapman  Coal  Co.,  and  John  F.  Hall  Coal 
Co.  The  Elko  Colliery  Co.  mines  and  ships  Elko  No.  2 
Wellston  shaft  coal.  Mr.  Morrow  is  well-known  throughout 
the  trade  and  has  served  as  President  of  the  Jackson 
County   Operators  Association. 


FRANK    C.    MORROW.    Wellston,    Ohio, 

General  Manager  Elko  Colliery  Co.,  was  born  in  Chapman, 
Ohio,  August  4,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
The  Morrow  Manufacturing  Co.,  Wellston,  Ohio,  builders  of 
coal  tipple  equipment.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Wellston 
Colliery  Co..  Jackson  Mining  Co.  and  Hickory  Ash  Coal  Co. 


JOSEPH    H.    BROWNE,    Weilaton,    Ohio, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  The  Elko  Colliery  Co.,  was  born  in 
Ironton,  Ohio,  June  23,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness ten  years.  He  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
Wellston  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Treasurer-Manager  of  the  Browne 
Coal  Co.,  and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Spring  Vallev  Iron 
Co. 


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OHIO  —  Cincinnati 


WINFRED  WINDSOR  CARVER,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Man- 
ager Percy  Heilner  &  Son,  was  born  in  West  Virginia  in 
1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Carver  Bros.  Co.  and  Cabin  Creek 
Consolidated  Coal  Co. 

RUSSELL,  DES  COGNETS,  Treasurer  Tuttle  Coal  Co.,  of 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  January  6,  1890,  in  Lexington, 
Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Louis  Des  Cognets  Co.  of 
Lexington,    Kentucky. 

ROBERT  A.  COLTER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  The  C.  G. 
Blake  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  Septem- 
ber 9,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six 
years,  the  entire  time  with  his  present  company.  He  has 
held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of  the  state. 

WILLIAM  E.  DARNABY,  Manager  R.  O.  Campbell  Coal 
Co.,  was  born  in  Fayette  County,  Kentucky,  February  8, 
1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Asher  Coal  Mining  Co. 

IRVIN  DAVIS,  Secretary  Reliance  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Cin- 
cinnati. Ohio,  was  born  in  North  East.  Maryland,  December 
19,  1891,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

HARRY  W.  DICKERSON,  Assistant  Manager  of  Sales 
Reliance  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Grant  County,  Kentucky,  January  18,  1890,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Marmet-Halm  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

ROBERT  H.  DOEPKE,  President  of  the  Blue  Ash  Coal  Co., 
office  in  First  National  Bank  Building,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Cincinnati  November  3,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  ten  years.  He  is  interested  in  coal  and  other 
mining  properties. 

FREDERICK  H.  Dl'NKER,  Vice  President  John  T.  Hesser 
Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  August  7,  1879,  in  Cin- 
cinnati and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years. 
He  is  also  Vice  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Miami  Coal 
Co.,   Miami,   West   Virginia. 

F.  U.  FISHER,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Manager  Interstate  Coal 
&  Dock  Co.,  was  born  in  Belspring,  Virginia,  May  27, 
1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Consolidated  Coal  Co..  La  Mont  Min- 
ing Co.  and  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

F.  L.  GARRISON,  President  Shonk-Garrison  Coal  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Staickshinny,  Pennsylvania, 
January  9,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-six 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Webb  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Webb  Fuel  Co.,  and  Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Stevens  Coal  Co.,  Kanawha  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Cabin  Creek  Kanawha  Coal  Co.,  and  Williams  Coal 
Co.  of  Kanawha.  The  two  last  named  owned  and  operated 
the  Kanawha  Railway  Co..  which  is  now  the  Cabin  Creek 
branch  of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railway. 

PAUL  W.  GILL-HAM,  Vice  President  MacBard  Coal  Co., 
Cincinnati.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Covington,  Kentucky,  June  24, 
1880.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

R.  R.  GLOVER,  Traffic  and  Sales  Manager  Tuttle  Coal  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  New  Albany,  Indiana,  May  9, 
1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  two  years.  He  was 
formerly  with   the  Baltimore  &  Ohio   Railroad  fifteen  years. 

ROY  O.  HEYSER,  Cincinnati  representative  of  the  Solvay 
Collieries  Co.,  was  born  in  Leitchfield,  Kentucky,  May  3, 
1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Norfolk  &  Chesapeake  Coal  Co.,  and  Eaton,  Rhodes  &  Co. 
He  is  a  District  Coal  Agent  of  the  United  States  Fuel 
Administration. 

GEORGE  W.  JOHNSON,  Manager  Domestic  Department 
Island  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cin- 
cinnati August  5,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Marmet-Halm 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.   and  Reliance  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

FRANK  H.  KINNEY,  Manager  Hyde  Park  Supply  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  Novem- 
ber 24,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 

FRED  LEGG,  President  Logan  &  Kanawha  Coal  Co.,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  was  born  in  Maiden,  West  Virginia,  May  11, 
1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He 
was  previously  with  the  Kanawha  Independent  Coal  Co. 
and   Chesapeake   &   Ohio   Coal   &   Coke   Co. 

CHARLES  K.  LITKOWSKI,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Nau- 
gatuck  Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Middletown, 
Ohio,  June  27,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine 
years. 

ROBERT  S.  MAGEE,  Assistant  General  Manager  Pro- 
ducers Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Covington, 
Kentucky,  September  2,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Carbon  Fuel 
Co.  and  M.  A.   Hanna  &  Co. 


C.  DeLANEY  MARTIN,  President  Halmar  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Rensselaer,  Indiana,  in  1881, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and 
the  George  Halm  Coal  Co. 

M.  F.  MoDERMOTT,  Manager  Amherst  Fuel  Co.,  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  was  born  in  Alpsville,  Pennsylvania,  December 
23.  1885,  and  has  been  associated  with  the  Pittsburgh-Buf- 
falo Co.  and  the  Four  States  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

ROBERT  STIART  McVEIGH,  Vice  President  Island  Creek 
Coal    Co.,    Cincinnati,    Ohio,    was    born    in    Loudon    County, . 
Virginia,  December  15,  1872,  and  has  been   in   the  coal  busi- 
ness  twelve   years.     He   was   formerly   in   the   railroad   busi- 
ness. 

JOHN  MUELLER,  President  and  Treasurer  The  John 
Mueller  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Reading,  Ohio, 
April  20,  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1876. 

LOUIS  J.  MUELLER.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  MacBard 
Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal   business   seven   years. 

D.  E.  RICHARDS,  President  Bell  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  was  born  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  April  21,  1859, 
and   has   been   in   the   coal   business   sixteen   years. 

CHARLES  A.  SARGEANT,  Secretary  and  Assistant  Treas- 
urer The  Domhoff  &  Joyce  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   nine   years. 

JOHN  SARGEANT,  President  The  Domhoff  &  Joyce  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one 
years 

E.  L.  STEPHENSON,  President  E.  L.  Sternberger  Coal  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Jackson,  Ohio,  October  3,  1862, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years.  He 
is  also  President  of  the  Standard  Colliery  Co.,  Coalton,  Ohio. 
He  has  been  a  Director  of  the  Cincinnati  Coal  Exchange 
and  President  of  the  Commercial  Bank  of  Jackson,  Ohio. 

HAROLD  GEORGE  TILDESLEY,  President  The  Tildesley 
Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, December  13,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eight  years.  He  was  formerly  with  The  Halmar  Coal 
Mining   Co. 

DAVID  ELKANAH  ULLAND  of  the  Ulland  Coal  Co.,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  December  11,  1872,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years.  He  is  also 
connected  with  the  Pocahontas  &  Jellico  Coal  Co.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Kineon  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  THOMAS  ULLAND  of  the  Ulland  Coal  Co.,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  March  25,  1867.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Pocahontas  &  Jellico  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Kineon  Coal  Co.,  Cincinnati  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and 
the  Carlisle  Coal  Co. 

EDWARD  B.  ULRICH,  President  Naugatuck  Coal  Co.,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  November  6,  1880,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years.  He  is  Manager  of 
the  Grey  Eagle  Coal  Co. 

E.  S.  VAN  HART,  Cincinnati  Manager  Columbus  Mining 
Co.,  was  born  in  Cincinnati  in  1875,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Glen  Alum  Fuel  Co.,  War  Eagle  Coal  Co.,  Houston  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  and  the  old  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 


OHIO  —  Cleveland 


HARRY  ABELS,  Vice  President  The  Kendall  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  1444  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Cleveland  December  29,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-three  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Board  of  the  Wholesale  and  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association 
of  Ohio   1909-10. 

CHARLES  ANTHONY  ALBRIGHT,  Secretary  The  Albright 
Coal  Co.,  746  Euclid  Avenue,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Massillon,  Ohio.  January  21,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of 
the  Oak  Hill  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Albright  was  with  the  Howells 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Howells  Mining  Co.  earlier  in  his  business 
career. 

FRED  E.  BAEHR,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  The  Somers 
Coal  Co.,  521  Cuyahoga  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  West  Park,  Ohio,  June  18,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years. 

ROBERT  BURSNER,  President  The  Quaker  Splint  Coal 
Co.  and  General  Manager  Copen, Creek  Coal  Co.,  231  The 
Arcade,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Wheeling.  West  Vir- 
ginia, December  24,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years.  He  is  also  a  Director  of  The  Indian  Hill 
Coal  Co. 

JONATHAN  PRESCOTT  BURTON,  President  Trevorton 
Colliery  Co.,  Kennon  Coal  &  Mining  Co..  and  Ridgway-Bur- 
ton  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Massillon,  Ohio,  Jan- 
uary 12,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one 
years.  Mr.  Burton  is  a  graduate  of  Yale  University,  Scien- 
tific department,  class  of  1896. 


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COAL   MEN   OF  AMERICA 


(  IIWU.KS  I..  OASSHVGHAM,  President  The  West  Virginia 
&  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Secretary  The  Drake  Coal  Co., 
Rockefeller  Building.  Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Coshoc- 
ton, Ohio,   February   9.   1S65,  and  has  been  in   the  coal  busi- 

■1  twenty-eight  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  War- 
wick Coal  Co.,  Vice  President  of  the  Coal  River  Mining 
Co.,  with  operations  in  Boone  and  Madison  counties,  West 
Virginia,  and  is  interested  in  a  large  acreage  of  unde- 
veloped West  Virginia  coal  lands.  Mr.  Casstngham  has  been 
President  of  the  Central  Ohio  Operators'  Association. 

WILLIAM  P.  CAYTON,  Assistant  to  the  President  and 
Auditor  of  the  Rail  &  River  Coal  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  March  16,  1880,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  His  business  experience 
began  in  the  auditor's  office  of  the  Louisville,  Evansville  & 
St.  Louis  Consolidated  Railroad  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  in 
1898.  followed  by  eight  years  as  an  accountant  for  the 
Pittsburgh   Coal   Co. 

GEORGE  EASTERBROOK,  President  The  Easterbrook 
Coal  Co..  3841  West  25th  Street,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Cleveland  May  16.  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Morgan, 
Moore  &  Baine  Co.  and  Stout,  Van  Wickle  &  Co. 

JOSEPH  LOUIS  FOREPALGH,  1315  Rockefeller  Building, 
Cleveland,  Ohio.  Lake  Forwarding  Agent  North  Western 
Fuel  Co.,  was  born  In  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  July  27,  1873,  and 
has  been   five  years  in  the  coal   business. 

J.  L.  GOOD,  General  Sales  Manager  The  National  Coal  Co., 
1503    Rockefeller    Building.    Cleveland.    Ohio,     was    born     in 
Pittsburgh.  Pennsylvania.  July  17,  1869,  and  has  been   in  the 
-  coal   business   twenty  years.       He   was   formerly   Vice   Presi- 
dent The  Pittsburgh   &    Buffalo   Co.   of  Ohio. 

.  R.  A.  GROt'H,  Manager  The  Cleveland-Belmont  Coal  Co., 
618  Hickox  Building,  Cleveland.  Ohio,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
O'Gara   Coal  Co 

LAURENCE  W.  HART,  Manager  of  Sales  W.  H.  Warner 
&  Co.,  1606  I'nion  National  Bank  Building.  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
wis  born  in  South  Brownsville,  Pennsylvania,  November  24, 
1879.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He 
is  also  interested  in  the  Crawford  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Pocahontas 
Domestic  Coal  Co.,  Warner-Youghiogheny  Coal  Co.,  Warner 
Block  Coal  Co.,  and  Wolf  Run  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
Assistant  Manager  of  Sales  of  The  Monongahela  River  Con- 
solidated Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

ANTHONY  J.  BICKBT,  Manager  Berwind  Fuel  Co.'s  office 
at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  January  11,  1890, 
and  has  been   in   the  coal    business   nine  years. 

FRANK  C.  JOHNS,  Sales  Manager  The  Van  Epps  Coal  Co., 
1450  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Cleveland  December  26,  1875,  and  has  been  fourteen  years 
In  the  coal  business.  He  was  previously  with  Burton, 
Beidler  &  Phelps. 

HARRY'  E.  LOOBnS,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
The  National  Coal  Co.,  1503  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  has  been   in  the  coal  business  thirty-six  years. 

Willi  Ml  j.  MACPARUN,  Treasurer  The  National  Coal 
Co.,  1503  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Bucksville,  Ohio,  in  1872.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Citizens  Coal  Co., 
AKron.  Ohio. 

HENRY  IJOW  MARBLE,  President  The  Hutson  Coal  Co., 
Ill  Park  Building,  Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Newburgh, 
now  Cleveland,  June  26,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    thirty-four    years. 

C.  E.  MM  licit.  It.  sident  The  Glens  Run  Coal  Co.  and 
the  Standard  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  1414  Rockefeller  Build- 
ing, Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Austintown,  Ohio,  No- 
vember 21.  1865,  and  has  been  in  t lie  coal  business  eighteen 
Mr.  Maurer  was  President  of  the  Pittsburgh  Vein 
Operators'  Association  from  1911   to  1914. 

GEORGE  r.  McK itt i<: kick.  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
General  Manager  The  Russell  Coal  &  Mining  Co..  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Jackson,  Ohio.  July  23.  1S53.  and  lias  been 
In  the  coal  business  forty  years.  For  twenty-three  years 
he  was  connected  with  MeKltterlch  Bros. 

W.  E.  MILKS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Whittle- 
Miles  Coal  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Meithvs  Tydoll, 
South  Wales.  July  25.  1859.  He  has  been  eleven  rears  in  the 
coal    business. 

w.  I".  Hi  BRAY,  member  of  the  firm  of  Pickands,  Mather 
&  Co..  Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born  In  Mentor.  Ohio,  July  12, 
1854,  and  has  been  Identified  with  the  coal  trade  thirty-five 
years.  He  is  :liSo  a  Director  of  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  He 
was  previously  connected  with  Todd,  Stambaugh  &  Co.  and 
Weaver,   Todd  &  Co. 

WALTER  r.  MYKHS  of  The  Myers  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  306 
Arcade,  Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born  In  Cleveland  July  22,  1886. 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  eight  years.  His  first  coal 
experienre  was  with  the  Goshen  Coal  Co.  and  the  Goff- 
Kirby   Coal   Co.,   both  of  Cleveland. 


."  SAMl'EL  H.  NEEDS,  A'ice  President  and  General  Manager 
Bergholz  Coal  Mining  Co.,  509  Commercial  Bank  Building, 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Tiverton.  England,  September 
30,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years. 

'  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Ohio  &  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co., 
with  which  company  and  Thomas  Axworthy  he  was  earlier 
connected. 

HENRY  S.  ODBERT.  President  H.  S.  Odbert  Coal  Co.,  1410 
Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Youngs- 
town,  Ohio,  August  18,  1875,  and  has  been  twenty  years  in 
the  coal  business. 

CHARLES  L.  PATE,  Sales  Agent  H.  S.  Odbert  Coal  Co.. 
1410  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Cleveland,  November  5,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twelve  years.  He  was  with  M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co.,  Cleve- 
land, earlier  in  his  coal  career. 

DON  A  POMEROY,  Secretary  H.  S.  Odbert  Coal  Co.,  1410 
Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ashta- 
bula,   Ohio,    in   1874. 

FRANK  J.  POSEKANY',  Manager  F.  Posekany  Coal  & 
Stone  Co.,  8619  Woodland  Avenue,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Cleveland  September  16,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   twenty   years. 

FRANK  ABEL  PRENDERGAST,  President  and  General 
Manager  The  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Coal  Co.,  1325  Rockefeller 
Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Itipley.  New  York, 
August  15,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
eight  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Pittsburg-Belmont 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Number  Eight  Coal  Co.  His  former  con- 
nections were  the  Laurel  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Guild,  Prendergast 
&  Co.,  F.  A.  Prendergast  &  Co.,  Raybould  Coal  Co.,  Wallace 
&  Brooks,  all  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  the  Wisconsin  Coal  & 
Dock  Co.  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin. 

JAMES  PRENDERGAST  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Coal  Co., 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  October  14, 
1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He 
was  Chairman  of  the  Scale  Committee,  Operators  and  Miners, 
for  the  Cambridge  district  of  Ohio  in  1915-16.  Mr.  Prender- 
gast was  formerly  with  the  Morris  Coal  Co. 

AMBROSE  M.  Q.UAYLE.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Ohio 
Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  814  Columbia  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Cleveland,  February  16,  1872,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Independent  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Cleveland  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  both  of  Cleveland. 

PERRY  P.  QIAYLE,  President  Ohio  Coal  &  Supply  Co., 
814  Columbia  Building.  Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cleve- 
land, November  28,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Independent  Coal  Co..  and  the  Cleveland  &  Pitts- 
burgh Coal  Co.,  both  of  Cleveland. 

JAMES  J.  ROBY,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Carroll 
County,  Ohio.  May  16,  1865,  and  has  been  thirty  years  in 
the  coal  business.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ohio  Mining 
Commission.  Mr.  Roby  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Roby  Coal  Co.  and  the  Roby-Somers  Coal  Co.,  both  of 
Cleveland. 

ARTHUR  11.  HAGON,  Western  Sales  Manager  Weston  Dod- 
son  &  Co.,  Illuminating  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Belmont,  New  York,  December  25,  1885,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  Treasurer 
of  the  Alden-Ragon  Coal  Co.,  Corry,  Pennsylvania,  and 
Sales  Manager  of  the  J.  Harold  Thompson  Co.,  Pittsburgh. 

WILLIAM  W.  R.\\\soN.  a  salesman  of  Lorain  Coal  & 
Dock  Co.,  708  Rockefeller  Building.  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Cleveland  September  13,  1872,  and  has  been  fourteen 
years  in  the  coal  business,  all  the  time  with  his  present 
company. 

HARRY  MILTON  SCIIAFF,  Treasurer  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Coal  Co..  1325  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Nelsor.vllle,  Ohio,  May  19,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the 
Coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  interested  in 
the  Pittsburg-Belmont  Coal  Co.  and  the  Number  Eight  Coal 
Co.  Mr.  Schaff  was  formerly  Auditor  of  the  Globe  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  of  Weal  Virginia  and  the  Wisconsin  Coal  &  Dock 
Co.   of   Milwaukee,    Wisconsin. 

WILLIAM  grant  sciiROY'ER,  President  Mackenzie  & 
Schroyer,  2692  Hampshire  Road.  Cleveland.  Ohio,  was  born 
In  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  April  21,  1877,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  President 
of  the  AJax  Coal  Co.  of  Linton.  Indiana.  Mr.  Schroyer  wa: 
formerly  connected  with  the  Youghiogheny  &  Ohio  Coal 
Co.,   Cleveland. 

HOYT  L.  WARNER,  partner  in  the  firm  of  W.  H.  War- 
ner &  Co..  Union  National  Bank  Building.  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
is  also  financially  interested  In  operating  companies  in  Penn- 
sylvania, Ohio.  Virginia  and  Kentucky.  He  was  born  in 
Mineral  Ridge.  Ohio,  December  25.  18.80,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fourteen  years. 


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WILLIAM  H.  WARNER,  partner  in  the  firm  of  W.  H. 
Warner  &  Co.,  Union  National  Bank  Building,  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  and  also  financially  interested  in  operating  companies 
in  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  West  Virginia  and  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Toungstown,  Ohio,  October  12,  1849,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  forty-five  years.  He  is  one  of  the 
prominent  factors  in  the  coal  trade  of  that  section. 

LEWIS  D.  WATERS,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Prospect  Coal  Co.,  2028  East  77th  St.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  New  Jersey,  June  17,  1875,  and  has  been  twenty-five 
years  in  the  coal  business. 

ARTHUR  C.  WHITTLE,  President  and  Manager  of  the 
Whittle-Miles  Coal  Co.,  10806  Miles  Ave.,  S.  E.,  Cleveland. 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  April  22,  1872,  and 
has   been   twenty-four  years   in   the  coal  business. 

K.  B.  WHITWORTH,  Auditor  of  W.  H.  Warner  &  Co. 
Union  National  Bank  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Bellefontaine,  Ohio,  October  2,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  for  six  years. 

JOHN  V.  A'.  YATES,  proprietor  of  the  J.  V.  N.  Yates  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born 
In  Albany,  New  York,  in  1838,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness sixty  years.  During  that  time  he  has  sold  anthracite 
as  high  as  $27.50  per  ton  and  as  low  as  $3.45  per  ton  deliv- 
ered.    He   is   one  of   the   best   known   retailers  in   Cleveland. 

WILLIAM  E.  ZEHNER,  Secretary  of  the  Wright  &  Zehner 
Co.,  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cleve- 
land December  7,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
seven  years. 


OHIO  — Columbus 


HENRY  H.  BAUCH,  President  and  General  Manager  The 
John  Wilhelm  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Columbus 
August  6,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen 
years.     He  was  formerly  with  J.  Rapp  &  Co. 

RAYMOND  H.  BELL  of  the  Bell  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Racine,  Ohio,  April  27,  1875,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business   seventeen  years. 

C.  H.  BOARDMAN,  President  Murray  City  Coal  Co.,  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  General  Manager  King  Coal  Co.  and  also 
Tidewater  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in  Akron,  Ohio,  No- 
vember 19,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Akron  Iron  Co.,  Columbus 
&  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Greendale  Coal  Mining  Co., 
and   Columbus   Coal   Co. 

WILLIAM  S.  CONNOR,  owner  of  M.  A.  Suydam  &  Co.,  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  February  27,  1859, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-four  years.  Mr. 
Connor  has  held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations 
of  Ohio. 

T.  S.  CROCKETT,  President  and  General  Manager  Leckie 
Coal  Co.,  Inc..  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Wytheville,  Vir- 
ginia, December  6,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Crockett  is  also  interested  in  the 
Leckie  Collieries  Co.,  Lathrop  Coal  Co.,  Panther  Coal  Co.  and 
Leckie  Fire  Creek  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Pocahontas  Collieries  Co.  and  Pocahontas  Consolidated 
Co.  and  has  had  experience  in  both  the  operating  and  sell- 
ing end   of  the  coal   business. 

GLENN  H.  DUKES,  Chief  Engineer  Buckeye  Coal  &  Rail- 
way Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Benton  Ridge.  Ohio, 
January  18,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven- 
teen years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  General  Hocking 
Coal  Co.   and   the   Sunday   Creek   Coal   Co. 

FRED  ESSEX,  Secretary  Essex  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  New  Straitsville,  Ohio,  in  1888,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  is  also  interested  in 
the  Kimberly  Coal  &  Land  Co.,  Hocking  Block  Coal  Co.,  The 
Stalter  &  Essex  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Ohio  Mining  Co. 

FRANK  EUGENE  FALK,  owner  of  the  Falk  Coal  Co., 
Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Akron,  Ohio,  April  14,  1867, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  is  also 
interested  in  the  Cambria  Hocking  Coal  Co.  He  was  for- 
merly Purchasing  Agent  of  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co. 

CHARLES  A.  GIBSON,  President  Gibson-Spence  Coal  Co., 
Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Ohio,  December  22, 
1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He 
was  previously  with  the  W.  J.  Hamilton  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Elk  Coal  Co. 

ELBERT  E.  HYDE.  President  and  Manager  Ohio  River 
Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Delaware  County, 
Ohio,  November  17,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  Ohio  coal  lands. 
He   was  formerly  with   the  Maynard   Coal   Co. 

HENRY  W.  JENKINS,  President  Jenkins-Lama  Coal  Co.. 
Columbus.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  in  1881,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  is  a  Direc- 
tor of  the  Greendale  Mining  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Columbus  f-  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  the  Borderland 
Coal  Sales  Co. 


FRANK  KOEHNE,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Germany 
December  7,  1849,  and  has  been  mining  and  selling  coal 
thirty-five  years.  He  was  with  Slater  &  Poston  and  the 
General  Hocking  Fuel  Co.  In  1917  he  bought  a  mine  at 
Viper,  Kentucky,   but  sold  out  in  January,  1918. 

AUGUSTUS  W.  KUHNS,  Sales  Manager  Peacock  Coal  Co., 
Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  in  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  was  with 
Hunter  W.  Finch  &  Co.  seven  years. 

WILLIAM  A.  LAMA,  Secretary  Jenkins-Lama  Coal  Co., 
Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Wilsonville,  Ohio,  in  1876,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Hocking  Domestic  Coal  Co.,  J.  M.  Lama 
Coal  Co.   and  Hatton,  Brown  &  Co. 

JOHN  C.  LAWLER,  General  Manager  John  L.  Lawler  & 
Son,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Minerton,  Ohio,  October 
8,   1887,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 

JOHN  C.  McINTYRE,  General  Manager  Gem  Coal  &  Supply 
Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Columbus  November  29, 
1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  has 
served  as  Vice  President  of  the  Columbus  Coal  Exchange. 

WALTER  D.  McKINNEY,  Secretary  Southern  Ohio  Coal 
Exchange,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  in 
1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  some  years. 

SIDNEY  A.  McMANIGAL,  President  Maple  Hill  Coal  Co., 
Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1857,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-four  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Columbus  &  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and 
the  Maple-Gallea  Coal  Co. 

H.  S.  MERVIN,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  New  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.  and  Resident  Treasurer  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  was  born  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   sixteen   years. 

J.  C.  MILLER,  General  Manager  Blast  Furnace  Division  of 
The  American  Rolling  Mill  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Madison  Furnace,  Ohio,  February  15,  1874,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  is  President  of  the 
Southern  Ohio  Portland  Cement  Co.,  with  coal  lands  in 
Southern  Ohio,  and  a  Director  of  the  Portsmouth-Solvay 
Coke  Co.,  with  coal  mines  in  Pike  County,  Kentucky,  and 
by-product   coke  ovens   at  Portsmouth,   Ohio. 

JOHN  W.  MOORE,  President  Elk  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Newark,  Ohio,  August  25,  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the 
Jones  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  D.  M.  Moore  &  Sons  Co.,  and  the 
Columbus   Business   College. 

JAMES  PRENDERGAST,  Sales  Manager  The  Baltimore 
&  Ohio  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Columbus 
October  14,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 
Mr.  Prendergast  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Pitts- 
burgh-Belmont  Coal  Co.,  and  was  General  Superintendent 
of  the  Morris  Coal  Co.  before  taking  his  present  position. 
He  was  Chairman  of  the  Joint  Conference  of  the  Miners 
and   Operators,   Cambridge    District,    1916. 

GEORGE  FRANCIS  SCHWARTZ,  Vice  President  Hatton, 
Brown  &  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Indi- 
ana, September  11,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Sunday  Creek 
Coal  Co.   and  the  Buckeye  Coal  &  Railway  Co. 

DAVID  SHERTZER,  President  and  Manager  Hamilton- 
Parker  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Michigan  December  4,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  J.  Rapp  & 
Co.,  Columbus  Coal  &  Lime  Co.,  Ohio  Coal  &  Foundry  Supply 
Co.,  and  Statler  Coal  Co. 

PAUL  G.  SPENCE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Gibson-Spence 
Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  near  Cambridge,  Ohio. 
July   11,  1883,   and   has  been   in  the   coal  business  six  years. 

JOHN  MYERS  TAYLOR,  President  John  M.  Taylor  Coal 
Co.  and  The  Taylor-Williams  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Columbus  February  13,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the 
Columbus  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association. 

WILLIAM  S.  TAYLOR,  Western  Sales  Agent  Leckie  Coal 
Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  1861  at  Langley,  Virginia, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  Mr. 
Taylor  has  many  warm  friends  in  the  coal  trade  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Allegheny  Coal  Co.  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  and  the  Kellys  Creek  Collieries  Co.  of  Charles- 
ton, West  Virginia. 

DAVID  C.  THOMAS,  President  D.  C.  Thomas  Coal  Co..  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  was  born  in  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  Sep- 
tember 10,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-one 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Piney  Fork  Coal  Co.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Courtright  Coal  Co.,  Continental  Coal 
Co..  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  and  United  Coal  Co. 

F.  R.  WEISZ,  Columbus,  Ohio,  President  and  Manager 
Powells  Run  Coal  Co..  was  born  in  Columbus  Ohio,  in  April. 
1856,  and   has  been   in   the  coal   business   thirty-one   years. 


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WALTEH  H.  WHISSKX,  General  Manager  and  Treasurer 
Murray  City  Coal  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Newark, 
Ohio.  August  2,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-one  years. 

\  H.  WINDER,  President  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  was  born  in  Raleigh.  North  Carolina,  August 
23,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Clinchfleld  Coal  Corp.  He  was 
Chairman  of  the  Operators  of  the  Central  Competitive  Field, 
succeeding  Frank  L.  Robbins  in   1906. 

BENJAMIN  F\  WRIGHT,  Vice  President  Leckie  Coal  Co., 
Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Clarksville,  Virginia,  July  26, 
1874,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 

BDMOND  XITSCHKE  YAXTES,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
General  Manager  The  Fifth  Avenue  Coal  Co.,  Columbus, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Columbus  May  13,  1893,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business   seven   years. 

ELMER  WILLIS  YANTES,  President  The  Fifth  Avenue 
Coal  Co..  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Columbus  in  1853.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He  has 
served  as  President  of  the  Columbus  Coal  Exchange  ever 
since   its  organization   in   1912. 


OHIO  — Toledo 


ALBERT  G.  BLAIR,  JR.,  President  A.  G.  Blair  Mining  Co., 
with  offices  in  the  Spitzer  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born 
at  Toledo,  June  19,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
almost  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Blair  is  also  Secretary 
of  the  A.  G.  Blair  Co.  and  was  formerly  connected  with  J. 
H.  Somers  &  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

JOHN  LOUIS  BUESCHEX,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at 
1812  Starr  Ave.,  Toledo.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo  January  5. 
1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 
He  is  a  son  of  Anton  Bueschen. 

WILLIAM  M.  BUESCHEN.  retail  coal  merchant  at  3129 
M;iplewood  Ave..  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo  January 
8,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for 
eight  years.  He  was  associated  with  his  father,  Anton 
Bueschen,  for  ten  years  before  branching  out  for  himself. 

FRANK  R.  CORNELL,  President  Home  Fuel  &  Supply 
Co.,  2303  Broadway,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo.  De- 
cember 3,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four  years. 
Mr.  Cornell  was  previously  Traveling  Freight  Agent  for 
the  Wabash  Railway  and  prior  to  that  was  employed  by 
the    Powhatan    Coal   Co. 

SAM  DAVIS,  prominent  retailer  with  offices  at  1502  Elm 
St.,  Toledo.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo  June  27,  1883.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years  and  now  handles 
a  large   tonnage. 

GEORGE  M.  GANG,  Secretary  of  the  France  Coal  Co.  with 
offices  in  the  Spitzer  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Toledo,  November  7,  1898,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
since    1913. 

CARL  J.  GIESE,  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  Giese 
Bros.  Co..  doing  a  large  retail  coal  business  with  two  yards, 
at  1724  Starr  Ave.  and  4093  Detroit  Ave.,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Fremont,  Ohio,  May  25,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  five  years.  Mr.  Giese  was  formerly  connected 
with   the  Crescent  Fuel  Co.  and  the   Toledo   Fuel  Co. 

EDGAR  C.  HALL,  General  Sales  Agent  of  the  Elmer  Miller 
Co.,  Nicholas  Building,  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  at 
Bluffton,  Ohio.  March  3,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years.  Mr.  Hi:ll  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Powhatan  Coal   Co.  of  Toledo. 

G.  HERMAN,  founder  of  G.  Herman  &  Son,  retail  coal 
merchants  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Germany  in  1836, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  Al- 
though he  has  now  retired,  the  business  is  being  continued 
under  the  same  firm  name. 

u  M.I'll  E.  HERMAN,  Manager  of  G.  Herman  &  Son,  re- 
tailers doing  business  at  1402  Summit  St..  Toledo,  Ohio,  was 
born  ut  LaSalle,  Michigan,  March  20,  1868,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

CLYDE  H.  HOYT.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Clyde  H. 
Hoyt  Co.,  wholesalers  with  offices  in  the  Nicholas  Building, 
Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Liberty  Center,  Ohio,  September 
4.  1879.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 
Mr  Hoyt  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Hiawatha  Coal 
Co.,   New   York  Coal   Co.,  and   W.   P.   Hubbs. 

WIIHEW  J.  JOHXSOX,  a  partner  in  the  Johnson  Coa".  Co., 
wholesalers  with  offices  in  the  Spitzer  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio, 
was  born  at  Toledo,  January  12,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  ten  years. 

ARTHUR  L.  JOHNSON.  General  Manager  and  partner  with 
the  Johnson  Coal  Co..  wholesalers  with  offices  In  the  Spitzer 
Building.  Toledo.  Ohio,  was  born  at  Toledo,  April  18,  1879, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  Mr. 
Johnson  was  formerly  connected  with  John  T.  Solon  and 
Solon  T.owery  Mining  Co.,  both  of  Toledo. 


LESLIE  G.  MILLER,  Manager  of  the  Miller  Coal  Co.,  do- 
ing a  retail  business  at  Millard  Ave.  and  T.  T.  Ry.,  Toledo, 
Ohio,  was  born  at  Toledo,  January  31,  1893,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  five  years.  Mr.  Miller  also  does  a 
general    motor    trucking    business. 

JOHN  NAGY,  retailer  doing  business  at  2012  Front  St., 
Toledo.  Ohio,  was  born  at  Lanez,  Hungary,  January  14,  1869, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

MICHAEL  C.  SULLIVAN,  Agent  M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co.,  large 
wholesalers  with  offices  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ireland 
July  10,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen 
years.  Mr.  Sullivan  is  also  interested  in  the  Ironville  Dock 
&  Coal  Co. 

ARLO  A.  TAYLOR  of  the  A.  A.  Taylor  Coal  Co..  whole- 
salers at  Toledo,  Ohio,  with  offices  in  the  Ohio  Building, 
was  born  in  Toledo  October  27.  1880,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Taylor  was  previously  con- 
nected with  the  M.  A.  Hanna  Coal  Co.,  Frisbie-Morgan  Coal 
Co.,  and  the  Toledo  Coal  Sales  Co. 

ROBERT  W.  TAYLOR.  Secretary  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Home  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo  in  1882  and  has  been  in 
the   coal    business    five   years. 

JOHN  M.  VOLLMAYER,  retail  coal  merchant  in  business 
at  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Toledo  April  26,  1864,  and  lias 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Vollmayer  is 
continuing  the  business  started  by  his  father,  John  Voll- 
mayer, in  1870. 

A.  BOYD  WILSON,  Sales  Agent  of  the  Cleveland  &  West- 
ern Coal  Co.,  doing  a  wholesale  coal  business,  with  offices 
in  the  Second  National  Bank  Building,  Toledo,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Madison  County,  Ohio,  December  6,  1892,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  two  years. 


OHIO 


CLARENCE  J.  AMOS,  Portage,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Portage 
January  23,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight 
years. 

JAMES  H.  ANDREW,  General  Manager  of  the  retail  coal 
business  of  Andrew  Bros..  Cedarville,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Cedarville  September  6,  1848,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness over  forty  years. 

JAMES  C.  ANKNEY  of  Ankney  &  Co.,  Sycamore.  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Sycamore  October  2,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  three  years. 

X.  ESTA  ARNOLD  of  the  Chapman  Coal  &  Supply  Co.. 
Marion,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  July  23,  1868,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  is  now  in- 
terested in  a  mine  at  Moxahola,  in  the  Thin  Vein  district 
of  Ohio.  He  was  for  nine  years  Sales  Agent  for  the  Jones 
&  Adams  Coal  Co.,  Chicago.  He  was  formerly  with  W.  P. 
Huhbs  and  the  Charter  Oak  Coal  Co.,  Toledo. 

AUGUSTUS  ASHWORTH.  owner  of  the  Ashworth  Coal 
Co.,  Middletown,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1855,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Previously  to  his 
present  business  proposition  he  was  buyer  fifteen  years  for 
the  Tylus-Gardner  Paper  Co. 

GEORGE  S.  BACOX.  Manager  Bacon  &  Son,  Leesburg, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Leesburg,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   eleven   years. 

L.  E.  BALDWIX.  West  Liberty,  Ohio,  was  born  in  West 
Liberty  April  3.  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen    years.       He    was   formerly   with    Baldwin    &    Elliott. 

LUMAN  BALYEAT,  President  Balyeat  Coal  &  Builders 
Supply  Co.,  Van  Wert,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Van  Wert  County. 
Ohio,  September  23,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fourteen  years. 

JAMES  H.  BARNETT  of  Barnett  &  Dustman,  Columbus 
Grove,   Ohio,  has  been   in   the  coal  business  three  years. 

HENRY  O.  BARNT,  Secretary.  Treasurer  and  General 
Manager  Lutz,  Barnt  &  Lutz,  Delphos,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Elida.  Ohio,  June  22.  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  ten   years. 

CHARLES  O.  BAHXTHOUSE,  retail  coalman  of  Agosta, 
Ohio,  was  born  In  Marion  County,  Ohio,  July  30,  1868.  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

FRED  W.  BAUER,  Springfield,  Ohio,  with  Rogers,  Brown 
&  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Springfield  November 
!),  1878,  and  has  been  In  the  coke  business  sixteen  years. 

J.  E.  BAUMGARTNER.  President  Minglewood  Coal  Co., 
Wellston,  Ohio,  was  born  in  North  Lawrence,  Ohio,  Febru- 
ary 6,  1880,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-six 
years.  He  Is  also  interested  in  the  Detroit  &  Wellaton  Coal 
Co.  and  the  Milton  Colliery  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  M. 
A.  Hanna  &  Co.  and  General  Manager  of  the  Superior  Col- 
liery  Co. 


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CHAS.  A.  BECHERER,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Crys- 
tal Park  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Canton,  Ohio,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  seven  years. 

ESTEL  R.  BECK,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bethel,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Bethel  March  16,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1916.     He  succeeded  G.  O.  Rush  at  Bethel. 

E.  P.  BECKERT  of  Beckert  Bros.,  Piqua,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Piqua  thirty-two  years  ago,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  six  years. 

F.  A.  BECKERT  of  Beckert  Bros.,  Piqua,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Piqua  thirty-seven  years  ago,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  E.  M. 
Wilbee. 

JOHN  A.  BENNETT,  Ravenna,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Niagara 
County,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
twenty-three    years. 

CHARLES  J.  BENTON,  President  Chapman  Coal  Co.,  Jack- 
son, Ohio,  was  born  in  Potter  County,  Pennsylvania,  No- 
vember 6,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
five  years,  with  the  same  company.  He  is  Secretary  of  the 
Jackson  County  Coal  Club. 

ALEXANDER  BEHGEH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  ?erea, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Germany,  December  29,  1853,  and  has  been 
in  business  for  himself  thirty-one  years. 

THOMAS  R.  BIDDLE,  Vice  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger of  the  Morris-Poston  Coal  Co.  of  Athens,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Pleasant  County,  West  Virginia,  in  November,  1863,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  is  also 
Treasurer  of  the  Poston  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Sugar  Creek  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  and  a  Director  of 
the  Millfleld  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 

WALLACE  C.  BIERCE,  Cuyahoga  Palls,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Tallmadge,  Ohio,  September  5,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  six  years. 

IRA  P.  BIGONY,  Manager  The  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.,  Leb- 
anon, Ohio,  was  born  in  Fairfield  County,  Ohio,  in  1864, 
and    has    been    in    the    retail    coal    business    three    years. 

LLOYD  B.  BIRNEY,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Purl- 
tan  Coal  Co.,  Cambridge,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Harrison 
County,  Ohio,  October  18,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  nine  years.  Before  coming  with  this  firm  Mr. 
Birney  was  connected  with  the  Central  National  Bank  of 
Cambridge   for   eight  years. 

F,  G.  BLACK  is  Manager  of  the  retail  coal  business  of  M. 
L.   Branyan  &  Bro.,  Mansfield,  Ohio. 

W.  P.  BLACK  of  W.  F.  Black  &  Co.,  Good  Hope,  Ohio,  was 
horn  in  Danville,  Ohio,  in  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   thirteen   years. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  BLANEY,  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger of  the  Little  Gem  Coal  Co.  of  Cannelville,  Ohio,  was 
born  at  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  November  28,  1858,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  Mr.  Blaney  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Walnut  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Duncan  Run 
Coal  Co.,  Oak  Knob  Coal  Co.,  W.  H.  Blaney  Coal  Co.,  Red 
Bud  Coal  Co.,  Rose  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Black  Hawk  Coal  Co.,  and 
Big  Creek  Coal  Co. 

PRANK  H.  BOGARDUS,  owner  Scioto  Coal  &  Feed  Co., 
Kenton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Kenton  August  17,  1878,  and  has 
been    in    the    retail   coal   business    six   years. 

WILLIAM  BOREN,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Ash- 
land, Ohio,  was  born  in  Beaver  County,  Pennsylvania,  on 
May  5,  1850,  and  has  been  in  business  for  thirty-five  years  at 
Ashland. 

T.  A.  BOYD,  Manager  Richards  &  Boyd,  New  Paris,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Tipton,  Indiana.  October  30,  1859,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   thirteen   years. 

M.  L.  BRANYAN  of  M.  L.  Branyan  &  Bro.,  Mansfield,  Ohio, 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirty-five  years. 

CHARLES  C.  BRONSON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bloom- 
ville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Adrian,  Michigan,  November  22,  1863, 
and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

HARRY  BROWN,  President  Miners  Block  Coal  Co.,  Ray- 
land,  Ohio,  was  born  in  England  September  6,  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Bertha  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Pittsburgh-Buffalo  Coal  Co. 

AMOS  BRUBAKER  of  Amos  Brubaker  &  Son,  Ohio  City, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Ashland,  Ohio,  in  1858.  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business   eight   years. 

FOREST  BRUBAKER  of  Amos  Brubaker  &  Son,  Ohio 
City,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ohio  City  in  1892,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  eight  years. 

LEWIS  J.  BUCHER,  Superintendent  Bucher  Bros.  Coal 
Co.,  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Mineral  City,  Ohio, 
June  6,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

CHARLES  M.  BURRIS,  Dresden,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dres- 
den, June  12,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
ten   years. 


C.  W.  CAINE,  retail  coal  merchant  doing  business  at 
Cleves,  Ohio,  is  a  native  of  Cleves,  born  in  1870,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal  business   for   fifteen   years. 

G.  MORGAN  CALLANDER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Kir- 
by-Callander  Co.,  Painesville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Paines- 
ville,  and  has  been  in  the  coal   business   seventeen   years. 

REESE  GARRETT  CALVERT,  Selma,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Newtown  Square,  Pennsylvania,  January  21,  1857,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirty-four  years. 

JAMES  A.  CAMERON,  General  Superintendent  of  the  Mor- 
ris Coal  Co.,  doing  a  retail  business  at  Cambridge,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  London,  Ontario,  Canada,  September  10,  1891,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  five  years.  Mr.  Cameron  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Pond  Creek  Coal  Co.,  United 
States  Coal  &  Oil  Co.,  and  the  Ellsworth  Collieries  Co.  He 
is  now  serving  in  the  United  States  Army  as  First  Lieuten- 
ant,  319th   Engineers. 

GEORGE  W.  CASSINGHAM,  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger Oden  Valley  Coal  Co.,  Coshocton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Co- 
shocton January  8,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Hudson  Coal 
Co. 

ARNOLD  P.  CHAMPNEY,  half  owner  Ackelson  &  Champ- 
ney,  Oberlin,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Vermilion,  Ohio,  January 
29,   1871,   and  has   been   in  the  coal   business  twelve  years. 

H.  G.  CLORE,  President  and  Manager  Fostoria  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.,  Fostoria,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Rising  Sun,  Indiana,  in 
1863,  and   has   been   in   the  coal  business  eight  years. 

HORACE  ELLSWORTH  COLE,  President  Midvale  Coal 
Co.,  Midvale,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dellroy,  Ohio,  April  11,  1862, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Royal  Goshen  Coal  Co. 

JOHN  B.  CONNERS  of  the  J.  B.  Conners  Coal  Co.,  Day- 
ton, Ohio,  was  born  in  Toronto,  Canada,  June  4,  1856,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  has 
served  as  President  of  the  Dayton  Coal  Exchange.  Thirty- 
four    years    of    his    life    was    passed    in    railroading. 

JAY  F.  CONVERSE,  Sales  Manager  of  the  Stillwater  Coal 
Mining  Co.  of  Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Grafton,  Ohio,  July 
1,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 
Mr.  Converse  is  also  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Quaker 
Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Cuyahoga 
<_oal  Co.  and  Steiner  Coal  Co.,  both  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

GEORGE  T.  COOK  of  George  Cook  &  Son,  Sylvania,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Sylvania  September  12,  1866,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  thirteen  years. 

ROLLIE  P.  COOK  of  Cook's  Coal  &  Tile  Yards,  Republic, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Republic  October  25,  1893,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

SETH  COOK,  Waynesville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  1846,  and 
has  been   in   the  retail  coal  business   thirty-one   years. 

JOHN  MILTON  COOLEY,  General  Manager  and  Secretary 
Majestic  Coal  Co.,  Nelsonville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Athens 
County,  Ohio,  May  1,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  New  York 
Coal  Co.  and  the   Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co. 

JOHN  E.  COOPER,  Chief  Electrician  of  the  Carnegie  Steel 
Co.,  miners  of  Bellaire,  Ohio,  was  born  in  England  in  1872, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury. He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Cooper  Coal 
Works  and  is  interested  at  present  in  the  Bellaire  mines, 
steel   works   and   blast  furnaces. 

LEE  A.  CRISP,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  John  Crisp  & 
Sons  Co.,  Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Akron,  May  6,  1883,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  is  also 
Vice  President  of  the  Interstate  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  has 
been  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Akron  Coal  Club  for 
three  years. 

NORRIS  L.  CURTIS,  Manager  and  Vice  President  Charles 
L.  Koch  Co.,  Maumee,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Olivet,  Michigan, 
August  23,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  He  has  other  coal  interests  at  Perrys- 
burg  and  Waterville.     He  was  formerly  with  F.  J.  Matzinger. 

E.  A.  CUTLER,  Russellville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Russell- 
ville  November  27,  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  six  years. 

A.  M.  DAUGHERTY,  Manager  Daugherty  &  Co.,  Derby, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Ohio,  June  10,  1872,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was 
formerly   with    Jones   &    Co. 

HARRY  GIBSON  DAVID,  Findlay,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  August  18,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Howe  & 
David. 

B.  T.  DAVIS,  Westerville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ohio, 
June  28,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
thirty-one   years.      He   was   formerly   with   Adams   &   Davis. 


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DAVID  DAVIS,  Conesville,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Conesville 
June  17.  1884.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  since  1885. 
Mr.  Davis  has  had  experience  in  all  branches  of  the  coal 
Industry  and  now  has  active  charge  of  coal  properties  con- 
sisting of  3.000  acres,  with  two  plants  each  and  with  three 
miles  of  railway.  Aside  from  being  a  pioneer  coal  man  Mr. 
Davis  served  his  country  in  the  Civil  War,  having  enlisted 
when   but   seventeen   years  of  age. 

AI.BKRT  NEWTON  DEATON,  General  Manager  A.  N. 
Deaton  &  Son,  Dayton.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Donnelsville.  Ohio, 
in  1859.  and  has  been  In  the  retail  coal  business  fourteen 
years.     He  was  formerly  with  J.  C.  Ensley. 

CHARLES  F.  DECKER.  Vermilion,  Ohio,  was  born  In 
Vermilion  November  9.  1862.  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  thirty-two  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Decker  Bros. 

E.  K.  DELANEY,  President  Burlington  Coal  Co.,  Martins 
Ferry,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Short  Creek,  West  Virginia,  Febru- 
ary 14,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

S.  L.  DKMO.VGE,  Fayetteville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  France 
in    1858,  and   has   been   in   the   coal   business  eight   years. 

TIIKO.  1IETWII.ER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Brookvillc, 
Ohio,  was  born  In  Brookville  July  3,  1858,  and"  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  twelve  years. 

CHARLES  DIENSTBERGER,  Delphos,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Delphos  July  21,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
forty-one   years,   succeeding   his   father. 

L.  C.  DOUGLASS,  Manager  L.  C.  Douglass  &  Co.,  Jeffer- 
son, Ohio,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  nineteen 
years. 

M.  It.  DOWNING,  coal  jobber  and  operator,  Middleport. 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Middleport  August  4,  1870,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Cincinnati  Gas.  Coke,  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Smokeless 
Fuel  Co.,  Jackson  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  West  Virginia 
Standard   Coal    Co. 

Itintl  DRAKE  of  Lewis  &  Drake,  Lebanon,  Ohio,  was 
born  near  Lebanon  October  18,  1872,  and  has  been  In  the 
retail  coal  business  sixteen   years. 

JOHN  C.  DRAKE,  Kimball,  Ohio,  was  born  in  North  Mon- 
roeville.  Ohio.  December  13,  1860.  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   twenty-eight  years. 

i  'f  i!  m:  W.  DRAKE,  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio,  was  born 
January  6,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

EI.MEH  DREW  of  Drew  Bros.,  retailers  of  Arcanum, 
Ohio,  was  born  at  Arcanum  in  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  ten  years. 

CARL  F.  DUDTE,  Manager  C.  F.  Dudte  &  Co.,  Loudon- 
ville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Loudonville  December  31,  1888,  and 
has  been    In    the   retail   coal   business  nine  years. 

EDWARD  F.  DUERR,  Hamilton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ham- 
ilton August  26,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness  fifteen   years. 

JOHN  G.  ECKMAN,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Manager 
Eckman  Coal  Co.,  Glrard,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Nlles,  Ohio, 
January  4,  1874,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years. 

F.  W.   EI.BRECHT  of   the   Plqua   Coal   &   Iron   Co.,   Plqua, 
lo,  was  born   In  Hanover.   Germany.   August   25,    1853,  and 

been    in    the    coal    business    twenty-four    years. 

ft  F.  ELSCHLAGEH.  Georgetown,  Ohio,  was  born  In 
Brown  County,  Ohio,  May  17.  1860,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  John 
Donald. 

CALVIN  ESSEX,  President  Essex  Coal  Co.,  Statler  & 
Essex  Coal  Co..  Lost  Run  Coal  Co.  and  Halestock  Coal  Co., 
New  Straitsville,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Morgan  County,  Ohio. 
August  5,  1848,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
four    years. 

i  ii  \in.i>  i>si:\  of  the  Essex  Coal  Co.,  New  Straitsville. 
Ohio,  was  born  in  New  Straitsville  August  13,  1874,  and  has 
been  associated  in  the  coal  business  with  his  father,  Calvin 
Essex. 

iiti.lt  ESSEX,  Manager  Essex  Coal  Co.,  New  Straits- 
ville. ohin,  was  born  In  New  Straitsville  thirty  years  ago. 
He   Is  in  charge  of  the  Columbus  office. 

until. ii  I  LOGAN  ESSEX,  Superintendent  Essex  Coal  Co., 
New  Straitsville.  Ohio,  was  born  In  New '  Straitsville  Janu- 
ary 6,   1886,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  eleven   years. 

EVAN  E.  EI  BANKS,  President  Rowland  Block  Coal  & 
Clay  Co.,  Jackson,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Jackson  October  13, 
1X72,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  six  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Ohio  &  Indiana  Collieries  Co.  He 
was   formerly    with    the   Wood    Coal   Co. 

ED.  T.  EVANS,  General  Manager  T.  J.  Evans  Coal  Co.. 
Coalton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Oak  Hill,  Ohio,  April  6.  1869.  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  since  1888.  Mr.  Evans  has 
other  coal  Interests  In    Eastern  Ohio  and  Kentucky. 


WALTER  D.  J.  EVERETT,  West  Milton,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  West  Milton  February  5,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  thirty-five  years. 

FRANK  l'\lti|l  mil,  Wilmington,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Clinton  County,  Ohio,  April  10,  1835,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail   coal   business  seventeen  years. 

MRS.  J.  T.  FENNESSY,  Urbana.  Ohio,  was  born  in  St. 
Paris,  Ohio,  April  17,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  three  years. 

CONRAD  ft  FERNSELL,  President  and  Treasurer  Reeves 
Coal  Co.,  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Strasburg, 
Ohio,  November  24,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
five  years. 

E.  M.  FINDLEY,  Edge  Hill,  Bellaire.  Ohio,  was  born  In 
Freeport.  Pennsylvania,  October  31,  1870,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was  Mine  Manager  for 
the  West  Virginia-Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  the  Lewis-Find- 
ley  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Findley  organized  the  first  electric  coal 
stripping  company. 

H.  R.  FIN  FROCK  of  H.  R.  Finfrock  &  Son.  retailers  at 
Brookville,  Ohio,  is  a  native  of  Brookville,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected   with   Detwiler  &    Finfrock. 

ALBERT  L.  FLACK,  Holmesville,  Ohio,  was  born  In 
Holmesville  January  4,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   four  years. 

PAIL  II.  FLACH,  Manager  Flach  Bros.,  Piqua,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  May  10,  1873,  and  has 
been    in    the    retail   coal    business   twenty-five    years. 

WM.  H.  FLACH  of  Flach  Bros.,  Plqua,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  October  2,  1871,  and  has 
been    in    the    retail   coal   business   twenty-five   years. 

J.  R.  B.  FLAGG,  General  Manager  The  Anderson -Shaffer 
Co.,  Hamilton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Hamilton  April  25,  1881, 
and    has    been    in    the    retail    coal    business    six    years. 

J.  F.  FLANNIGAN  of  J.  F.  Flannigan  &  Son,  Portsmouth, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Mount  Savage,  Maryland,  March  16,  1848, 
and  was  in  the  retail  coal  business  up  to  his  sudden  death 
January  27,  1918.  The  business  is  being  continued  under 
the   same   name. 

HOMER  A.  FORSYTHE,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager 
Forsythe  Coal  Co.,  Cambridge.  Ohio,  is  a  native  of  Cam- 
bridge, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Pittsburgh-Belmont  Coal  Co. 
and  the  Number  Eight  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  New  Camb-Coal  Mining  Co. 

CHARLES  F.  FRANKLIN,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the 
Franklin  Bros.  Co.  of  Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  April  28,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
three  years. 

LEWIS  F.  FREDERICK,  Manager  of  B.  F.  Fiederick  & 
Son,  Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Copley,  Ohio,  August  28, 
1880,  and  has   been   in   business  four  years. 

JOHN  D.  FHEYHOF,  Glendale,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Glen- 
dale  May  16,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
thirty-four  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Dooley  &  Frey- 
hof   and   Freyhof   &    Lehrer. 

CORNEI.IIS  FRIEDLY  of  C.  Frledly  &  Sons,  Dunkirk, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Stark  County.  Ohio,  May  27,  1849.  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  forty-one  years.  Associated  with 
him  are  his  three  sons,  who  took  over  the  management  of 
the  business   in  1913. 

•  till. EN  FRIEDLY  of  C.  Friedly  &  Sons.  Dunkirk,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Dunkirk  in  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    thirty-one    years. 

WILLARD  i.  Ml. I. III. 11.  President  Delaware  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.,  Delaware,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Delaware  in  1858,  and  has 
been    in    the   coal    business    thirty-one    years. 

ELMER  E.  GANSTKR  President  Ganster-Keller  Coal  CO., 
Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Phoenixville,  Pennsylvania,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen 
years.  He  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Dayton  Coal  Ex- 
change. 

KARL  W.  GANSTER,  Vice  President  Ganster-Keller  Coal 
Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton  April  20,  1890,  and 
has  been   in   the  coal  business  five  years. 

AUGUSTUS  H.  GAUMER  of  the  Gaumer  Coal  Co.,  Ur- 
bana, Ohio,  was  born  In  Urbana,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    five    years,    succeeding    H.    C.    Johnson. 

GEORGE  E.  GAUMER  of  the  Gaumer  Coal  Co..  Urban*, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Urbana,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  five  years. 

JACOB  F,  GEIMIAHT,  General  Manager  Versailles  Grain 
Co,,  Versailles.  Ohio,  was  born  In  Shelby  County,  Ohio, 
September  15,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Gephart  &  Hile, 
Mcfflt  Grain  Co.,  Russia  Grain  Co.,  and  Ansonia  Grain  Co. 


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GEORGE  F.  GERMAIN.  President  Coining  Mining  Co., 
Corning,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Petrolia,  Ontario,  Canada,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

EMMETT  GHERST,  Sales  Manager  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for 
Weston  Dodson  &  Co.,  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  January  5,  1881,  and  has  been 
In  the   sales  end  of  the   coal   business  two  years. 

CHARLES  FREMONT  GILL,,  Richwood.  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Richwood  June  9,  1856.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-seven   years. 

CHARLE.S  S.  GINN,  President  The  Ginn  Co.,  Ironton,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  New  England,  Ohio,  January  25,  1866,  and  has 
been    in   the   coal   business   twenty-five  years. 

HARVEY  GLASS,  Minerva,  Ohio,  was  born  in  East  Roch- 
ester, Ohio,  July  28,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business    two    years. 

J.  W.  GOMPF,  Waldo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Waldo  May  29, 
1873,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-two 
years. 

JAMES  GARFIELD  GRAHAM,  General  Manager  of  the 
Navarre  Street  Coal  Co.,.  Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Wooster, 
Ohio,  September  3,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
two  years.     Mr.  Graham  is  now  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Service. 

R.  W.  GRAHAM,  Manager  Liberty  Center  Grain  &  Stock 
Co.,  Liberty  Center,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Wood  County,  Ohio, 
September  29,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness four  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Cruikshank  & 
Wright  and  Cruikshank   &  Bennett. 

C.  P.  GRESS,  New  Bremen,  Ohio,  was  born  in  New  Bre- 
men April  15,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
thirty-six   years. 

CHARLES  E.  BRIBE  of  the  Charles  E.  Grube  Coal  Co., 
Springfield,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Springfield  November  30,  1865. 
and   has   be^n   in  the  retail   coal   business  eleven   years, 

JOHN  H.  GRUTE,  Sales  Agent  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for  The 
Pocock  Coal  Co.,  Massillon,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Youngstown, 
Ohio,  October  19,  1851,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-four  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Lake  View  Coal  Co.  of  Akron,  Ohio,  and  the  Todd-Stam- 
baugh   Co.   of  Cleveland. 

FRANK  J.  HALL,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Jackson  & 
West  Virginia  Fuel  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Wells- 
ton,  Ohio,  August  21,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-one  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Remple 
Fuel   Co. 

VORIS  E.  HALL,  President  and  General  Manager  Jack- 
son &  West  Virginia  Fuel  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Coalton,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-one 
years.     He  is  Manager  of  the  Jackson  Low  Ash  Coal  Co. 

J.  A.  HAMILTON  of  the  Niles  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.,  Niles, 
Ohio,  has  been   in  the  coal  business  four  years. 

FRANK  K.  HAMMETT,  Leipsic,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cov- 
ington, Ohio,  March  21,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   thirty-seven   years. 

ERNST  F.  HANSON,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General 
Manager  The  E.  F.  Hanson  Co.,  Wauseon,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Norwalk,  Ohio,  in  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Bartlett  & 
Hanson. 

J.  C.  HARING,  Massillon,  Ohio,  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
Pocock  Coal  Co.  and  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Mas- 
sillon City  Coal  Co.  and  of  the  Massillon-Belmont  Coal  Co., 
was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  August  7,  1846,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years. 

W.  J.  HARPER,  Manager  Indian  Coal  Co.,  Wauseon,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Ontario,  Canada,  March  21,  1854,  and  has  been 
in   the  retail   coal   business  six  years. 

E.  A.  HARRIS,  Secretary  and  Manager  Crystal  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.,  Lima,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1891,  and  has  been 
in   the   retail   coal   business   six  years. 

HARRY  D.  HARRIS,  Marysville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dela- 
ware County,  Ohio,  April  20,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  two  years. 

LUCIUS  F.  HARRIS,  junior  member  of  Harris  Bros.,  re- 
tailers at  Chagrin  Falls,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Chagrin  Falls, 
February  5,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twen- 
ty years.     He  was  formerly  connected  with  Baer  &  Rehbery. 

STANLEY'  P.  HARRIS,  Secretary  and  Manager  Springfield 
Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Springfield,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Champaign. 
Illinois,  January  7,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   six  years. 

C.  M.  HARRISON  of  Harrison  Bros..  Wauseon.  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Wauseon,  Ohio,  November  16,  1871,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal  business   twenty-two   years. 

ERVIN  HARSH,  Kensington,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Augusta, 
Ohio,  January  15,  1876,  and  has  been  mining  coal  five  years. 

SAMUEL  HART,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bradford,  Ohio, 
was  born  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  January  17,  1866,  and  has 
been   in    the    coal   business   for   fifteen   years. 


SHERMAN  S.  HEABLER,  Manager  and  a  member  of  the 
coal  firm  of  Heabler  &  Heabler  of  Attica,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Sandusky,  Ohio,  February  27,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  since  1906.  This  firm  owns  and  operates  the 
Attica  Flour  Mills  and  Elevator,  the  latter  formerly  known 
as  the  J.  I.  Friedley  Elevator.  Sheridan  L.  Heabler,  a 
brother,  and  Kenneth  J.  Heabler,  a  cousin,  are  also  inter- 
ested   in   the   firm. 

THOMAS  HEAP,  Urbana,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Littleborough 
England,  August  9,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirteen   years. 

GERALD  LEE  HEILNER,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Crystal  Park  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business 
at  Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Dalton,  Ohio,  September  9,  1888, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

HERBERT  B.  HEIMANN  of  Heimann  Bros.,  retailers 
jf  coal  at  Cuyahoga  Falls,  Ohio,  is  a  native  of  Massillon 
Ohio,  born  August  8,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  one  year. 

LEE  C.  HEINLON,  Manager  of  the  Bucyrus  Lumber  Co.. 
doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Bucyrus,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Bucyrus  June  23,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fif- 
teen years. 

LOUIS  H.  HELLING,  Treasurer  and  Manager  Burlington 
Coal  Co.,  Martins  Ferry,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Martins  Ferry 
April  8,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  Helling  Bros. 

CHARLES  H.  HERNER  of  Herner  Bros.,  Newton  Falls, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Newton  Falls,  March  25.  1865,  and  has 
been   in   the   retail   coal   business   twenty-seven   years. 

WILLIAM  P.  HIEGEL,  Dawn,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Shelby 
County,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  three 
years. 

M.  K.  HITCHCOCK,  Sales  Agent,  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Sciotoville,  Ohio,  June  15,  1887,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Black    Fork    Co. 

EDWARD  HITE,  Martins  Ferry,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Peoria, 
Illinois,  October  18,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  Mr.  Hite  leases  and  operates  the  Laughlin 
mine  of  the  United  States  Steel  Co.  He  has  been  a  coal 
operator  twenty  years. 

CHARLES  DELNOW  HOPKINS,  President  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Hocking  Mining  Co.  and  the  Eureka  Coal  Co.,  Athens, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Athens  July  28,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years. 

D.  E.  HOWELL,  Lewisburg,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Lewisburg 
March  13,  1875,  and  has  been  In  the  retail  coal  business 
three   years. 

CURTIS  G.  HURSH,  President  of  the  Hursh  Coal  Co.,  re- 
tailers at  Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Minerva,  Ohio,  February 
17,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

DANIEL  HUDSON  of  the  Dan  Hudson  Coal  Co.,  Coshoc- 
ton, Ohio,  was  born  in  Coshocton  in  1870,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirty-one  years. 

FRANK  R.  HURLEY,  Manager  of  the  Stiles  Co.,  Xenia, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  New  Burlington,  Ohio,  November  23,  1871. 
and  has  been  in  the   retail   coal   business   twenty-two  years. 

E.  A.  HURSH,  Vice  President  of  the  Hursh  Coal  Co.  of 
Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Minerva,  Ohio,  December  6,  1872, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  He  was 
formerly  Manager  of  the  City  Coal  Co. 

F.  M.  HURSH,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Hursh  Coal 
Co.,  doing  retail  business  at  Canton,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Kil- 
gore,  Ohio,  October  8,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirteen  years.  This  company  has  two  yards,  one  at 
either  end   of  the   city. 

J.  S.  HLTTON,  Findlay,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Peru,  Indiana, 
in   1854,   and   has   been   in   the   coal   business  sixteen  years. 

J.  B.  JACKMAN  of  J.  B.  Jackman  &  Son,  Lima,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  France  July  27,  1837.  The  company  does  a  retail 
coal  business. 

W.  J.  JACKMAN  of  J.  B.  Jackman  &  Son,  Lima,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Carey,  Ohio,  August  23,  1865,  and  has  been  in 
the   retail  coal   business  seventeen  years. 

EDWIN  H.  JAEGER,  Secretary  Sheridan  Coal  Co.,  Day- 
ton, Ohio,  was  born  in  New  Bremen,  Ohio,  August  29,  1884, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  is 
also  Secretary  of  the  Steele  Coal  Co.  and  the  Ohio  Coal  & 
Iron  Co.,  Dayton,  and  the  Fidelity  Coal  Co.,  Troy,  Ohio. 

GEORGE  R.  JAMES,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Manager 
The  Falls  Lumber  Co.,  Cuyahoga  Falls,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Cuyahoga  Falls  in  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-three   years. 

RICHARD  JAMES,  General  Manager  James  Bros.  Coal 
Co.,  Magnolia,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Voungstown,  Ohio,  in 
1880.   and   has   been    in    the   retail   coal   business   four  years. 


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A.  M.  JENKINS,  Springfield.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Clark 
County,  Ohio.  In  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Jenkins  &  Black 
and    Jenkins    &    Otstat, 

CHARLES  E.  JOHN  of  John  Bros.,  Lafayette,  Ohio,  was 
born  In  Elida,  Ohio,  in  1866.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  seven   years. 

ALFRED  CHARLES  JONES,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Dayton  June  9,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  a  Director  in  the  Coal  Deal- 
ers'  Association. 

JOHN  SUTPHIN  JONES,  Granville,  Ohio,  Chairman  of 
Board  Buckeye  Coal  &  Railway  Co.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  was 
born  In  Washington  Court  House,  Ohio,  January  4,  1849, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He 
is  also  interested  in  The  Jones  &  Adams  Coal  Co.  and  Sun- 
day Creek  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Columbus 
&  Hocking  Valley  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  He  is  also  President  of 
the    Wisconsin    &    Northern    Railroad   Co. 

C.  W.  JOSI.IN,  Secretary  Zanesville  Coal  Co..  Zanesville, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Albion,  Pennsylvania.  October  29,  1859, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four  years. 

A.  V.  KENNEDY,  Milford  Center.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Union 
County,  Ohio,  August  10.  1855,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal    business    twenty-seven    years. 

ARTHUR  R.  KERR  of  A.  R.  Kerr  &  Co.,  retailers  at  Belle- 
fontaine,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Bellefontaine  February  10,  1877, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  His  father, 
R.  S.  Kerr,  who  died  in  1915,  was  in  the  coal  business  at  the 
same  location   forty   years. 

CHARLES  F.  KELLER,  Secretary-Treasurer  Ganster- 
Keller  Coal  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton  Novem- 
ber 25,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

JOHN  CAMPBELL  KERR,  Manager  Kerr  &  Kubbs.  Shel- 
by, Ohio,  was  born  in  Napoleon,  Ohio.  June  27,  1861,  and  has 
been   in  the   retail  coal  business  eight  years. 

ALBERT  H.  KING  of  Albert  H.  King  &  Co.,  Lemoyne, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Monroe  County,  New  York,  May  3,  1845. 
and   has  been   in    the  coal  business   eight  years. 

JAMES  J.  KIRBY,  President  Kirby-Callander  Co.,  Paines- 
ville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Painesville  June  22,  1864,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with   the  S.  R.  King  Co.  and  Truby  Coal   Co. 

DORR  S.  KNIGHT  of  the  Knight  Coal  Co.,  Wauseon, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Fulton  County,  Ohio.  February  1,  1874. 
and   has   been    in   the   retail   coal   business   four   years. 

F.  E.  KRAMER  of  Kramer  Bros.,  New  Straitsville,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  New  Straitsville  in  1886,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   eleven   years. 

J.  P.  KRAMER  of  Kramer  Bros.,  New  Straitsville.  Ohio, 
was  born  in  New  Straitsville  in  1875,  and  is  associated  with 
F.  E.  Kramer,  mining  and  selling  their  own  coal. 

FREDERICK  J.  KROMER  of  the  F.  J.  Kromer  Coal  Co., 
Sandusky,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Monroeville,  Ohio,  August  10, 
1857,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty  years. 
Mr.  Kromer.  although  sixty  years  of  age.  is  a  very  active 
man. 

\.  THANK  KUBBS  of  Kerr  &  Kubbs.  Shelby,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Shelby  September  4.  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  two  years. 

H.  D.  KUNKLE,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Crystal  Ice  Manufacturing  &  Coal  Sales  Co.,  Ashtabula.  Ohio, 
was  borri  in  Ashtabula  in  1886.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  four  years. 

OTIS  FRANCIS  LAKE,  President  Otis  F.  Lake  Coal  & 
Ice  Co..  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Jackson  County,  Ohio, 
November  11.  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years. 

CHARLES  O.  LAMAN,  Manager  Laman  Bros.,  Spencer- 
ville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Allen  County,  Ohio,  in  1879,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 

CHARLES  W.  LANG,  Manager  F.  M.  Dang  &  Son,  Man- 
chester, Ohio,  was  born  in  Manchester  November  27,  1873, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-seven  years. 

THOMAS  IV.  LAWSON,  General  Manager  Thomas  Coal 
Co.,  Racine.  Ohio,  was  born  in  New  Straitsville,  Ohio,  in 
1870,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years. 

GEORGE  LAZEAR,  Manager  Mt.  Vernon  Hay  Co.,  Mt. 
Vernon,  Ohio,  was  born  in  West  Virginia  November  19,  1875. 
and   has   been    in    the   coal   business  eleven    years. 

CHARLES  W.  LEFFLER.  Manager  Leffler  &  Bland,  Mar- 
lon, Ohio,  was  born  November  1,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

R.  W.  LENOX,  Rlchwood,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Rlchwood.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  also 
operates  yards  at  North   Lewlsburg   and   Woodland,   Ohio. 


HEBER  S.  LEONARD,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Leonard 
Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  West  Wood- 
ville,  Ohio,  March  15,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness ten  years.  He  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Dayton 
Coal  Clearing  House  during  the  fuel  shortage  of  the  win- 
ter of  1917-18.  He  is  serving  now  as  Secretary  of  the 
Dayton    Coal    Dealers    Credit    Association. 

WILLIAM  ELMER  LEONARD,  President  Leonard  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.,  Dayton.  Ohio,  was  born  near  West  Woodville, 
Ohio,  August  31,  1869.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  He  has  served  as  Treasurer  of  the  Dayton 
Coal   Exchange. 

CHARLES  E.  LEWIS  of  Lewis  &  Drake.  Lebanon. 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Lebanon  August  24,  1861,  and  has  been 
in   the   retail  coal  business  twenty-three  years. 

D.  F.  LICKLIDER  of  Morrow  &  Licklider,  Piqua,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Piqua  July  27,  1845,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal    business    eleven    years. 

EDWARD  M.  LINCKE,  retailer  in  business  for  himself  at 
Alliance,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Stark  County,  .Ohio,  on  January 
19,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  Munter-Lincke  Coal  Co. 

MARTIN  J.  LINGLER,  Hamilton,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Ham- 
ilton April  4,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
nine  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Wirtz  &  Lingler 
Coal   Co. 

T.  F.  LININGER,  Conneaut,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Listonburg. 
Pennsylvania,  April  7,  1875.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   ten   years. 

WILLIAM  LIPSTRAW  of  Wm.  Lipstraw  &  Co.,  Oak  Har- 
bor, Ohio,  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Trowbridge,  Ohio, 
August  24,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal,  hay  and  grain 
business   twenty-eight  years. 

FRANK  LITTLER  of  Littler  &  Leary,  East  Monroe,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Highland  County,  Ohio,  in  1855,  and  has  been 
in    the    retail    coal    business    five    years. 

D,  J.  LLOYD,  Manager  and  Secretary  Waterville  Farmers 
Elevator  Co.,  Waterville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Sylvania,  Ohio, 
April  2,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  slightly  over 
a  year. 

G.  U.  LLOYD,  Farmersville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dublin, 
Ohio,  June  25,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twen- 
ty-two  years. 

JAMES  PARDEE  LOOMIS,  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Akron  Coal  Co.  of  Akron,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Wads- 
worth,  Ohio,  September  5,  1865.  Mr.  Loomis  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  for  thirty-one  years. 

ANDREW  M.  LOVENZEN,  Curtice,  Ohio,  was  born  In 
Germany  March  8,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
seventeen    years. 

SAM  LOW,  Willoughby,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Erie,  Pennsyl- 
vania, February  5,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  E.  W.  Reed, 
Erie. 

E.  C.  MacKENZIE,  General  Manager  Fidelity  Coal  &  Sup- 
ply Co.,  Lima,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Kalida,  Ohio,  October  15, 
1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 

MICHAEL  A.  MAHER,  Greenville,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Champaign  County.  Ohio,  in  1858.  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   thirty-six   years. 

FRANK  MALSBAREY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Blue  Ash, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Blue  Ash  April  4,  1880,  and  has  been  in 
the    coal   business   ten   years. 

GEORGE  A.  MANLEY,  proprietor  of  the  State  Coal  Co., 
doing  a  retail  business  at  Barberton,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Ashland,  Ohio,  December  1,  1871,  and  was  with  the  Young 
Co.  of  Barberton  for  eighteen  years  until  he  formed  his 
present  company   a  year  ago. 

J.  CLYDE  MARKLEY,  Kenmore.  Summit  County,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Sharon  Township,  Medina  County,  Ohio,  Octo- 
ber 13.  1877.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  seventeen 
years,  although  not  continuously.  He  was  formerly  inter- 
ested in  The  Loomis  Coal  Co.  of  Akron,  Ohio,  and  The 
Card  &  Barrett  Coal  Co.  of  Pittsburgh.  He  has  now  val- 
uable coal  lands  in  Preston  County,  West  Virginia.  Mr. 
Markley  served  with  the  8th  Ohio  Volunteer  Inf:intry.  "Mc- 
Klnley's  Own,"  in  the  Spanish-American  War.  He  home- 
steaded  in  Oklahoma  and  was  connected  with  the  National 
Tube  Co.  of  Lorain,  Ohio,  for  some  years. 

GEORGE  H.  MARSH.  Conneaut,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Con- 
neaut May  12.  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
thirty-six  years.     He  was  formerly  with  H.   J.   Marsh. 

J.  II.  MARTIN,  Dayton,  Ohio,  Dayton  Manager  Indian 
Run  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Fairmont,  West  Virginia,  in  1878, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Parker  Run  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the 
Point  Mountain  Coal   &   Lumber  Co. 


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CHARLES  H.  MASON,  General  Manager  Niles  Fuel  & 
Supply  Co.,  Niles,  Ohio,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four 
years. 

GEORGE  C.  MATTHES  of  the  Geo.  C.  Matthes  Coal  Co., 
Sandusky,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Sandusky  May  16,  1885,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  nineteen  years.  He  is 
serving  as  an  official  of  the  Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal 
Association. 

JOSEPH  T.  MATTHEWS,  Secretary  Marion  Lumber  Co., 
Marion,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Marion  September  14,  1863,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  Lindsay  &  Lawrence  and  the  Marion  Lumber 
&  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  MATHEWS,  Manager  Penn  Oil  Co.,  Delaware, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Centerburg,  Ohio,  July  7,  1858,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Callamal  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Peacock  Coal 
Co.,   Thomas   Coal   Co.,   and   Luella  Coal   Co. 

ROBERT  W.  McCASLAND,  Superintendent  of  Mines  La 
Belle  Iron  Works,  Steubenville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Scenery 
Hill,  Pennsylvania,  December  8,  1878,  and  has  been  at  the 
mines  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  La 
Belle  Coke  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Vesta  Coal  Co. 
and   Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

NEAL  McGREEVY,  Vice  President  and  Secretary  Mc- 
Greevy  &  Ortman  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Versailles, 
Ohio,  August  24,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen   years. 

JOHN  McKEEPREY  of  McKeefrey  &  Co.,  Leetonia,  Ohio, 
has  been  in  coal  mining  operations  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Atlas  Coke  Co.  and  the  Mc- 
Keefrey  Coal   Co. 

N.  J.  McKEEFREY  of  McKeefrey  &  Co.,  Leetonia,  Ohio, 
has  been  interested  in  coal  mining  operations  twenty-five 
years.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Atlas  Coke  Co.  and 
the   McKeefrey  Coal  Co. 

W.  D.  McKEEFREY  of  McKeefrey  &  Co.,  Leetonia,  Ohio, 
has  been  in  the  operating  end  of  the  coal  business  twenty- 
five  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Atlas  Coke  Co.  and 
McKeefrey  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  McKITTERIEL,  Superintendent  Pomeroy  Colliery 
Co.,  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Jackson,  Ohio,  in  1892,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  He  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Carbon  Hill  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with 
the   Robert  Gage   Coal  Co.,  Bay  City,   Michigan. 

DANIEL  F.  McLAREN,  Mechanicsburg,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Morrow  County,  Ohio,  April  17,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal   business  eleven  years. 

CHARLES  S.  McMULLEN  of  Murphy  &  McMullen.  Dayton, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  W.  M. 
Whitmore  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  McNALLY  of  James  McNally  &  Son,  St.  Marys, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Sabina,  Ohio,  November  5,  1858,  and  has 
been   in   the    retail    coal    business    fifteen    years. 

WILLIAM  E.  McNALLY  of  James  McNally  &  Son,  St. 
Marys,  Ohio,  was  born  October  30,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  fifteen   years. 

JEROME  L.  MEAD,  managing  partner  Mead  &  Woodward, 
Norwalk,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Norwalk  November  7,  1850, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 
This  company  operates  yards  at  Norwalk,  Collins  and  Hart- 
land  Station,  Ohio.  The  business  was  started  in  1893  by  Mr. 
Mead  and  D.  O.  Woodward.  When  the  latter  died  four  years 
ago   Mr.   Mead   became   the   manager. 

HANNIBAL  H.  MEEK,  proprietor  of  the  Central  Coal  Co., 
Cambridge,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Byesville,  Ohio,  July  21, 
1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Cambridge  Fuel  Co. 
and  the  Ohio  Coal  Co.  and  was  closely  associated  with  Gen- 
eral Warner,  a  well-known  promoter  of  Ohio,  now  deceased. 

L.  J.  MESHINGER,  McCutchenville,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Tiffin,  Ohio,  May  26,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   twenty-four   years. 

CLYDE  F.  MILLER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Bedford,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  West  Farmington,  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  April 
28.  1877,  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  there  eight 
years,  having  begun  in  April,  1910. 

JOHN  F.  T.  MILLER  of  I.  C.  Miller  &  Co.,  New  Richland, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Logan  County,  Ohio,  December  17,  1860, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  W.  H.  Johnston  as  Manager. 

SHERMAN  GRANT  MILLER.  President  and  Treasurer 
Lion  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  July  2,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
six   years. 


WILLIAM  WISE  MILLER,  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  General  Mana- 
ger Pittsburgh  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
July  4,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 
He  is  also  General  Manager  of  the  West  Virginia  Washed 
Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Plymouth  Coal  & 
Mining   Co.,   Plymouth,   West   Virginia. 

ROBERT  H.  MILLS,  Coshocton,  Ohio,  President  Puritan 
Coal  Co.,  Cambridge,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Harrison  County, 
Ohio,  June  29,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six- 
teen  years. 

JESSE  C.  MINNICH,  Trotwood.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Pots- 
dam, Ohio,  October  15,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness nine  years. 

L.  P.  MOONEY,  Secretary  Globe  Coal  Co..  Murray  City, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Zanesville.  Ohio,  in  1889,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business   thirteen   years. 

GEORGE  T.  MOORE  of  Moore  &  Black,  Good  Hope,  Ohio, 
has  been   in   the   coal   business  for  several  years. 

JAMES  W.  MORGAN,  Jackson,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Jackson 
January  17,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Frisbie-Mor- 
gan  Coal  Co.,   Toledo,   Ohio. 

A.  M.  MORROW  of  A.  M.  Morrow  &  Son,  Garrettsville, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Piqua,  Ohio,  November  17,  1833,  and 
although  advanced  in  years  still  goes  to  his  office  daily. 
He  is  associated  with  his  son,  C.  P.  Morrow. 

C.  P.  MORROW,  Manager  A.  M.  Morrow  &  Son,  Garretts- 
ville, Ohio,  was  born  in  Piqua,  Ohio,  October  28,  1877,  and 
has   been   in   the   coal   business   for   fourteen   years. 

H.  D.  MORROW  of  Morrow  &  Licklider,  Piqua,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Piqua  September  5,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  eleven  years. 

E.  E.  MOYER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Chardon,  Ohio,  was 
born  at  New  Hamburg,  Pennsylvania,  October  9,  1864,  and 
has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  seven  years. 

HERBERT  H.  MUELLER,  Secretary  and  General  Mana- 
ger The  John  Mueller  Co.,  Lockland,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Lockland  in  1S90,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
eleven   years. 

JOHN  MUELLER,  President  The  John  Mueller  Co.,  Lock- 
land,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Reading,  Ohio,  in  1854,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal   business  since   1875. 

JOHN  MIIRHACH  of  the  Murbach  Coal  Co.,  Elyria,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Schaffhausen,  Switzerland,  January  31,  1852, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  City  Fuel  &  Ice  Co.  and  the  City 
Fuel  &   Supply  Co. 

RALPH  MURBACH  of  Murbach  Coal  Co.,  Elyria,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Elyria  December  18,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail   coal   business   ten   years. 

JOHN  M.  MURDAY,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Murday  Coal  Co.  of  Carbon  Hill,  Ohio,  was  born  in  England, 
February  28,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty  years.  Mr.  Murday  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Columbus  &  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  the  York  Clay  & 
Mining  Co.  as  General  Superintendent,  and  as  Superintendent 
of  the  Central  West  Coal  Co.  of  West  Virginia. 

JOHN  A.  MURPHY,  President  and  General  Manager  John 
A.  Murphy  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ireland  April  10, 
1849,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years. 
Mr.  Murphy  has  held  positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associa- 
tions of  his  state  and  is  a  well   known   coal  man. 

J.  L.  MURPHY,  Chief  Engineer  New  York  Coal  Co.,  Nel- 
sonville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Vinton  County,  Ohio,  January 
29,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 

R.  EMMET  MURPHY  of  Murphy  &  McMullen,  Dayton, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  W.  M.  Whit- 
more  Coal  Co. 

EDWARD  CLARE  MURRAY,  General  Superintendent  of 
the  National  Coal  Co.,  engaged  in  business  at  Cambridge, 
Ohio,  was  born  at  Philipsburg,  Pennsylvania,  February  5, 
1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  H.  T.  Wilson  Coal  Co. 
and  Draper  Coal  Co.  and  has  other  coal  interests  in  Belmont 
County,  Ohio. 

WILLIAM  M.  MYERS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Myers 
Grain  Co.,  Lockbourne,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Pleasant  Hill, 
Ohio,  April  23,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twelve   years. 

G.  E.  NAGEL,  Manager  Miller  &  Nagel,  Greenville,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Darke  County,  Ohio,  July  13,  1874,  and  has 
been   in   the   retail   coal   business   nine   years. 

F.  G.  NEEDHAM,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Atwater,  Ohio, 
was  born  at  Randolph,  Ohio,  February  2,  1865,  and  has  been 
in  business  for  himself  for  eighteen  years. 


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ALEXANDER  NEFF.  Neffs.  Ohio.  President  Plttsburgh- 
Belmont  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Neffs  February  11,  1848,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Neff  Coal  Mining:  Co.,  and  has  served  as 
a  Director  in  the  N'o.  8  Coal  Co.  and  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Coal   Co. 

V.  H.  NBJTK,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Canfield,  Ohio,  was 
born  In  Canfield  February  28,  1881. 

I'ltWKI.IN  \BPF,  Neffs,  Ohio.  General  Manager  Pitts- 
burgh-Belmont  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Neffs  In  1858,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years. 

Bin  \\.  NEYMAN,  Purchasing  Agent  of  the  Morris  Coal 
COm  in  business  at  Cambridge,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Senecaville, 
Ohio,  July  13,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twen- 
ty years.  Mr.  Neyman  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Will  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Belle  Valley  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Cam- 
bridge Collieries  Co.,  and  Ford  Collieries  Co. 

\v.  H.  N'ISENGER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Quincy  Grain 
Co.,  Quincy,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Pemberton,  Ohio,  May  21, 
1871,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  with   J.   E.   Wells  &  Co. 

SIMON  G.  NISSLEY,  Springfield,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field Starch  29,  1856.  and  has  been  in  the  wholesale  and  re- 
tall  coal  business  thirty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  Ulrich  &  Nissley,  Ulrich,  Nlssley  &  Williams,  and 
Adams   &    Nissley. 

<M\ltll>  V1.IIKHT  NORTON,  Mentor,  Ohio,  was  born  In 
.Ml.  Pleasant,  Wisconsin,  August  31,  1851,  and  has  been  In 
the   coal   business   twenty-three   years. 

LOUIS  O'CONNELL,  President  The  Louis  O'Connell  Co., 
Tiffin,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Tiffin  September  1,  1869,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirty-four  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  C.  Hatcher  Co.  and  is  one  of  the  charter 
members   of   the   Michigan-Ohio-Indiana   Coal    Association. 

WILLIAM  H.  ORTM1N,  President  and  Treasurer  Mc- 
Greevy  &  Ortman  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Bloomer, 
Ohio,  October  21.  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen  years. 

\.  I).  PARKER  of  N.  D.  Parker  &  Sons,  Mantua,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Streetsboro,  Ohio,  December  8,  1859,  and  has  been  in 
the   retail   coal   business   seven   years. 

NORMAN  C.  PARR,  Secretary  The  Horger-Heldt  Coal  Co., 
New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  was  born  in  New  Philadelphia  June 
20,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  He 
is  also  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Andreas  Coal  Co. 
He   was   formerly   with   the   Goshen   Coal   Co. 

RALPH  B.  PATER,  Manager  Henry  Pater  &  Son,  Hamil- 
ton. Ohio,  was  born  in  Hamilton  April  2,  1889,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  five  years,  associated  with 
his   father,  Henry   Pater,   and  brother,  Mark   J.   Pater. 

WILLI  VM  FORD  PATTERSON  of  the  Dayton  Coal  Co., 
Dayton.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton  October  26,  1858,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  is  a  Direc- 
tor of   the   Michigan-Ohio-Indiana  Coal   Association. 

FRANK  PEI.TON  of  the  Pelton  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Plqua. 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Morristown,  Ohio,  forty-four  years  ago, 
and  has  been   in   the  retail   coal  business   three   years. 

R.  J.  I'Cl.TOJT  of  the  Pelton  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Piqua, 
Ohio,  was  horn  in  Hamilton,  Ohio,  and  is  twenty-two  years 
of  age.     He  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  three  years. 

r.  A.  Pi:\ri:,  Hebron.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Hebron  March 
1».  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty- 
four  years. 

O.  PETERS,  New  Weston,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Franklin 
County.  Ohio,  October  5,  1850.  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal    business   nineteen    years. 

FRANK  I).  PIIIPPS.  Manager  of  the  Carroll  IClevator  Co.. 
selling  coal  at  retail  in  Carroll,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Chester- 
hill,  Ohio,  December  26,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  two  years. 

JOHN'  H.  PLATO,  proprietor  of  the  Plato  Coal  &  Supply 
Co..  Amherst,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Germany  in  1863.  He  is  a 
ploneoi  retail  coalman  of  Northern  Ohio  and  has  been  In 
business  forty  years.  He  is  now  managing  the  business 
during  Hi'-  absence  of  H.  Casper  Plato,  his  son,  who  Is  at 
present  in  the  1'nited  States  service,  as  drum  major  at  Camp 
Taylor,    Kentucky. 

ISA  \<  PONTIUS,  Orrville.  Ohio,  was  born  near  Union- 
town,  Ohio,  February  1.  1844,  and  has  been  In  the  retail 
coal  business  forty-three  years.  Mr.  Pontius  has  taken 
an  active  interest  In  agricultural  pursuits  and  local  civic 
affairs  and  is  a  Civil  War  veteran.  His  son  is  associated 
with   him. 

JOSEPH  POOS,  Eaton,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Eaton  January 
12,  1860,  and  has  been   In  the  retail  coal  business  five  years. 

GEORGE  W.  PORTER,  Roxabell,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Pick- 
away County.  Ohio,  January  26,  1847,  and  has  been  In  the 
retail  coal  business  eleven  years. 


C.  D.  POTTS,  Marengo,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Knox  County, 
Ohio,  February  8.  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness seventeen  years. 

C.  A.  POWERS,  President  and  General  Manager  Powers 
Elevator  Co.,  Genoa,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Genoa  March  25, 
1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  E.  A. 
Powers,   founder   of   the   company,   died   in    1913. 

MALCOLM  R.  PRINE.  Manager  of  the  Ashtabula  Coal  Co., 
doing  a  coal  business  at  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ash- 
tabula August  29,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  four  years. 

A.  H.  RAABE  of  Raabe  Bros.,  Ft.  Jennings,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Ft.  Jennings  December  16,  1861,  and  has  been  In 
the   retail  coal   business   thirty-one   years. 

OTTO  J.  RAILE,  owner  Orris  Coal  Co.,  Zanesvllle.  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Zanesville  February  21,  1885,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  four  years. 

i.r.oiecr.  W.  RAPP,  President  Vinton  Mining  Co.,  Mc- 
Arthur,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  eleven  years.  HS  is  also  President  of  the 
Jackson  Red  Star  Mining  Co.  and  the  Carbon  Block  Mining 
Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Bixler 
Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Rapp  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,   Cincinnati,   Ohio. 

WILLIAM  H.  RAYMOND,  Manager  Raymond  Coal  Co., 
Gallon,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Shelby,  Ohio,  October  18,  1844, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  nineteen  years. 

J.  W.  RICE,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  W.  P.  Rice 
Mining  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Whitfield,  Ohio, 
August  17,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years, 
associated  with   his   father. 

W.  P.  RICE,  President  W.  P.  Rice  Mining  Co.,  Dayton, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Whitfield,  Ohio,  August  17,  1863,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-three  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Alma  Coal  Co.,  the  S.  J.  Patterson  Co.,  and 
the   Elk   Fork  Coal  Co. 

A.  N.  RICHARDS,  proprietor  of  A.  N.  Richards  &  Son,  re- 
tailers at  Chicago  Junction,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Chicago  Junc- 
tion August  25,  1860.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thir- 
teen  years. 

G.  D.  RIDENOUR,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  B.  &  R.  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.,  Nelsonville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Junction  City, 
Ohio,  September  8.  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Ridenour  & 
Shafer  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Columbus  & 
Hocking  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  and  the  Hocking  Domestic  Coal 
Co. 

W.  E.  RILEY,  Montpelier,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Montpelier 
September  3.  1867.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
four    years. 

E.  O.  ROBERTS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Glen  Royai 
Coal  Co.  and  President  Roberts  Coal  Co.,  Jackson,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Wales,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty 
years.  He  is  also  Interested  in  the  Rowland  Block  Coal  & 
Clay  Co.  and  the  Crescent  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  Klondyke  Coal  Co.,  Commercial  Coal 
Co.  and  Roberts  &  Hopkins. 

OWEN  STANLEY  ROBERTS,  General  Manager  Glen  Roy 
Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  Roberts  Coal  Co.,  Jackson, 
Ohio,  was  born  October  10,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seven  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Row- 
land Block  Coal  &  Clay  Co.  and  the  Ohio  &  Indiana  Col- 
lieries   Co. 

MILTON"  C  ROBINSON,  proprietor  of  M.  C.  Robinson  & 
Co.,  retailers  at  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Chagrin  Falls, 
Ohio.  July  31,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
sixteen  years. 

W.  G.  ROGERS,  Rogers,  Ohio,  Vice  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  Fairview  Mining  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Rogers,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.,  Rogers  Coal  Co.,  Penobscot  Coal  Co.,  Pryor  Coal 
Co.,  and  the  Moreland  Coke  Co. 

BBOBCM)  II.  Rl  SK  of  Husk  Bros..  Mansfield.  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four 
years. 

JESSE  RUPP  of  Yager  &  Rupp,  West  Unity.  Ohio,  has 
been    In    the    retail    coal    business   five    years. 

EDWARD  J.  RYAN,  retailer,  engaged  in  coal  business  at 
Bellevue,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Clyde,  Ohio,  September  9,  1877, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  almost  fifteen  years. 
Ha  was  formerly  connected  with  McClain  &  Ryan. 

ELMORE  D.  RYAN.  La  Grange,  Ohio,  was  born  In  La 
Grange  In  1856,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  eleven 
years.      He    was   formerly   with   C.   C.    Manvllle. 

WILLIAM  J.  SAMPSON,  President  Witch-Hazel  Coal  Co.. 
Youngstown,  Ohio,  was  born  near  Youngstown  In  1871,  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  all  his  life.  He  Is  also  Vice 
President  of  the  Jefferson  Mining  Co.  He  Is  President  of 
The  Trl-State  Coal  Stripping  Association. 


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CARL,  A.  s.\  Milium;.  Manager  of  J.  H.  Sandberg  &  Son, 
a  retailer  of  Ashtabula,   Ohio,   was   born    in   Ashtabula   May 

18,  1896,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  Johnson  Bros. 

WILLIAM  F.  SCHENCK,  Franklin,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Franklin  in  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Franklin  Coal 
Dealers  Credit  Association. 

WILLIAM  C.  SCHRODER,  Manager  Cygnet  Grain  &  Hay 
Co.,  Cygnet,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Rockyridge,  Ohio,  January 
27,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  eleven 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Ottawa  County  Co-opera- 
tive Co. 

WALTER  O.  SCOTT,  Dennison,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Sum- 
merdale,  Ohio,  June  19,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  thirty-six  years. 

W.  J.  SEBALD  of  the  Sebald  Grain  Co.,  Middletown,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Middletown  April  15,  1868,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  eleven  years. 

H.  E.  SEESE,  Navarre/  Ohio,  Manager  The  Garver  Bros. 
Co.  of  Navarre  and  of  Strasburg,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Stras- 
burg  August  25,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
five  years. 

CHARLES  SEIDENFIELD,  President  and  Treasurer  Sei- 
denfield-Hammond  Coal  Co.,  Murray  City,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  February  25,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  five  years. 

CARL  S.  SHAFFER,  Spencerville,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Spencerville  May  1,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  six  years.     He  was  formerly  with  James   Cochrun. 

CHARLES  CUTLER  SHARP,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
General  Manager  Northern  Mining  &  Fuel  Co..  Nelsonville, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Sugar  Grove,  Ohio,  February  10,  1861, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Southern  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Western 
Fuel  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Hocking  Coal  &  Iron 
Co.,  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Boomer  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Raven  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Gauley  Co.,  Black  Betsy  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.,  Cardiff  Coal  Co.,  M.  &  B.  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and 
East  Hill  Coal  Co. 

BERT  D.  SMITH,  Sandusky,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Sandusky 
March  21,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
one  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Beech  Creek  Coal 
Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  John  T.  Solon  Co.,  Toledo, 
Ohio. 

GEORGE  T.  SMITH,  well  known  wholesaler  at  Akron, 
Ohio,  was  born  at  Youngdale,  Pennsylvania,  August  9,  1877, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Monongahela  River  Consoli- 
dated Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE  W.  SMITH  of  the  Smith  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Tiffin, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  March  31,  1860,  and  has 
been   in   the   retail  coal  business  twenty-four   years. 

JAMES  H.  SMITH,  Mentor,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Louisville. 
Kentucky,  December  14,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   twelve   years. 

ISAAC  P.  SMITHERS,  Manager  Smithers  Bros.,  Washing- 
ton Court  House,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Frankfort,  Ohio,  No- 
vember 4,  1840,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
one  years. 

LOUIS  T.  SUAVELY,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  The  Min- 
glewood  Coal  Co.,  Wooster,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Wooster  July 

19,  1S89,  and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

JOSEPH  W.  SJfOOK  of  J.  W.  Snook  &  Co.,  South  Lebanon, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Deerfleld,  Ohio,  in  1852,  and  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  for  about  two  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  STEPHA1V  is  Managing  Partner  Schwenn 
Coal  Co.,  Hamilton,  Ohio. 

LAMAR  C.  STEBNBEBGEB,  General  Manager  L.  C. 
Sternberger  Coal  Co.,  Jackson,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Jackson 
March  2,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Superior  Coal  Co.  and 
the   Jackson   Coal   &   Coke   Co. 

JOHN  W.  STEWART,  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Forsythe 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Akron  Coal  Co.,  Cambridge,  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Dayton,  Pennsylvania,  in  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  formerly 
Division  Engineer  for  the  Rochester  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  & 
Iron  Co.,  the  Jefferson  &  Clearfield  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Morris 
Coal  Co.   of  Cambridge. 

G.  M.  STILES  of  the  Stiles  Co.,  Xenia,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
1861,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  three  years, 
succeeding  W.   O.   Maddux   Co. 

WILLIAM  H.  STOCKTON,  retail  e^al  merchant  of  Ashta- 
bula, Ohio,  was  born  in  Mosiertown,  Pennsylvania,  August 
1,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

E.  S.  STODDARD  of  the  F.  F.  Smith  Co.,  Conneaut,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Wisconsin  in  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business  four  years. 


WILFRED  FERDINAND  STRAUSE,  Lakeside,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Belding,  Michigan,  May  8,  1881,  and  has  been  in 
the   retail   coal   business   two   years. 

JAMES  T.  SWEAZY,  Secretary  and  General  Manager  Rus- 
sell Run  Coal  Co.,  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Ohio  Septem- 
ber 16,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years. 

FRED  C.  SWISHEB,  Manager  Wm.  Swisher  &  Son,  Find- 
lay,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Findlay  February  13,  1884,  and  has 
been   in  the  retail   coal   business  fifteen  years. 

J.  W.  SWISHEB  of  Wm.  Swisher  &  Son,  Findlay,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Hancock  County,  Ohio,  in  1848. 

JOHN  EABLE  TAYLOB,  Winchester,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Winchester  October  9,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business    three   years. 

C.  BIDGLEY  THHAPP,  President  Hall  Coal  Co.,  Coshocton, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Tiffin,  Ohio,  March  15,  1885,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He  is  also  President  of 
the  Valley  Coal  Co.  and  Superintendent  of  the  Warwick  Coal 
Co.  He  was  previously  with  the  Goshen  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Horger-Heldt  Coal  Co. 

S.  E.  TILTON  of  Tilton  &  Son,  Prairie  Depot,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Kings  Ferry,  New  York,  in  1832,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirty-one  years. 

W.  B.  TILTON  of  Tilton  &  Son.  Prairie  Depot,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Norwalk,  Ohio,  in  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   sixteen   years. 

WILLIAM  L.  TIMMONS,  President  and  General  Manager 
Zanesville  Coal  Co.,  Zanesville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dennison, 
Ohio,  in  1873,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  mining  of  coal 
eighteen  years. 

JAMES  ENGLAND  TBAINEB,  Assistant  to  General  Mana- 
ger Zanesville  Coal  Co.,  Zanesville,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Zanesville  June  3,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
five  years. 

CHARLES  W.  UPSON  of  Upson  Bros.,  Mansfield,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Tallmadge,  Ohio,  March  14,  1855,  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business   thirty-nine   years. 

GEORGE  D.  UPSON,  owner  Dixie  Coal  Co.,  Newark,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  March  12,  1887,  and  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  five  years.  He  represents  the 
coal   trade   in   the   Newark   Rotary   Club. 

J.  EDWARD  UPSON  of  Upson  Bros.,  Mansfield,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Tallmadge,  Ohio,  September  30,  1853,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-three  years. 

D.  O.  VAN  KIRK,  President,  Treasurer  and  General  Man- 
ager Van  Kirk  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Mineral  City,  Ohio,  was 
born  in  Mineral  City  September  21,  1876,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  all  his  life,  associated  with  his  father, 
E.  Van  Kirk,  who  has  been  mining  coal  in  Ohio  and  West 
Virginia  since  1870.  Mr.  Van  Kirk  is  also  General  Manager 
of  the  Ohio  Mining  &  Railway  Co.,  Treasurer  of  the  Kun- 
loolton  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  Manager  of  the  Magnolia 
Coal    Co. 

FRANK  A.  VOEGELE,  General  Manager  Voegele  Bros., 
Mansfield.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Mansfield  February  12,  1878,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years,  succeeding  his 
father,  William  F.  Voegele,  who  established  the  business  in 
1873.  Mr.  Voegele.  Sr.,  died  in  1916  after  a  successful  and 
useful  life.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  President  of  the 
Coal  Dealers  Association  of  Ohio  and  later  prominent  in  the 
Michigan-Ohio-Indiana   Association. 

LOUIS  WADE,  Lockland,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Hamilton 
County,  Ohio,  in  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness  twenty-two   years. 

H.  J.  WEBB  of  the  Niles  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.,  Niles,  Ohio, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  four  years. 

CHARLES  N.  WEIS  of  Hunt  &  Weis,  Sandusky,  Ohio,  Was 
born  in  Sandusky  November  7,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-one  years. 

F.  A.  WILLIAMSON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Blanchester, 
Ohio,  was  born  at  Hodgensville,  Kentucky,  January  29,  1878, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two  years. 

BAYMOND  J.  WIBTZ  of  the  Wirtz  Coal  Co.,  Hamilton, 
in  the  retail  coal  business  eleven  years.  He  was  previously 
with  the  Harlan  Coal  Co. 

JOSHUA  E.  WISE,  proprietor  of  the  Sherman  Coal  Co.  of 
Barberton,  Ohio,  was  born  at  Wadsworth,  Ohio,  November 
was  formerly  with  the  Buckeye  Ice   &  Coal  Co. 

W.  P.  WISELEY,  Manager  Standard  Coal  Co.,  Findlay, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Findlay  September  5,  1873,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  He 
17,  1853,  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  four  years. 

GEOBGE  FBANKLIN  WISTNEB  of  Farnam  &  Wistner, 
Van  Wert,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Van  Wert  in  1867,  and  has 
been  in   the   coal  business  eight  years. 


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MICHAEL,  J.  WOLFE,  Manager  Peoples  Elevator  &  Sup- 
ply Co.,  Fremont,  Ohio,  was  born  In  Lindsey,  Ohio,  March 
13,  1S75,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 
Mr  was  formerly  In  business  at  Lindsey,  then  at  Elmore, 
Ohio,  until  a  year  ago  he  was  elected  Manager  at  Fremont. 

\\  H.  VMI1KOSK  WOLFE  of  The  Wolfe  Cycle  Co.,  Ne- 
vada, Ohio,  was  born  in  Nevada  July  18,  1860,  and  has  been 
In  the  retail  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  has  taken  an 
active    interest    in    local   civic   affairs. 

•WILFRED  B.  WOLFF,  Manager  J.  G.  Wolff  Coal  Co., 
Painesville,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Myersdale,  Pennsylvania,  June 
26,   1886,  and  has  been   in   the   coal   business  nine  years. 

CLIFF  M.  WOOD,  President,  Treasurer  and  Manager 
The  Cliff  Wood  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Lima,  Ohio,  was  born  in 
Lima  July  27,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight 
years  ![,■  was  formerly  with  A.  Hrirsh  Coal  &  Supply  Co., 
Richmond,   Indiana. 


A.  D.  WOODERSON,  Van  Wert,  Ohio,  was  born  in  St. 
Johns,  Ohio,  in  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-two  years. 

GEORGE  H.  WORCH.  Versailles,  Ohio,  was  born  in  New 
Madison,  Ohio,  March  16.  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   thirty-one   years. 

EDWARD  B.  WRIGHT,  President  and  Treasurer  Sheri- 
dan Coal  Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Dayton  December 
31,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Steele  Coal  Co.,  Ohio  Coal  & 
Iron  Co.,   and   the   Fidelity  Coal  Co. 

MARCUS  YAGER  of  Yager  &  Rupp,  West  Unity,  Ohio, 
has  been   in  the  retail  coal  business  five  years. 

C.  E.  YARIAN,  Manager  C.  E.  Yarian  &  Co.,  Gallon,  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Bourbon,  Indiana,  September  10,  1876,  and  has 
been   in   the   retail  coal  bus'ness  seven   years. 


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MUCH  of  the  worth-while  history  of  the  Oklahoma 
coal  industry  remains  to  be  written.  Although 
as  the  Indiana  territory  it  entered  the  ranks  of 
coal  producers  nearly  forty  years  ago  it  would  seem  that 
only  the  surface  possibilities  of  its  development  have 
been  scratched.  Progress  was  Jiampered  in  the  early 
days  by  sparse  settlement  and  inadequate  railroad  facili- 
ties, by  the  competition  of  coals  from  other  districts,  by 
labor  disturbances  and  in  recent  years  by  the  rapid 
expansion  of  the  petroleum  industry  in  the  state,  which 
increased  its  output  from  271,824  gallons  in  1900  to 
3,912,440,206  gallons  in  1915,  and  by  the  temporary 
inroads  made  upon  fuel  coal  demands  by  the  substitu- 
tion of  natural  gas. 

The  Oklahoma  coal  measures  form  the  southwestern 
portion  of  the  western  interior  coal  field,  which  also 
underlies  parts  of  Iowa,  Kansas  and  Missouri.  The 
Oklahoma  section  of  this  field,  running  from  the  Kansas 
state  line  on  the  north  into  Arkansas  on  the  east,  in- 
cludes the  western  half  of  the  area  formerly  known  as 
the  Cherokee  Nation,  all  of  the  Creek  Nation  territory, 
the  northern  third  of  the  Choctaw  Nation  area  and  a 
small  portion  of  the  Chickasaw  Nation  lands.  The  coal- 
bearing  area  is  estimated  to  cover  approximately  20,000 
miles,  but  with  the  exception  of  a  spur  striking  off  in  a 
southwesterly  direction  from  near  the  junction  of  the 
North  Fork  and  Canadian  rivers,  the  workable  area, 
estimated  to  cover  10,000  square  miles,  lies  in  the  east- 
ern half  of  the  field. 

In  quality  the  Oklahoma  coals,  of  which  there  are 
ten  or  more  beds,  range  "from  a  medium  low  on  the  one 
hand  to  high-grade  bituminous,  approaching  serai- 
"•anthracite  on  the  other.  Some  of  the  high  grade  bitum- 
inous varieties  possess  coking  qualities."  A  few  years 
ago  there  were  several  hundred  ovens  in  operation  in 
the  Choctow  field.  Some  of  the  coal  from  the  Hart- 
shorne  bed  is  commercially  classed  as  semi-bituminous 
and  enters  into  the  southwestern  smokeless  trade. 
During  1918  shipments  from  this  field  were  made  as 
far  north  as  Chicago.  The  Choctow  field  district  is  at 
present  the  greatest  producer,  while  the  Chickasaw 
Nation  district  has  not  been  developed. 

While  the  fact  that  Arkansas  coal  was  mined  as  early 
as  1840  leads  to  the  belief  that  pioneer  developments 


in  Oklahoma  began  a  number  of  years  ago,  the  first 
record  reported  by  the  Census  covers  1880  and  showed 
a  production  of  120,947  tons.  In  1886  this  had  in- 
creased to  543,580  and  in  1891  the  million  mark  was 
passed  with  an  output  of  1,091,032.  Production  since 
that  date  is  shown  in  the  following  tabluation: 


Year.  Ton. 

1892 1,192,721 

1893 1,252,110 

1894 969,606 

1895 1,211,185 

1896 1,366,646 

1897 1,336,380 

1898 1,381,466 

1899 1,537,427 

1900 1,922,298 

1901 " .*  2,421,781 

1902 2,820,666 

1903 3,517,388 

1904 3,046,539 


Year.  Ton. 

1905 2,924,427 

1906 2,860,200 

1907 3,642,658 

1908 2,948,116 

1909 3,119,377 

1910 2,646,226 

1911 3,074,242 

1912 3,675,418 

1913 4,165,770 

1914 3,988,613 

1915 3,693,580 

1916 3,608,011 


Distribution  figures  for  1915  show  that  the  railroads 
are  the  heaviest  consumers  of  Oklahoma  coal.  Out  of 
a  total  production  of  3,693,580  tons  for  the  year  the 
transportation  lines  absorbed  2,573,750,  or  approxi- 
mately 70  per  cent.  Shipments  to  interstate  points 
totaled  397,275  tons,  or  less  than  11  per  cent.  Texas 
was  the  principal  customer,  taking  381,131  tons;  12,038 
tons  were  shipped  to  Kansas ;  Arkansas  received  453,  and 
Missouri  3,653  tons.  The  consumption  of  Oklahoma 
coal  within  the  state  was  722,555  tons  and  was  divided 
as  follows:  Used  at  mines,  247,565  tons;  sold  locally, 
39,482  tons ;  shipped  to  intrastate  points,  435,508  tons. 

The  per  capita  consumption  within  the  state  during 
the  year  under  review  was  only  .36  ton,  as  compared 
with  an  average  of  2.82  tons  for  the  country  as  a  whole. 
The  consumption  per  square  mile  was  14  tons,  as  com- 
pared with  the  country  average  of  123  tons.  Including 
approximately  500  tons  of  Pennsylvania  anthracite  the 
Oklahoma  consumption  for  domestic  and  general  indus- 
trial purposes  was  1,009,011  tons.  Approximately  72 
per  cent.,  or  722,555  tons,  came  from  the  mines  within 
the  state.  Colorado  receipts  of  120,298  tons  ranked 
second  and  Kansas  with  shipments  of  75,162  tons  came 
third.  Receipts  from  other  states  were  as  follows :  Ala- 
bama, 713  tons;  Arkansas,  60,791;  Missouri,  4,800; 
New  Mexico,  24,096 ;  Pennsylvania,  96  tons. 


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PATRICK    WILLIAM    M ALLOY,    Alderoon,    Oklahoma, 

Superintendent  Rock  Island  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Alderson,  was 
born  in  Franklin,  Maryland,  July  31.  1865,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  forty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Osage  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Choctaw.  Oklahoma  &  Gulf  Rail- 
way Mining  Department,  Coahuila  Coal  Co.,  Milby-Dow  Coal 
&  Mining  Co.,  and  Rock  Island  Coal  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Malloy 
has  taken  an  active  interest  in  civic  matters.  He  has  acted 
as  Chief  Mine  Inspector. 


1:1  nil  P.  WILLIAMSON,  <  iiiilanii'.  Oklahoma, 
President-General  Manager  Keystone  Coal  &  Mining  Co., 
Coalgate,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Beardstown,  Illinois,  Jan- 
uary 13,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-six 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Lane  &  Williamson  Coal 
Co.  Mr.  Williamson  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Chero- 
kee. Coal  Co.,  Cherokee  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Woods  &  North 
Coal  Co.  and  Williamson  Bros.  Coal  Co. 


PRKSLET  B.  ALLEN,  McAIeater,  Okla., 

President  Pleasant  Valley  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  McAlester,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in 
New  Orleans.  Louisiana,  July  21,  1878. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  He  has  held  posi- 
tions of  honor  in  the  coal  associations 
of  the  state. 


WILLIAM    E.    BKATY,    MeAlMter, 

President  Dow  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Mc- 
Alester, Oklahoma,  was  born  at  Cher- 
okee, Texas.  November  6,  1871,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years.  Mr.  Beaty  is  also  President  of 
the  Milton  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  was 
formerly  with  the  Union  Coal  Co., 
Pittsburgh  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  and  the 
Pocahontas   Coal   Co. 


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M.    B.    SCHOFIELD,    Ukluhoma    City,    Oklahoma, 

Vice  President  and  Oklahoma  Sales  Manager  Dow  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  whose  general  offices  are  located  in  McAlester, 
Oklahoma,  and  President-General  Manager  M.  B.  Schofleld 
Co.,  was  born  in  Lewis  County.  Missouri,  August  16,  1871,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  tor  sixteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Bolen-Darnall  Coal  Co.  of  Kansas  City  as 
Oklahoma  Sales  Agent  and  is  a  member  of  the  Oklahoma 
Coal  Dealers  Association.  Mr.  Schofleld  is  a  well-known  coal 
man  and  conducts  a  prosperous  business  in  Oklahoma  City. 


OKLAHOMA 

SAMUEL  G.  AMBRISTER,  Norman,  Oklahoma,  proprietor 
and  Manager  of  the  company  bearing  his  name,  was  born 
in  Dunbar,  Nebraska,  in  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  about  fifteen  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  a  re- 
tail coal  business  at  Blanchard,   Oklahoma. 

J.  M.  BAIHD,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  J.  M.  Baird  Fuel 
Yard,  Ardmore,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Lonaconing,  Mary- 
land. October  30.  1855.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eleven  years.     Mr.  Baird  was  formerly  with  Baird  &  Co. 

ROBERT  BLACKBIRD,  Superintendent  M.  K.  T.  Railway 
Coal  Department,  Coalgate.  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  Mill 
Creek,  Pennsylvania,  December  7,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  nearly  all  his  life.  Mr.  Blackbird  has 
held  positions  of  honor  in  the  various  coal  associations  of 
the  state  and  is  well  and   favoraoly  known. 

L.  A.  BRANDER,  Manager  Paul's  Valley  Ice  &  Fuel  Co., 
Paul's  Valley,  Oklahoma,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years. 

VICTOR  T.  BROWN.  Damson,  Oklahoma,  General  Manager 
of  the  company  bearing  his  name,  was  born  in  Benton 
County,  Missouri,  December  12,  1S71,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Williams  Coal   Co.,   Richmond.   Missouri. 

CLARENCE  C.  BUXTON,  Vice  President-Manager  The 
Garrison  Coal  Co.,  Oklahoma  City,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at 
Londonderry,  Vermont,  October  3,  1883.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

ROY  CALDWELL,  Secretary-Treasurer  Ross-Caldwell  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Lehigh,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  "Waynesville, 
North  Carolina,  August  31,  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  four  years. 

TOM  F.  CAREY,  Manager  Norman  Milling  &  Grain  Co., 
Norman,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Spadra,  Arkansas,  January, 
1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

JOHN  B.  CHALL.ES,  Oklahoma  City.  Oklahoma,  Division 
Manager  Southwestern  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Missouri  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years.  Mr.  Challes  was  formerly  connected  with  McAlester- 
Edwards  Coal  Co.,  McAlester,  Oklahoma. 

C.  C.  COLE,  Secretary-Treasurer  The  Canadian  Coal  Co., 
Tulsa,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Sherman,  Texas,  October  21, 
1877,  and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  seventeen   years. 


J.  R.  COLE  JR,  President  The  Canadian  Coal  Co.,  Tulsa, 
Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Grayson  County,  Texas,  in  Novem- 
ber, 1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years. 

C.  A.  COPELAND,  Olustee.  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Green- 
wood, Indiana,  February  1,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Loud  & 
Copeland. 

BENJAMIN  P.  DAVISON,  Vice  President  Davison  Bros. 
Coal  Co.,  Coalgate,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  DuQuoin,  Illinois, 
January  7,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Home  Smokeless 
Coal  Co.,  Bokoshe.  Oklahoma.  J.  P.  Davison  is  President 
of  the  company's  branch  at  Coalton,  Oklahoma. 

FRANK  B.  DREW,  Treasurer  and  Manager  McAlester  & 
Edwards  Coal  Co.,  McAlester,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  We- 
nona,   Illinois,   November   29,   1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 

business  for   twelve  years. 

WILLIAM  THOMAS  EDWARDS,  Owner  and  Manager  of 
the  Edwards  Coal  Co.,  McAlester,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in 
the  state  of  Arkansas  December  15,  1875,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  connected 
with  the  Duncan  Coal  Co.,  Hartman,  Arkansas,  and  was  for- 
merly with  the  Bolen-Darnell  Coal  Co.  and  the  Dow  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  ALVIN  EVANS,  General  Superintendent  Rock 
Island  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Hartshorne,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in 
Summit  Hill,  Pennsylvania,  in  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Kali  Nila  Coal  Co  and  was  formerly  with  the  Lehigh  Coal 
&  Navigation  Co.,  The  Fairmont  Coal  Co.,  Kentucky  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  and  Alta  Marmet  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Evans 
has  also  served  as  a  member  of  the  Southwestern  Coal  Op- 
erators Association  and  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engi- 
neers and  is  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the  coal 
industry. 

HERBERT  A.  EVEREST,  General  Manager  Hazelton  Coal 
Co.,  Coalgate,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  Lyons,  Kansas,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Thomas  Coal  Co.  at 
Blanco  and  was  formerly  with  the  Great  Western  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.  at  McAlester.  James  McGinnis  is  President  of 
the  company. 

ROBERT  M.  EYSTER,  Consulting  Mining  Engineer  Mc- 
Alester-Edwards  Coal  Co..  Pittsburg,  Oklahoma,  was  born 
in  Chambersburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  for  the  past 
seven  years  employed  by  mining  companies  in  the  Southwest. 
He  was  previously  Superintendent  and  Assistant  General 
Manager  of  the  Fernwood  Mining  Co.,  Clarksville,  Arkansas. 

J.  B.  FAIRFIELD  of  Guthrie,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in 
Indiana  in  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for   thirty  years. 

JOHN  E.  FINNEY,  Poteau,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in 
Antiquity,  Ohio,  January  20,  187.3,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  He  is  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  the  Finney  Coal  Co., 
President  and  General  Manager  Midland-Six  Coal  Co., 
President  The  Dallas  Coal  Co.,  Cont.  Eng.  Midland  Coal 
&  Mer.  Co.  and  General  Manager  Kacanaugh  Coal  Co., 
as  well  as  interested  in  the  Katy  Coal  Co.,  Midland,  Arkan- 
sas, and  the  Poteau  Coal  Co.,  Poteau,  Oklahoma.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Kansas  &  Texas  Coal  Co.,  St. 
Louis.  Missouri,  The  Arkansas  Pass  Lignite  Co.,  Rockdale, 
Texas,  Poteau  Coal  &  Mercantile  Co.,  Lone  Star  Coal  Co.,  as 
well  as  serving  as  President  of  the  Arkansas  Coal  Opera- 
tors Association  and  as  Commissioner  Southwest  Coal  Op- 
erators'  Association. 

EDGAR  A.  FRANKLIN,  Cashier  of  The  Blue  Ridge  Coal 
Co.,  McCurtain,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Smith  Center,  Kan- 
sas. March  30,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Sans  Bois  Coal 
Co. 

F.  J.  GENTRY  of  Pond  Creek,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in 
Hannibal,  Missouri,  September  13,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Badger  Lumber  Co. 

ALBERT  E.  GRAHAM,  Manager  Buffalo  Grain  &  Coal  Co., 
Buffalo,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Lexington,  Ohio,  March  21, 
1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

FRED  GRAVES,  Manager  of  his  own  company  at  Foss. 
Oklahoma,  was  born  in  New  York  August  17,  1877,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal   business  for  eight  years. 

DAVID  HALL,  Dewar,  Oklahoma,  Manager  of  Mines  of 
The  Dewar  Coal  Mines  Co.,  was  born  in  England  in  1873, 
and  hat-  teen  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-four  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Galloway  Coal  Co.,  Black  Diamond 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Corona  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  all  of  Oklahoma. 
Mr  Hall  has  worked  in  the  mines  in  England,  starting 
as  a  trapper  boy,  and  thoroughly  understands  the  mining 
business. 


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T.  J.  HARRIS,  General  Manager  Harris  Coal  Mining:  Co., 
Henryetta,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  Bevier,  Missouri,  in  1872, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was 
formerly   with   the    Monarch   Coal   Co. 

w.  I'.  IIEHHOX,  General  Manager  Herron  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  Coalton,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  Concord,  Tennessee,  in 
IVi'S,  and  has>  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-four 
years.      He    was    formerly    with    the   Coalton    Mining   Co. 

JAMES  WILLIAM  HINTON.  President  Hinton  Co..  Henry- 
etta, Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Neosho,  Missouri,  June  21.  1880. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Sans  Bois  Coal  Co.,  Dow  Coal  Co.,  Green 
KidKi'  «.''■■.  and  Consolidated  Fuel  Co.  In  October.  1917,  he 
became  Assistant  to  P.  A,  Norris.  Fuel  Administrator  for 
Oklahoma,  and  took  an  Important  part  In  the  successful 
fuel  administration  given  that  state  during  the  war. 

BOONE  C.  HOWARD  of  Clinton;  Oklahoma,  was  born  In 
Howardstown,  Kentucky,  July  9.  1865,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  five  years  at  Clinton.  Be  was  formerly 
located  at   Stithton,  Kentucky. 

PARLEY  O.  HIDDLE,  Manager  of  Hanna-Mansfleld  Grain 
Co.,  Cherokee.  Oklahoma,  was  horn  in  Attica,  Kansas,  in 
1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years.  He 
was    formerly    connected    with    the   Farmers   Federation. 

W.  S.  JACKSON  of  the  Jackson  Transportation  &  Storage 
Co.,  Atoka.  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Missouri  April  7.  1858, 
and  has  lieen  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

E.  P.  JOYXER.  Treasurer  Carbon  Coal  Co.  and  Pierce  Coal 
Co.  of  Carbon.  Oklahoma,  was  born  In  Richmond,  Arkansas, 
June  24.  1881.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen 
years.  Ho  was  formerly  with  the  Bache-Denman  Coal  Co., 
Ft.  Smith,  Arkansas. 

JAKE  LAMBERT  of  the  Southwestern  Coal  Co.,  Okla- 
homa City,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Tupelo,  Mississippi,  May 
11,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Creek  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Hen- 
ryetta,  Oklahoma. 

HARRY  I,A\TZ,  President-Manager  Monarch  Coal  &  Min- 
ing Co.,  Henryetta,  Oklahoma,  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  having 
been  born  at  Stewart,  Iowa,  January  18,  1877,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

L.  K.  H.  LAWS,  Camargo,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Boon- 
ville.  .Missouri.  January  10,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  seven    years. 

A.  W.  F.  I.F.E  of  Lee  Bros.  Lumber  &  Coal  Co..  Cordell, 
Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Arkansas  in  1869.  and  has  been  in 
the  coj.1  business  for  nineteen  years.  Mr.  Lee  has  served  on 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  State  Retail  Coal  Dealers 
Association. 

J.  C.  LIITWEILER  of  the  McAlester  Fuel  Co..  McAlester. 
Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Jackson,  Tennessee,  in  1878,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Bache-Denman  Coal  Co.,  Ft.  Smith,  Arkansas. 

JAMBA  Mr((l\\KI,l  of  Wilburton,  Oklahoma,  is  the  Pres- 
ident and  General  Manager  of  the  Degnou  &  McConnell 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Ho  is  likewise  interested  in  the  M.  K.  & 
T.  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and  the  Eastern  Coal  &  Mining 
Co.-  He  has  been  in  the  coal  industry  for  fifty  years,  or 
ever  since  his  boyhood  in  Scotland.  He  was  born  in  Scot- 
land May  15,  1856.  He  is  a  member  and  has  been  active" 
In   the  Oklahoma  Coal  Operators'    Association. 

DUNCAN  HrKAT,  President  The  Gem  Coal  Co.,  Dewar. 
Oklahoma,  was  born  In  Scotland  January  8.  1881.  and  has 
beer  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  McKay  Coal  &  Mining  Co.  and 
the  McKay-Hall   Coal   &   Mining  Co. 

HK.MM  MKIXHOLTSB,  Secretary-Treasurer  The  Gem  Coal 
Co.,  Okmulgee.  Oklahoma,  was  born  In  St.  Louis.  Missouri. 
July  9,  1875,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  eleven 
years. 

AHTHI  R  I,  Ml  Itl-IIKV  President  Seneca  Coal  Co.,  Tulsa. 
Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Topeka,  Kansas.  August  27.  1869.  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was 
formerly   with    the  Wear  Coal  Co. 

H.  E.  OAKKf  of  Mingum,  Oklahoma,  President  Mangum 
Milling    Co.,     Elk    City,    Oklahoma,    was    born    in     Wisconsin 

October    17.    1m;i,.    ,-md    has    been    In    the    retail    coal    business 
sixteen   years. 

v<  n.l.lAM  oi.ii.vik.  Superintendent  Pleasant  Valley  Coal 
A  Coke  Co.,  Henryetta.  Oklahoma,  was  born  In  Scotland 
March  26.  1872.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenly- 
slx  \  t  ars. 

PATRICK  III-:  Ml  V  O'KKKKK  of  the  McAlester-Edwards 
Coal  Hales  Agency.  Pittsburg.  Oklahoma,  was  born  In  La- 
Salle.  Illinois,  March  23,  1868.  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years.  He  formerly  acted  as  Sales 
Agent  for  the  Pittsburg  branch  of  the  above  concern  aa 
well  as  the  Wichita,  Kansas,  branch  of  the  Dawson  Fuel 
Sales  Co. 


CHARLES  WARREN  PAYNE  of  the  Charles  Payne  Coal 
Co.,  Lawton,  Oklahoma,  was  born  In  Oswego,  New  York, 
May  22,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen 
years. 

P.  G.  PIERCE,  Carbon,  Oklahoma,  President  Carbon  Coal 
Co.  and  Pierce  Coal  Co..  was  born  in  North  Wales  Septem- 
ber 13,  1868,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years.      He   was   formerly   with   Hopkins  &   Pierce. 

R.  T.  PRICE,  who  was  formerly  with  the  Pennsylvania 
&  Ohio  Coal  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  is  now  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Consolidated  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Ameri- 
can Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  at  Muskogee,  Oklahoma.  He  is 
President  of  the  Oklahoma  Coal  Operators  Association  and 
is   well-known   throughout   the   trade  and   community. 

R.  Mi  Pl'LLESI,  Manager  and  President  Warden-Pullen 
Coal  Co.,  Henryetta,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Atchison  Coun- 
ty, Kansas,  in  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eighteen  years,  succeeding  his  brother,  Fred  C.  Pullen,  who 
joined  the  colors  May  25,  1918. 

.1.  G.  PITERBAl'GH,  President  McAlester  Fuel  Co.,  Mc- 
Alester, Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Newton,  Kansas,  January 
31,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six 
years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Southern  Anthracite  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Russelville,  Arkansas,  and  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Western  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Missouri  Pacific 
Railway  Coal  Department,  Consolidated  McAlester  Coal  Co., 
Carey-Puterbaugh  Coal  Co.,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  and  Vice  President 
American    National    Bank   of  McAlester. 

H.  C.  RICE,  General  Manager  Milby  &  Dow  Coal  &  Mining 
Co.  of  Dow,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Holden,  Missouri,  Au- 
gust 21.  1878.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
two  years:.     He  was  formerly  with  the  McAlester  Fuel  Co. 

ALGIST  W.  SCHNEIDER.  Superintendent  The  Hazelton 
Coal  Co.,  Coalgate,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  Arvada,  Colo- 
rado. December  7,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  seven   years. 

W.  F.  SELSOR,  Manager  W.  F.  Selsor  Coal  Co..  Henry- 
etta, Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  April  23, 
1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years  and 
thoroughly  understands  the  coal  business. 

JOHN  ROY  SHARP.  General  Manager  and  Purchasing 
Agent  Hal  ley  Ola  Coal  Co..  McAlester.  Oklahoma,  was  born 
in  Kingston,  New  York,  October  24.  1876,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Consolidated  Indiana  Coal  Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  the  Dominion  Coal  Co.,  Springhill,  Nova  Scotia.  Canada. 
Mr.  Sharp  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers. 

WII.I.so.V  B.  SHEPHERD,  Partner  and  Manager  of  Shep- 
herd &  Son,  Hobart,  Oklahoma,  was  born  at  Clinton,  Illinois, 
June  27,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years.  He  was  with  F.  C.  Shepherd,  his  father,  until  the 
latter's   death,   December   24,    1914. 

ROY  W.  SHORT,  doing  a  wholesale  business  under  his 
own  name  at  Henryetta,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Rock 
Island.  Illinois,  July  1,  1876,  and  has  been  twelve  years  in 
the  coal  business.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Rock  Island  Coal  Mining  Co..  McAlester  Fuel  Co.,  Okla- 
homa Coal  Co.,  and  the  Creek  Coal  &  Mining  Co. 

CHARLES  G.  SIMS.  President  and  Manager  Home  Lumber 
Co.,  Roosevelt,  Oklahoma,  was  born  In  Beckvill,  Texas, 
March  20.  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven 
years.     He  was  previously  with  the  Citizens  Lumber  Co. 

O.  .1.  SMITH,  Owner  and  Manager  Santa  Fe  Coal  &  Fuel 
Co..  Cherokee.  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  Ovid,  New  York. 
August  11,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thir- 
teen years  at  Cherokee.  He  was  formerly  with  the  J.  I. 
Case   Co.   before  going   Into   the  coal   business. 

SBORflB  FRANKLIN  SOUTHARD.  President  and  Mana- 
ger The  Dewar  Coal  Mines  Co.,  Enid,  Oklahoma,  was  born 
in  New  York  City  January  25,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  five  vears. 

HARRY  ELLIS  SOI  'I'll AIM),  Secretary  The  Dewar  Coal 
Mines  Co.,  Knid,  Oklahoma,  was  born  In  Buffalo.  New  York, 
in   1890,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  two  years. 

WALTER  H.  SPARGER,  Lehigh,  Oklahoma,  Treasurer  Fol- 
som-Morris  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Treasurer  and  Auditor  of 
the  St.  Louis-Galveston  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  was  born  at  Mt. 
Airy,  North  Carolina,  August  24,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  four  years. 

BPOHlfR  s.  TATON,  Shawnee,  Oklahoma,  was  born  in  the 
state  of  Tennessee,  February  8,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
Taton  &  Roberts  and  the  Shawnee  Supply  Co. 

W.  H.  WIGTON.  Vice  President-General  Manager  Black- 
stone  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Okmulgee,  Oklahoma,  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  thirty- 
seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  New  Soddy  Coal  Co., 
Tennessee,   and   Morrisdale  Coal  Co.  of  Pennsylvania. 


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FUEL  oil  and  wood  have  so  thoroughly  dominated 
the  market  in  Oregon  in  recent  years  that  the  coal 
trade  record  of  that  state  is  lacking  in  the  big 
figures  that  tell  the  story  of  the  greatness  of  King  Coal 
in  so  many  other  parts  of  the  United  States.  Per  cap- 
ita consumption,  .41  ton,  as  compared  with  the  country 
average  of  2.82  tons,  is  low  and  the  square  mile  figure 
of  three  tons,  against  123  for  the  United  States  as  a 
whole,  is  remarkably  so. 

The  only  known  productive  coal  area  in  the  state  is 
the  Coos  Bay  field,  situated  in  the  southwestern  part  of 
the  state  in  Coos  county,  and  surrounding  the  body  of 
water  from  which  it  takes  its  name.  The  total  area  of 
this  field  is  approximately  230  square  miles.  The  best 
Coos  Bay  coal  is  classed  by  the  United  States  Geologi- 
cal Survey  with  the  sub-bituminous.  The  field  is  di- 
vided into  six  districts,  viz.:  (1)  the  Beaver  slough, 
which  contains  the  largest  and  most  valuable  mines  of 
the  field  and  which  is  worked  at  Beaver  Hill,  Biverton 
and  near  Coquille;  (2),  the  South  slough,  which  takes 
care  of  a  small  local  demand;  (3),  the  Newport  basin, 
which  has  been  worked  for  a  number  of  years  and  which 
"is  most  favorably  located  for  economic  mining;"  (4), 
the  Flanagan;  (5),  the  North  Bend  basins,  which  are 
small  and  supply  part  of  the  local  trade;  (6),  the  Em- 
pire. A  number  of  other  fields — -including  the  Upper 
Nehalem  in  Columbia  county,  the  Lower  Nehalem  in 
Clatsop  and  Tillamook  counties,  the  Yaquima  in  Lin- 
coln county,  the  Eckley  and  Shasta  fields  in  Curry 
county,  and  the  Eden  field  in  Coos  county  and  the  Bogue 
Biver  Valley  field  in  Jackson  county — have  been  pros- 
pected. 

Oregon's  coal  fields  began  to  attract  attention  some 


years  before  the  Civil  War.  The  initial  developments 
were  in  the  Empire  basin,  but  interest  was  soon  trans- 
ferred to  the  Newport,  which  remained  the  principal 
mine  until  the  close  of  the  last  century,  when  the  Beav- 
er Hill  came  into  greater  prominence.  The  Census  for 
1880  credited  the  state  with  an  output  of  43,205  tons. 
Ten  years  later  this  had  increased  to  61,514  tons  and  in 
1896  it  was  101,721  tons.  In  only  four  years  has  the 
tonnage  passed  the  100,000  mark:  In  1896,  as  just 
mentioned ;  the  following  year  witli  107,289  tons ;  1904, 
with  111,540  tons,  and  1905  with  109,641  tons.  Pro- 
duction since  that  date  has  been  as  follows:  1906,  79,- 
731  tons;  1907,  70,981;  1908,  86,259;  1909,  87,276; 
1910,  67,533  ;  1911,  46,661 ;  1912,  41,637 ;  1913,  46,083 ; 
1914,  51,558;  1915,  39,231;  1916,  42,592. 

Coastwise  shipments  to  San  Francisco  in  1915  were 
only  358  tons,  against  probably  15,000  tons  in  1910. 
Over  82  per  cent,  of  the  production  of  the  year  was 
consumed  within  the  state,  6,817  tons  being  used  at  the 
mines,  2,272  tons  being  sold  locally  and  23,226  tons 
being  shipped  to  various  Oregon  points.  The  railroads 
consumed  approximately  5,000  tons  and  1,916  tons  were 
shipped  to  Pacific  tidewater. 

In  the  year  in  question  Oregon  consumption  was  more 
than  ten  times  greater  than  its  total  production.  In 
addition  to  the  32,315  tons  of  Oregon  coal  accounted 
for  in  the  paragraph  preceding,  Washington  shipped  her 
sister  state  172,090  tons,  Wyoming  106,787  tons,  and 
Utah  30,755  tons.  Alabama  furnished  190  tons;  Penn- 
sylvania, 126  tons  of  bituminous  coal  and  200  tons  of 
anthracite;  and  approximately  500  tons  of  lake  cargo 
coal  finally  reached  the  state.  The  total  consumption 
as  shown  by  the  above  figures  was  342,963  tons. 


OREGON 


H.  D.  ANDREWS  of  the  Andrews-Conover  Fuel  Co.,  retail- 
ers at  Portland,  Oregon,  was  born  in  Indiana  in  1875,  and 
has    been    in    the    coal    business    almost    fifteen    years. 

EDWIN  J.  CL.OUGH,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Arling- 
ton Lumber  Co.,  handling  coal  at  retail  at  Arlington,  Ore- 
gon, was  born  in  Junction  City,  Kansas,  in  March,  1868,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years. 

ANTON  H.  EDLEFSEN,  Vice  President  and  Manager  of 
the  Edlefsen  Fuel  Co.,  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  retail 
coal  business  at  Portland,  Oregon,  was  born  in  Pellworm 
January  29,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years. 


ARTHUR  MAHL.ON  CONOVER,  Manager  of  the  Andrews- 
Conover  Fuel  Co.,  engaged  in  retail  coal  business  at  Port- 
land, Oregon,  was  born  in  Illinois,  July  24,  1880,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  Mr.  Conover  was 
previously  connected  with  the  Central  Lumber  &  Coal  Co., 
Caldwell,  Idaho,  and  was  also  Secretary  of  the  Lumber  & 
Fuel  Association  of  Boise  Valley,  Idaho. 

M.  1,.  McGRAW,  President  and  Manager  of  the  Centralia 
Coal  Mining  Co.  and  East  Side  Fuel  Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Portland,  Oregon,  was  born  in  Illinois,  December 
7,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

EDW.  H.  SWEET,  Manager  of  the  Vulcan  Coal  Co.,  retail- 
ers in  business  at  Portland,  Oregon,  was  born  at  Woodbine, 
Iowa,  January  8,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
five  years. 


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PENNSYLVANIA 


PENNSYLVANIA  is  not  only  in  the  vanguard  in 
the  coal  industry  of  the  country,  but  it  tops  the 
list  of  states  both  from  the  point  of  view  of  pro- 
duction and  from  tbat  of  consumption.  It  not  only 
dominates  tbe  anthracite  field  to  such  an  overwhelming 
extent  that  the  scattered  deposits  in  other  parts  of  the 
country  are,  generally  speaking,  unknown  except  to  the 
coal  interests  and  consumers  adjacent  to  such  isolated 
operations,  but  it  also  far  outranks  the  other  states  of 
the  Union  in  the  output  of  bituminous  coal.  To  put  it 
graphically,  one  ton  out  of  every  three  tons  of  bitum- 
inous coal  produced  in  the  United  States  during  the 
course  of  the  year  comes  from  the  coal  fields  of  Penn- 
sylvania, which,  while  not.  as  large  in  area  as  those  of 
certain  other  important  coal  producing  states,  contain 
some  of  the  best  known  beds  of  the  country. 

The  bituminous  coal  fields  of  Penn- 

Bituminous.  sylvania  are  estimated  to  include  an 
area  of  approximately  14,200  square 
miles  in  the  western  part  of  the  state.  Stratigraphically 
the  coal-bearing  rocks,  all  of  which  l>elong  to  the  Penn- 
sylvania scries  and  reach  a  maximum  thickness  of  ap- 
proximately 2,600  feet  in  the  southwest  corner  of  the 
state,  "lie  in  the  form  of  canoe-shaped  troughs  extend- 
ing northeast  and  southwest.  There  are  six  or  more  of 
these  troughs  and  they  lie  at  successively  lower  levels  in 
goinj.'  toward  the  Ohio  river  from  either  the  east  or  the 
west,  the  whole  tending  to  form  a  major  shallow  trough, 
whose  axis  runs  roughly  from  Pittsburgh,  Perm.,  to 
Huntington,  W.  Va.  Around  the  rim  of  the  major 
trough  occur  the  outcrops  of  the  lower  measures,  in  the 
ter  the  lower  measures  are  deeply  buried,  and  the 
exposed   rocks  belong  to  the  upper  measures." 

The  lowest  of  the  coal-bearing  formations  of  impor- 
tance is  the  I'ottsville.  whieh  contains,  in  the  western 
pari  of  the  state,  the  Sharon  and  Mercer  coals,  "which 
have  been  worked  only  in  restricted  areas."  Above  the 
I'ottsville  lie  the  Allegheny  ("'Lower  Productive  Coal 
Measures")  and  Moiiongahela  ("Upper  Productive  Coal 
Measures")  formations.  These  are  among  the  major 
fields  of  the  state.  Above  the  Upper  Freepori  bed  of 
the  Allgeheny  formation  lies  the  Conemaugh  or  "Lower 
Barren  Measures.'1  This  contains  six  or  more  beds, 
"which,  however,  are  workable  only  in  very  restricted 
areas,  their  best  development  being  found  in  the  Berlin 
basin   in  Somerset  county."     The  famous   Pittsburgh 


scam  lies  just  above  the   Conemaugh   and   above   the 
Pittsburgh  occur  the  Redstone,  Sewickley,  Uniontown 
and  Waynesburg  coals. 

The  Allegheny  formation  varies  in  thickness  from 
250  to  350  feet  and  contains  at  least  seven  horizons  of 
workable  coal.  From  bottom  to  top  these  are  known 
as  the  Brookville,  Clarion,  Lower  Kittanning,  Middle 
Kittanning,  Upper  Kittanning  and  Lower  Freeport 
coals.  While  these  beds  do  not  have  the  continuity  that 
marks  certain  formations  in  other  states,  the  United 
States  Geological  Survey  declares  that  "it  is  clear  that 
the  corresponding  geologic  horizons  mark  times  of  con- 
ditions generally  favorable  for  coal  formation  and  that 
no  coal  of  wide  extent  is  found  at  other  levels.  As  a 
rale  the  coal  beds  are  not  characterized  by  details  of 
section,  roof  or  floor,  by  which  they  can  be  clearly 
recognized,  except  over  limited  parts  of  the  field." 

The  Brookville  coal  is  workable  in  spots  over  a  large 
part  of  the  marginal  belt  of  the  coal  measures.  It  finds 
its  greatest  commercial  development  in  Jefferson,  Clear- 
field, Center,  Cambria  and  Somerset  counties.  While 
the  Clarion  coal  reaches  workable  thicknesses  in  about 
the  same  belt,  "the  two  are  seldom  of  workable  thickness 
in  the  same  section."  As  a  general  thing  both  the 
Brookville  and  Clarion  coals  occur  in  their  purest  state 
in  the  thinner  veins.  Although  the  Lower  Kittanning 
seldom  exceeds  a  thickness  of  four  feet,  it  is  considered 
the  "most  persistent,  uniform  and  reliable"  of  the 
Allegheny  formation.  It  has  been  found  in  workable 
thickness  and  purity  in  eleven  counties.  Except  for 
canhel  pockets  at  various  points  in  the  Upper  Kittan- 
ning, neither  that  nor  the  Middle  Kittanning  are  of 
great  commercial  importance.  The  Lower  Freeport  coal 
linds  its  greatest  development  in  the  well-known  Mos- 
haiinon  (Clearfield),  Keyholdsville-l'unxsutawney  and 
Barnesboro-Patton  basins  in  Clearfield,  Jefferson,  Indi- 
ana and  Cambria  counties.  The  Upper  Freeport  is  de- 
scribed by  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  as  "a 
variable  and  complex  bed,  extending  in  gross  workable 
thickness  over  most  of  its  area,  although  over  a  consid- 
erable part  of  this  territory  it  is  too  much  broken  up 
and  too  impure  for  profitable  mining.  It  appears  to  be 
entirely  absent  in  some  localities.'*  As  a  whole  about 
40  per  cent,  of  the  bituminous  output  of  Pennsylvania 
comes  from  the  Allegheny  formation. 

'•'he   Pittsburgh   bed    is  confined   to  the  southwestern 


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part  of  the  state.  Over  large  areas  it  has  a  thickness 
of  nine  feet  and  seldom  runs  under  four.  It  is  consid- 
ered by  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  as  the 
most  uniform  in  quality  and  thickness  and,  for  a  given 
area,  the  most  valuable  of  the  Pennsylvania  bituminous 
coal  fields.  Although  its  quality  does  not  measure  up 
to  some  of  the  other  coals  of  the  Allegheny  formation 
to  the  east  and  although  the  Pittsburgli  varies  in  qual- 
ity from  east  to  west,  "on  the  whole,"  says  the  Survey, 
"the  Pittsburgh  coal,  on  account  of  its  thickness,  its 
regularity,  its  high  grade  and  its  adaptability  for  the 
production  of  coke  and  illuminating  gas  has  long  been 
the  most  famous  bituminous  coal  bed  in  America." 

The  first  official  record  of  Pennsylvania  bituminous 
production  appears  in  the  United  States  Census  for 
1840,  when  the  state  was  credited  with  an  output  of 
464,826  tons.  While  that  seems  ridiculously  small  in 
the  light  of  present  Pennsylvania  tonnages  it  neverthe- 
less represented  42.1  per  cent,  of  the  total  bituminous 
output  reported  for  that  year.  The  1840  production, 
however,  both  as  an  actuality  and  upon  a  percentage 
basis  gives  strong  evidence  that  mining  operations  were 
well  under  way  some  years  before  that  date.  Perhaps 
no  more  striking  illustration  of  the  magnificent  growth 
of  the  industry  could  lie  found  than  the  statement  that 
the  1916  production  of  bituminous  coal  in  Pennsylvania 
alone,  representing  33.8  per  cent,  of  the  total  bituminous 
output  for  the  year,  was  more  than  150  times  the  total 
production  of  the  country  in  1840.  Except  for  the  Cen- 
sus figures  of  1860  (2,690,786  tons)  and  1870  (7,798,- 
518  tons)  official  figures  are  lacking  until  1871.  De- 
spite the  irregularities  in  activities  in  the  iron  and  steel 
industries,  which,  both  directly  and  as  coke  consumers, 
are  among  the  largest  purchasers  of  Pennsylvania  bitum- 
inous coal,  the  growth  of  the  output  of  the  state,  as 
shown  in  the  following  tabulation,  has  been  remarkably 
persistent,  steady  and  sound : 
Vear.  Ton.  Year.  Ton. 

K71 9,040,565       1894 39,912,463 

1895 50,217,228 

1896 49,557,453 

1897 54,417,974 

1898 65,165,133 

1899 74,150,175 

1900 79,842,326 

1901 82,305,946 

1902 98,574,367 

1903 103,117,178 

1904 97,938,287 

1905 118,413,637 

1906 129,293,206 

1907 150,143,177 

1908 117,179,527 

1909 137,966,791 

1910 150,521,526 

1911 144,561,257 

1912 161,865,488 

1913 173,781,217 

1914 147,983,294 

1915 157,955,137 

1916 170,295,424 


1872 11,695,040 

1873 13,098,829 

1874 12,320,000 

1875 11,760,000 

1876 12,880,000 

1877 14,000,000 

1878 15,120,000 

1879 16,240,000 

1880 18,425,163 

1881 22,400,000 

1882 24,640,000 

1883 26,880,000 

1884 28,000,000 

1885 26,000,000 

1886 27,094,501 

1887 31,516,856 

1888 33,796,727 

1889 36,174,089 

1890 42,302,173 

1891 42,788,490 

1892 46,694,576 

1893 44,070,724 


Under  normal  conditions  the  product  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania bituminous  mines  is  shipped  from  coast  to 
coast.  Distribution  is  made  to  nearly  40  states  via  all- 
rail  routes.  Pennsylvania  contributes  between  33  and 
40  per  cent,  of  the  total  bituminous  tonnage  moved  to 
the  Northwest  over  the  Great  Lakes  routes.  Canada 
draws  upon  the  Keystone  mines  for  nearly  4,000,000 
tons,  while  tidewater  shipments  in  1915  totaled  close  to 
14.01)0,000  tons.  Approximately  38  per  cent,  of  the 
total  output  of  the  year  just  mentioned  was  used  for 
industrial  and  domestic  purposes  within  the  state  itself. 
This  tonnage,  59,993,642  tons,  represented  91.53  per 
cent,  of  the  total  bituminous  consumption  of  the  state. 
Of  the  tonnage  named  the  major  part,  32,498,370  tons, 
was  used  in  making  coke  at  the  mines.  Shipments  of 
coal  to  points  within  the  state  totaled  21,214,848  tons, 
while  the  local  trade  absorbed  3,231,909  tons.  Opera- 
tions at  the  mines  accounted  for  the  remaining  3,048,- 
515  tons.  Eailroad  consumption  totaled  34,175,299 
tons,  or  21.6. per  cent,  of  the  output.  Of  this  tonnage 
30,294,892  tons  were  shipped  all-rail,  while  3,435.693 
tons,  used  by  railroads  operating  in  the  Northwest,  were 
included  in  the  lake  cargo  shipments  of  9,619,701  tons. 
Shipments  all-rail  to  Canada  were  3,866,406  tons,  while 
tidewater  took  13,960,000  tons. 

All-rail  shipments  to  interstate  points  during  1915 
amounted  to  40,220,496  tons,  or  approximately  26  per 
cent,  of  the  total  output.  In  detail  this  tonnage  was 
divided  as  follows: 

Used  in  Pennsylvania:  Tons. 

Used  at  mines  for  steam  and  heat 3,048,515 

Used  at  mines  for  making  coke 32,498,370 

Sold  to  local  trade,  not  shipped 3,231,909 

Shipped  to  Pennsylvania  points 21,214,848 


Total  used  in  Pennsylvania 59,993,642 

Shipped  to  other  States: 

Arkansas    86 

California 5,324 

Colorado    96 

Delaware 951,419 

District  of  Columbia  and  Maryland 1,514,354 

Idaho    33 

Illinois   '. 1,677,186 

Indiana 855,259 

Iowa   66,973 

Kansas    1,333 

Kentucky    131,101 

Louisiana    478,011 

Michigan 1,948,235 

Minnesota 120,244 

Mississippi    45,075 

Missouri    294,820 

Nebraska    24,963 

New  England 6,587,890 

New  Jersey   3,489,656 

New  Mexico 29 

New  York 14,430,879 

North  and  South  Carolina 305 

North  Dakota 380 

Ohio 7,197,013 

Oklahoma    96 


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Oregon    126 

Tennessee    30,613 

Texas  239 

Virginia  51,064 

West  Virginia  175,000 

Wisconsin 142,694 

Total  shipped  to  other  States,  all  rail 40,220,496 

Shipped  to  Great  Lakes  for  cargo *9,619,701 

Shipped  to  tidewater 13,960,000 

Exported  by  rail 3,866,406 

Used  by  railroads  (shipped  rail) 30,294,892 

Total  production 157,955,137 

•Includes  3,435,693  tons  used  for  railroad  fuel  in  the 
Northwest. 

^The  total  quantity  used  for  railroad  fuel  was  34,175,299 
tons,  or  21.6  per  cent  of  the  total  production. 

The  great  steel  industry  of  the  state  and  the  many 
other  industrial  enterprises  which  have  located  within 
its  borders  primarily  because  of  the  accessibility  of  the 
bituminous  coal  deposits  operate  to  give  Pennsylvania 
the  largest  square  mile  consumption  of  any  state  in  the 
Union.  In  1915  this  was  1,968  tons,  or  16  times  the 
average  for  the  country  as  a  whole.  Upon  a  per  capita 
basis  the  influence  of  anthracite  naturally  plays  a  large 
part.  The  per  capita  consumption  of  anthracite,  2.78 
tons,  is  two  tons  greater  than  the  average  for  the  coun- 
try as  a  whole  and  is  exceeded  only  by  that  of  the  state 
of  New  Jersey.  Its  per  capita  bituminous  consumption 
figure,  1.67  tons,  is,  however,  below  the  country  aver- 
age, 2.04  tons,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  Pennsyl- 
vania as  a  whole  consumes  morn  bituminous  coal  than 
any  other  state  in  the  Union.  Its  combined  per  capita 
consumption  of  bituminous  and  anthracite,  4.4.5  tons, 
shows  up  well  in  comparison  with  the  country  average 
of  2.82  tons. 

As  indicated  in  a  preceding  paragraph  Pennsylvania 
looks  to  its  own  mines  for  the  major  share  of  the  bitu- 
minous coal  consumed  within  the  state.  In  1915  out  of  a 
total  bituminous  consumption  of  65,540,997  tons,  state 
mines  furnished  59,993,612  tons.  West  Virginia  came 
next  with  shipments  of  4,945,295  tons.  Third  honors 
went  to  Maryland,  which  shipped  505,860  tons.  In- 
cluding Kentucky  coal  exported  through  Pennsylvania 
to  Canada  the  Blue  Grass  shipments  to  the  Keystone 
state  totaled  79,125  tons.  Ohio,  the  only  other 
state  to  ship  to  Pennsylvania,  contributed  17,075  tons. 
Anthracite  consumption  reached  23,292,584  tons,  or 
26.17  per  cent,  of  the  total  anthracite  production  of  the 
state. 

Anthracite    and    Pennsylvania    are 

Anthracite,     synonymous  in  coal  trade  history;  so 

much  so  in  fact  that,  in  speaking  of 

tin-  anthracite  industry,  unless  special  qualification  is 

made,  reference  is  solely  to  the  Pennsylvania  fields,  the 

far  western  deposits  being  so  limited  in  production  that 


they  are  not  generally  taken  into  account  in  anthracite 
production  statistics.  The  Pennsylvania  anthracite 
fields  underlie  about  480  square  miles  in  Susquehanna, 
Lackawanna,  Luzerne,  Carbon,  Schuylkill,  Columbia, 
Northumberland,  Dauphin  and  Sullivan  counties.  With 
the  exception  of  the  Sullivan  county  (Bernice  field) 
deposits  the  exact  classifications  of  which  has  been  a 
bone  of  contention,  the  anthracite  fields  have  been 
divided  into  three  trade  regions  and  classified  into  four 
basins. 

The  Wyoming  trade  region  covers  the  Northern  basin 
in  Lackawanna,  Susquehanna,  Wayne  and  Luzerne 
counties  and  includes  the  Carbondale,  Scranton,  Pitts- 
ton,  Wilkes-Barre,  Plymouth  and  Kingston  districts. 
The  Lehigh  region,  or  Eastern  Middle  basin,  lies  in 
Luzerne,  Carbon  and  Schuylkill  counties,  and  includes 
the  Green  Mountain,  Black  Creek,  Hazelton,  Beaver 
Meadow  and  Panther  Creek  districts.  The  Southern 
and  Western  Middle  basins  are  in  the  Schuylkill  region 
of  Schuylkill,  Columbia,  Dauphin  and  Northumberland 
counties  and  include  the  East  Schuylkill,  Western 
Schuylkill,  Lorberry  and  Lykens  Valley  districts  in  the 
Southern  basin  and  the  East  Mahoney,  West  Mahoney 
and  Shamokin  districts  in  the  Western  Middle  basin. 

Early  experiments  in  the  use  of  anthracite  began 
prior  to  the  Bevolutionary  war.  Obadiah  Gore,  a  black- 
smith, by  the  use  of  his  bellows  succeeded  where  others 
had  failed  in  the  burning  of  the  "black  stones''  of  the 
Wyoming  Valley.  In  1807  a  shipment  of  55  tons  was 
made  to  Columbia  and  a  few  years  later  22  tons  were 
sent  from  Carbondale  to  Philadelphia.  The  first  re- 
corded use  in  ordinary  open  grates  was  in  1808.  Sta- 
tistics, as  compiled  by  the  Bureau  of  Anthracite  Coal 
Statistics,  date  back  to  1820,  when  365  gross  tons  were 
mined  from  the  Lehigh  region.  Two  years  later  pro- 
duction was  reported  from  the  Schuylkill  region,  while 
the  Wyoming  region,  which  has  furnished  over  50  per 
cent,  of  the  total  shipments,  did  not  enter  the  ranks 
until  1829.  The  Bureau  figures,  which  are  exclusive 
of  coal  sold  locally  or  used  at  the  mines  and  do  not 
include  movement  from  the  Bernice  field,  show  the 
following: 


-Gross  Tons- 


Year. 

1807. 

1820., 

1821., 

1822., 

1823., 

1824.. 

1825.. 

1826.. 

1827.. 

1828.. 

1829.. 

1830.. 

1831.. 

1832.. 

1833.. 


Schuylkill.  Lehigh.  Wyoming.  Total. 

55  55 

365       365 

1,073       1,073 

1,480  2,240       3,720 

1,128  5,823       6,951 

1,567  9,541       11,108 

6,500  28,393       34,893 

16,767  31,280       48,047 

31,360  32,074       63,434 

47,284  30,232       77,516 

79,973  25,110  7,000  112,083 

89,984  41,750  43,000  174,734 

81,854  40,966  54,000  176,820 

209,271  70,000  84,000  363,271 

252,971  123,001  111,777  487,749 


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1834 226,692  106,244  43,700  376,636 

1835 339,508  131,250  90,000  560,758 

1836 432,045  148,211  103,861  684,117 

1837 530,152  223,902  115,387  869,441 

1838 446,875  213,615  78,207  738,697 

1839 475,077  221,025  122,300  818,402 

1840 490,596  225,313  148,470  864,379 

1841 624,466  143,037  192,270  959,773 

1842 583,273  272,540  252,599  1,108,412 

1843 710,200  267,793  285,605  1,263,598 

1844 887,937  377,002  365,911  1,630,850 

1845 1,131,724  429,453  451,836  2,013.013 

1846 1,308,500  517,116  518,389  2,344,005 

1847 1,665,735  633,507  583,067  2,882,309 

1848 1,733,721  670,321  685,196  3,089,238 

1849 1,728,500  781,556  732,910  3,242,966 

1850 1,840,620  690,456  827,823  3,358,899 

1851 2,328,525  964,224  1,156,167  4,448,916 

1852 2,636,835  1,072,136  1,284,500  4,993,471 

1853 2,665,110  1,054,309  1,475,732  5,195,151 

1854 3,191,670  1,207,186  1,603,478  6,002,334 

1855 3,552,943  1,284,113  1,771,511  6,608,567 

1856 3,603,029  1,351,970  1,972,581  6,927,580 

1857 3,373,797  1,318,541  1,952,603  6,644,941 

1858 3,273,245  1,380,030  2,186,094  6,839,369 

1859 3,448,708  1,628,311  2,731,236  7,808,255 

1860 3,749,632  1,821,674  2,941,817  8,513,123 

1861 3,160,747  1,738,377  3,055,140  7,954,264 

1862 3,372,583  1,351,054  3,145,770  7,869,407 

1863 3,911,683  1,894,713  3,759,610  9,566,006 

1864 4,161,970  2,054,669  3,960,836  10,177,475 

1865 4,356,959  2,040,913  3,254,519  9,652,391 

1866 5,787,902  2,179,364  4,736,616  12,703,882 

1867 5,161,671  2,502,054  5,325,000  12,988,725 

1868 5,330,737  2,502,582  5,968,146  13,801,465 

1869 5,775,138  1,949,673  6,141,369  13,866,180 

1870 4,968,157  3,239,374  7,974,660  16,182,191 

1871 6,552,772  2,235,707  6,911,242  15,699,721 

1872 6,694,890  3,873,339  9,101,549  19,699,778 

1873 7,212,601  3,705,596  10,309,755  21,227,952 

1874 6,866,877  3,773,836  9,504,408  20,145,121 

1875 6,281,712  2,834,605  10,596,155  19,712,472 

1876 6,221,934  3,854,919  8,424,158  18,501,011 

1877 8,195,042  4,332,760  8,300,377  20,828,179 

1878 6,282,226  3,237,449  8,085,587  17,605,262 

1879 8,960,829  4,595,567  12,586,293  26,142,689 

1880 7,554,742  4,463,221  11,419,279  23,437,242 

1881 9,253,958  5,294,676  13,951,383  28,500,017 

1882 9,459,288  5,689,437  13,971,371  29,120.096 

1883 10,074,726  6,113,809  15,604,492  31,793,027 

1884 9,478,314  5,562,226  15,677,753  30,718,293 

1885 9,488,426  5,898,634  16,236,470  31,623,530 

1886 9,381,407  5,723,129  17,031,826  32,136,362 

1887 10,609,028  4,347,061  19,684,929  34,641,018 

1888 10,654,116  5,639,236  21,852,366  38,145,718 

1889 10,486,185  6,294,073  19,036,835  35,817,093 

1890 10,867,822  6,329,658  19,417,979  36,615,459 

1891 12,741,258  6,381,838  21,325,240  40,448,336 

1892 12,626,784  6,451,076  22,815,480  41,893,340 

1893 12,357,444  6,892,352  23,839,741  43,089,537 

1894 12,035,005  6,705,434  22,650,761  41,391,200 

1895 14,269,932  7,298,124  24,943,421  46,511,477 

1896 13,097,571  6,490,441  23,589,473  43,177,485 

1897 12,181,061  6,249,540  23,207,263  41,637,864 

1898 12,078,875  6,253,109  23,567,767  41,899,751 

1899 14,199,009  6,887,909  26,578,286  47,665,204 

1900 13,502,732  6,918,627  24,686,125  45,107,484 

1901 16,019,591  7,211,974  30,337,036  53,568,601 


1902 8,471,391  3,470,736  19,258,763  31,200,890 

1903 16,474,790  7,164,783  35,723,258  59,362,831 

1904 16,379,293  7,107,220  34,006,009  57,492,522 

1905 17,703,099  7,849,205  35,857,897  61,410,201 

1906 16,011,285  7,046,617  32,640,693  55,690,595 

1907 20,141,288  8,320,653  38,638,452  67,109,393 

1908 18,006,464  7,786,255  38,872,295  64,665,014 

1909 16,864,147  7,532,271  37,573,467  61,969,885 

1910 17,845,020  8,627,539  38,433,227  64,905,786 

1911 19,375,369  9,775,018  40,803,912  69,954,299 

1912 18,013,406  8,571,861  37,025,311  63,610,578 

1913 19,338,870  9,347,583  40,388,175  69,069,628 

1914 18,416,586  10,272.308  41,258,463  69,947,357 

1915 18,043,709  10,190,421  39,945,344  68,179,474 

1916 19,677,476  9,437.545  37,945,334  67,060,355 

Speaking  of  anthracite  preparation  and  distribution 
the  United  States  Geological  Survey  says: 

"Anthracite  is  shipped  to  nearly  every  state  in  the 
Union  and  to  many  foreign  countries.  The  major  por- 
tion is  consumed  in  the  territory  near  Pennsylvania, 
including  Canada.  In  the  larger  eastern  cities  its  use 
has  become  a  necessity,  but  farther  west  and  soutli 
anthracite  is  more  of  a  luxury  than  a  necessity  and  in 
the  states  most  remote  from  the  East  the  quantity  con- 
sumed is  small.  The  output  of  the  anthracite  mines  is 
carefully  crushed,  cleaned  and  divided  into  sizes  by  a 
process  and  at  a  cost  that  render  it  little  less  than  a  man- 
ufactured product.  There  are  ten  of  these  sizes,  each 
with  its  price  and  special  use.  Two  major  divisions  are 
recognized,  however,  the  prepared  or  domestic  sizes,  in- 
cluding broken,  egg,  stove  and  chestnut,  which  range 
from  four  inches  down  to  three-fourths  of  an  inch  and 
the  steam  coal,  including  pea,  buckwheat,  buckwheat  No. 
2  (rice)  and  buckwheat  No.  3  (barley),  which  range 
from  three-fourths  of  an  inch  to  one-sixteenth  of  an 
inch.  The  domestic  sizes  are  in  greatest  demand  and 
consequently  bring  the  highest  price.  Attention  in 
preparation  is  therefore  directed  to  obtaining  the  largest 
possible  proportion  of  those  sizes  and  the  finer  coal  re- 
sulting from  the  crushing  is  a  by-product.  It  is  not 
possible,  however,  to  increase  the  proportion  of  domes- 
tic sizes  beyond  60  to  65  per  cent,  of  the  coal  shipped, 
or  50  to  55  per  cent,  of  the  total  product." 

Although  the  foregoing  quotation  is  an  accurate  re- 
flection of  anthracite  conditions  as  they  have  existed  for 
a  number  of  years  past  the  Survey  itself  recognizes  that 
certain  changes  have  been  taking  place  with  respect  to 
the  relative  importance  and  uses  of  the  larger  junior 
sizes.  For  example  pea  has  come  into  much  wider  favor 
as  a  domestic  fuel  and  has  gained  the  sobriquet  in  large 
eastern  cities  of  "the  poor  man's  anthracite."  No.  1 
buckwheat  has  also  been  making  headway  in  certain 
classes  of  strictly  domestic  trade,  while  the  smaller  sizes 
enter  into  active  competition  with  bituminous  coals  in 
the  hotel,  large  apartment  and  office  building  trade  in 
the  East.  With  the  exception  of  No.  1  buckwheat, 
which  is  frequently  prepared  at  the  yards  or  docks, 
sizes  smaller  than  pea  are  not  shipped  as  a  rule  to  the 


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West,  as  there  is  no  market  for  them,  but  the  yard 
screenings  and  dust  are  in  high  favor  with  zinc  plants 
and  malt  houses. 

Incomplete  data  gathered  by  the  United  States  Geo- 
logical  Survey  indicate  that  in  1915  not  less  than  50,- 
000,000  net  tons  of  anthracite  was  used  in  heating 
households,  apartments,  hotels,  offices,  schools  and  other 
buildings,  while  the  bituminous  coal  consumption  for 
domestic  and  small  steam  trade  totaled  only  71,000,000 
tons.  Although  74.4  per  cent,  of  the  anthracite  ship- 
ments for  the  year  went  to  the  New  England  and  Mid- 
dle Atlantic  states,  tonnage  distributed  to  other  states 
covered  a  wide  area,  the  figures  showing  that  only  four 
Mates — Arizona,  Nevada.  New  Mexico  and  Utah — failed 
to  call  upon  the  Pennsylvania  anthracite  mines  for  a 
portion  of  their  fuel  supply. 

In  detail  the  distribution  figures  for  the  year  named 
showed  the  following: 

i Net  Tons v 

Shipped 

by  way  of    Shipped  by 
Great  Lakes,  rail  only.      Total. 
Middle  Atlantic  States: 
Pennsylvania — 

I'sed     at     mines     for 

steam  and  heat 9,996,544 

Sold  to  local  trade,  not 

shipped    2,092,086 

Shipped  to  Pennsylvania 
points 11,203,954     11,203,954 


New  York 20,789,494 

New  Jersey   ■ 8,375,000 


23,292,584 

20,789,494 

8,375,000 


*New  England  States 

South  Atlantic  and  South- 
ern States: 

Alabama    

Arkansas    

Delaware    

District  of  Columbia  and 
Maryland     

Florida   

Georgia   

Kentucky    

Louisiana    

Mississippi   

North  and  So.  Carolina. 

Oklahoma  

Tennessee  

Texas 

Virginia 

West  Virginia  


40,368,448     52,457,078 


8,267,000     13,767,000 


North  Central  States: 

Illinois  807,000 

Indiana    

Iowa  

Kansas     

Michigan  45,000 


8,100 

8,100 

800 

800 

210,000 

210,000 

1,470,000 

1,470,000 

25,000 

25,000 

50,000 

50,000 

20,000 

20,000 

15,000 

15,000 

2,000 

2,000 

124,000 

124,000 

500 

500 

9,000 

9,000 

22,000 

22,000 

170,000 

170,000 

35,000 

35,000 

2,161,400 

2,161,400 

2,485,000 

3,292,000 

600,000 

600,000 

310,000 

310,000 

25,000 

25,000 

793.800 

838,800 

Minnesota 1,600,000 

Missouri    

Nebraska   30,000 

North  Dakota   310,000 

Ohio   

South  Dakota    150,000 

Wisconsin 1,680,000 


4,622,000 


Western  States: 
California 

Colorado    

Idaho    

Montana    

Oregon    

Washington    . . 
Wyoming  . .  .  . 


70,000 

1,670,000 

371,300 

371,300 

497,300 

527,300 

50,000 

360,000 

600,000 

600,000 

30,000 

180,000 

50,000 

1,730,000 

5,882,400 

10,504,400 

500 

500 

600 

600 

200 

200 

5,000 

5,000 

200 

200 

1,900 

1,900 

200 

200 

8,600  8,600 
Total  distributed  in  United  States  for  pur- 
poses other  than  railroad  fuel 78,898,478 

Used  for  railroad  fuel 6,200,000 


Total  distributed  in  U.  S 85,098,894 

Exported  to  Canada 3,852,894 

Exported  to  other  countries 112,361 


Total  exported 3,965,255 

Total  distribution,  1915 89,063,733 

Total  production,  1915 88,995,061 


*Included  in  New  England's  final  total  is  5,500,000  net 
tons  shipped  by  way  of  tidewater,  the  only  group  of  states 
receiving  coal  in  that  way. 

Although  the  figures  given  have  been  used  in  the 
summarization  of  the  fuel  consumption  in  various  states 
appearing  elsewhere  in  this  volume  the  statistics  actual- 
ly represent  distribution.  This  distinction,  especially 
in  regard  to  anthracite,  is  important  because  of  the 
large  storage  piles  accumulated  in  times  past.  Tims 
'luring  the  year  under  review  the  anthracite  interests 
reported  that  storage  stocks  had  been  increased  from 
5.000.000  to  10,000,000  gross  tons.  The  result  is  that  the 
figures  for  certain  states,  particularly  New  York,  New 
Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  and  the  New  England  group,  rep- 
reeent  receipts  rather  than  consumption.  Likewise  it  is 
possible,  even  probable,  that  coal  consigned  to  storage 
plants  in  certain  states  may  have  been  subsequently  re- 
shipped  to  other  states.  Considered  in  relation  to  the 
total  tonnages,  however,  the  variations  produced  by  the 
two  factors  mentioned  are  too  small  to  seriously  affect 
the  substantial  accuracy  and  comparative  value  of  the 
statistics  given. 

Review  of  the  coal  industry  of  Pennsylvania  would 
be  lacking  if  no  mention  were  made  of  trade  features 
at  Philadelphia  and  Pittsburgh.  While  accurate  figures 
upon  the  bituminous  consumption  at  the  first-named 
city  are  not  available  the  anthracite  consumption  for 
1015  was  1,476,002  net  tons,  or  1,184.002  tons  more 
than  was  bunted  within  the  entire  state  of  Illinois. 
Figured  in  another  way  Philadelphia  consumed  more 
than  double  the  amount  of  anthracite  used  in  the  city 


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of  Chicago.  Philadelphia  also  takes  high  rank  as  a 
clearing  port  for  water  shipments  of  bituminous  coal. 
During  the  year  nearly  8,400,000  tons  were  loaded  in 
the  vessels  at  the  port.  More  than  75  per  cent,  of  this 
tonnage  was  carried  to  coastwise  or  Delaware  Bay  points. 
Anthracite  shipments  from  the  port  aggregated  2,502,- 
602  net  tons;  of  this,  2,406,756  tons  went  to  coastwise, 
principally  Xew  England,  points  and  95,846  tons  were 
exported. 

Pittsburgh  shares  with  Chicago  the  honor  of  being 


the  largest  coal  consuming  market  in  the  country.  In 
1915  its  consumption  was  placed  at  17,144,015  tons. 
The  district  received  7,190,952  tons  by  rail  and  9,953,- 
063  tons  via  the  Monongahela  river  locks.  In  addition 
to  the  consumption  within  the  Pittsburgh  district  itself 
22,658,596  tons  moved  by  rail  and  2,351,255  tons  by- 
water  through  Pittsburgh  to  points  west  and  13,376,616 
tons  by  rail  to  points  east.  In  other  words  the  move- 
ment to  and  through  Pittsburgh,  rail  and  water,  for 
the  year  totaled  55,530.482  tons. 


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HOWARD  W.  PERRIN,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
Manager  Anthracite  Sales  M.  A.  Hanna  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Wyoming 
County.  Pennsylvania,  September  4,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Williams  &  Peters. 
James  Boyd  &  Co.  and  Susquehanna  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as 
President  of  the  Coal  Club  of  Philadelphia,  President  of  the  United 
States  Golf  Association,  and  has  been  identified  prominently  with 
many  business  interests. 


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SAMUEL  DEXTER  WARRINER,  Philadelphia. 

Samuel  Dexter  Warriner,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  Presi- 
dent- of  the  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Company,  the  oldest  of 
the  anthracite  mining  companies,  is  one  of  the  younger  generation 
who  is  taking  a  prominent  leadership  in  the  anthracite  branch  of 
the  coal  industry.  Coming  up  through  the  operating  department 
he  has  acquired  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  practical  problems  in 
connection  with  the  production  of  coal  as  well  as  showing  a  happy 
faculty  for  the  wise  handling  of  labor  and  general  executive  ability. 

Mr.  Warriner  was  born  February  24,  1867,  in  Lancaster,  Penn- 
sylvania. He  was  graduated  from  Amherst  College  in  1888  with 
the  degree  of  A.  B.  and  from  Lehigh  University  in  1890  as  Mining 
Engineer  with  degrees  of  B.  S.  and  E.  M. 

He  took  service  with  the  Liberty  Iron  Company  as  Engineer 
in  1890,  then  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Company  as  Assistant 
Superintendent  and  Mechanical  Engineer  1890-1897.  General 
Superintendent  of  the  Calumet  and  Hecla  Mining  Company  from 
1897  to  1901.  General  Superintendent,  General  Manager  and  Vice 
President  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Company  from  1901  to  1912. 

On  July  1,  1912,  he  was  made  President  of  the  Lehigh  Coal 
&  Navigation  Company  and  has  been  a  leading  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Anthracite  Operators  in  the  wage  conference  with 
representatives  of  the  United  Mine  Workers  of  America. 

Mr.  Warriner  was  appointed  in  1903  as  a  member  of  the 
Anthracite  Conciliation  Board  and  has  served  continuously  since 
then.  In  1909  he  was  elected  Trustee  of  Lehigh  University,  which 
position  he  still  holds. 


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THE  LEHIGH  COAL  &  NAVIGATION  COMPANY 

437  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
A  CENTURY  OF  "OLD  COMPANY'S  LEHIGH" 


Considering  the  extent  of  Its  property,  the  quality  of  Its 
product,  the  thoroughness  of  its  mining  methods  and  the 
policies  adopted  to  conserve  the  supply  still  underground. 
The  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.  today  occupies  a  unique 
and  interesting  place  in  the  history  of  anthracite  produc- 
tion In  Northeastern  Pennsylvania.  The  early  history  of 
the  company,  the  efforts  of  its  pioneers  to  make  and  reach 
a  market  for  the  wealth  of  fuel  which  they  knew  to  be  of 
so  high  a  value  to  civilization,  reads  like  a  romance.  And 
it  Is  paralleled  in  interest  by  the  record  of  the  broad  eco- 
nomic policy  of  the  company's  management  in  recent  years. 

The  mines  of  The  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.  extend 
on  either  side  of  the  Panther  Creek  in  Carbon  and  North- 
eastern Schuylkill  counties,  Pennsylvania.  At  its  upper  end 
this  anthracite  territory  approaches  the  Lehigh  River;  to 
which  fact  is  attributable,  doubtless,  Its  opening  during  the 
earliest  period  of  anthracite  development. 

Discovery  of  coal  in  this  region  is  generally  accredited  to 
Philip  Ginter,  a  backwoodsman,  who  late  in  the  18th  cen- 
tury, settled  near  Mauch  Chunk.  Ginter's  story  is  that  one 
day  in  the  year  1791,  as  he  was  returning  after  a  day  spent 
in  the  o.uest  of  game,  he  stumbled  over  what  seemed  to  him 
to  be  a  stone. 

He  had  heard  of  "stone  coal  over  in  Wyoming,"  and  was 
impressed  with  the  idea  that  this  "black  stone"  might  have 
fuel  value.  He  took  it  with  him  to  his  cabin,  and  the  next 
flay  carried  it  to  Col.  JacoD  Weiss,  who  lived  at  what  was 
then  known  as  Fort  Allen.  Keenly  alive  to  the  value  of 
Ginter's  find,  should  it  prove  to  be  coal.  Colonel  Weiss  took 
the  specimen  to  Philadelphia  and  submitted  it  to  John 
Nicholson   and   Michael   Hlllegas. 

Ascertaining  by  examination  that  this  was  the  purest  of 
anthracite,  Hillegas,  Weiss  and  Cist  formed  the  Lehigh 
Coal  Mine  Co.  in  1792,  and  took  up  8,000  to  10,000  acres  of 
unlocated  land,  including  the  Mauch  Chunk  Mountain. 

This  was  the  beginning  of  the  "Old  Company,"  and  from 
that  day  to  the  present  the  coal  which  has  come  from  these 
mines — Old  Company's  Lehigh — has  been  justly  famed  be- 
cause of  its  purity  and  its  high  fuel  and  energy  value. 

Owing  to  the  difficulties  of  transporting  the  coal  to  any 
considerable  settlement,  the  mines  remained  neglected  until 
the  year  1806.  In  that  year.  William  Turnbull  constructed 
an  "ark" — a  rough  timber  boat — to  convey  two  or  three 
hundred  bushels  of  anthracite  to  Philadelphia.  Some  of 
this  was  sold  to  the  manager  of  the  Philadelphia  Water 
Works  for  use  in  the  power-  plant,  which  then  stood  on 
the  site  of  the  present  City  Hall.  But  because  of  inex- 
perience in  handling  anthracite,  this  fuel  "seemed  to  ex- 
tinguish the  Are,"  and  it  was  rejected  as  worthless. 

The  mines  still  languished  until  after  the  War  of  1812, 
and  it  was  not  until  Josiah  White,  Brskine  Hazard  and  G. 
F.  A.  Hauto  interested  themselves  in  Lehigh  lands,  that 
the   true   development   of   the   region   began. 

It  was  mainly  the  rare  business  sagacity  and  engineering 
skill  of  Mr.  White  that  overcame  the  tremendous  difficulties 
of  the  Lehigh  Navigation,  and  that  found  the  path  by 
which  the  product  of  the  mines  could  be  brought  to  market. 

In  1818,  these  three  anthracite  pioneers  obtained  control 
of  the  lands  of  the  Lehigh  Coal  Mine  Co.  In  the  same 
year,  they  were  granted,  by  act  of  legislature,  the  right  to 
Improve  the  navigation  of  the  Lehigh  River. 

It  is  a  rather  interesting  fact  that  the  famous  "bear 
trap"  dam,  now  adopted  by  United  States  Government  engi- 
neers for  improvement  of  the  Ohio  River,  was  invented  by 
Josiah  White  in  the  early  work  of  Lehigh  improvement. 
As  is  well  known,  the  "bear  trap"  is  hinged  at  the  bottom 
and  is  lowered  to  permit  the  passage  of  navigation,  being 
raised,  when  desired,  by  the  force  of  the  water  itself.  Mr. 
White  had  dams  of  this  type  built  in  secret  and  met  the 
questions  of  the  curious  with  the  answer  that  he  was  build- 
ing a  "bear  trap."  French  engineers  afterwards  con- 
demned the  dam  as  valueless;  yet  today  enormous  "bear 
traps"  are  being  built  by  the  government  on  the  Ohio  to 
pass  the  tremendous  fleets  that  carry  the  tonnage  of  the 
Pittsburgh   district. 

When,  by  the  raising  of  these  "bear  traps"  on  the  Lehigh, 
the  dam  became  full,  and  the  water  had  run  over  It  long 
enough  for  the  river  below  the  dam  to  acquire  the  depth  of 
the  ordinary  flow  of  the  river,  the  sluice-gates  were  let 
down,  and  the  boats,  which  were  lying  In  the  pools  above, 
passed  down  with  the  artificial  flood.  About  twelve  of  these 
dams  and  sluices  were  made  in  1819. 

In  these  early  days  the  coal  was  brought  to  market  In 
what  were  termed  "arks" — square  timber  boxes  from  six- 
teen to  eighteen  fe?t  wide  and  from  twenty  to  twenty-five 
feet    long.      These    boats    made    but    one    trip.      When    they 


reached  Philadelphia,  and  had  been  unloaded,  they  were 
broken  up  and  the  timber  sold,  the  spikes,. hinges  and  other 
hardware  being  returned  to  Mauch  Chunk,  a  distance  of 
eighty  miles,  by  wagon.  For  two  or  three  years  the  hands 
employed  on  these  rude  boats  made  the  return  trip  to  the 
mines  afoot.  Later,  rough  wagons  were  placed  on  the  road 
by  tavern-keepers,  to  carry  them  at  low  prices.  Boats  of 
this  sort  were  used  until  the  end  of  the  year  1831,  when  the 
Delaware  Division  of  the  Pennsylvania  Canal  was  partly 
finished.  In  the  last  year  of  this  period  40,966  tons  were 
thus  floaced  down,  requiring  so  many  boats  that,  if  placed 
in  one  line,  they  would  have  extended  more  than  thirteen 
miles. 

The  interests  of  the  two  Lehigh  companies  were  amalga- 
mated April  21,  1820,  under  the  name  Lehigh  Navigation  & 
Coal  Co.  and  with  this  date  began  the  actual  development 
of  this  rich  property  along  broad  lines.  By  an  act  of  As- 
sembly passed  Feb.  13,  1822,  The  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation 
Co.  was  incorporated,  and  the  property  of  the  prior  asso- 
ciations, and  the  privileges  created  by  the  act  of  1818,  were 
vested    in    the   new    company. 

The  canal  between  Mauch  Chunk  and   the  Delaware  as  it 
now  exists   was   begun   in   1827.     A 
pany's    product    is    still    carried    to 
route.      The   canal   has   seventy-five 
high    division    and    twenty-five    on 

The  entire   route   Is   106   miles.     The   traffic   is   lowered 
a  maximum  elevation  of  531  feet  above  tide  level. 

Today,  when  anthracite  is  regarded  as  a  necessity 
throughout  the  most  populous  section  of  the  United  States, 
it  is  interesting  to  recall  this  early  period  when  the  an- 
thracite pioneers  were  compelled  to  fight  their  way  to 
market  and  then  to  educate  that  market  in  the  use  of  their 
product.  As  late  as  1825  The  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation 
Co.  found  it  advisable  to  print  in  pamphlet  form  a  series  of 
testimonials  to  the  effect  that  anthracite  could  be  burned, 
and   that   it  was  really  a  valuable   fuel. 

Today  its  market  is  bounded  only  within  the  territory 
which  it  can  reach  and  supply.  And  among  all  of  the  an- 
thracite mined,  "Old  Company's  Lehigh"  is  recognized  as 
pre-eminent   for  purity  and   high   fuel   value. 


large  part  of  the  corn- 
market  on  this  water 
locks — fifty  on  the  Le- 
the Delaware  division, 
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THE    LEHIGH 


:OAL    &    NAVIGATION   CO.   PROPERTY 
QF    TODAY. 


The  superiority  and  economy  of  "Old  Company's  Lehigh" 
is  owing  to  its  high  percentage  of  fixed  carbon.  As  is  well 
known,  the  heat  efficiency  of  coal  depends  upon  the  fixed 
carbon  it  contains.  "Old  Company's  Lehigh"  contains  from 
4  to  6  per  cent  more  than  is  found  in  other  anthracite.  It 
contains  14.000  B.T.U.  and  when  burned  leaves  a  residue  of 
but  12  per  cent  of  ash.  It  is  because  of  the  density  and  hard- 
ness of  "Old  Company's  Lehigh"  that  the  percentage  of 
refuse  is  so  low.  Unlike  a  free-burning  coal,  it  does  not 
•put  up  under  the  action  of  heat;  and  as  it  contains  less 
sulphur  and  iron,  it  does  not  clinker  as  do  other  anthracites. 

Of  this  purest  of  all  anthracite,  The  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navi- 
gation Co.  has  more  than  500,000,000  tons  still  under  the 
ground.  The  company  owns  in  fee  anthracite  coal  lands  in 
Carbon  and  Schuylkill  counties,  Pennsylvania,  comprising 
8.631  acres.  Upon  this  property  are  located  well-equipped 
and  modern  collieries,  with  a  productive  capacity  in  excess 
of  4,000,000  tons  per  annum.  The  property  includes  the 
Nesquehoning.  Lansford,  Coaldale,  Greenwood,  Rahn  and 
Tamaqua  Collieries;  Coaldale,  Greenwood  and  Hauto  Wash- 
erie.t.  The  company  employs  in  these  approximately  10,000 
men. 

The  company  owns  the  Lehigh  and  New  England  Rail- 
road, the  main  line  of  which  extends  from  Hauto,  Pennsyl- 
vania, to  Campbell  Hall,  New  York,  a  distance  of  126  miles, 
with  principal  branches  to  Palmerton,  Slatington,  Catasau- 
qua,  Bethlehem,  Martins  Creek.  Bangor,  Pennsylvania,  and 
Sussex.  New  Jersey.  The  total  main  track  mileage  operated  is 
297.11,  sidings  and  yards  84.10;  total  mileage  owned,  includ- 
ing sidings  and  yards,  283.87.  This  railroad  connects  with 
all  the  important  trunk  lines  in  the  East,  and  is  able  to 
reach  and  distribute  anthracite,  jcement,  slate  and  other 
commodities  originating  on  Its  line  over  a  wide  area. 

The  company  also  has  a  large  holding  in  the  stock  of  the 
Lehigh  &  Hudson  River  Railway  Co.,  whose  line  extends 
from   Easton,    Pennsylvania,   to   Mayhrook,  New   York. 

The  company  owns  and  operates  the  Lehigh  Canal,  ex- 
tending from  Coalport.  above  Mauch  Chunk,  to  Easton,  a 
distance  of  46  miles,  and  leases  and  operates  the  Delaware 
Division  Canal,  extending  from  Easton  to  Bristol,  a  distance 
of  60   miles. 


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JOHN  J.  TIERNEY,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
Vice  President  and  General  Sales  Manager  Crozier-Pocahontas  Co., 
Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Newcastle,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  forty-six  years,  his  first  work  being  with  the  Phila- 
delphia &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  For  several  years  he  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Smokeless  Coal  Operators'  Association  of  West  Virginia, 
and  is  now  Treasurer  of  the  National  Coal  Association.  Mr.  Tierney 
is  President  of  the  Powhatan  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Sharon  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  and  Tierney  Coal  Co.,  Vice  President  of  the  Page  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  and  Tierney  Mining  Co.,  and  sole  owner  of  the  J.  J.  Tierney  Coke 
Agency  of  Bluefield.  West  Virginia.  Since  1881  he  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Engineers'  Club  and  the  Manufacturers'  Club  of  Philadelphia. 


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DANIEL  B.  WENTZ,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
President  Royal  Colliery  Co.,  Midvalley  Coal  Co.,  Stonega  Coke  &  Coal 
Co.,  Virginia  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  Wehtz  Corp.,  was  born  in  Jeddo, 
Pennsylvania,  September  4,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-two  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Maryd  Coal  Co.,  Upper 
Lehigh  Coal  Co.  and  J.  S.  Wentz  Co.  He  is  a  member  of  the  various 
coal  associations  of  Pennsylvania,  is  well  known  throughout  the  trade, 
and  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  war  work. 


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W  II  I    \  nil    II  \  II     BRADFORD,  I'll  i  lade :i.  Pennsylvania, 

President  W.  H.  Bradford  &  Co.,  Inc.,  Commercial  Trust 
Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Dover, 
Delaware,  May  11,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-six  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Victor 
Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Clarion  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  was 
formerly  with  the  Altoona  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Columbia  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  and  Spring  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  is  well  known 
in  eastern   coal   circles. 


R.   R.    Iil'.l    I  II  \<;i-:ii.    Philadelphia,   Pennsylvania. 

Vice  President  W.  H.  Bradford  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  September  15,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  nine  years.  He  is  President  of  the  Clarion  Coal 
Mining  Co.  and  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Victor  Coal  Mining 
Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Davis  Colliery  Co.,  Elkins. 
West   Virginia. 


RAYMOND    HAVEiHIiYER,    New   York    City, 

Treasurer  w.  H.  Bradford  &  Co.,  was  born  at  East  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  June  23,  1884,  and  has  been  interested  in  the 
coal  business  four  years.  He  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Vic- 
tor Coal  Mining  Co.  and  the  Clarion  Coal  Mining  Co.  Mr. 
Havemeyer  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Phoenix  Fuel 
Co. 


1.1.(11  li    G.   McCRUM,   Somerset,  Pennsylvania, 

General  Manager  W.  H.  Bradford  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Presi- 
dent Victor  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Vice  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  Clarion  Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Union- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  August  7,  1877.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  six  years.  He  is  a  Lieutenant  Colonel  in 
the   service. 


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Weston  Dodson  &  Co., 

INCORPORATED, 

Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania. 

Oiio  of  the  old  established  and  highly  regarded  anthracite  pro- 
ducing companies  is  that  of  Weston  Dodson  &  Co.,  Inc.,  of  Beth- 
lehem, Pennsylvania.     . 

This  business  was  horn  in  the  days  of  the  Civil  War  and  early 
in  its  history  was  in  the  hands  of  three  brothers,  of  whom  Weston 
Dodson  was  the  senior  and  salesman.  For  the  sixty  years  since 
it  so  established  the  spirit,  which  this  generation  inherited  from 
the  previous  generation  that  it  has  been  one  of  their  most  valued 
assets. 

There  are  today  among  the  firm's  customers,  concerns  whose 
presidents  were  office  boys  half  a  century  ago  and  some  of  these 
concerns  for  fifty  years  have  bought  from  Weston  Dodson  $  Co. 
because  in  the  truest  word  the  previous  generation  were  gentle- 
men and  salesmen  and  who  made  it  their  business  "to  live  by  the 
Bide  of  the  road  and  he  a  friend  to  man." 

The  past  year  was  one  of  sadness  for  those  connected  with  the 
company  because  it  marked  the  passing  of  the  last  of  the  three 
brothers  who  founded  the  business,  and  yet  the  unfailing  kind- 
ness and  courtesy  of  the  late  Charles  M.  Dodson  sets  a  standard 
for  his  successors  to  emulate. 

The  business  has  grown  as  the  firm  has  been  true  to  principle 
and  during  the  recent  war  nineteen  of  their  young  men,  one  of 
them  a  grandson  of  the  founder,  were  wearing  the  khaki  in  nine 
different  branches  of  the  military  service.  The  sales  organization 
has  been  built  up  from  young  college  men  whose  loyalty  and  devo- 
tion have  been  a  very  help  in  troublesome  times.  Loyalty  to  the 
house,  of  which  they  are  all  a  part,  is  what  they  strive  for. 

The  history  of  the  house  is  the  history  of  an  idea  rather  than 
of  any  individual.  With  every  employe  interested  in  every  trans- 
action and  every  customer  admitted  to  a  front  plane  of  equality 
in  service  the  organization  has  gained  not  like  a  mushroom  but 
like  the  proverbial  sturdy  oak.  Troublous  times  have  not  brought 
the  big  opportunities  which  have  made  many  people,  wealthy  over 
night  ami  yet  the  growth  of  the  idea  has  brought  with  it  a  satis- 
faction in  no  sense  fleeting. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  sales  employes  brings  upwards  of 
eighty  persons  to  the  main  office  "in  Bethlehem  from  offices  in  six 
cities  all  over  the  land  and  each  one  comes  imbued  with  the  idea 
that  if  in  these  troublous  times  one  must  be  engaged  in  coal  it 
is  well  to  be  pari  of  the  company  to  which  they  all  owe  allegiance. 

With  the  Backing  of  employes,  customers  and  miners  they  are 
looking  confidently  to  the  future  and  voice  this  confidence  in  two 
mottoes  emblazoned  on  their  coat  of  arms:  "Our  customers  are 
always  right,"  and  "We  do  co-operate." 


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EMMETT  K.  TATNALL,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania, 

President  Franklin  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Treasurer  Franklin 
Fuel  Co.  and  Vice  President  Preston  County  Power  Co., 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  Sep- 
tember 6,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 
He  was  previously  with   the  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke   Co. 


iioi.i.ii:    \\  .  BISHOP,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  and  Testing  Engineer  Franklin  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Commercial  Trust  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Roxano,  Delaware,  February  20,  1872,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


CHESTER  B.   DUXGAN,  New  York  City, 

Vice  President  Franklin  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  in  April,  1882,  and  has  been 
interested  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Dungan 
was  formerly  with  the  Clearfield  Bituminous  Coal  Corp., 
Empire  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke  Corp. 
as  New  York  Manager. 


GEORGE    H.    HECK,    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania, 

Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Franklin  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Com- 
mercial Trust  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  July  4,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Franklin 
Fuel  Co.,  Secretary  Preston  County  Power  Co.,  and  Treas- 
urer Schuylkill  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  with  the  Key- 
stone Coal   &   Coke  Co. 


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HEM1V  H.  LIXEAWBAVEH,  Philadelphia,  IVn  nsj  I  miii  in. 
President  of  H.  H.  Lineaweaver  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Millers  - 
town,  Pennsylvania,  December  22,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-three  years.  He  is  also  President  of 
H.  H.  Smith  &  Co.  and  the  Shipman  Koal  Co.  He  was  for- 
merly with  Nutting  &  Lineaweaver,  Henry  H.  Lineaweaver 
and  Smith,  Lineaweaver  &  Co.  He  has  many  friends  in  the 
coal  trade  and  is  highly  respected. 


HARRY   C.  BEURY,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer  H.  H.  Lineaweaver  &  Co.,  Inc.,  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
slvania,  was  born  in  Llewellyn,  Pennsylvania,  September  8, 
1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Big  Branch  Coal  Co.,  Girard 
Mammoth  Coal  Co.,  Algoma  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  and  Quinni- 
mont  Coal  Co. 


JOHX    E.    SHEETS,    Philadelphia.    Prnnaylvania, 

S.-rietary  H.  H.  Lineaweaver  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Washing- 
ton. District  of  Columbia,  December  24,  1869,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  is  also  Secre- 
tary of  H.  H.  Smith  &  Co.  and  of  the  Lebanon  Stone  Co. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Coal  Traffic  Department  of  the 
Philadelphia  &  Reading  Railroad  Co..  Geo.  B.  Newton  &  Co., 
and  Madeira,  Hill  &  Co. 


CHARLES   ERNEST  WILCOX,  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania, 

A  Director  and  Assistant  to  the  President  H.  H.  Lineaweaver 
&  Co..  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  October  26,  1878, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years,  and  Is  a 
man  well  known  throughout  the  coal  industry  of  the 
country. 


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Madeira,  Hill  &  Company 

North    American    Building 
Philadelphia,   Pennsylvania 

The  headquarters  of  the  Company    is    in    Philadelphia,  with 

other  offices  in  New  York  (143  Liberty  Street),  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, Frackville,  Pennsylvania,  Philipsburg,  Pennsylvania, 
and  Fairmont,  West  Virginia. 

The  Company  controls  mines  producing  the  best  grades  of  an- 
thracite coal  with  operations  located  in  the  Wyoming,  Lehigh 
and  Schuylkill  regions,  also  in  the  Lykens  Valley  field.  Its 
activities  also  extend  into  the  bituminous  field  with  a  large  num- 
ber of  mines  in  the  Clearfield  region,  Fairmont  region  of  West 
Virginia,  and  on  the  Conemaugh  Division  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

The  product  of  these  mines  is  distributed  largely  in  the  Xew 
England,  Middle,  and  Central  States. 

The  officers  of  Madeira,  Hill  &  Co.  are: 
Percy  C.  Madeira,  President. 
Robert  C.  Hill,  Vice  President. 
Louis  C.  Madeira,  Vice  President. 
Jesse  W.  Powell,  Treasurer. 
John  Gilbert,  Secretary. 

John   Edmonds,   Sales   Manager,   Anthracite   Dept. 
Harlow  C.  Voorhees,  Sales  Manager,  Bituminous  Dopt. 


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Maryland    Coal  &  Coke   Company 

Stephen  Girard  Building 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 


The  Maryland  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Philadelphia  is  one  of  the 
substantia]  and  favorably  known  producing  companies  in  Penn- 
sylvania. This  company  owns  and  operates  four  mines  in  the 
Clearfield  District  of  Pennsylvania,  having  a  capacity  of  some 
nine  hundred  tons  a  day.  They  also  have  two  subsidiary  com- 
panies, the  .Maryland  New  River  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Maryland  Coal 
Mining  Co..  which  operate  the  Boone,  Smokeless  and  Bach  man 
mines  in  the  New  River  District,  Fayette  County.  West  Virginia, 
which  has  a  capacity  of  1.5,000  tons  a  month. 

The  Maryland  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  also  acts  as  exclusive  selling 
agent  for  the  Smith  and  Hamill  mines  of  the  Hamill  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  located  at  Blaine,  West  Virginia,  on  the  Western  Maryland 
Railroad,  and  for  the  Onion  mine  of  the  Gnion  Coal  Co.  in  the 
Clearfield  District  of  Pennsylvania.  They  also  do  a  general  whole- 
sale jobbing  business,  especially  in  smokeless  fuel  of  West  Virginia, 
New  River  and  Pocahontas  coals,  together  with  coal  from  the 
Central  Pennsylvania  District.  The  annual  tonnage  of  the  com- 
pany is  approximately  750,000  tons. 

This  company  has  its  headquarters  in  the  Stephen  Girard  Build- 
ing. Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  and  have  branch  offices  at  17 
Battery  Place,  New  York  City;  441  Calvert  Building,  Baltimore, 
.Maryland;  Warwick  Hotel  Annex.  Newport  News,  Virginia;  and 
Altoona  Trust  Building,  Altoona.  Pennsylvania. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are:  George  P.  Spates  President. 
Medforrt  J.  Brown  Vice  President  and  Treasurer,  and  Frank  A. 
Tavlor  Secretary. 


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WALTER    P.    BROWN,    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania, 

President  Charles  D.  Norton  Coal  Co..  Philadelphia,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
more  than  thirty  years.  This  business  was  established 
in  1838.  Mr.  Brown  is  a  brother-in-law  of  the  late  Charles 
D.  Norton,  who  was  the  head  of  the  Charles  D.  Norton  Co. 
for    many   years. 


JOSEPH    BARTON    GrVIN,    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania, 

Secretary-Treasurer  Chas.  D.  Norton  Coal  Co.,  Philadelphia, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia  November  29,  1888,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary- 
Treasurer  of  the  Schuylkill  Coal  Exchange  and  was  for- 
merly Secretary  of  the  Chas.  D.  Norton  Co.  His  entire  busi- 
ness  experience   has   been   with   this   organization. 


Chas.  D.   Norton  Coal  Company 

217-221   Stephen  Girard  Building 
Philadelphia,   Pennsylvania 


This  well-known  company  is  one  of  the  pioneer 
coal  firms  of  Pennsylvania,  having  been  estab- 
lished originally  in  1838,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Roberts,  Walton  &  Co..  the  firm  being  composed 
of  Asa  Packer,  Joseph  B.  Van  Dusen,  Joseph 
Walton  and  William  H.  Roberts.  Mr.  Walton  and 
Mr.  Roberts  retired  from  the  firm  about  1843,  and 
Asa  Packer  retired  in  the  year  1846,  at  the  time 
the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad  was  incorporated,  and 
he  became  its  first  President. 

Joseph  B.  Van  Dusen  associated  with  him 
Charles  F.  Norton  in  1848  under  the  firm  name 
of  Van  Dusen,  Norton  &  Co.,  and  continued  until 
1860,  when  Mr.  Van  Dusen  retired  and  Mr. 
Audenried,  the  father  of  the  present  Judge  of 
the  Common  Pleas  Court  of  Philadelphia  County, 
joined  with  Mr.  Norton  under  the  title  of  Auden- 
ried, Norton  &  Co.  Some  years  later,  after  the 
death  of  both  Mr.  Audenried  and  Mr.  Norton, 
the  business  was  continued  by  Charles  D.  Norton, 


son  of  Charles  F.  Norton,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Gorrell,  Norton  &  Co.,  and  later  was  changed 
to   Charles   D.    Norton   &    Co. 

In  1903  the  company  was  incorporated  as  the 
Charles  D.  Norton  Company,  and  continued  until 
the  death  of  Mr.  Norton*  in  July,  1916.  The 
present  corporation,  Charles  D.  Norton  Coal  Com- 
pany, has  for  its  officers  Walter  P.  Brown  as 
President,  a  brother-in-law  of  the  late  Charles  D. 
Norton,  and  Joseph  B.  Givin  as  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  both  of  whom  were  associated  with 
the  Charles  D.  Norton  Co.  for  many  years. 

The  company  is  sole  mine  agents  and  shippers 
of  Bituminous  and  Anthracite  into  all  regions  of 
the  United  States  and  Canada,  specializing  on 
Bituminous  coal  from  Georges  Creek,  Western 
Maryland,  West  Virginia  and  Pennsylvania  Bitu- 
minous fields,  and  Anthracite  from  mines  located 
on  Philadelphia  &  Reading,  Pennsylvania  and 
Lehigh  &  New  England  Railroads. 


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JAMES    PIERPOINT,    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania, 

President  James  Pierpoint  &  Sons  Co.,  was  born  in  England 
June  12,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 
He  is  President  of  the  Locust  Colliery  Co.  and  Interested 
in    the   Chesterton   Coal   Co. 


THOMAS   R.   PIERPOINT,   Philadelphia.   Pennsylvania. 

Treasurer  of  James  Pierpoint  &  Sons  Co.,  was  born  in  Belle- 
fonte,  Pennsylvania,  November  4,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  seven  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Locust  Colliery  Co. 


II Ill    WILLIAM    PIERPOINT,  Philadelphia,  Penn., 

Secretary  and  Sales  Manager  James  Pierpoint  &  Sons  Co.. 
mi  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  July  17,  1890,  and 
has  been  in  the  conl  business  seven  years.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Philadelphia  Wholesale  Coal 
Trade  Association. 


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THORNE,  NEALE  &  CO.,  INC., 

Franklin  Bank  Building, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Thome,  Neale  &  Co.,  Inc.,  arc  a  well-known  wholesale  coal 
company  with  general  offices  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  that 
operate  a  number  of  large  producing  mines  and  have  a  consider- 
able tonnage  of  both  anthracite  and  bituminous  coal. 

Their  principal  anthracite  mines  are:  Buck  Hun,  near  Miners- 
ville ;  New  Castle,  at  New  Castle;  Forty  Fort  and  Harry  E,  at 
Forty  Fort ;  Mount  Lookout,  at  Wyoming ;  North  West,  at  Car- 
bondale;  Sterrick  Creek,  near  Dunmore;  Lackawanna,  near  Oly- 
phant;  Washeries:  at  Locust  Dale;  and  Edgerton,  near  Carbondale. 
all  in  Pennsylvania. 

Among  their  bituminous  mines  are:  Sonman  Shaft.  B  Vein: 
Sonman  Slope,  E  Vein,  near  Portage;  Pine  Hill,  near  Meyersdale, 
all  in  Pennsylvania. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are  all  well  and  favorably  known 
in  the  coal  trade,  and  are  as  follows:  President.  S.  B.  Thorne; 
Vice  Presidents,  James  B.  Neale,  Charles  E.  Fernberg;  Secretary, 
James  H.  Collier;  Treasurer.  Laurence  T.  Bliss. 

The  company's  general  offices  are  located  in  the  Franklin  Bank 
Building.  Philadelphia.  Charles  E.  Fernberg  is  the  General  Sales 
Agent;  G.  P.  Gabell.  in  charge  of  Bituminous  Sales;  David  C. 
Davis,  in  charge  of  Anthracite  Sales,  and  have  offices  in  the  follow- 
ing cities:  Xew  York,  Charles  F.  Randolph,  Manager;  Baltimore. 
J.  Frank  Foster,  Manager;  Chicago.  George  E.  Medin,  Manager: 
Boston,  Earl  F.  Larrabee,  Manager;  Buffalo,  Clarence  1*'.  Wcstfall. 
Manager;  Mauch  Chunk.  Walter  T.  Stedman.  Manager;  Scranton. 
L.  B.  Cornell,  Manager. 


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STAMEY   M.   MARTIX,  Philadelphia,  Pennaylvania. 

President  Beccaria  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia August  22,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Merchants'  Coal 
Co.  and   the  Quemahoning  Coal  Co. 


BECCARIA    COAL,   A    COKE   COMPANY, 

i -hi;  Pennxylvanla  Building:. 

Philadelphia. 

This  company  operates  mines  at  Bec- 
caria, Clearfield  County,  Pennsylvania, 
mining  a  very  high  grade  bituminous 
coal  from  the  Moshannan  vein.  The 
shipping  point  is  Smoke  Run,  Clearfield 
County,  Pennsylvania.  The  mines  are 
located  on  the  lines  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad,  and  the  output  is  sold  into 
Eastern  and  Atlantic   Seaboard   territory. 

Stanley  M.  Martin  is  President  of  the 
company.  Howard  R.  Knecht  of  Beth- 
lehem, Pennsylvania,  is  Treasurer,  and 
Horace  Boyd  of  Bethlehem  is  General 
Superintendent. 


Blair-Parke  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

Real  Estate  Trust  Building 
Philadelphia 

The  Blair-Parke  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  received  its  charter  in  Penn- 
sylvania February  18,  1909,  and  produces  a  high  grade  of  Bitum- 
inous and  Gas  coal,  principally  the  latter.  The  output  of  their 
mini's  is  sold  largely  in  the  East  to  steel  mills,  railroads,  public 
service  plants,  cement  plants,  brick  works  and  for  by-product 
purposes. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are:  C.  11.  Diffenderfer  President 
anil  Treasurer,  Harry  B.  Clark  Vice  President,  and  Edgar  G. 
Carlisle  Secretary. 


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HARRY  KENNEDY  CORTRIGHT,  Philadelphia,  Venn., 
President  Cortright  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Mauch  Chunk, 
Pennsylvania,  July  14,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirteen  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the 
Beaver  Run  Coal  Co.  and  the  Boucher-Cortright  Coal  Co., 
a  Director  of  the  Winifrede  Coal  Co.  of  West  Virginia,  Vice 
President  of  the  Philadelphia  Wholesale  Coal  Trade  Asso- 
ciation, and  a  Director  of  the  American  Coal  Trade  Associa- 
tion. He  was  formerly  with  N.  D.  Cortright  &  Son  and  W.  A. 
Marshall  &  Co.  Mr.  Cortright  is  a  well  known  man  in  the 
community  as  well  as  in  the  trade,  has  a  wide  circle  of 
friends,  and  comes  from  a  family  that  has  long  been  promi- 
nent in  the  coal  business. 


CORTRIGHT  COAL,  COMPANY, 

Pennsylvania  Bnildins, 

Philadelphia. 

The  name  "Cortright"  is  one  of  the 
oldest  and  most  favorably  known  in 
the  Pennsylvania  coal  trade.  Harry  K. 
Cortright  is  President  of  the  Cortright 
Coal  Co.  and  is  the  third  generation  of 
this  family  in  the  coal  business.  His 
grandfather,  Nathan  Dodson  Cortright, 
was  the  Superintendent  of  the  second 
coal  company  founded  in  the  East,  and 
when  he  died  in  1902,  at  the  age  of  87, 
he  was  the  oldest  coal  man  in  the 
United  States. 

The  Cortright  Coal  Co.  started  as  a 
partnership  about  ten  years  ago,  con- 
sisting of  F.  B.  and  H.  K.  Cortright. 
Mr.  F.  B.  Cortright  died  several  years 
ago  at  the  age  of  37,  and  after  his 
death  the  company  was  incorporated 
with  H.  K.  Cortright  as  President  and 
H.  B.  Cornog  as  Vice  President.  Mr. 
Cortright  has  a  wide  personal  acquain- 
tance in  coal  trade  circles  and  is  one 
of  the  best  known  and  most  popular 
of   the   younger   members   in   the   trade. 


Pardee  Brothers  &  Co.,  Inc. 

447  Drexel  Building 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

One  of  the  largest  and  best  known  among  the  independent  An- 
thracite producing  companies  is  that  of  Pardee  Brothers  &  Co., 
Inc.,  with  general  offices  at  Philadelphia.  They  operate  Anthracite 
mines  in  Luzerne  County,  Pennsylvania,  located  on  the  Lehigh 
Valley  Railroad,  with  an  approximate  output  of  600,000  tons  an- 
nually. These  mines  have  been  in  operation  since  1895  and  produce 
a  high  grade  of  Anthracite  for  domestic  use. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are:  Ario  Pardee  President  and 
Treasurer,  C.  Pardee  Vice  President,  Theodore  B.  Fryer  Secre- 
tary and  Sales  Manager  and  Jno.  W.  Crooks  General  Manager. 


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JOSEPH    HALL    VAST    DUSEN.    JR,    Philadelphia,    Penn.. 

Of  Van  Dusen,  Bro.  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  July  11. 
1801,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years, 
succeeding    his   father,   Joseph   B.    Van    Dusen. 


SAMUEL,  BALI,  VAN  DUSEN,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 

Of  Van  Dusen,  Bro.  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  Janu- 
ary 10,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty  years. 
He  is  associated  with  his  brother,  Joseph  B.  Van  Dusen. 


The  Westmoreland  Coal  Company 


224  South  Third  Street 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 


This  well-known  coal  producing  company  was 
chartered  in  18o4  and  since  beginning  operation 
its  coal  has  been  largely  used  by  the  railroads,  gas 
companies  and  the  largest  iron  and  steel  mills  of 
New  England  and  the  Middle  States,  and  its  char- 
ad.  •!•  is  established  as  having  no  superior  in  gas- 
producing  qualities  and  in  freedom  from  sulphur 
and  otber  impurities. 

The  capital  stock  of  the  Westmoreland  Coal 
Company  is  $6,000,000  and  the  annual  output  at 
present  is  3,000,000  tons.  The  company's  mines 
are  located  at  Irwin,  Biddle  Station,  Export,  Rill- 
ton  and  Yukon,  Pennsylvania,  all  located  in  the 
famous  Irwin  Gas  Coal  Basin  on  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  in  Westmoreland  County,  Pennsylvania, 
about  twenty  miles  east  of  Pittsburgh. 

The  points  of  shipment  are  Philadelphia,  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  and  South  Amboy,  New  Jersey. 

The  financial  status  of  the  company  is  com- 


mendable for  the  reason  that  in  every  year  the 
stockholders  have  received  a  dividend  since  the 
company    was    incorporated. 

The  Westmoreland  Coal  Co.,  through  private 
ownership,  controls  the  Penn  Gas  Coal  Co.  and 
the  Manor  Gas  Coal  Co.,  which  mine  and  ship  coal 
similar  to  the  Westmoreland  in  character,  as  their 
mines  are  located  in  the  same  basin. 

The  officers  of  the  Westmoreland  Coal  Co.  are: 
S.  Pemberton  Hutchinson,  President;  H.  C. 
Adams,  Vice  President;  George  McCall,  Treas- 
urer; Carroll  B.  Nichols,  General  Sales  Agent; 
Herman  Roll,  Secretary  and  Assistant  Treasurer ; 
and  Howard  R.  Yearsley,  Assistant  Secretary. 
The  Board  of  Directors  are:  William  D.  Winsor, 
William  Carpender,  Lewis  A.  Riley,  Edw.  Lowber 
Welsh,  S.  Pemberton  Hutchinson.  ('.  S.  W.  Pack- 
ard, Louis  R.  I 'age.  John  Hampton  Barnes, 
Wilson  Catherwood. 


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W.    D.    ALTHOUSE.   Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania, 

Of  W.  D.  Althouse  &  Co.,  Widener  Building,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Berks  County,  Pennsylvania, 
March  4,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
eight  years.  Mr.  Althouse  started  with  the  Philadelphia 
&  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  in  1890,  afterwards  going 
into  business  for  himself,  and  is  one  of  the  substantial  and 
well    known   coalmen    in    Philadelphia. 


THOMAS  W.  AYEHS,  Philadelphia,  PennNylvania, 

Of  Ayers  &  Bro.,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  April  1,  1848,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifty-three  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  Day,  Huddell  &  Co.  Mr.  Ayers  is  one  of  the 
most  highly  respected  members  of  the  Philadelphia  coal 
trade  and  has  received  many  honors  at  their  hands.  He 
served  as  Imperial   Modoc   of   the  Order  KoKoal. 


H.  C.  BARR,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 

Sales  Manager  J.  S  Wentz  Co.,  Upper  Lehigh  Coal  Co., 
Midvalley  Coal  Co.,  and  Maryd  Coal  Co.,  with  offices  in  the 
Land  Title  Building.  Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Bristol.  Vir- 
ginia. October  12,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Virginia  Coal  & 
Iron  Co.,  Stonega  Coke  &  Coal  Co..  and  Royal  Colliery  Co., 
and   has   a   wide   acquaintance    in    the   trade. 


SAMUEL,  B.  CROWELL,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  Geo.  B.  Newton  Coal  Co.  and  subsidiary 
companies,  Philadelphia,  was  born  March  3,  1868.  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  most  of  his  business  career  has  been  passed 
in  the  coal  business  in  his  native  city,  until  1904  as  Mana- 
ger of  Sales  for  Geo.  B.  Newton  &  Co.,  then  as  President 
of  Robert  Henderson  &  Co.  until  1912,  and  from  1912  to 
1916  as  President  of  the  Geo.  B.  Newton  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Crowell  has  been  President  of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal 
Merchants  Association,  Vice  President  International  Retail 
Coal  Merchants  Association.  Vice  President  of  the  Phila- 
delphia Coal  Exchange,  and  Resident  Vice  President  of  the 
National  Retail  Coal  Merchants  Association.  He  has  been 
prominent  in  the  retail  coal  trade. 


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KMP1RK     COAL      MIM\((      COMPANY. 
41.N    Stephen     i. ...... I     llulltllng. 

Philadelphia,     Pennxylvailla. 

A  large  and  important  coal  producing 
company  In  the  East  is  that  of  the  Em- 
pire Coal  Mining  Co.,  which  sells  both 
anthracite  and  bituminous  coal,  under 
the  trade  name  of  "Empire."  They  op- 
erate one  mine  at  Barnesboro,  Cambria 
County,  Pennsylvania,  and  three  mines 
at  Clymer,  Indiana  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, with  a  total  capacity  of  3.000 
tons  daily.  This  tonnage  is  sold  ex- 
clusively at  tidewater.  New  York,  and 
New    England    points. 

The  company  was  organized  in  1895 
and  maintains  selling  offices  at  1 
Broadway.  New  York  City.  Worcester, 
Massachusetts.  Syracuse.  New  York, 
Clearfield  and  Heading.  Pennsylvania, 
in  addition  to  their  Philadelphia  head- 
quarters. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are:  Wm. 
A.  Webb  President.  O.  W.  Shillingford 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and  A.  Ran- 
kin  Manager  of   the   New    York  office. 


FREDERICK     W.     FOEDI.SC'H,     Philadelphia,     Pennsylvania, 

Proprietor  of  F.  W.  Foedisch  &  Co.  of  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  13,  1881,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years.  He  is  also 
Treasurer  of  the  Indian  Ridge  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly 
with  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Penn  Collieries  Co.,  and 
Hite  &   Rafetto. 


M.    Id    \    (iAXO,   Philadelphia.    Pennxj  Ivanla, 

President  and  Chairman  Board  of  Directors  Gano.  Moore  & 
Co.,  Inc.,  Philadelphia,  and  South  American  Shipping  Co., 
American  Steamship  Corp.  of  Brazil,  and  American  Steam- 
ship Corp.  of  North  America,  was  born  in  Newport,  Ohio, 
April  15.  1883,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years,  exporting  coal  to  Brazil,  Chile.  Argentine,  Uruguay, 
Sweden,  Spain  and  Portugal,  and  Importing  ores,  coffee  and 
nitrate  from   South    America. 


I.    MIXFOHI)    III  MKICHOrSK.    Philadelphia.    I'enimylvanla, 

Manager  coal  department  of  Ernest  I,aw  &  Co.,  Harrison 
Building.  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  at  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  November  25.  1885,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  fifteen  years.  He  started  with  the  Davis  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  afterwards  going  with  C.  W.  Hendley  &  Co.,  :.nd 
assumed  his  present  position  in  1307. 


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HENRY    C.    PEARSON,    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania, 

Sales  Agent  Estate  of  A.  S.  Van  Wickle,  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Philadelphia  November  16,  1865,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years,  having 
formerly  been  with  Geo.  W.  Bush  &  Sons  Co.,  Smith  & 
McKee  and  A.   S.  Van  Wickle. 


HOWARD    D.    PFEIFFER,    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania. 

President  Howard  D.  Pfeiffer  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Camden, 
New  Jersey,  September  27,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eleven  years.  He  is  Secretary  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Chaffee  Coal  Co.  and  President  of  the  Dollie 
Coal  Co.     He  was  formerly  with  the  George  W.  Bailey  Co. 


LOGAN    COAL    COMPANY, 

503    Harrison    Building, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

One  of  the  important  producers  of 
steam  and  forge  coal  is  the  Logan 
Coal  Co.  of  Philadelphia,  who  operate 
eight  mines  in  Cambria  County.  Penn- 
sylvania, located  on  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad.  These  mines  "were  in  opera- 
tion from  1900  to  1905,  and  have  a  rail- 
road rating  as  to  capacity  of  approxi- 
mately a  million   tons  annually. 

The  Logan  Coal  Co.  maintains  branch 
sales  offices  in  New  York,  Boston  and 
Chicago,  in  addition  to  their  general 
office  at  Philadelphia,  and  have  a  wide 
market  for  their  output  in  New  Eng- 
land and  the  Northern  United  States. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are  Wm. 
J.  Faux  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger and  Guy  L.  Wheaton  Secretary 
and  Treasurer,  both  of  whom  are  well 
known   in   the   coal   trade. 


MILLER   COAL  COMPANY, 

503    Stock    Exchange   Building, 

Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

This  company  operates  a  mine  at 
Portage,  Cambria  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, producing  1,200  tons  daily  of  bi- 
tuminous coal  from  the  original  Wil- 
more  Basin,  Miller  Seam.  The  output 
is  a  high-grade  power  plant  coal.  The 
mine  is  located  on  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

The  Treasurer  and  General  Manager 
of  the  company  is  H.  R.  Burt,  who  is 
well  known  in  trade  circles,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past 
twelve  years. 


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CHAHI.KS  K.  S<  I  I  I  .  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
Formerly  one  of  the  most  widely  known  retail  coal  mer- 
chants in  the  United  States,  now  retired,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia November  27,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness forty-four  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Philadel- 
phia &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  later  President  of  the 
Piedmont  Cumberland  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Scull  has  held  numer- 
ous positions  of  honor  in  the  coal  associations  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  has  been  an  active  retail  coalman  in  Philadelphia 
for  more  than  thirty  years.  He  was  active  and  prominent 
in  the  Order  of  KoKoal  for  ten  years,  and  has  been  Secre- 
tary of  the  Philadelphia  Coal  Exchange  since  its  incorpora- 
tion  in   1895. 


THOMAS    F.    SLATTEHY,   Philadelphia,   Pennsylvania. 

Owner  of  Slattery  Bros.,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six- 
teen years.  He  operates  an  anthracite  mine  in  the  Schuyl- 
kill  district. 


WALTER  S.  SMALLEY,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

Individual  Operator  and  Jobber,  was  born  in  Clayton.  New 
Jersey,  December  13,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness since  1888.  He  has  interests  in  mining  operations  at 
St.  Clair,  Shamoktn  and  Minooka,  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Charles  Warner  Co.  of  Wilmington,  Dela- 
ware, and  the  Mount  Hope  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Smalley  is  a  well- 
known  coalman. 


J.    C.    STAl'FKEH,    Philadelphia.   Pennsylvania, 

Manager  Philadelphia  branch  B.  Nicoll  &  Co.,  was  born  in 
Altoona,  Pennsylvania,  in  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Lloydell  Coal  Co.,  Majestic  Coal  Co.,  Allport  Coal  Co., 
Flenner,  Henderson  &  Stauffer,  and  Frugalite  Coal  & 
Coke  Co. 


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FRA\"K  BAYARD   STEWART,   Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 

President  Winifrede  Coal  Co.,  Winifrede  Railroad  Co.,  and 
Belmont  Coal  Co.,  in  West  Virginia,  with  sales  office  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1875,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years. 


JOSEPH    WARNER     SWAIN,     Philadelphia.    Pennsylvania, 

Of  Swain  Bros.,  was  born  in  Bristol,  Pennsylvania.  June  25, 
1849.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-eight  years. 
This  business  was  established  by  Edward  and  Joseph  W. 
Swain   in   1871. 


ALFRED  TIKXER,   Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania. 

Only  member  of  the  firm  of  Colin  &  Turner,  was  born  at 
"Weft  Hartlepool.  Kngland,  July  25.  1863,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  supplies  only  bunker  coal 
to  steamers,  representing  some  of  the  largest  shipping  com- 
panies in  the  United  Kingdom,  and  the  British  Admiralty 
since   1915. 


SAM1E1,    O.    WALKER,    Philadelphia.   Pennsylvania, 

President  and  General  Manager  Coalmont  Moshannon  Coal 
Co.,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  July  8.  1864,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  eleven   years. 


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I  HWK     HI\KS    WIGT()\,   Philadelphia,   Pennsylvania, 

President  The  Morrisdale  Coal  Co.,  The  Morrisdale  Coal  Min- 
ing: Co.  and  the  Cunard  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Huntingdon 
County,  Pennsylvania,  March  17,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  over  forty  years.  He  is  a  Director  in  the 
Miller  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  with  R.  B.  Wigton  and 
R.  B.  Wigton  &  Sons.  Mr.  Wigton  is  a  pioneer  coal  oper- 
ate, coming  from  a  family  of  coal  and  iron  operators  whose 
activities  demand  more  than   usual   mention. 


JOHN    WILLS, 

I- I  I    l'<  in,-:  |\  aula    Ilullding, 
Philadelphia,    PennHylvania, 

Started  in  the  coal  business  in  1895, 
and  has  never  been  associated  with  any 
one  else.  He  specializes  on  the  distri- 
bution of  gas  and  bituminous  coals  in 
the  Kast. 


A.  A.  ZANK.   Philadelphia.   Pi-mix)  I  vanla. 
Of  A.  A.  Zane  <S-   Co.,   w.is   born   in   Philadelphia   February   5, 
1874,   andv  has   been    in    the   coal    business   twenty-one   years. 
He   was  formerly   with   J.   H.   Weaver  &  Co.  and   F.   W.   Foe- 
disch  &  Co. 


\\  \I.TKR  G.  ROGERS,  Plttabvrcfc,  Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Falrvlew  Mining  Co.. 
was  born  in  Rogers.  Ohio.  Kay  '■'■■  1881,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  fifteen  years,  He  in  the  owner  of  several 
tracts  of  coal  land.  He  WU  formerly  with  the  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co..  Monongahela  River  Consolidated  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Moreland   Coke   Co.,   Penobscot   Coal  Co.   and   Pryor  Coal  Co. 


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JOHN  HENRY  JONES,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 
President  Bertha  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  was  born  in  Greenock,  Pennsyl- 
vania, October  7,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty-one 
years.  He  is  well  known  throughout  the  trade,  having  recently  organ- 
ized thirteen  different  companies  having  a  capital  in  excess  of  $4,700,- 
000  and  a  capacity  of  four  million  tons  per  annum. 


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JAMBS    EDWARD    STEWART,   Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  Bertha  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Shelburn,  In- 
diana. December  25.  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  is  President  of  the  Johnetta 
Brick   &  Coal  Co. 


D.   C.  EATON,  Pittsburgh.   Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer  Bertha  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Graysville,  Ohio. 
November  7,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
seven  years. 


VICTOR    T.    REED,    Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania, 

Secretary  Bertha  Coal  Co.,  was  born  at  Guelph,  Canada,  No- 
vember 7,  1878,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  several 
years. 


ISAAC    T.   JENKINS.    Pittsburgh.    Pennsylvania. 

With   the  Bertha  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh. 


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THURSTON    WHIGHT,    Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania. 

President  Penn  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  and  the  Wright-Gibson 
Co.,  was  born  in  St.  Louis.  Missouri.  January  29.  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  T'nited  Coal  Co.  and  Merchants  Coal  Co.  and 
later  Receiver  for  both  companies. 


JOHN    GIBSON,    JR.,   Pittsburgh,   Pennsylvania, 

General  Manager  and  Treasurer  Penn  Smokeless  Coal  Co., 
was  born  in  Calvert  County,  Maryland,  December  6,  1879, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  United  Coal  Co.,  Canadian  Collieries,  and 
Arctic   Coal   Co.   of   Norway. 


THE  WRIGHT-GIBSON   CO 

COAL  AND  COKE 

PENN  SMOKELESS  COAL  CO 

Miners  and  Shippers 

QUEMAHONING  SMOKELESS  COAL 

General  Offices:     UNION  BANK  BUILDING,  PITTSBURGH,  PA. 


HIGH    GRADE 


LOW   SULPHUR 


LOW   VOLIATILE 

No  Clinkers— Fusing  Point  2700° 

For  By- Product—  Smithing — Steam 

MINES:  JEROME  AND  BOSWELL,  SOMMESET  COUNTY,  PA.,  Myersdale  Freight  Rate,  B.&O.  R.R. 


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i    i  i.i    M      S.    REII.I.Y,    Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania. 
President    Riilly-Peabody    Fuel    Co.,    American    Connellsvilli 
Coal   &   Coke   Co..    Georges   Creek   Coal    Mining  Co..   and    the 
American    Gas   Coal    Co.,    was    born    in    Pittsburgh   December 
14.   1S73,  and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  eleven  years. 


FRANK    E.    PEABODY,    Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Reilly-Peabody  Fuel  Co., 
American  Connellsville  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Quality  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Georges  Creek  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  American 
Gas  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  May  8,  1887, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  and  Connellsville  coke  busi- 
ness twelve  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Producers  Coke  Co.,  American  Steel  Co.  and  the  Peabody  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  Mr.  Peabody  is  developing  a  large  tract  of 
Fairmont   gas  coal. 


THE      RElI.il/y-PEABODY      COMPANY. 

The  Reilly-Peabody  Fuel  Co.,  a  Penn- 
sylvania corporation,  started  business 
the  latter  part  of  the  year  1917.  having 
control  of  the  operations  and  output  of 
the  American  Connellsville  Coal  *  Coke 
Company's  American  Works  Nos.  1,  2 
and  3,  located  in  the  famous  Connells- 
ville coke  region. 

The  operations  of  the  Reilly-Peabody 
Fuel  Co.  have  developed  a  coal  and 
coke  sales  agency,  controlling  and  dis- 
tributing the  output  of  other  large  pro- 
ducers in  addition  to  their  own  opera- 
tions. The  Retlly-Peabody  Fuel  Co. 
has  since  acquired  control  of  and  is 
now  operating  the  Quality  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  with  mines  in  Huntingdon  County. 
Pennsylvania,  The  Georges  Creek  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  operating  at  I,onaeoning, 
Maryland,  and  the  American  Gas  Coal 
Co..  a  West  Virginia  corporation. 

The  operations  of  The  Georges  Creek 
Coal  Mining  Co.  at  Lonacnnlng  are  be- 
ing developed  under  the  ordinary  min- 
ing methods  and  also  under  the  new 
"day-light  mining"  or  stripping  proc- 
ess. 

The  West  Virginia  acreage  has  just 
been  acquired  and  comprises  some  300 
acres  of  splendid  by-product  coking 
and  gas  coals. 

The  officers  of  the  Reilly-Peabody 
Fuel  Co.  since  Its  incorporation  have 
been:  Eugene  S.  Rellly.  president;  L. 
P.  Monaran,  Vice  President;  F.  E.  Pea- 
body. Treasurer;    L.    A.   Qulnlivan.    S 

retary. 


I.AIItKM  I.     \.   <(l   IM.IX    \\.   rllt-linruli.   IVn •■-.,  I vmlla. 

Becretary  Reilly-Peabody  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in  Latrobe, 
Pennsylvania,  In  isss,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  six 
years.  He  is  also  Interested  In  the  American  Connellsville 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  American  Qai  Coal  Co.,  and  Georges  Creek 
Coal  Mining  Co  1 1 ■  -  Is  a  Director  of  the  National  coal  Job- 
bers' Association. 


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GEORGE    S.   BATON,  Pittsburgh,   Pennsylvania, 

President  Greensburg-Connellsville  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-four  years.  He  is  also  Consulting  Mining  Engineer 
of  Baton  &  Elliott.  He  is  President  of  the  Board  of  Exam- 
iners, Pennsylvania  State   Mine   Inspectors. 


WILLIAM    ALBERT    PERRY,    Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania, 

General  Manager  Greensburg-Connellsville  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  was  born  in  New  England,  Ohio,  September  14,  1881,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Forsythe  Coal  Co.,  Mexican  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  T^es  Esperansa,  Mexico,  the  Republic  Iron  &  Steel  Co., 
United  Coal  Co.,  and  W.  J.  Rainey  Coke  Co.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  American  Society  of  Mining  Engineers,  and  is  a  well 
known   mine   expert. 


EDWARD  JOHN  FRAL'ENHEIM,  JR.,  Pittsburgh,  Penn., 

President  and  Treasurer  Logansport  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  October  1,  1890,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  four  years.  The  company  turns  out  about 
600  tons  per  day  and  is  well  and  favorably  known. 


W.    G.    FRAUENHEIM,   Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  and  Secretary  Logansport  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  January  13,  1894,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  three  years. 


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WILLIAM  KBLSEY  FIELD,  Pittsburgh.  Pennsylvania, 

President  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
in  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  the 
St.  Paul  &  Western  Coal  Co. 


.iiiiin    A.  DONALDSON,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Candor, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  operating  end  of 
the  coal  business  thirty-flve  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Midland  Coal  Co.  and  the  Monongahela  River  Consoli- 
dated Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


THOMAS  F.  ASHFOHD.  JR.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. 

President  and  General  Manager  Second  Pool  Coal  Co.,  was 
born  in  Pittsburgh  August  14,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  T.  M. 
Jenkins  &  Co.  and  the  Flinn  Coal  Co.  as  Manager. 


THOMAS    F.   ASHFOHD,   III.,    Pittsburgh,   Pennsylvania, 

Secretary  Second  Pool  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  was  born  August 
10,  1892.  In  Pittsburgh  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
nine  years. 


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THOMAS     BEADLING.     Carnegie,     Pa.. 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
Verner  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  was  born  in 
Pittsburgh.  Pennsylvania,  October  31, 
1851,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifty-four  years.  Mr.  Beadling  is  also 
interested  in  the  Ferguson  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  and  Tasa  Coal  Co.  He  was  for- 
merly with  Hartley  &  Marshall.  Long 
Conl  Co.   and   Beadling  Bros. 


HOWARD    B.    SALKELD,    Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania, 

Assistant  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  Sales  Verner 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Assistant  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
Wabash  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Lloydsville  near  Altoona. 
Pennsylvania,  September  1,  1880,  and  has  been  fifteen  years 
in  the  coal  business.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Kirkbride  Coal  Co.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Ferguson  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Pittsburgh  Block  Coal  Co. 
and   the   Tasa   Coal    Co. 


IRA   E.    Ill  \  I  111.    Pittsburgh,   Pennsylvania, 

President  Bixler  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in  Bolivar,  Ohio, 
May  23,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 
He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Bixler  Coal  Co.,  Columbus, 
Ohio,  Vice  President  Dunn-Connellsville  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
President  of  the  Continental  Steel  &  Supply  Co.  and  Presi- 
dent  of  the   Enterprise   Sand  Co..   all  of  Pittsburgh. 


POLAND    COAL    CO., 

1013    House    Building, 

Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania, 

This  company  was  organized  in  1912. 
being  incorporated  under  the  Pennsyl- 
vania laws.  It  specializes  upon  the 
distribution  of  bituminous  coals  only — 
gas,  steam  and  by-product — to  manu- 
facturing plants. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are: 
Julian  Kennedy,  President;  R.  C.  Craw- 
ford, Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager; J.  O.  Miller,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; and  George  W.  Forney,  Sales 
Manager. 


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VI  I  Kin  K.  HAMILTON,  PlttNburgh.  Prnnxy  Ivaiiia, 
President  A.  R.  Hamilton  &  Co.,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh 
July  19,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years  He  is  also  President  of  the  North  Pennsylvania  Coal 
Co.  and  the  B.  S.  Hammill  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  of 
the  Barnes  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.  Mr.  Hamilton  holds  several  positions  of  honor  In 
the  various  coal  associations,  is  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Production  and  an  Executive  Board  Member  of  the 
National  Coal  Association,  and  is  well  known  throughout 
the  trade.  He  has  many  other  business  interests  in  the 
community. 


BENJAMIN    SAMIKI,    HAMMII.I,.    I'illslMircl,.    PeniiHylvania, 

Owner  of  the  company  bearing  his  name,  President  B.  S. 
Hammill  Co.,  Vice  President  B.  S.  Hammill  Coal  Co.  and 
President  B.  S.  Hammill,  Inc.,  was  born  of  American 
parents  at  Preston,  Ontario.  Canada,  October  4,  1865,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Henderson  Coal  Co.,  Marine  Coal  Co.,  Monon- 
gahela  River  Consolidated  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Pittsburgh  Ter- 
minal Railroad  &  Coal  Co.  and  C.  Jutte  &  Co. 


6BOKCUB  T.  KIIIKIIIIIIIi:,  I'lllNliui-Kh,  l'enn»ylvanla, 
Manager  Langeloth  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Carnegie,  Pennsyl- 
vania,   in    1861,   and    has    been    In    the    coal    business    thirteen 
years.       He    was    previously    connected     with    the    Klrkbride 
Coal   Co. 


H.  O.  HASTEN,   Pittsburgh,   l'eiin»ylvanla. 

President  Masten  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Rochester,  Penn- 
sylvania, August  31,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
seven  years.  He  operates  in  the  Pittsburgh  seam,  with  a 
yearly  output  of  100,000  tons. 


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WILLIAM    HAHMAN,    Altoona,    Pennsylvania, 

General  Manager  Lilly  Coal  Co.,  Altoona,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  November  1,  1867,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Munster  Coal  Co.,  Clear  Creek  Coal 
Co.   and  Hahman  &   Richards. 


LAWRENCE   MARVIN    RYAN',  Altoona,   Pennsylvania, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  Cambria  &  Moshannon  Coal  Co., 
Altoona,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Syracuse,  New  York, 
January  5,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 
He  is  also  General  Manager  of  the  Heverly  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Ryan  was  formerly  connected  as  Manager  of  Sales  with  the 
Lilly  Coal  Co.   and  W.   H.  Hughes  &  Co. 


EDWARD    E.    McGILL,    Erie,    Pennsylvania, 

Proprietor  of  the  Burnwell  Coal  Co.,  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Bayonne,  New  Jersey,  November  6,  1884,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years,  previously 
bookkeeper  for  the  G.  J.  Gebhords  Co.,  Erie.  Mr.  McGill  pur- 
chased his  company  from  A.  K.  &  R.  W.  Britton  October  25, 
1915,  who  were  also  doing  business  as  the  Burnwell  Coal  Co. 


EDWARD  P.  WITTMANN,  Erie,  Pennsylvania, 

President  of  Wittmann-Pfeffer  Co.  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Momeyer  Coal  Co.,  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Erie 
on  March  3,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-nine  years,  previously  with  the  following  firms:  R. 
W.  Russell,  retail;  Youghiogheny  River  Coal  Co.,  The  W.  L. 
Scott  Co.,  and  the  Pittsburgh  &  Erie  Coal  Co.,  wholesale. 
He  has  added,  in  recent  years,  building  materials  to  the 
coal  business. 


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JACOB  V.  K1JHNS.  Greensburg,  Pennsylvania. 

President  of  the  Alt.  Pleasant  Coke  Co.  and  a  Director  of 
the  Donohoe  Coke  Co.  and  the  Alt.  Hope  Coke  Co.,  Greens- 
burtr,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Greensburg  in  1871,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  is  a 
member  of  tVie  Coke  Producers"  Association  of  the  Connells- 
ville  District. 


C.  J.  KLINE,  Gr«ei»l>ure,  Pennsylvania, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Alt.  Pleasant  Coke  Co.,  was 
born  in  Greensburg  January  5,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years.  He  has  held  various  positions 
with  the  present  company  since  1897. 


\\  I l.l.l AM     HAD  11)11 1)    COYI.K,    Bethlehem,    Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  and  General  Sales  Manager  Weston  Dodson 
&  Co.,  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1878,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  Industry  ten  years.  Before  engag- 
ing in  the  coal  business  Mr.  Coyle  had  experience  as  sol- 
dier, civil  engineer,  and  lawyer.  Ho  has  served  as  Vice 
President  of  the  National  Coal  Jobbers'  Association  and  as  a 
Director  of  the  New  York  Wholesale  Coal  Trade  Association. 
He  Is  now  In  the  service  with   the  United   States:  Marlnef.. 


H.   C.    in  null.   GreensburK,   Pennsylvania, 

President  of  the  Atlantic  Crushed  Coke  Co.,  and  a  Director 
of  the  Marion  Gas  Coal  Co.  and  the  Acme  Gas  Coal  Co.,  was 
born  in  Arch  Springs,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  thirty  years.  He  was  previously  asso- 
ciated with  the  following  firms:  Manor  Gas  Coal  Co.,  Alex- 
andria Coke  Co.,  Morgan,  Moore  &  Bain  Co..  and  United 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  is  now  a  Director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Greensburg  and  President  of  the  Greensburg  Stor- 
age &  Transfer  Co. 


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WALTHR    LESLIE    MONTGOMERY, 

Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania,  known  all 
over  the  states  of  Pennsylvania,  New 
Jersey,  Delaware,  and  Maryland  for  his 
extensive  experience  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Montgomery  is  a  charter 
member  of  the  Harrisburg  Reserves, 
Bank  Director,  President  of  the  Har- 
risburg Coal  Exchange.  Vice  President 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Mer- 
chants Association,  and  a  member  of 
many  organizations  pertaining  to  the 
coal  trade. 

In  fact  there  are  few  men  in  Penn- 
sylvania so  well  versed  in  the  coal 
trade  as  Mr.  Montgomery,  and  his  opin- 
ions on  important  questions  carry  with 
them  the  weight  of  study  and  experi- 
ence. He  has  done  much  personally 
for  the  advancement  of  good  in  the 
coal  merchandising  not  only  in  the 
state  of  Pennsylvania  but  throughout 
the  eastern  states. 

Mr.  Montgomery  was  born  in  Har- 
risburg, Pennsylvania.  January  22,  1872, 
and  comes  from  a  family  that  has  been 
prominent  in  the  business  and  social 
life  of  the  state  for  over  a  century.  His 
administration  of  affairs  has  been  the 
highest  degree  successful,  and  he  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  most  efficient 
men  in  business  in  the  East,  not  only 
as  the  head  of  the  coal  firm,  but  with 
numerous  other  enterprises. 


S.  I ■:.  DICKEY,  Johnstown,  Pa., 
President  of  the  firm  of  S.  E.  Dickey 
&  Co.,  Civil,  Mining  and  Consulting 
Engineers,  and  President  of  the  S.  E. 
Dickey  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Kittan- 
ning  Township,  Pennsylvania,  March 
30,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  engineer- 
ing business  for  the  past  sixteen  years. 
His  firm  has  been  actively  engaged  in 
the  mining  and  consulting  engineering 
business  for  the  last  eight  years,  hav- 
ing offices  at  809-811  Johnstown  Trust 
Building,  Johnstown.  Pennsylvania, 
employing  a  large  force  of  engineers 
and  assistants,  having  charge  of  the 
engineering  for  a  large  number  of  coal 
companies,  representing  in  all  seventy- 
five  operating  mines.  The  S.  E.  Dickey 
Coal  Co.  is  a  subsidiary  company  of  the 
engineering  company  and  is  to  be  the 
holding  company  for  the  purpose  of 
operating,  superintending  and  manag- 
ing mines,  properties  and  estates.  Mr. 
Dickey  has  a  very  broad  experience  in 
the  engineering  and  mining  business, 
being  reared  in  the  heart  of  the  bitu- 
minous coal  district  of  Pennsylvania. 
He  has  been  employed  in  all  capacities 
in  and  about  the  mines.  Starting  at 
the  age  of  twelve  years  he  has  been 
continuously  engaged  at  this  work  ex- 
cept during  the  school  periods.  Each 
summer  vacation  was  spent  working  at 
the  mines  or  with  an  engineering  corps. 


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H.  F.   <;i(  \/.li:i(.   .lithnNtown,   I'emiHylvaiiia, 

Treasurer  of  the  Grazier  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Johnstown,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  Treasurer  of  the  Grazier  Coal  Mining  Co.,  was 
born  in  Xew  Paris,  Pennsylvania.  December  27,  1877,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 


TELFORD   LEWIS,  JohiiHtoirn,   Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Somerset  Mining 
Co.,  Knickerbocker  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  Wilbur  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  Telford  Coal  Co.  and  Jasahill  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  Sec- 
retary Knickerbocker  Fuel  Co.,  was  born  in  Johnstown  Octo- 
ber 20,  1873,  and  has  been  active  in  the  coal  business  fo"- 
twenty  years.  He  made  his  start  in  the  coal  industry  as  a 
mining  engineer  for  the  Cambria  Steel  Co.  He  is  a  Director 
of  the  Johnstown  Coal  Club  and  of  the  Somerset  County  Coal 
Operators  Association. 


WILLIAM  .1.  Kl  VIZ.  .luhiiHlixvii,  !•«., 
President  of  the  Dixonville  Coal  Co., 
the  Citizens  Coal  Co.,  the  Operators 
Coal  Mining  Co.  and  a  Director  in  the 
Conemaugh  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  Johns- 
town, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Johns- 
town May  3.  18H4,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged actively  in  the  operating  end  of 
the   coal    business    for   fifteen    years. 


\\  1 1. 1. 1  AM    T.   HAWK,   KlnicHton,   1'ennnylvanla, 

Vice  President,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  East 
Boston  Coal  Co.,  Kingston,  Pennsylvania,  also  President  of 
the  Raub  Coal  Co.,  and  Vice  President  of  the  Evans  Colliery 
Co.,  was  born  in  Kingston  April  2(1.  1871,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-Six  years,  His  father,  William 
G.  Payne,  has  been  connected  with  the  anthracite  trade 
since  18G6  as  wholesaler  and  operator.  His  grandfather, 
Kdward  Payne,  Of  Miners vl He,  Pennsylvania,  began  operat- 
ing in  the  anthracite  Molds  in  IS  II  The  Payne  family  has 
been  continuously  In   the  mining  business  since  that  year. 


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JOHN   C.  COSGROVE,  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania, 

President  Cosgrove  &  Co.,  Johnstown,  was  born  April  28, 
1886,  in  Houtzdale,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years,  since  his  graduation  from  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  College.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Marion 
&  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  of  Johnston  City,  Illinois,  Marion  & 
Eastern  Railroad  of  Marion,  Illinois,  Homer  City  Coal  Co.. 
Lenox  Coal  Co.,  Thermal  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  and  Mox- 
ham  Coal  Co.  of  Johnstown,  General  Manager  Ernest  Coal 
Co.,  of  Johnston  City,  and  President  Farmers  Trust  & 
Mortgage  Co.  of  Johnstown.  Mr.  Cosgrove  is  a  Director  in 
several  banking  institutions  and  interested  in  other  coal  mining 
companies. 


A.     K.     COSGROVE,     Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer  Cosgrove  &  Co.,  Stephen  Girard  Building,  Philadel- 
phia, was  born  in  Hastings,  Pennsylvania,  in  1889,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eight  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Ernest  Coal  Co.,  Homer  City  Coal  Co.,  Lenox  Coal  Co.,  Thermal 
Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  and  Grazier  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  was 
formerly  with  A.  W.  Hillebrand  and  R.  C.  Lea  &  Co. 


PAUL,  B.  COSGROVE,  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania, 

Deceased,  was  a  member  of  Cosgrove  &  Co.,  Johnstown, 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death  December  22,  1917.  He  was 
born  January  29,  1888,  in  Houtzdale,  Pennsylvania,  and 
service  in  the  United  States  army  and  six  years  in  the  coal 
business  constituted  the  active  part  of  his  life.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  Mr.  Cosgrove  was  Secretary  of  the  Marion  & 
Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  of  Marion,  Illinois,  Vice  President  of 
the  Lenox  Coal  Co.  of  Hastings,  Pennsylvania,  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Thermal  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  of  Johnstown, 
Pennsylvania,  and  Treasurer  of  the  Marion  &  Eastern  Rail- 
road Co.  of  Marion,  Illinois. 


L 


H.   J.   MEEHA.X',    Johnstown,    Pennsylvania, 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Cosgrove  &  Co.,  Johnstown,  was  born 
July  21,  1878,  in  Mclntyre,  Lycoming  County,  Pennsylvania, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  is  also 
President  of  the  Ernest  Coal  Co.  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Marion  &  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  of  Johnston  City,  Illinois, 
and  General  Manager  of  the  Homer  City  Coal  Co.,  Grazier 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Millerton  Coal  Co.,  Thermal  Smokeless 
Coal  Co.,  Lenox  Coal  Co.,  Homer  City  Coal  Co.,  Moxham 
Coal  Co.,  all  of  Johnstown.  Mr.  Meehan  has  had  a  wide 
experience  as  superintendent  of  mines  for  leading  coal,  coke 
and  steel  interests. 


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MII.TOX    W.    LOWRY,    .Scranton,    Pennsylvania, 

President  Carbon  Creek  Coal  Co.  (mines  at  Shamokin), 
Scranton,  was  born  in  Elkdale,  Susquehanna  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, March  10,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years.  Mr.  Lowry,  a  lawyer  by  profession,  has  always 
taken  an  active  part  in  civic  and  educational  matters  and 
has  held  numerous  positions  of  honor.  He  has  served  as 
President  of  the  Select  Council  of  the  city  of  Scranton,  as 
President  of  the  Republican  State  league  of  Clubs  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  College, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1884. 


WILLIAM  ARTHUR  THOMAS,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Carbon  Creek  Coal  Co.. 
Scranton,  was  born  in  Lynn,  Pennsylvania,  September  10, 
1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He 
was  formerly  President  of  the  Rocky  Ridge  Coal  Co.  of 
Robertsdale,   Pennsylvania. 


WILLIAM     GARDXKR     PEARSON,     Scranton.    Pennaylvanla, 

i'tor  and  Secretary  Carbon  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Scranton, 
was  born  in  Scranton  August  18,  1880,  from  old  New  England 
stock  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Pearson  Is 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  bodies  and  many  social  and  civic 
organizations. 


HARRY  A.   SMITH,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania, 

Sales  Agent  for  the  Delaware.  Lackawanna  &  Western 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Scranton  January  1G.  1878,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly 
with   the   Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western   Railroad  Co. 


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MARCUS     \V.     SAXJIAX,     Latrobe,     Pa., 

President  Saxman  Coal  &  Coke  Co.. 
Latrobe,  Treasurer  of  the  Superior  Fue! 
Co.  and  Operating  Manager  of  the 
Bradenville  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  was  born 
in  Latrobe  December  24,  1867,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years. 
He  is  President  of  the  Latrobe  Electric 
Steel  Co.,  Blairsville  Iron  Works,  and 
Citizens  National  Bank  of  Latrobe, 
Treasurer  of  the  Russellton  Stone  Co.. 
Victor  Stone  Co.,  and  Derry  Glass  Sand 
Co.,  and  a  Director  of  the  Latrobe  Tool 
Co.,  Latrobe  Trust  Co.,  and  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Russellton.  He  has 
been  connected  with  the  Latrobe-Con- 
nellsville  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the  Green- 
wich Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the  Cardiff  Coal 
Co.,  Kelso  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  Unity 
Coal  Co.,   and   Kent  Coal  Co. 


CHARLES    CALVIN    BOWMAN,    Pittston,    Pennsylvania, 

President  Avoca  Coal  Co.,  Avoca,  Pennsylvania,  Vice  Pres- 
dent  Roden  Coal  Co.,  Marvel,  Alabama,  Secretary-Treas- 
urer and  a  Director  Franklin  Coal  Co.,  Simpson,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  a  Director  Raub  Coal  Co.,  Luzerne,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Troy.  New  York.  March  14,  1852,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  mining  and  shipping  of  coal  since  1876.  He 
was  Mayor  of  Pittston,  and  a  member  of  Congress. 


OLIPHAXT    COAL,    &    COKE    CO., 
Third    National  Hank    Building, 

I  n  in  ii  tow  ii.  Pennsylvania. 
This  company  has  two  operations  lo- 
cated near  Fairchance,  Fayette  County, 
Pennsylvania,  mining  daily  500  tons  of 
steam  coal,  and  shipping  to  both  East- 
ern and  Western  markets. 
■  Frank  R.  Crow  is  President  of  the 
company. 


STANDARD    Fl'EL    CO., 

First    NatiunnI   Rank   Huilding, 

L'niontown,    Pennsylvania. 

This  company,  consisting  of  M.  D. 
Brooke  and  D.  H.  McGee,  are  miners 
and  shippers  of  high  grade  coking,  gas 
and  steam  coals,  having  the  exclusive 
agency  for  the  coal  of  the  Buckhannon 
River  Coal  Co.  of  Adrian,  West  Vir- 
ginia, on  the  Coal  &  Coke  Railway. 
They  also  ship  from  Pennsylvania  bi- 
tuminous fields,  from  mines  located  on 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad,  West- 
ern Maryland  Railway,  Pittsburgh  & 
Lake  Erie  Railway  and  Pennsylvania 
Railway. 


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BOBEKT      W.     <.ll,»IOIIi:.      I  niontonn. 

Born  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
October  6,  1868,  and  lived  there  until 
August  1,  1900.  For  a  number  of  years 
before  leaving  Philadelphia  he  held  the 
position  of  Confidential  Clerk  and  Cash- 
ier at  the  Edge  Tool  Works  of  Fayette 
H.  Plumb,  Inc.,  located  at  Frankford, 
Philadelphia.  In  August,  1900,  he  went 
to  Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania,  hav- 
ing taken  over  a  large  merchandise 
store,  but  sold  out  of  that  to  engage 
in  the  coking  business,  following  the 
latter  business  until  July  1,  1917,  when 
he  sold  all  of  his  interests  to  engage 
actively  in  the  mining  of  coal  and  the 
selling  of  coal  and  coke.  During  this 
time  he  incorporated,  constructed  and 
managed  the  following  concerns:  The 
Newcomer  Coke  Co.,  Banning-Connells- 
ville  Coke  Co.,  and  the  Wineland-Gil- 
more  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  also  was  one 
of  the  incorporators  of  the  Pro- 
ducers Coke  Co.,  a  brokerage  con- 
cern handling  millions  of  tons  of  coal 
and  coke  each  year.  Since  October  1, 
1916,  with  his  brother  as  partner,  he 
has  been  engaged  in  the  brokerage 
business  under  the  name  of  General 
Fuel  Co.,  Unlontown.  Pennsylvania, 
buying  and  selling  coal  and  coke,  also 
operating  his  two  mining  propositions. 
Eleanor  Coal  Co.  and  Commercial  Coal 
Co.,  located  at  Wyano,  Westmoreland 
County,    Pennsylvania. 


WALTER      J.      i.ll.ll :.      I  iiioiitiMvn, 

Born  and  raised  at  Philadelphia,  and 
up  to  September.  1900,  was  actively 
engaged  with  Fayette  R.  Plumb,  manu- 
facturer of  edge  tools,  and  for  about 
another  year  engaged  in  selling  coal 
with  the  local  office  of  a  coal  mining 
and  shipping  company.  In  1901  he  went 
to  Fayette  County  as  an  employe  of  the 
H.  C.  Frick  Coke  Co.  In  the  early  part 
of  1908  he  took  charge  of  the  Midland 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Ph'ilippi,  West  Vir- 
ginia, as  General  Superintendent.  In 
1909  he  returned  to  Fayette  County 
and  accepted  a  position  with  the  Sun- 
shine Coal  &  Coke  Co.  In  1911  Mr.  Gil- 
more  became  associated  with  the  Pro- 
ducers Coke  Co.,  a  coal  and  coke 
agency,  as  General  Manager  and  later 
on  became  Secretary.  In  October.  1916, 
he  left  the  above  company  to  take  an 
interest  with  his  brother  in  the  Gen- 
eral Fuel  Co..  Uniontown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, coal  and  coke  wholesale  job- 
bers, assuming  active  part  of  Sales 
Manager,  in  which  duties  he  Is  now 
engaged. 


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SIDNEY  A.  CARSON,  GreensbiirK,  Pennsylvania, 

President  Pennsylvania  Fuel  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  September  2,  1879, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1S95.  He  is  also 
General  Manager  of  the  Southern  Connellsville  Coke  Co. 
and  the  Northern  Connellsville  Coke  Co.,  and  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Westmoreland  Fuel  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with   the  H.   C.   Frick  Coke  Co.   and   J.   K.   Dimmick   &  Co. 


GEORGE    M.    Mill  HHK1MER,    Unlontovrn.    Pennsylvania, 

Treasurer  and  Sales  Manager  of  the  Pennsylvania  Fuel  Co., 
also  Treasurer  of  the  Faith  Coal  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Uniontown  October  1,  1879,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  previously 
with  the  National  Fuel  Co. 


Pennsylvania  Fuel  Co., 

First  National  Bank  Building, 
Uniontown,  Pennsylvania 

As  wholesalers  this  company  handles  60,000  tons  monthly  of 
steam,  gas,  by-product  coal  and  coke  from  Pennsylvania  and 
West  Arirginia.     They  are  the  exclusive  selling  agents  for: 

The  Northern  Connellsville  Coke  Co.,  located  at  County  Home 
Junction,  Westmoreland  County,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railway. 

The  Southern  Connellsville  Coke  Co.,  located  at  Cheat  Haven, 
Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad. 

The  Faith  Coal  Co.,  located  at  Davent,  Fayette  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, on  the  Pennsylvania  Railway. 

S.  A.  Carson  is  President  and  George  M.  Hochheimer  Treas- 
urer. 


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HARRY  WHYEl,  l/nlontown,  Pennsylvania, 
President  Whys]  Coal  Co,  a  Director  of  the  Consolidated 
Coke  Co.,  Vniontown,  and  a  Director  of  the  Pioneer  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh 
February  24.  1863.  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  operating 
end  of  the  coal  business  for  thirty-three  years,  the  first 
fifteen  with  the  Frick  Coke  Co..  and  since  that  time  for 
himself.  He  is  President  of  the  Coke  Producers'  Associa- 
tion of  the  Connellsville  region.  His  father,  Matthias 
Whyel,  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  coal  mining  in  the  Pitts- 
burgh district. 


GEORGE   WHYEL,.    I  i »m.    Pennsylvania, 

President  of  the  Consolidated  Coke  Co.  and  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Whyel  Coke  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania, 
and  President  of  the  Pioneer  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh  February  24,  1863, 
and  has  been  engaged  in  coal  operations  for  thirty-three 
years.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  became  Superintendent 
for  J.  D.  Boyd  &  Co.,  then  devoted  his  whole  time  after 
1890  to  mining  engineering  until  he  became  the  owner  of 
the  Lynn  Coal  Co.,  which  he  sold  in  1899,  to  become  Super- 
intendent for  the  Frick  Coal  Co.  for  six  months.  He  built 
the  Revere  plant  for  W.  J.  Rainey,  after  which,  in  1900,  he 
went   into  the   operating  field    for  himself. 


MORRIS  CRAWFORD  IIOYI),  Wtlkrit-narre,  Pennaylvania, 

Of  Haddock,  Payne  &  Boyd,  Wiikes-Harre,  Managers  Alden 
Coal  Mining  Co..  was  born  in  Yonkers,  New  York,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  He  was 
previously  with  Dickson  &  Eddy,  A.  S.  Swords  &  Co.,  and 
the    Riverside   Coal    Mining   Co. 


JAMES   II.   HI  <;HI:m,  Wllke»-IIarre.  Pennaylvania. 

President  of  the  Archbald  Coal  Co.,  Wllkes-Barre,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  In  Carbondale,  Pennsylvania,  January  22, 
I860,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  mining  business  for 
thirty-four  years.  He  followed  up  his  education  in  Penn- 
sylvania at  the  University  of  Colorado.  Boulder,  and  was 
Assistant  Asaayer  with  the  Golden  Smelting  &  Reduction 
Co.  in  1881-1S82.  Then  he  returned  to  Pennsylvania,  and 
has  been  with  the  Lehigh  &  Wllkes-Barre  Coal  Co.,  Key- 
stone Coal  Co.,  DodKe  &  Hughes,  and  Hughes,  Moore  &  Ster- 
ling, mining  engineers  and  agents  for  coal  estates,  consult- 
ing engineer  for  Anthracite  Coal  Co.  of  Pittsburgh,  and 
General  Manager  of  Archbald  Coal  Co.  from  1910  to  1916. 


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PENNSYLVANIA  — Allentown 

CHARLES  AMBROSE:  BAKER,  senior  member  of  Baker 
Bros.,  Allentown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania,  October  19,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  fifteen  years. 

HARRY  M.  BAKER,  Manager  Baker  Bros.,  Allentown, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  Novem- 
ber 5,  1863,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Baker  was  formerly  with  C.  R.  Bachman  Coal  Co. 

DE  FOREST  BAST  of  Allentown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Freemansburg,  Pennsylvania,  October  27,  1861,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-two  years.  Mr.  Bast  served 
as  President  of  the  Allentown  Retail  Coal  Association  two 
years. 

JOHN  H.  GLASSER,  Allentown,  Pennsylvania,  salesman 
With  Whitney  &  Kemmerer's  Philadelphia  office,  was  born 
in  Allentown  June  21,  1875.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years.  Mr.  Glasser  was  formerly  associated 
with  the  C.  R.  Bachman  Coal  Co.  and  the  Pittsburgh-Buffalo 
Co. 

FORRECT  C.  HAUSMAN,  proprietor  of  the  Auto  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.,  Allentown.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Bethle- 
hem, Pennsylvania,  March  27,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  April,  1915. 

I.LEWEI.LIN  G.  HEILMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Al- 
lentown, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lowhill,  Pennsylvania, 
May   13,   1873,   and  has   been   in   the  coal   business   five   years. 

J.  H.  KOEHLER  of  Koehler  Bros.,  Allentown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Allentown  in  1863.  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

W.  A.  KOEHLER  of  Koehler  Bros.,  Allentown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Allentown  in  1868  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

MILLARD  A.  KIIDER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Allentown, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  at  Trexlertown,  Pennsylvania,  No- 
vember 12,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  James  F.  Butz  Co.  He  is 
President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association  of 
Allentown. 

EDGAR  J.  LUMLEY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Allentown, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Allentown  September  12,  185S, 
and  has  been  in   the  coal   business  twenty-eight   years. 

WALLACE  H.  MARSTELLER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Al- 
lentown, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Alburtis,  Pennsylvania, 
January  4,  1861,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
six   years. 

LEO  A.  STEM,  Line  Sales  Agent  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal 
Sales  Co.,  in  Allentown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Cherry- 
ville,  Pennsylvania,  October  25,  1861.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  since  1881,  the  entire  time  with  his  present 
company. 

PENNSYLVANIA  — Erie 

JOSEPH  W.  GLOWACKI,  President  of  the  Erie  Coal  Co., 
Erie,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Erie,  October  16,  1880,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

JULIUS  F.  GLOWACKI,  Treasurer  of  the  Erie  Coal  Co., 
Erie,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Erie,  August  13,  1876,  and 
has  been   in   the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

CHARLES  J.  «.  I  I  :i.<  III  it  of  Guelcher  Bros.,  Erie,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Erie  in  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  previously  with  R. 
J.  Saltsman  for  ten  years  and  William  F.  Momeyer  for  eight 
years. 

HENRY  WILLIAM  GUELCHER  of  Guelcher  Bros.,  Erie, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Erie,  April  22,  1872,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

MASON  P.  MIZENER,  Manager  Mizener  Coal  Co..  Erie, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Erie,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for   twenty   years. 

MORTIMER  H.  MIZENER,  Treasurer  Mizener  Coal  Co.. 
Erie,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  at  Flushing,  Long  Island,  New 
York,  August  .29,  1866.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-five  years. 

CHARLES  L.  SIEGEL,  Manager  of  the  J.  F.  Siegel  Coal 
Co.,  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Erie,  August  24,  1875, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 


PENNSYLVANIA— Philadelphia 

ALVA  B.  BATES  of  Fleming  &  Bates,  Philadelphia,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  August  30,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  formerly 
with    the    William    M.    Lloyd    Co. 


WALTER  STILSON  BLAISDELL,  Secretary-Treasurer- 
Manager  Punxsutawnoy  Coal  Mining  Co..  Anita  Coal  Mining- 
Co.,  and  Williams  Run  Coal  Co.  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Macomb,  Illinois,  May  21,  1866,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal  business  for  eleven   years. 

P.  B.  mi  m.i.it  of  the  firm  of  Weston  Dodson  &  Co.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  has  been  connected  with  this  firm 
since  1914  as  salesman,  now  holding  the  position  of  Phila- 
delphia Sales  Manager.  Mr.  Burger  is  an  expert  mechanical 
engineer. 

JOSEPH  B.  CAMPBELL,  Treasurer  Duncan-Spangler  Coal 
Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  Vice  President  Jos.  H. 
Reilly  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  1-hiladelphla  January  9.  1873, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  Peale,  Peacock  &  Kerr  and  the  Blubaker 
Coal  Co. 

EDGAR  CARLISLE,  Secretary  Blair-Parke  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  some  years  and  is  well   known   in  the   trade. 

FLOYD  F.  CHADWICK  of  F.  E.  Chad  wick  &  Co.,  1111 
Land  Title  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Maryland  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-three 
years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.. 
B.  Nicoll  &  Co.,  and  before  launching  in  business  for  him- 
self Eastern   Manager  of  the  Davis  Colliery  Co. 

H.  BARTRAM  CORNOG,  Vice  President  Cortright  Coal  Co., 
Pennsylvania  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Westown,  Pennsylvania,  in  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Hutchinson  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  BINGHAM  CORYELL,  President  James  B.  Coryell 
&  Co.,  1524  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania,  September  4,  1856,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Mason  Coal  &  Chemical  Co.  of  West 
Virginia,  and  was  formerly  with  the  Cambria  Coal  Mining 
Co..  Short  Line  Coal  Co.,  and  Cook  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  all  of 
West   Virginia. 

JOHN  J.  COYLE,  President  Bell  Union  Coal  &  Mining  Co., 
16th  and  Parkway,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  November  10,  1863,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  He  is  also  a  Director  in 
the  Pennsylvania  Colliery  Co.,  President  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.,  and  was  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Representatives  of  Pennsylvania,  189o-1894,  and  a  Mem- 
ber of  the  Pennsylvania  Senate  1895-1898. 

JOHN  M.  CREAN  of  Crean  Bros.,  well-known  retail  coal 
merchants  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1857  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen, 
years. 

MAURICE  J.  CREAN  of  Crean  Bros.,  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1867  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  sixteen  years. '  Mr.  Crean  has  served  as  a 
Director   of   the   Philadelphia    Coal   Exchange. 

CHARLES  EDWIN  FERNBERG,  General  Sales  Agent  and 
Assistant  Treasurer  Thorne,  Neale  &  Co.,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  September  28,  1862, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  Geo.  W.  Bush  &  Sons  Co.,  Weston  Dodson 
&   Co.,   and   Estate   A.   S.  Van   Wickle. 

THOMAS  FISHER,  General  Manager  of  the  Berwind-White 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  at 
Huntingdon,  Pennsylvania,  August  6,  1867,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  thirty-six  years.  He  is  also  Vice  Presl- 
lent  of  the  Berwind  Fuel  Co. 

THEODORE  B.  FRYER,  Secretary,  Director  and  General 
Manager  of  Sales  Pardee  Bros.  ■&  Co.,  Drexel  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia. Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  April  11, 
1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 

G.  RICHARDSON  GABELL,  Sales  Manager  and  Director 
Thorne,  Neale  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Burlington  County,  New  Jersey,  January  19,  1882,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Hite  & 
Rafetto. 

ARNOLD  GERSTELL,  General  Manager  of  Sales  Percy 
Heilner  &  Son.  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Keyser,  West  Virginia,  March  24,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  He  is  also  interested 
in  the  Lynn  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Davis  Coal  Mining  Co.. 
and  was  formerly  with  the  Century  Coal  Co.  and  Davis  Col- 
liery Co. 

WALTER  C.  HANCOCK  of  John  C.  Hancock  &  Co.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He  is  a  Director 
of  the  Coal  Club  of  Philadelphia.  John  C.  Hancock,  senior 
member  of  the  firm,  organized  the  business  in  1866  and  is 
still   active   in   the   business  of  the   company. 


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JOHN  J.  HAS  LETT.  Manager  National  Fuel  Co,  Widener 
Building,  Philadeli  hia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Philadel- 
phia June  15.  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  tin-  Henderson  Coal 
Co.,    Pittsburgh,    Pennsylvania 

B,  PBMBBRTON  III  TCHINSOX.  President  Westmoreland 
'Coal  Co.,  224  South  Third  Street.  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Philadelphia  April  27.  1861.  He  attended 
St.  Paul's  School.  Concoid.  New  Hampshire,  and  was  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  two  years.  He  entered  the 
service  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Co.  as  rodman  Nov. 
1,  1881;  went  through  various  grades  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  and  was  appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Lewis- 
town  division  Jan.  1,  1899.  and  Assistant  General  Agent  at 
N.w  York  April  1,  1900.  He  resigned  May  15.  1901.  to 
become  associated  with  1'helps- 1  lodge  &  Co.  of  New  York 
in  their  railroad  enterprise;  resigned  March  1,  1902,  and 
was  appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Pittsburgh  Division 
of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad  March  9;  resigned  Nov, 
3D  to  become  Assistant  General  Superintendent  of  Michigan 
Central  Railroad:  appointed  General  Superintendent  July 
1.  1808;  resigned  Nov.  15.  1905.  and  became  associated  with 
the  banking  firm  of  Cramp.  Mitchell  &  Shober  of  Philadel- 
phia Sept.  1.  1906.  He  was  elected  President  of  the  West- 
moreland Coal  Co.  June  14,  1910.  which  position  he  now 
holds.  Mr.  Hutchinson  is  a  Director  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Company  for  Insurances  on  Lives  and  Granting  Annuities, 
Farmers  and  Mechanics  National  Bank,  Philadelphia  Na- 
tional Bank,  Stonega  Coke  &  Coal  Co..  and  Philadelphia  Con- 
tributionship  for  the  Insurance  of  Houses  Against  Loss  by 
Fire,  Manager  of  the  Philadelphia  Savings  Fund  Society. 
Trustee  Penn  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.,  and  a  member  of 
the   Executive   Council   Philadelphia   Board   of  Trade. 

DAVID  ISA.AI MATT,  Keystone  Coal  &  Wood  Co.,  Philadel- 
phia. Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  March  25,  1886, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

W.  AKTHIK  JARDKN  of  W.  A.  Jarden  &  Co.,  Philadel- 
phia. Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1S77,  and 
has  been   In  the  coal   business  seventeen  years. 

JAMBS  M.  KELLEY  of  M.  Kelley's  Sons.  Poplar  Street, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Delaware  County. 
Pennsylvania.  July  25.  1856.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness forty-six  years.  Michael  Kelley  established  the  busi- 
ness in  1869.  Mr.  Kelley  Is  Treasurer  of  (lie  Philadelphia 
Coal  Exchange. 

W.  KISHBAI -«H.  General  Sales  Agent  Mill  Creek  Coal  Co., 
Widener  Building.  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Mauch  Chunk,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
seven    years.      He   is  also  President   of   tin-    Delano  Coal  Co. 

\H  I  III  It  K1TPPINGRR,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  Sales  of  the  Valley  Smokeless  Coal  Co., 
Ninevah  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Beccarla  Coke  Corp.,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  September  22,  1874,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

tMBROSR  LETTKH  of  Owen  Letter's  Sons,  Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  September  13,  1869, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-six  years.  He  is 
a  Director  of  the  Philadelphia  Coal  Exchange. 

HARRY  A.  LING  is  Secretary  of  the  Imperial  Coal  Co., 
1330   Widener   Building.   Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania. 

SAMUEL  J.  LIVINGSTON.  Vice  President  and  Treasurer 
The  Rockhill  Iron  A-  Coal  Co.,  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania. 
was  born  in  Philadelphia  December  22.  1879,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary 
of  the  Vnion  Improvement  Co.,  Highland  Coal  Co.  and  Big 
Black  Creek  Improvement  Co. 

JOHN  K.  LLOYD,  President  William  M.  Lloyd  Co..  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1878. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  lit- 
is President  of  the  Philadelphia  Coal  Exchange  and  Resi- 
dent Vice  President  of  the  National  Retail  Coal  Merchants' 
Association.  He  is  very  popular  and  highly  respected  In  the 
trade. 

I'l'.lHV  C  MADEIRA,  President  Madeira,  Hill  &  Co.. 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  No- 
vember 14,  186".  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
nine  years.  .Mr.  Madeira  Is  also  interested  in  about  twenty 
other  companies  and  was  formerly  with  Percy  C.  Madeira 
&  Co.,  afterwards  Madeira,  Hill  .<•  Co,  He  was  President  of 
Geo.  B.  Newton  &  Co.  from  1899  to  1912.  Mr.  Madeira  is  a 
man  of  great  executive  ability  and  Is  well  known  through- 
out the  trade. 

FRANK  B.  MARRIOTT  of  Marriott  Bros..  Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  January  22,  1873, 
and   has  been   In    the  coal   business  twenty-nine  years. 

JAMBA  W.  MASON,  President  Mason-tleplln  Coal  Co.  and 
Mason-Scholes  Conl  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  In  Virginia  December  17.  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Mason  Coal  Co.  and  the  Geo.  B.  Newton  Coal  Co. 


GEORGE  GILBERT  HATCHBTT,  Sales  Agent  Ayers  & 
Bro  ,  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  January  27,  1864, 
and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  seven  years. 

FRANK  F.  MATHERS,  owner  of  J.  W.  Mathers  &  Sons 
and  the  Atlantic  Fuel  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was 
horn  in  Philadelphia  September  25,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    thirty-four    years. 

HOWARD  L.  MERRICK,  President  Geo.  W.  Bailey  Co., 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  June 
16,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-two  years. 
He  is  also  President  of  the  Priscllla  Coal  Mining  Co.,  South 
Fork,    Pennsylvania. 

"Iiiki.i:  D.  Mil. I. Kit,  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania  February  3,  1839,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  thirty-one  years. 

ROBERT  J.  MONTGOMERY,  Vic.  President  Philadelphia 
&  Reading  Coal  ft  Iron  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  February  22,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  thirty-seven  years.  His  business  history  has 
been  one  of  a  steady  series  of  promotions  in  the  company 
of  which  he  is  now  Vice  President.  He  was  graduated  from 
the  Philadelphia  High  School  in  the  spring  of  1X79  and  the 
fall  of  that  year  found  him  at  work  for  the  Philadelphia  & 
Reading  Railroad  at  the  shipping  office  at  Port  Richmond. 
In  1880  he  took  a  position  in  the  office  of  Thomas  W.  Rich- 
ards, General  Coal  Agent  of  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading 
Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  became  Chief  Clerk  in  1890,  New  York 
Sales  Agent  in  1904,  General  Coal  Agent  in  1907,  and  Vice 
President  in   1916. 

ROUERT  V.  PIERCE,  Assistant  Secretary  The  Lehigh 
coal  &  Navigation  Co..  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia  January  9,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years. 

WILLIAM  CHARLES  ROSS,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Ireland  in  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-one  years. 

EDWIN  F.  SAXMAN,  President  Saxman  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Latrobe,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Derry  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Sonman 
Shaft  Coal  Co.,  Pike  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Connellsville 
Basin  Coke  Co.,  Conemaugh  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  and  Edens- 
burg  Coal  Co. 

HERMAN  JOHN  APPLE  SMITH  of  Smith  &  Hoethaus. 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  March 
3.  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight 
years.  Mr.  Smith  started  as  bookkeeper  with  Markmann  & 
Haeuser  and  now  owns  the  company. 

WILLIAM  J.  STEEN  of  Wm.  J.  Steen  &  Co..  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  has  heen  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 
He  is  a  Director  in  the  Philadelphia  Coal  Exchange,  the 
Conl  Club  of  Philadelphia  and  the  Rotary  Club  of  Phila- 
delphia. He  is  Vice  President  and  Secretary  of  Caskey  ft 
Keen,   manufacturers  of   heaters. 

JOSEPH  B.  VAN  Dl'SEN.  deceased,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
ohia  in  1815  !<nd  died  in  1897.  He  was  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  from  1832  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  con- 
nected with  The  Lehigh  Coal  ft  Navigation  Co.,  Robarts. 
Walton  &  Co.,  and  organized  the  Van  Du3en-Norton  Co.. 
Hamrnet.  Van  Dusen  &  Lochman,  Van  Dusen  Bros.,  Van 
Dusen,  Swain  &  Co.,  and  in  1878  Van  Dusen.  Bro.  &  Co.„  in 
which  firm  he  remained  until  his  death,  his  sons  succeeding 
him  in  the  business. 

LEON  WALKER,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General  Man- 
ager Stineman  Coal  .Mining  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 
was  born  in  Wilmington,  Delaware.  May  4,  1878.  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-four  years.  He  is  also 
Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  Hamilton 
Coal  Co.  of  Wilmington.  Delaware.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Puritan  Coal    .Mining  Co.   and  John  C.   Martin. 

RAYMOND  Y.  WARNER,  Treasurer  Geo.  B.  Newton  Coal 
Co.,  was  born  in  Penns  .Manor,  Pennsylvania,  September  23, 
1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years. 
He  is  Treasurer  of  B.  Rowland  &  Bro.,  Frankford,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  of  the  Newton  Supply  Co.,  Philadelphia,  and 
also  acts  as  Purchasing  Agent  for  both  B.  Rowland  &  Bro. 
and   the  Geo.  B.  Newton  Coal  Co. 

HOWARD  R.  YBARSLBY,  Secretary  Westmoreland  Coal 
Co.,  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Coatesvllle. 
Pennsylvania.  June  27,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-one  years. 

JOHN  M.  YOUNG,  Assistant  Sales  Manager  Madeira,  Hill 
ft  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania  was  born  in  Philadelphia 
January  28,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  The  Lehigh  Coal  & 
Navigation  Co.,  Ayers  &   Bro.  and    II.    II.    Lima  weaver   &  Co. 


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PENNSYLVANIA  — Pittsburgh 

J.  HARPER  ADAMS.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Tri-State 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In 
Clinton,  Pennsylvania.  December  21,  1860,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  Auditor 
of  the  Imperial  Coal  Co.,  Empire  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  More- 
land  Coke  Co. 

S.  N.  BIRNEI,  President  Bixler  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Hopedale,  Ohio,  December 
13,  1880,   and   has   been   in   the  coal   business   fourteen  years. 

ALBERT  R.  BL'DD,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
Diamond  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  and 
President  A.  R.  Budd  Coal  Co..  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
in  January,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
three  years.  He  was  formerly  General  Manager  of  Blaine 
Coal  Co.  * 

ROBERT  III  Iv  \.  District  Manager  The  Valley  Camp  Coal 
Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh  No- 
vember 2,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years.     He  was   formerly  with   the   Pittsburgh-Buffalo   Co. 

WALTER  RENTON  CALVERLEY,  General  Manager  Union 
Collieries  Co..  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Leeds, 
England,  October  1,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
forty-eight  years.  He  is  also  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Central  Youghiogheny  Coal  Co.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Ellsworth  Colliery  Co.,  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 
and  the  Berwind-White  Mining  Co. 

H.  CHICHESTER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Pittsburgh  & 
Bessemer  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Romney,  West  AHrginia,  May  6,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eleven  years.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  South  Pittsburgh  Coal  &  Supply  Co. 

HOLMES  A.  DAVIS,  President  and  Treasurer  Canonsburg 
Gas  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Dubois, 
Pennsylvania,  January  2.  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  West 
Pennsylvania  Coke  Co.,  the  Luzerne  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the 
Canonsburg  Gas  Coal  Co.  and  the  Country  Club  Coal  Co. 
and  General  Manager  of  the  Warner-Youghiogheny  Coal 
Co.  and  of  the  Charleroi  Gas  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Pittsburgh  Gas  Coal  Co.,  Hester  Coke  Co.,  Browns- 
ville  Coke   Co.   and  Belle  Vernon   Coke   Co. 

JOHN  C.  DAVIS,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Manager  Paul 
Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Hubbard,  Ohio,  February  12,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Youghiogheny  &  Ohio  Coal  Co. 

THOMAS  S.  DUNCAN,  Purchasing  Agent  H.  C.  Frick  Coke 
Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  United  States  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  and  the  National  Mining  Co. 

R.  O.  DUNNE,  President  Dunne  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  all  his 
life  and  is  a  very  well  known  and  highly  respected  coalman. 

JOHN  WILFRED  ELY,  Treasurer  Dunne  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and  Sales  Manager  Union  Fuel  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Wellsboro,  Pennsylvania,  February  27, 
1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

JOHN  KENNEDY  EWING,  JR.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  November  24,  1855, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-one  years.  He  was 
previously  with  the  Pittsburgh  Block  Coal  Co. 

WALTER  J.  FLANAGAN  of  the  W.  J.  Flanagan  Co.,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  West  Jefferson,  Ohio, 
April  10,  1871.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen 
years. 

JOHN  F.  FLOOD,  Manager  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Youghi- 
ogheny Coal  Department,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Pittsburgh  August  20.  1S7S,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   twenty-three'  years. 

GEORGE  W.  FORNEY,  Sales  Manager  Poland  Coal  Co., 
Pittsburgh.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  June  16.  1885,  in  Enon 
Valley,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Pickands-Magee 
Co. 

JAMES  G.  GEEGAN,  General  Manager  and  Secretary  Clyde 
Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh 
December  27,  1872.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
eight  years.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Ex- 
change. 

MILTON  M.  GRIEST,  President  Bess  Etta  Coal  Co.  and 
Pittsburgh-Cambridge  Coal  Co..  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Zanesville,  Ohio.  December  2,  1884,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Carnegie  Coal  Co. 

E.  M.  GROSS,  Western  Manager  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Delmont  Gas 
Coal  Co.  and  Secretary  of  the  Latrobe-Connellsville  Coal  & 
Coke  Co. 


HIRAM  HARRIS,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Springer  Coal 
Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh  July 
27,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Bessemer  Coke  Co.  and  Secretary  of 
the  Pitt  Gas  Coal  Co. 

EUGENE  FRANK  HARTLAND,  General  Sales  Agent  Com- 
monwealth Fuel  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  August  16,  1876,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  nineteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Lehigh  &  Wilkes-Barre  Coal  Co.,  Susquehanna  Coal 
Co.,  Pittsburgh-Westmoreland  Coal  Co.  and  Kilbuck  Coal  Co. 

THOMAS  R.  HEYWARD,  JR.,  of  Thomas  R.  Heyward  Co., 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  on  a  rice  plantation  in 
South  Carolina  February  15,  1881,  and  has  been  interested 
in  the  coal  business  for  about  five  years. 

N.  P.  HYNDMAN,  Sales  Agent  Washington  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Mauch  Chunk, 
Pennsylvania,  May  10,  1849,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  over  fifty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Lehigh 
Coal  &  Navigation  Co.  and  the  Connellsville  Coke  &  Iron  Co. 

ELLIOTT  KELLER  of  Keller  Bros.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-four  years. 

F.  C.  KELLER  of  Keller  Bros.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-four  years. 

DELMONT  JONES  KENNEDY,  President  Bulger  Block 
Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-eight  years. 

GEORGE  B.  LITTLE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Superba 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  October 
2,  1892,  in  Pittsburgh.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
J.  H.  Hillman  &  Son  Co.  and  the  American  Steel  Co. 

WALTER  A.  MARSH,  General  Sales  Manager  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh 
May  7,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine 
years.     He  was  formerly  with  the  F.  L.  Robbins'  interests. 

E.  L.  MORRIS,  General  Superintendent  United  Coal  Co., 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Clarksburg,  West 
Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six 
years.  He  is  interested  in  the  Hysilvania  Coal  Co.  of  Ohio. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Monongaheia  River  Consolidated 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

FRED  J.  MULHOLLAND,  Sales  Manager  Clyde  Coal  Co., 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Carey,  Ohio,  April  30, 
1S77,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He 
is  interested  in  a  retail  coal  yard  at  Pittsburgh.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  W.  J.  Hamilton  Coal  Co.,  W.  A. 
Gosline  &  Co.,  New  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co. 

FRED  E.  NOW,  Purchasing  Agent  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Marietta.  Ohio,  July  4, 
1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years, 

WILLIAM  K.  RICHARDS,  President  Richards  Coal  Co., 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and 
has4  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Monongaheia  River  Consolidated  Coal  & 
Coke  Co. 

WILLIAM   H.  SHINN,  Treasurer  and   General   Manager  W. 
H.    Shinn    Coal    Co.,    Pittsburgh.    Pennsylvania,    was    born    in. 
Allegheny.    Pennsylvania,    in   August,    1S63.    and   has   been   in 
the   coal   business   thirty   years.     He   was   formerly   with   the 
Mansfield   Coal   &   Coke  Co.   and   the  Pittsburgh   Coal   Co. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  SIMMONS  of  W.  H.  Simmons  &  Co., 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Cornwallis,  West  Vir- 
ginia, March  30,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-eight  years.  He  was  formerly  with  M.  A.  Hanna  & 
Co.,  Cleveland. 

ALEXANDER  C.  SPEYER,  Treasurer  and  General  Man- 
ager Moreland  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Speyer  has  numerous  other  coal 
interests. 

JOEL  T.  M.  STONEROAD,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Car- 
negie Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Dun- 
bar, Pennsylvania,  in  May,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Carnegie  Dock  &  Fuel  Co.  and  is  well  known  throughout 
the  trade. 

E.  SITNSTE1N,  President  Moreland  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh  and  in  his  sixteen 
years  in  the  coal  and  coke  business  has  always  been  con- 
nected  with    his   present    company. 

ARTHUR  F.  SYROTH,  Pittsburgh.  Pennsylvania,  Assist- 
ant Sales  Agent  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born 
in  Pittsburgh  in  1888.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eleven  years.  He  is  also  Sales  Agent  of  the  Delmont  Gas 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Latrobe-Connellsville  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Globe  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the 
Western   Coal  Co. 


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-\>ll  EL  AI.FKED  TAYLOR,  President  Crescent  Coal  Co., 
Domestic  Coal  Co.,  and  Taylor  Collieries  Co..  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Allegheny  County.  Pennsylvania, 
October  24,  1863,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  forty- 
four  years.  Mr.  Taylor  is  an  expert  mining:  engineer  and 
has   numerous   mining   interests. 

JAMBS  P.  WALSH,  Vice  President  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co., 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  He  was 
formerly  with  the  Walsh-Upstill  Coal  Co. 

PENNSYLVANIA  — Reading 

MILLER  CUSTER  AMMON  of  Ammon  &  Bro.,  Reading, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Reading  September  3.  1867,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years. 
He  was  with  the  Farmers  National  Bank  of  Reading  for 
fourteen  years. 

PRANK  J.  BOYEH,  President  Warala  Coal  Co.,  Reading, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Shartlesville,  Pennsylvania.  April 
39,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  operating  end  of  the  coal  busi- 
ness sixteen  years. 

CARL  Itl  RKHOLDER,  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  a  salesman 
for  Percy  Hellner  &  Son,  Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Reading 
in  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

LOYAL  in  RKHOLDER,  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  Reading 
Manager  for  Percy  Hellner  &  Son,  Philadelphia,  was  born 
in  Reading  in  1876  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-one  years. 

JOSEPH  W.  HOLMES  of  J.  W.  Holmes  &  Co.,  Reading, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Reading  November  27,  1859,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

MILTON  A.  ROLLER,  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Shoemakersville,  Pennsylvania,  March  10,  1850,  and  has  been 
In  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  Farming  &  Nulling. 

ARTHUR  RICK,  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In 
Reading  December  22,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eleven  years.  Previously  he  was  with  Hutchison  &  Mc- 
Candlish  and  the  Hutchison-McCandlish  Coal   Co. 

SAMUEL  F.  SMEDLEY.  a  salesman  for  the  Philadelphia  & 
Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
In  Philadelphia  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven 
years.     He  was  previously  with  the  Vinton  Colliery  Co. 

wil.l.IAM  T.  SNYDER,  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Reading  December  3,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  Manager  for  H.  E. 
Ahrens,  >hom  he  succeeded.  He  was  the  first  President  of 
tin  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Merchants  Association  and  is 
now  Secretary  of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association  of 
Reading. 

JOHN  ARTHUR  STRUNK,  Reading.  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Reading  April  13,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  twenty-three  years.  The  firm  of  J.  M. 
Strunk-s  Son  was  established  by  his  father,  John  M.  Strunk, 
in  1869.  He  is  Treasurer  of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal 
Merchants'  Association. 


PENNSYLVANIA  — Scranton 

FRANK  l\  BENJAMIN,  Scranton  Life  Insurance  Building, 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  President  Mendon  Hill  Coal  Co.  and 
Trustee  South  Side  Coal  Co.,  was  born'  in  Peckville,  Penn- 
sylvania. June  17,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  five  years.  , 

DAVID  BOIES,  600  Clay  Ave.,  Scranton.  Pennsylvania, 
President  Racket  Brook  Coal  Co.  and  President  Nay  Aug 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  in  1881,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  some  years.  He  is  also 
interested    in   mine    operations    in   West   Virginia. 

WILLIAM  DE  WALD  IIOYER.  Scranton,  Pennsylvania. 
President  The  Fentress  Coal  Co.  and  President  Piney  Min- 
ing Co.,  was  born  in  Port  Clinton,  Pennsylvania,  May  28, 
1867,  and  has  be"en  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 
He  is  also  connected  with  the  Blue  Creek  Coal  &  Land  Co. 
and  the  Meadow  River  Coal  &  Land  Co.  and  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Piney  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  . 

CHARLES    B,    BRADBURY,   Secretary   and    Treasurer    Klk 

Brook   Coal   Co.,   Connell    Building.    Scranton.    Pennsylvania, 

was  born  in  Mount  Morris,  New  York,  July  16.  1849.  and  has 

in    the   coal   business  sixteen   years.     He   was   formerly 

with   the  Nay  Aug  Coal  Co. 

PRANK  P.  CHRISTUM,  Scranton.  Pennsylvania.  Presi- 
dent, Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Peoples  Coal  Co..  Ox- 
ford Colliery,  was  born  In  Oswego,  New  York,  June  14.  1865, 
and  has  been  in  the  coat  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He 
was  formerly  with  the  Clearvlew  Coal  Co.  and  Blue  Ridge 
Coal   Co. 


W.  L.  CONNELL,  Scranton.  Pennsylvania.  President-Gen- 
eral Manager  Green  Ridge  Coal  Co.,  The  Enterprise  Coal 
Co.  and  Connell  Anthracite  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Scranton, 
Pennsylvania,  la  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-eight  years. 

CHARLES  DOKRANCE,  General  Manager  The  Hudson 
Coal  Co.,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania^  was  born  in  Meadville, 
Pennsylvania.  March  12,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Lehigh 
Valley  Coal  Co.,.  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.  and  Harwood 
Coal  Co. 

GEORGE  W.  ENGEL,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  Chief  Min- 
ing Engineer  of  the  Temple  Coal  Co.,  Lackawanna  Coal  Co.. 
Ltd.,  Mt.  Lookout  Coal  Co.,  and  Winton  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
in  Ashland.  Pennsylvania,  February  22,  1865,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Locust  Mountain  Coal  Co.,  Lehigh  Coal 
&  Navigation  Co.,  Hudson  Coal  Co.  and  Clark  Tunnel  Coal 
Co. 

OTTO  C.  EPP,  Secretary-Treasurer  Westlake  Coal  Co., 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Scranton  November  28, 
1887,   and   has   been   in   the   coal   business   for   five   years. 

JAMES  K.  GEARHART.  President  Arkansas  Anthracite 
Coal  &  Land  Co.,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Scranton  May  20,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eleven  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Fernwood 
Mining  Co. 

W.  H.  GEARHART,  Secretary-Treasurer  Arkansas  An- 
thracite Coal  &  Land  Co.,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Northumberland  County,  Pennsylvania,  December  8,  1839, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-six  years.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Clear  Spring  Coal  Co.  and  the  Enter- 
prise Coal  Co.  in  the  Pennsylvania  anthracite  fields.  Mr. 
Gearhart  is  a  well  known  coal  man. 

GEORGE  HEIM,  President  Helm-James  Coal  Co.,  Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Waterloo,  Pennsylvania, 
June  11,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Smokeless  Anthracito 
Coal  Co. 

FRANK  H.  HEMELRIGHT,  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  Temple  Coal  Co.,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Beaumont,  Pennsylvania,  September  4,  1870,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-seven  years.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Lackawanna  Coal  Co.,  Ltd..  The  Lookout  Coal 
Co.,   Forty   Fort   Coal   Co.   and   the   Edgerton   Coal   Co. 

H.  W.  HOWARD,  President  The  Howard  Anthracite  Coal 
Co.,  704  Connell  Building.  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Sturgis,  Michigan,  December  11,  1871,  and  has  been 
connected  with   the  coal   industry  for  the  past  twelve  years. 

GEORGE  F.  HOWER  of  Hower  &  Stender.  1703  Madison 
Ave.,  Scranton.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Scranton  Novem- 
ber 26,  1865,  and  has  handled  coal  for  some  years. 

WILLIAM  W.  IN'GLIS,  Vice  President  and  Manager  Dela- 
ware, Lackawanna  .<-  W.stern  Railroad  Co.,  Coal  Mining 
Department,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Scran- 
ton January  19,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-four  years.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Hillside  Coal  &  Iron  Co..  N.  Y.,  S.  &  W.  Coal  Co.  and  Penn- 
sylvania  Coal   Co. 

WILLIAM  PAUL  JENNINGS,  421  Arthur  Avenue.  Scran- 
ton. Pennsylvania,  General  Superintendent  Pennsylvania 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Great  Britain  in  1874  and  has  been  in 
the    coal    business    for    thirty-one   years. 

JOSEPH  J.  JERMYN  of  Jermyn  &  Co.,  Scranton,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Scranton  in  1852,  and  has  been  in 
th.-  coal  business  all  his  life,  succeeding  his  father,  John 
Jermyn,   who  died   in   1902. 

EDWARD  s.  JONES,  President  Blue  Creek  Coal  &  Land 
Co.  and  Vice  President  Meadow  Coal  &  Land  Co.,  Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Blakely,  Pennsylvania. 
December  22,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  witli  Janes, 
Simpson  &  Co.,  Pierce  Coal  Co.,.  Clear  Spring  Coal  Co.  and 
Raymond  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Jones  was  President  of  the  Kanawha 
&  West  Virginia  Railroad  until  it  was  sold  to  the  New 
York  Central,  and  has  been  prominent  in  several  banks. 

JAMES  KEARNEY,  President  The  James  Kearney  Co., 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Scranton  May  15.  1871. 
and   has  been   In   the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years. 

JOHN  W.  KIRBT.  1702  Monroe  Avenue,  Scranton,  Penn- 
sylvania, Vice  President  Qulnn  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Scran- 
ton January  12,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  Peale,  Peacock  .si 
Kerr  and  the  Clinton  Falls  Coal  Co. 

FREDERICK  L.  Motutr..  Mechanical  Engineer  of  the 
Scranton  Coal  Co.,  Scranton.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In 
Scranton  in  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eighteen  years. 


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MICHAEL  J.  KAFFEHTY,  Secretary  and  General  Manager 
Scranton  Anthracite  Coal  Co.,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Scranton  October  8,  1874,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Minooka 
Coal  Co. 

CHARLES  EDWARD  ROBERTSON,  831  Connell  Building, 
Scranton,   Pennsylvania,  was  born   in  Scranton   February   11, 

1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 

"WALTER  LINCOLN  SCHLAGER,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania, 
General  Manager  Traders  Coal  Co.  and  Plymouth  Red  Ash 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Scranton  October  1,  1864,  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for  about  nineteen   years. 

SAMUEL  H.  SEVINGLE,  Treasurer  Plymouth  Red  Ash 
Coal  Co.,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  South  Canaan, 
Pennsylvania,  February  17,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
busii.ess  for  six  years. 

HOWARD  A.  STELLE,  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  in  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eleven  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Traders 
Coal   Co. 

FRANK  G.  WOLFE,  Chief  Engineer  Scranton  Coal  Co., 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Stroudsburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, April  21,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since 

1877.  He   was  formerly  with  the  Delaware,   Lackawanna   & 
Western  Railroad. 


PENNSYLVANIA  — Uniontown 


J.  W.  ABRAHAM,  General  Manager  Banning-Connellsville 
Coke  Co.,  Wineland-Gilmore  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Newcomer 
Coke  Co.,  and  the  South  Fayette  Coke  Co.,  Uniontown,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Smithfield.  Pennsylvania,  October  15, 
1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 
He  was  previously  with  the  H.  C.  Frick  Coke  Co. 

WILLIAM  ALLISON,  Secretary-Treasurer  and  Manager 
Union  Connellsville  Coke  Co.,  and  a  Director  Waltersburg 
Coke  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Greens- 
burg,  Pennsylvania,  October  10,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    sixteen    years. 

JAMES  G.  BINNS,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Buckhannon  River  Coal  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Fayette  City,  Pennsylvania,  August  8,  1881,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  two  years. 

MARSHALL  D.  BROOKE  of  the  Smock  Coal  Co.,  Union- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  also  interested  in  the  Buckhannon  River 
Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Uniontown  November  21,  1890,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  He  is  Secretary  of 
the  Coke   Producers  Association,  Connellsville   region. 

JAMES  R.  CRAY,  President  Union  Connellsville  Coke  Co. 
and  Puritan  Coke  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Darlington,  Pennsylvania,  March  8,  1860,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  is  also  President  of 
the  Indian  Creek  Valley  Railway  Co.,  a  Director  in  the 
Wallace  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Vice  President  of  the  Coke 
Producers   Association  of  the   Connellsville   Coke    Region. 

A.  O,.  DAVIS,  President  Browning  Coke  Co.,  Uniontown. 
Pennsylvania,  and  President  Davis  Fuel  Co.  and  General 
Manager  Hess  Coal  Co.,  Morgantown,  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Lafayette  County,  Pennsylvania,  in  1875,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He  was  previ- 
ously with  the  American  Steel  &  Wire  Co.  and  the  H.  C. 
Frick   Coke   Co. 

GUY  B.  GILMORE,  General  Manager  of  the  Gilmore  Coke 
Co.,  the  Plumer  Coke  Co.  and  the  Menallen  Coke  Co..  Union- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Uniontown  September  14, 
1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  He 
was  previously  with  the  Frick  Coke  Co.,  the  Stonega  Coke 
Co.,  and  the  Producers  Coke  Co.,  all  of  the  Connellsville  Dis- 
trict. 

JAMES  EDGAR  HUSTEAD,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Hustead-Semans  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  the  Hope  Coke  Co., 
and  South  Fayette  Coke  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Dunbar,  Pennsylvania,  November  6,  1880,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

THOMAS  W.  KEIGHLEY,  Superintendent  of  the  coal 
mines  and  coke  works  of  the  Stewart  Iron  Co.,  Uniontown, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Youngstown,  Pennsylvania,  July 
15,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen 
years.  He  was  formerly  Superintendent  of  mines  and  coke 
works  for  the  Shenango  Furnace  Co.,  Ligonier,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

JOHN  W.  SIMPSON,  Manager  Evans  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lawrence  County, 
Ohio,  December  5,  1875,  and  has  worked  in  and  about  mines 
since  his  early  boyhood.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Wheel- 
ing &  Lake  Erie  Coal  Co.,  Beech  Bottom  Coal  Co.  and 
Stauffer-Quemahoning  Coal  Co. 


LLOYD  H.  SMITH,  Sales  Manager  for  the  Arden  Fuel  Co., 
Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Mt.  Pleasant,  Penn- 
sylvania, March  8,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  seventeen  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Harris- 
Smith  Coal   &  Coke  Co. 

JOSIAH  V.  THOMPSON,  President  of  the  Tower  Hill-Con- 
nellsville  Coke  Co.,  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Thompson  Connellsville  Coke  Co.,  and  the  Rich- 
hill  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in  Uniontown  February  15. 
1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty  years. 


PENNSYLVANIA  — Wiikes-Barre 


DAVID  T.  DAVIS,  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  State  In- 
spector of  Mines  for  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pottsville. 
Pennsylvania,  in  1867,  and  has  held  various  positions  with 
the  anthracite  collieries  for  forty  years.  He  attended  Wyo- 
ming Seminary  and  is  considered  an  authority  on  coal  min- 
ing  matters. 

JOHN  C.  HADDOCK,  Treasurer  and  Purchasing  Agent  for 
the  Haddock  Mining  Co.,  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  also 
Manager  of  the  Wiikes-Barre  branch  of  the  Alden  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  New  York  City  November  24,  1893. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  three  years. 

JOHN  COURTNEY  HADDOCK,  JR.,  of  Haddock  &  Payne, 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Haddock  Mining  Co.  and  the  Haddock 
Coal  Sales  Co.,  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  ip 
New  York  City  November  24,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   three   years. 

JOHN  MILTON  HUMPHREY,  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylvania. 
Chief  Engineer  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co.,  also  a  Di- 
rector of  the  E.  E.  White  Coal  Co.,  Glen  White.  West  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Philadelphia  December  25,  1866,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years. 

GEORGE  F.  LEE,  General  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the 
George  F.  Lee  Coal  Co.,  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Plymouth,  Pennsylvania,  in  1870,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  mining  and  shipping  of  Red  Ash  anthracite 
sixteen  years.  This  company  maintains  an  office  in  the  Mc- 
Gill  Building,  Montreal,  Quebec,  to  care  for  its  Canadian 
shipments. 

BRUCE  PAYNE  of  Haddock  &  Payne,  Wiikes-Barre,  Penn- 
rylvania,  also  interested  in  the  Blue  Creek  Coal  &  Land 
Co.,  Charleston,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Kingston,  Penn- 
sylvania,   April    27,    1889. 

PAI  L  STERLING,  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  Mechan- 
ical Engineer  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Wiikes-Barre,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business"eighteen 
years. 

THOMAS  J.  WILLIAMS,  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  In- 
spector of  Mines  for  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Wales  in 
I860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty-seven 
years.  Previously  he  was  with  the  Delaware.  Lackawanna 
&  Western  Coal  Co.,  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co.  and  the 
T.  M.  Dodson  Coal  Co. 

FREDERIC  EDGAR  KERREY.  Wiikes-Barre,  Pennsylva- 
nia,  is  General  Manager  of  the  Kingston  Coal  Co. 


PENNSYLVANIA 


SHERWOOD  L.  ANDERSON,  Manager  S.  L.  Anderson  & 
Co.,  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Bloomsbury,  New 
Jersey,  January  31,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years. 

JAMES  H.  ALLPORT,  Barnesboro,  Pennsylvania,  President 
Rich  Hill  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Philipsburg,  Pennsylvania, 
April  13.  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  a  quarter 
of  a    century. 

ARTHUR  C.  AMESBURY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Dan- 
ville, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Danville  March  21,  1873. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

STEPHEN  FRANKLIN  ARNOLD^  sole  owner  of  the  Royal 
Coal  Yard,  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Annville. 
Pennsylvania.  November  10.  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirteen  years. 

E.  Y.  BARNES,  Yardley,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  August  25,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  four  years. 

H.  K.  BAUMGARDNER,  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  B. 
B.  Martin  Co.,  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lancas- 
ter January  29,  1841,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  thirty  years. 

L.  L.  BEACHY,  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Tub  Mill 
Coal  Co.,  West  Salisbury,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  West 
Salisbury  January  1,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-one  years. 


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itnllKRT  BARCLAY  REAIIM,  Sharon  Hill,  Pennsylvania. 
President  Beahm  &  Co.,  Inc..  Philadelphia,  was  born  in 
Mauch  chunk,  Pennsylvania,  in  1853.  and  has  been  engaged 
forty  years  in  various  Unea  in  the  coal  business,  lie  is  also 
-ident  of  The  Mt.  Hope  Coal  Co..  a  Director  of  the  Manu- 
facturers Coal  Co.,  Bellefonte,  Pennsylvania,  and  of  the  Gar- 
rett County  Coal  &  Mining-  Co.  He  was  formerly  General 
Sales  Manager  for  Weston  Dodson  &  Co.,  holding  that  poat- 
tlon  for  twenty  years.  He  Is  a  number  of  the  Union  League 
of  Philadelphia. 

J  oiks  fife  beattik.  President  of  the  Beattle  Mining 
Co..  Falrmount  City,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Scotland  in 
October,  1852,  and  since  ten  years  of  age  has  been  employed 
in  some  capacity  In  the  coal  industry.  For  eleven  years  he 
was  Superintendent  of  Mines  for  the  Cambria  Steel  Co., 
Johnstown,  Pennsylvania;  three  years  with  the  Shawmut 
Mininer  Co.,  St.  Mary's,  Pennsylvania,  and  fourteen  years  in 
Texas  and  Alabama. 

JOHN  A.  BELL,  President  Carnegie  Coal  Co.,  Carnegie. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Carnegie  In  1855  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Bell  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Carnegie  Dock  &  Fuel  Co.  He  has  been  a  Di- 
rector of  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

ELMKlt  J.  RENDER.  Treasurer  and  Manager  T.ehigh  Coal 
<'<<..  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Bethlehem  Aug- 
ust 28,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 
Mr  Bender  was  previously  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co. 
and   Weston   Dodson  &  Co. 

CHARLES  \.  beswick,  Manager  C.  A.  Beswick  Coal 
Co.,  Altoona,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Paterson.  New  Jer- 
Xovember  21,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twelve  years.  lie  is  also  interested  in  the  Juniata  Coal 
Mining  Co.  Mr.  Beswick  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Henrietta  Coal  Mining  Co. 

FRED  G.  BETTS,  President  and  General  Manager  Goshen 
Coal  Co.,  Clearfield,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Clearfield 
April  11,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
two  years.  Mr.  Betts  is  also  President  of  the  Janesville 
Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Madeira-Hill  Coal  Min- 
ing Co. 

H  I  M.I  AM  I.  BETTS,  General  Manager  Conestoga  Coal  Co., 
Clearfield.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Clearfield  June  3,  1870, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Summit  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  the 
Madeira-Hill  Mining  Co. 

JOHN  NELSON  BEVERIDGE,  Secretary  and  Manager 
1'nited  Coal  Co..  Clarion.  Pennsylvania,  is  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, born  in  1875,  and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the 
coal  industry  since  he  was  twelve  years  of  age.  Mr.  Bever- 
i •  i  —  •  ■  is  also  interested  in  the  Co-operative  Coal  Co..  Ells 
Coal  Co.  and  Beveridge-Herman  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  Harvey  Coal  Co.  and  the  Beveridge  &  Harvey  Coal 
Co. 

DAVID  BLAIR.  President  of  the  Blair  Coal  Co.,  Indiana. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Indiana  April  25.  1872,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

JAMES  S.  BLAIR,  Treasurer  of  the  Blair  Coal  Co.,  Indiana, 
Pennsylvania,  was  horn  in  Indiana  in  1870,  and  has  been 
In   the   coal  business   for  two  years. 

WALTER  STILSO*  BLAISDELL,  Punxsutawney.  Pennsyl- 
vania. Secretary.  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Anita  Coal 
Mining  Co.  Williams  Run  Coal  Co.,  and  Punxsutawney  Coal 
Mining  Co..  was  born  in  Newcomb.  Illinois.  May  21.  1866. 
and    has    been    in    the    coal    business    fourteen    years. 

WILLIAM  L.  1IOKMM;  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Tobyhanna  Co.,  Tobyhanna,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Germany  September  20,  1872.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirteen  years.  He  was  with  the  Delaware.  Lacka- 
wanna &  Western  Coal  Co.  for  two  years  in  Xew  York  City. 

BDGAJt  D.  BORTNER,  Hanover.  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Hanover  April  10,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  five  years. 

FRANK  G.  BOYER.  M illersl.urg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Washington  August  7,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   for  seven   years. 

GEO.  E.  BOYD,  General  Manager  of  the  Geo.  E.  Boyd 
Coal  Co.,  Tarentum,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Tarentiim 
In  1870.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years.  He  was  previously  with  the  McKean  Coal  Co.  and 
Boyd    Bros    Coal   Co. 

EDWARD  F.  KHACKKN.  Paoli,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Col,  rain.  Ohio,  March  14,  1X70.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  twenty-three  years.  Me  was  previously  with 
Henry    Hall,   Dewees  &  Bracken. 

John  .1.  BRADLEY  of  the  J.  J.  Bradley  Co..  Gallltzen. 
isylvanla,  was  born  in  Gallltzen  In  September,  1895,  and 
has   been    In   the   coal  business  about  two  years. 

Charles  Y.  bhoigh  of  the  Schmuck  Co.,  Hanover. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Hanover  in  1881,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  five  years. 


CHARLES  D.  BROWN',  retail  coal  merchant  of  Emaus, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lehigh  County,  Pennsylvania. 
Al>ril  10,  1S47.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
eight  years.  He  has  held  various  offices  of  honor  and  trust 
in  his  community. 

CHARLES  E.  BROWN,  C.eneral  Manager  of  the  Cheston 
Coal  Co..  Hastings.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Henchletown. 
Pennsylvania,  on  August  12,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coai 
business  for  himself  for  four  years.  He  was  previously  with 
the  Coal  Hun  Coal  Co.,  Red  Top  Coal  Co.,  and  Rich  Hlil  Coal 
Co.  as  Foreman. 

JAMES  M.  BROWN,  with  A.  C.  Thorpe  Co.,  Chester,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Chester  September  15,  1889,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  Mr.  Brown  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Tyler  &  Co. 

CIV  WATSON  1IKOWN.  Treasurer  of  Gillespie  Coal  Co.. 
Fayette  City,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  near  Fayette  City,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1914. 

MAX  J.  Bl'CHEH,  Manager  Columbia  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Co- 
lumbia, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Columbia  September  6, 
1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 

R.  S.  BCRCHINAL,  General  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Smithfleld  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Smithfleld,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania  in  June,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business   for   fourteen    years. 

THOMAS  J.  ill  iiM ■:.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Sharon  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Sharon.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Staunton*,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  two  years. 

JOHN"  J.  BITTEBMORE.  President  Pittsmont  Coal  Co., 
Connellsville.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Connellsville  Au- 
gust 17,  1857.  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  business 
ten  years.  Mr.  Buttermore  is  also  President  of  the  J.  J. 
Buttermore  Coal  Co.  and  the  Catawba  Coal  Co. 

DAVID  G.  BYERLY  of  D.  G.  Byerly  &  Son,  Glenmoore, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Glenmoore  December  27,  1860,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years. 

HARVEY  W.  CALHOON  of  the  H.  W.  Calhoon  Coal  Co., 
Xew  Brighton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  New  Brighton 
May  17.  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
fifteen    years. 

JOSEPH  ALFRED  CAMERON,  SR.,  Manager  Easton  Coal 
&  Supply  Co.,  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Easton 
September  12,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since 
1913. 

GEORGE  W.  CAMPBELL,  Manager  Etna  Connellsville 
Coke  Co.,  Connellsville.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Normal- 
ville,  Pennsylvania,  in  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eleven  years.  Mr.  Campbell  is  also  a  Director  of  the 
Northern  Connellsville  Coke  Co.  and  owns  coal  lands  in 
West  Virginia  and  Pennsylvania  coal  fields. 

A.  K.  CAROTHERS,  Williamsport.  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Williamsport  October  5,  1839,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business  for  twenty-one  years. 

LEE  S.  CLYMER,  Riegelsville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Mt.  Laurel.  Pennsylvania,  April  2,  1863.  and  has  been  in 
the   retail   coal    business   for  fifteen  years. 

TIMOTHY  COCKILL,  President.  Treasurer  and  Manager  of 
the  Girard  Mammoth  Coal  Co.,  Mahanoy  City,  Pennsylvania, 
also  interested  in  the  Bryson  Mt.  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Bryson, 
Kentucky,  was  born  in  Llewellyn.  Pennsylvania,  October  21, 
1853,  and  has  been  for  twenty-six  years  in  bituminous  coal 
mining  and   ten   years  in  anthracite  mining. 

GEORGE  S.  CONNELL,  Secretary-Treasurer  Pittsmont 
Coal  Co.,  Connellsville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Waterford, 
Virginia,  December  28,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness five  years.  He  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  J.  J. 
Buttermore  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  of  the  Catawba 
Coal  Co. 

CHESTER  P.  COOK.  Narbeth.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In 
Baltimore.  Maryland,  November  6,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  since  February  18.   1905. 

NATHAN  D.  <  OUTRIGHT  of  N.  D.  Cortright  &  Son,  Mauch 
Chunk,  Pennsylvania,  and  President  of  the  Beaver  Run  Coal 
Co..  was  born  in  Mauch  Chunk  November  24,  1847,  and  has 
been  in  the  operating  end  of  the  coal  industry  for  fifty 
years. 

D.  W.  COX  of  I).  W.  Cox  &  Co.,  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Maryland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-two  years.  Mr.  Cox  is  a  Civil  War  veteran  and  has 
Served  two  terms  as  City  Controller  of  Harrisburg.  He  Is 
the    author    of    "Cox  s    Calculated    Tonnage    Rates." 

J.  WATSON  CI!  \|-|.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ambler.  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  In  Gwynedd,  Pennsylvania,  In  1847,  and 
has  been  in  business  at  Ambler  thirty-three  years.  Mr. 
Craft  has  taken  a  prominent  Interest  In  association  and 
civic   matters 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


HUGH  M.  CRAKKSHAW,  General  Manager  of  the  Har- 
wood  Coal  Co.  and  Cranberry  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Hazleton, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lancashire,  England,  in  1883. 
He  was  graduated  from  Victoria  University,  Manchester, 
B.  Sc..  and  is  also  a  first  class  certificated  colliery  manager. 
Previously  he  was  with  the  Mexican  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  New 
River  Collieries  Co.  and  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.  He 
is  a  member  of  various  mining  societies. 

HARLEY  ASHABEL  CEANJIKR  of  H.  A.  Cranmer  &  Sons, 
Monroeton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Monroeton  December 
3,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-seven 
years.  A.  L.  Cranmer  &  Son  was  the  original  company,  es- 
tablished in  1873.  They  were  succeeded  by  Cranmer  &  Mus- 
selman. 

JOHJV  E.  DARE,  Harr'isburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Perry,  Pennsylvania,  in  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  fifteen  years.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Harrisburg 
Coal    Exchange. 

CHARLES  G.  DE  HUPP,  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Lebanon  July  28,  1871,  and  has  been  eight  years  in  the 
retail  coal  business.  Previously  he  was  with  Case  &  De- 
Huff,   wholesale   coal   merchants. 

RAYMOND  SAMUEL,  DE  LONG,  Manager  Empire  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Slatington, 
Pennsylvania,  January  21,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eight,  years. 

MOTT  M.  DE  WOLFE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Albion, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Albion  January  4,  1882,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  five  years.  Mr.  Oe Wolfe 
was   formerly  connected   with   Bancroft   &   DeWolfe. 

AMOS  DINKEY,  Manager  Hilliard,  Dinkey  &  Co.,  Easton, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Easton  May  8,  1847,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  Mr.  Dinkey  was 
formerly  with   the  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co. 

ALAN  C.  DODSON,  President  Weston  Dodson  &  Co., 
Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Bethlehem  August 
27,  1880,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  six- 
teen years.  Mr.  Dodson  is  also  interested  in  the  Dodson 
Coal  Co.,  Charles  M.  Dodson  &  Co.,  Locust  Mountain  Coal 
Co.,  Garrett  County  Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  and  Monroe  Coal 
Mining  Co.  He  is  Secretary  of  the  Anthracite  Coal  Opera- 
tors'   Association. 

E.  C.  DODSON,  with  the  sales  department  of  the  Grazier 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  also  interested 
in  the  Grazier  Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Snicksburg, 
Pennsylvania.  May  25,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness about  two  years. 

TRUMAN  MONROE  DODSON,  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania, 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Dodson  coal 
Interests,  which  embrace  the  Locust  Mt.  Coal  Co.,  Charles 
M.  Dodson  &  Co.,  Monroe  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Garrett  County 
Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Albright  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
In  Bethlehem  May  19,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  eighteen  years. 

JOHN  P.  DOXOHOE,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Donohoe  Coke  Co.  and  the  Potter  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Greensburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Greensburg  Febru- 
ary 12,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
one  years.     He  was  previously  with  the  Alexandria  Coal  Co. 

CLAYTON  CRESSWELL  DOVEY,  General  Manager  of  the 
Valley  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  Presi- 
dent Wilmore  Basin  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  and  Consulting 
Engineer  Ninevah  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born  in  Shenan- 
doah, Pennsylvania,  June  26,  1880,  and  has  been  twenty 
years  in  the  coal  business.  He  was  four  years  with  the 
Pittsburgh-Buffalo  Co.  and  eight  years  with  the  M.  W. 
Saxman  interests. 

W.  H.  DRUCKEM1LLER,  Sunbury,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Sunbury  September  28,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the 
mining  end  of  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He 
was   previously  in   the   firm   of  Charles  W.   Nickerson   &   Co. 

CHARLES  A.  DUNLAP,  President  of  the  Hazlewood  Coal 
Co.,  Philipsburg,  Pennsylvania,  also  interested  in  the  Meadow 
Brook  Coal  Co.  and  the  Burley  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Houtz- 
dale,  Pennsylvania,  November  18,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  previously  with 
the  United  Collieries  Co.  He  owned  a  two-thirds  interest  in 
the  Raney  Coal  Co.  for  several  years. 

IRWIN  PHILLIP  EASTMAN,  sole  owner  of  the  Eastman 
Coal  Co.,  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lebanon  No- 
vember 15,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years.  He  began  with  the  Lackawanna  Iron  &  Steel  Co.  He 
is  a  Director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Merchants 
Association,  Secretary  of  the  Lebanon  Retailers  Association, 
and  the  Lebanon  County  Coal  Dealers  Association. 

ALVIN  B.  EBERLY  of  Eberly  Bros.,  Ephrata,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Clay  Township,  Pennsylvania,  May  10, 
1872,   and   has   been    in    the   coal   business   since    1915. 

CLEMENT  B.  EBERLY  of  Eberly  Bros.,  Ephrata,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Clay,  Pennsylvania,  December  31, 
1876,  and  has  been   in   the  coal  business   four  years. 


WILLIAM  B.  ECKENROTH,  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Lebanon  September  13,  1847,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail   coal   business   for   forty-nine   years. 

LEWIS  W.  EDLER  of  L  W.  Edler  &  Co.,  Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania,  also  interested  in  Bennetts  Branch  Coal  Co., 
was  born  in  Williamsport  June  16,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 

J.  S.  EDWARDS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bloomsburg. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Berwick,  Pennsylvania,  June  30, 
1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

J.  A.  EICHELBERGER,  General  Manager  (sole  surviving 
partner)  of  E.  Eichelberger  &  Co.,  miners,  Saxton,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Saxton  May  4,  1872,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 

JOHN  BRUCE  ELLIOTT,  General  Manager  Thermic  Coal 
&  Supply  Co.,  also  interested  in  the  Thermic  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Hollidaysburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Hollidays- 
burg  October  4,  1884.  He  started  in  the  coal  business  in 
1903,  being  associated  with  R.  H.  Spendley,  Altoona,  Penn- 
sylvania. 

HAROLD  BERTELS  FELL,  Superintendent  and  Engineer 
of  the  Wyoming  Valley  Water  Supply  Co.,  Hazleton,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  August 
18,  1889,  and  has  been  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co.  ever 
since  his  graduation  from  Princeton  University  five  years 
ago,  first  in  the  mining  department  until  April  1,  1916,  and 
then  transferred  to  look  after  the  water  supply. 

FRANK  PINSTHWAIT,  Treasurer  Thermal  Smokelesn 
Coal   Co..   Cherry   Tree,    Pennsylvania,    was   born    in    1878. 

THOMAS  W,  FISHER  of  the  Thomas-Haines  Co.,  Mal- 
vern, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  the  county  of  Cork,  Ire- 
land, in  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
thirty-four  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  another  retail 
coal  business  in  another  town. 

E.  W.  FLIK,  Williamsburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Wilkes-Barre  May  10,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   for  six  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  FOGELSONGER,  Shippensburg,  Pennsylva- 
nia, was  born  in  Shippensburg  May  2,  1869,  and  has  been  in 
the   retail   coal   business   for  twelve  years. 

J.  FRED  FORSEMAN,  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Williamsport  November  4,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal   business  six  years. 

LAWRENCE  FOWLER,  Manager  Citizens  Coal  Co.,  Dun- 
more,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Honesdale,  Pennsylvania, 
in  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Mount  Pleasant  Coal  Co.  and  Nay 
Aug   Coal   Co. 

WILIilAM  H.  FRITZ,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Berwyn. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Berwyn  December  21,  1864,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirty-two  years. 

HARRY  B.   GALL   of  Gall  Bros..  Lancaster,   Pennsylvania, 
was   born    in   Lancaster   July   14,   1875,   and   has  been   in   the 
♦  retail  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

JAMES  H.  GALLAGHER,  New  Alexandria,  Pennsylvania. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Delmont  Gas  Coal  Co.,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  past  ten  years. 

CHARLES  WILLIAM  GALLOWAY,  Lewisburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Sandsburg,  New  York,  September  3,  1864, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  about  two  years. 

S.  CARL  GARNER,  Hatboro,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Hatboro  September  8,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  six  years. 

CHARLES  G.  GAWTHROP,  Manager  of  the  C.  G.  Gaw- 
throp  Co.,  Kennett  Square,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania January  17,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-nine  years.  His  previous  experience  was  with 
W.  W.  &  H.  H.  Gawthrop. 

JAMES  ALONZO  GEALEY,  General  Manager  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Leesburg  Coal  Co.,  New  Castle,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Plain  Grove,  Pennsylvania,  August  23,  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  was  pre- 
viously  with   the   Pennsylvania   Fuel   Co. 

G.  J.  GEBHARDT  of  the  G.  J.  Gebhardt  Coal  &  Coke  Co.. 
Erie,  Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
thirty-five  years. 

L.  C.  GEERMAN,  with  the  firm  of  D.  M.  Wertz  &  Co., 
Quincy,  Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years.  m 

JOSEPH  C.  GERBRON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Chelten- 
ham, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
November  17,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years. 

WM.  H.  GIVIN  of  H.  Gawthrop  &  Co.,  Kennett  Square. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  New  Jersey  August  26,  1858.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty  years,  connected 
with  the  same  firm  and  predecessors  all  this  period. 

L.  A.  GLESSMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Conneautville, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Strongsville,  Ohio,  May  28,  1874. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four  years. 


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CBABUH  O.  (iOOD,  Manager  of  the  Chas.  C.  Good  Co., 
North  Glrard,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  July  26,  1869,  and  has 
been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  five  years. 

F1SK  GOODY KAH  of  Goodyear  Bros.,  Carlisle,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born   in  Carlisle  in   1868. 

S.  M.  GOODYEAR  of  Goodyear  Bros.,  Carlisle,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Carlisle  in  1870  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-four  years. 

THOMAS  v.  GOULD.  Secretary  rraig-Gould  Toal  Co.,  Bris- 
bln,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Dudley,  Pennsylvania,  De- 
cember 23,  1870.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Gould  is  also  Interested  in  the  Jaffa  Coal  Mining1 
Co.  and  W.  A.  Gould  &  Bro.  He  was  previously  with  the 
Kettle  Creek  Coal  Mining  Co. 

JOHN  CHARLES  GRAHAM  of  the  John  C.  Graham  Coal 
Co.,  Butler,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Butler  October  8, 
1868,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 
Mr.  Graham  is  a  practicing  attorney  and  also  has  other  in- 
terests. He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Thin  Seam  Coal 
Operators'  Association,  and  successfully  waged  the  fight 
before  the  United  States  Fuel  Administration  and  the  Sena- 
torial Investigating  Committee  that  secured  a  60-cent  dif- 
ferential  for   Thin   Seam   operators   of   Pennsylvania. 

H.  MALIN  GREEN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Darby,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  at  Philadelphia  August  27,  1873,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 

JOSEPH  J.  1. 1(11. HI, I..  General  Manager  of  Griebel  Bros.. 
Lucinda,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lueinda  December  24, 
1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  a  quarter 
of  a  century. 

JAMES  H.  S.  GRIESS  of  James  H.  S.  Griess  &  Co.,  Potts- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pottstown  March  28,  1860, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twanty-four  years. 
The  firm  was  formerly  Miller,  Griess  &  Co.,  and  Miller  & 
Griess. 

I  hi  IS1  MARIE  GROTHE,  York,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Cleveland.  Ohio,  July  16,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   for   five   years. 

NILES  H.  GROVE  of  J.  C.  Grove  &  Son,  York,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Dillsburg,  Pennsylvania,  February  20, 
1889,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  eight 
years.     He  has  been  Secretary  of  the  York  Coal  Exchange. 

JOHN  G.  HAINES,  the  oldest  member  of  the  Thomas- 
Haines  Co.,  Malvern,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Medford, 
New  Jersey,  October  20,  1848.  and  began  the  coal  business 
in  1883  with  Thomas  &  Haines.  He  is  also  interested  in 
another  retail  coal  business  in   another  town. 

HARRY  HAMILTON,  Grove  City,  Pennsylvania,  President 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Standard  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Mutual 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Brookfield,  Ohio,  in  1862,  and 
has  been  interested  in  coal  mining  for  twenty-eight  years. 

C.  C.  HAMMOND,  General  Sales  Agent  McConnell  Coal 
Co.,  Dubois,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Clearfield,  Pennsyl- 
vania, March  4,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six 
years.  r* 

CHRISTIAN  K.  HARNISH,  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  West  Lampeter,  Pennsylvania,  October  3,  1864,  and 
has  been  in  the  retaii  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

WILLIAM  HARRIS.  General  Manager  of  James  Harris  & 
Sons,  miners  at  Lilly,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lilly  Sep- 
tember 9,  1891,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
about  eight  years. 

FRANK  F.  HARRISON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Edinboro, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  McGrann,  Pennsylvania,  January 
3,  1879,  and  has  been  In   the  coal  business  Ave  years. 

JOSEPH  WHITTIF.R  HARRISON,  Superintendent  of  Big 
Bend  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Expedlt,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In 
Mount  Savage.  Maryland,  in   1866. 

B.  FRANK  ii  wct/.I'.i.  of  F.  D.  Hartzel's  Sons,  Chalfont. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Montgomery  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, January  9,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-seven  years. 

JAMES  M.  1IART7.EI.  of  F.  D.  Hartzel's  Sons,  Chalfont, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Montgomery  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania,   August   23,   1851. 

J.  M.  HARVEY,  Superintendent  Harvey  Coal  Co.,  the  Elm 
Coal  Co.,  and  the  Bauldorf  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Strattonville, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Scotland  September  20,  1873,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

A.  M.  HAl'BER,  Munhall.  Pennsylvania.  Credit  and  Office 
Manager  of  the  Merchants  Coal  Co.  of  Pennsylvania,  Secre- 
tary of  the  Pennsylvania  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Orenda  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Elizabeth.  Pennsylvania, 
October  10,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six- 
teen years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Cnited  Coal  Co.  for 
fifteen   years. 

ALDEN  F.  HAYS,  Sewlckley,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Pittsburgh.  Pennsylvania,  June  27,  1850,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal   business  for  thirty-six  years. 


H.  SAMIEL  HAYS,  Manager  of  the  Geo.  A.  Barnitz  Es- 
tate, York,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  York  August  3,  1868, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 
He  has  been  President  of  the  York  Coal  Exchange  and  a 
Director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Asso- 
ciation. 

HARRY  J.  HECK,  with  the  Estate  of  George  J.  Heck, 
Easton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Easton  March  11,  1879, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  He  was  for- 
merly associated  with  Jacob  Heck,  Heck  &  Bro.,  and  George 
J.  Heck.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal 
Merchants'    Association. 

GEORGE  D.  HEDENBLRG  of  Hedenburg  &  Son,  Milton, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Danville,  Pennsylvania,  in  1871, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was 
formerly   with  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 

WADE  W.  HEGARTY,  General  Manager  S.  Hegarty's  Sons, 
Coalport,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Coalport  December  14, 
1862.  Mr.  Hegarty  is  a  graduate  of  Lafayette  College  and 
has  been  identified  with  the  coal  industry  twenty-two  years, 
ten  years  of  which  he  followed  mining  engineering.  He  Is 
also  interested  in  West  Virginia  coal  lands. 

LLEWELLYN  G.  HEILMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Allen- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  May  13,  1873,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  five  years. 

SAMLEL  STEWART  HENDERSON,  Vice  President  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Dilltown  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  Brookville, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Brookville  March  8,  1855,  and  has 
been  in  tm?  coal  business  four  years.  Mr.  Henderson  is 
also   interested    in   coal   lands. 

C.  R.  HENRIE,  Millville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Mill- 
ville  February  2,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
about  thirty-five  years. 

GEORGE  E.  HENRY,  Treasurer  Marquette  Coal  Co.,  East 
Brady,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Mahoning,  Pennsylvania, 
July  24,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-seven 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Keystone  Mining  Co. 
and  was  formerly  with  the  Bradys  Bend  Mining  Co.  Mr. 
Henry  has  served  as  President  of  the  Allegheny  Valley  Coal 
Operators'  Association. 

THOMAS  L.  HERB,  President  of  Petty  Bros.  &  Co.,  Leb- 
anon, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pitman.  Pennsylvania,  July 
24,   1893,  and  has  been   in   the   retail  coal  business  for  three 

years. 

J.  W.  G.  HERSHEY,  Secretary  of  Hershey,  Leaman  &  Co., 
Lititz,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lititz  February  6,  1867, 
and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

EARL  E.  HEWITT,  Manager  Dilltown  Smokeless  Coal  Co., 
Dilltown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Penfleld,  Pennsylvania, 
July  22,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen 
years.  Mr.  Hewitt  was  formerly  with  the  Buffalo,  Rochester 
&  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Morrls-Poston  Coal  Co.  and  United 
Coal  Co.  He  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Coal  Mining  Insti- 
tute of  America  for  two  years. 

WILLIAM  D.  HILL,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Hill 
Bros.  Coal  Co.,  Morrisdale,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Hazle- 
ton,  Pennsylvania,  November  9,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal    business    for    seventeen    years. 

CHRISTIAN  A.  HOFFMAN,  Manager  of  the  Hoffman  Co., 
Lewistown.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lewistown  in  1882. 
He  comes  of  an  old  coal  family. 

SEYMOl'R  HOOD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Cambridge 
Springs,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  near  Cambridge  Springs 
in  1868  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

MILTON  HOODMATHEH,  Throon,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Mauch  Chunk.  Pennsylvania,  in  1863,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  mining  coal  for  thirty-seven  years.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  Sandy  Run  Coal  Co.,  Midvalley  Coal  Co.. 
Susquehanna  Coal  Co.,  the  Parish  Coal  Co..  and  the  Moosic 
Mountain  Coal  Co. 

ROALSTON  H.  HOOPF.S,  West  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  East  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  September  27,  1838, 
and  has  been  In  the  retail  coal  business  for  forty-three 
years.  The  present  business  of  Mr.  Hoopes  was  established 
In  1858  by  John  G.  Robison. 

EVAN  GARFIELD  HOITK,  Manager  of  the  Peoples  Coal 
Co.,  Shippensburg.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  at  Broad  Top, 
Pennsylvania,  April  20,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  ten  years. 

JOHN  H.  HOY  of  J.  H.  Hoy  &  Son,  York,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  In  Cumberland  County.  Pennsylvania.  August  31, 
1854,  and  has  been   in  the  retail  coal  business  nine   years. 

IRWIN  P,  II  I'LL,  Manager  of  George  Hull  &  Sons,  Hano- 
ver, Pennsylvania,  also  Interested  in  the  Casselman  River 
Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Hanover  January  30,  1883, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years.  He 
was  previously  with   the  Brodbeck  Coal  Co. 


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B.  F.  JAMES,  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Ma- 
hanoy  City,  Pennsylvania,  in  1873,  and  all  his  industrial  life 
has  been  passed  in  the  mining  of  coal.  He  is  interested  in 
the  Cambridge  Coal  Co.  and  the  Shipman  Koal  Co.,  Shamo- 
kin,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Girard  Mam- 
moth Coal  Co.  and  the  East  Bear  Ridge  Colliery  Co. 

W.  J.  JAMKS,  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  is  Ma- 
hanoy  City,  Pennsylvania,  in  1871,  and  has  devoted  his  time 
to  the  mining  of  coal.  He  is  interested  in  the  Cambridge 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Shipman  Koal  Co.,  Shamokin,  Pennsylvania. 

ELMER  E.  JOHNSON,  Tullytown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Burl  County,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  twenty-six  years. 

JOHN  CRANSTON  JOHNSON,  Colliery  Superintendent 
Hillside  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Avoca,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Avoca  November  26,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Johnson  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Pennsylvania  Coal  Co. 

ROBERT  JOHNSON,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania,  State  Mine 
Inspector   of   Pennsylvania,    was   born    in    England    March    9, 

1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years.  He  was  previously  in  the  employ  of  the  Lehigh  Val- 
ley Coal  Co.  and  the  Lehigh  &  Wilkes-Barre  Coal  Co. 

GEORGE  H.  JONES,  General  Superintendent  of  the  Tre- 
vorton  Colliery  Co.,  Shamokin,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Hazleton,  Pennsylvania,  in  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  ten  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  engi- 
neering corps  of  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 

JOSEPH  E.  JONES,  Superintendent  Banning-Oonnellsville 
Coke  Co.,  Banning.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Gloucester, 
Ohio,  August  20,  1870,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Jones  was  previously  with  W. 
P.  Rend  &  Co.,  Continental  Coal  Co.  and  Sunday  Creek  Coal 
Co. 

HARRY  MORTIMER  KANARR,  Punxsutawney,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  near  Indiana,  Pennsylvania,  August  31,  1876. 
Mr.  Kanarr  was  formerly  Chief  Engineer  for  the  Rochester 
&  Pittsburgh  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  its  allied  interests. 

CHARLES  BLAIR  KANTNER,  Sharpsville,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Altoona,  Pennsylvania,  September  19,  1861,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  six  years. 

ROBERT  H.  KAY,  Mine  Superintendent  of  the  Colonial 
Iron  Co.,  also  interested  in  the  Octoraro  Coal  Co.,  Saxton, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Cecil  County,  Maryland,  June  24, 

1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  was  previously  associated  with  the  Morrisdale 
Coal  Co.,  Joseph  E.  Throop,  and  A.  Pardee  &  Co.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  for  Mine  Inspectors  for 
the  bituminous   region   of  Pennsylvania. 

ALLEN  P.  KELLAR,  General  Outside  Foreman  for  the 
Pine  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Minersville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 27,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
eight  years. 

LOUIS  R.  KENDERDINE  of  T.  S.  Kenderdine  &  Sons. 
Newtown.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lumberton,  Pennsyl- 
vania, October  14,  1869.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business   twenty-seven   years. 

ROBERT  KENDERDINE  of  T.  S.  Kenderdine  &  Sons, 
Newtown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lumberton,  Pennsyl- 
vania, August  17,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness  thirty-one  years. 

T.  S.  KENDERDINE  of  T.  S.  Kenderdine  &  Sons.  New- 
town, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lumberton,  Pennsylvania, 
in  1836,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  fifty-three 
years. 

SYDNEY  R.  KEPNER  of  Sydney  R.  Kepner  &  Co.,  Potts- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pottstown,  Pennsylvania. 
December  28,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  seven  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  KNEAS,  Norristown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Norristown  August  16,  1859,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-five  years.  He  has  been  a  Director  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association  since  its 
organization. 

JOHN  A.  KNEC'HT,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Tub 
Mill  Coal  Co.,  West  Salisbury,  Pennsylvania,  "was  born  in 
Garrett  County,  Maryland,  in  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  four  years. 

WILLIAM  RITER  KOCHEH.  retail  coalman  of  Blooms- 
burg.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  July  27,  1858, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years. 

GEORGE  J.  KOEHLER,  JR.,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Easton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Ebervale,  Pennsylvania, 
December  17,  1870,  and  has  been  associated  with  the  coal 
business    twenty-nine    years. 

JOSHUA  T.  KRERS  of  Glen  Rock,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Codorus,  Pennsylvania,  December  3,  1860,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  The  firm  was 
formerly  Bortner  &   Krebs. 


CHARLES  ROBERT  KRISE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Can- 
ton, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Canton  October  23,  1888,  and 
has  been   in   the  coal  business  six  years. 

V.  A.  LANE,  coal  operator.  Lane  Mills,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Lane  Mills  April  14,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  ten   years. 

CHESTER  JOHN  LANGDON,  General  Manager  and  Mining 
Engineer  for  the  mines  of  John  Langdon,  Hopewell,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  August  10,  1882.  For  eleven  years,  since 
graduation  from  college,  he  has  been  associated  with  the 
present  firm.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  Association  of  Bituminous  Coal  Operators  of  Central 
Pennsylvania. 

JOHN  LANGDON,  Huntingdon,  Pennsylvania,  operating 
under  lease  the  coal  lands  of  the  Chevington  &  Bunn  Coal 
Co.,  was  born  in  Minersville.  Pennsylvania,  May  18,  1856, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  all  his  life.  He  was  pre- 
viously with  the  Crescent  Coal  Mining  Co.,  the  Lambirth 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Puritan  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Clearfield  Con- 
solidated Coal  Co.,  United  Collieries  Co.,  and  Zeth,  Lang- 
don &  Co. 

ASA  H.  LANPHIER,  Manager  of  the  Meadville  Coal  & 
Feed  Co.,  Meadville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Wellington, 
Ohio,  March  8,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  two  years. 

JOHN  E.  LATTA,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania,  of  Mehl  & 
Latta,  Rosemont,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
and  has   been   in  the   retail  coal  business  sixteen   years. 

J.  S.  LAUGHREY,  Manager  McDonald  &  Laughrey,  Daw- 
son, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Dawson  in  1872  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  Brown  &  Cochran  and  the  Victoria  Coal  Co. 

NATHANIEL  B.  LEAMAN,  President  of  Hershey,  Leaman 
&  Co.,  Lititz,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Neffsville,  Pennsyl- 
vania, January  17,  1861,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  about  eight  years. 

E.  H.  LEANING,  General  Manager  Racket  Brook  Coal  Co.. 
Red  Oak  Coal  Co.  and  Nay  Aug  Coal  Co.,  Carbondale,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  at  Cooperstown,  New  York,  December 
28,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He 
was   formerly   with   the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  C.  1,1.11!.  Manager  of  the  Mount  Holly  Feed  & 
Grain  Co.,  Mount  Holly  Springs,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
East  Berlin,  Pennsylvania,  March  22,  1872,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years.  He  was  previously 
with  J.  N.  Hershey  &  Co.,  W.  C.  Leib  &  Co.  and  W.  C.  Leib. 

FRANK  H.  LEISTER,  North  Wales,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  North  Wales  in  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for  twenty-seven   years. 

ALVIN  G.  LEONARD,  Avella,  Pennsylvania,  Manager  and 
Secretary  Duquesne  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Millsboro,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  forty-one  years.  Mr.  Leonard  was  pre- 
viously connected  with  the  Beaumont  Coal  Co.,  A.  &  J. 
Leonard.   Fort  Pitt  Coal   Co.   and   Carlton  Coal   Mining  Co. 

EUGENE  E.  LEVIS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Coatesville, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Doe  Run,  Pennsylvania,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1S6S,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1892. 

ROBERT  B.  LEWIS,  West  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Honeybrook,  Pennsylvania,  October  17,  1864,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He 
was  in  the  retail  coal  business  in  Ogden,  Utah,  1898  to  1911, 
and  at  West  Chester  for  two  years. 

WILLIAM  WALLACE  L'HOMMEDIEU  of  Zabriskie  & 
L'Hommedieu,  Stroudsburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Stroudsburg  in  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  fifteen  years. 

BOAZ  G.  LIGHT,  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  Sales  Agent  for 
H.  H.  Lineaweaver  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Avon, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years.  He  was  formerly  in  the  retail  coal  business,  having 
served  his  apprenticeship  with  the  Consumers  Co.  in  Chicago. 

CHARLES  S.  LING,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Ideal 
Coal  Co,  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  also  interested  in  the 
Sunnyside  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Bedford,  Pennsylvania, 
August  27,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen 
years.  Previously  he  was  with  the  Valley  Smokeless  Coal  Co. 

HENRY  LUCKING,  JR.,  York.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
York  August  18,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness for  thirty-three  years.  He  has  been  Treasurer  of  the 
York  Coal  Exchange. 

JOHN  H.  LONG,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Cleona,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Cornwall,  Pennsylvania,  March  22,  1862, 
and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight 
years. 

H.  H.  LYKENS,  JR.,  Martinsburg.  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Fredericksburg,  Pennsylvania,  May  8,  1886,  and  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal,  feed  and  builders'  supply  business  eight 
years.     He   was   previously   with   Skyles,   Miller   &   Co. 


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ir.nr  M.  MARTIN  of  C  Martin  &  Son.  Mechanicsburg, 

Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Mechanicsburg  January  29,  1873, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

W.  H.  MAMIWK  of  \V.  H.  Manbeck  &  Co.,  Mifflin,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Thompsontown,  Pennsylvania,  Febru- 
ary 15,  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for 
thirty  years.  He  has  been  with  Manbeck  &  Nelson,  Man- 
beck.  Nelson  &  Co.,  and  W.  H.  Manbeck  &  Son. 

J.  C  McCREADY,  New  Castle,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In 
New  Castle  October  16,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business    for    twenty-seven    years. 

JOSEPH  J.  McCAJiS,  Cresson,  Pennsylvania,  General  Su- 
perintendent Dexter  &  Carpenter,  is  a  native  of  Scotland, 
born  June  10,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty- 
six  years. 

W.  D.  MeGLVMS,  President  Connellsville  Coal  Co.  and 
Connellsville  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Treasurer  Connellsville 
Coke  Co.,  Clark  Coal  Co..  Federal  Fuel  Co.,  Old  Connells- 
ville Coke  Co.,  and  Wick  Haven  Coal  Co.,  Connellsville. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Fayette  County,  Pennsylvania, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr.  Mc- 
Ginnis  is  ^also  identified  with  the  Champion  Gas  Coal  Co., 
Mill  Run  Coal  Co.  and  Calvin-Essex  Coal  Co.,  and  is  a 
Director  of  the  First  National  Bank  and  Vice  President 
Youghiogheny    Trust    Co.,    Connellsville,    Pennsylvania. 

THOMAS  MfCLY.W,  President  of  the  Yorkshire  Coal  Co., 
Madera,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  South  Wales  December 
22,  1853,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 

FHA.VK  J.  MoGRAW  of  John  McGraw  &  Sons.  Downing- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  St.  Marys,  Pennsylvania, 
September  15,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
thirty-four  years. 

JOHN  P.  Mt-GRAW  of  John  McGraw  &  Sons,  Downing- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  St.  Marys,  Pennsylvania. 
February  4,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
four  years. 

LEE  MeQ,I"ISTO\  of  Fredonia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Hartstown.  Pennsylvania,  December  25,  1855,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

J.  PRANK  MEAD,  Sayre.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Ath- 
ens, Pennsylvania,  August  9,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  two  years. 

J.  HOWARD  MEAGER,  President  Grassy  Run  Coal  Co, 
Elk  Lick.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Frostburg,  Maryland. 
May  24,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one 
years.  Mr.  Meager  has  other  coal  interests  in  West  Virginia. 
He  has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Somerset  County  Coal  As- 
sociation. 

THEODORE  A.  MEIIL,  Overbrook,  Philadelphia,  of  Mehl  & 
Latta,  Rosemont,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
and  has  been   in    the   retail  coal  business   sixteen   years. 

OLIVER  H.  MEIXEL,  Montgomery,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Jersey  Shore  November  15,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 

LEVI  M.  MEI.I.IMGEH.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Denver, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Denver  in  1871  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

WALTER  H.  MERRICK,  General  Manager  Acme  Milling 
Co.,  Corry,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Shamokin,  Pennsyl- 
vania. April  23,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-four   years. 

CHARLES  A.  MERRILL,  President  of  the  Merrill  &  Brown 
Co.  of  Garrett,  Pennsylvania.  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Enterprise  Coal  Co.,  and  Treasurer  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  W/  A.  Merrill  &  Son  Co.,  was  born  in 
Garrett  February  27,  1894,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness  four    years. 

W.  A.  MERRILL.  President  of  the  Enterprise  Coal  Co., 
W.  A.  Merrill  &  Co..  W.  A.  Merrill  &  Son,  Edwena  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,  and  Romesburg  Coal  Co.,  Garrett,  Pennsylvania,  and 
holder  of  2,000  acres  of  undeveloped  coal  land  two  miles 
south  of  Gassaway,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Oil  City, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-two  years.  Previously  he  was  connected  with 
the  Enterprise  Coal  Co.,  the  lCrie  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  the 
Penn    Marva    Coal    Co. 

B.  F.  MEYER,  Towanda,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Mm- 
roeton,  Pennsylvania,  March  9,  1843,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty  years. 

G.  I'llWK  MILLEISE.V  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Harrisburg  February  2.  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years.  For  thirteen  years  he 
was  associated  with  J.  8.  Bible.  He  was  President  of  the 
Harrisburg  Coal    Exchange  for  about  eight  years. 

GLEN  l\  MILLER  of  Miller  &  Parsons,  Corry.  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  In  Wayne.  Pennsylvania,  April  22,  1877,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

JOHN  ll.  MILLER.  I.ewistown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Lewlstown  May  22.  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  three  years.  He  was  previously  with  Miller  & 
Knapp  as  Superintendent. 


\EVIX  Bf,  MILLER,  Secretary-Treasurer  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Tyrone  Fuel  &  Supply  Co.,  Tyrone,  Pennsylvania, 
also  interested  in  mines  at  Mountaindale,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Martinsburg,  Pennsylvania,  February  17,  1884,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  ousiness  for  fourteen  years.  He  was 
previously  with  Skyles,  Miller  &  Co.,  Martinsburg,  Penn- 
sylvania. 

SAML'EL  F.  MILLER,  Mechanicsburg.  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Mechanicsburg  September  20,  1850,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  forty  years. 

CHARLES  H.  MILSOM,  President  and  Manager  Milsom 
Coal  Co.,  Carrolltown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Brookfield, 
Ohio,  February  21,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Townsend  & 
Milsom  Coal  Co.,  Chambers  &  Milsom  Coal  Co.,  Milsom  & 
Hughes   Coal   Co..    and  Hancock   Coal   Co. 

JOHN  H.  MINNIG,  Seh u> ikill  Haven,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Friendensburg  in  1846.  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   for   twenty-six   years. 

FRANK  MISSI.VER,  Pottstown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Pottstown  September  21,  1851,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  thirty  years.  The  firm  was  formerly  F.  S. 
Missiner    &    Son. 

J.  L.  MONTGOMERY',  Treasurer  Bellefonte  Fuel  &  Sup- 
ply Co.,  Bellefonte,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Bellefonte 
August  13,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
eight  years. 

GRIFFITH  D.  MORGAN,  General  Manager  Red  Bank  Coal 
Co.,  East  Brady,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Quemahoning. 
Pennsylvania,  August  20,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  six  years.  He  was  formerly  employed  at  the  Mon- 
arch mine. 

J.  A.  MORIARTY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Columbia.  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Columbia  February  5,  1891,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  five  years.  He  was  formerly  asso- 
ciated with  P.  Moriarty.  He  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the 
Pennsylvania   Retail  Coal   Merchants'   Association. 

HORATIO  HOWARD  MORRIS.  Superintendent  Lawrence 
colliery  of  the  Harleigh-Brookwood  Coal  Co.,  Frackville. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Bala,  Pennsylvania,  September 
24,   1889,   and  has   been   in   the  coal   business  for  six   years. 

JOHN  R.  MLLKIE  of  the  Union  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Union 
City,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Little  Valley,  New  York. 
August  15,  1842,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  forty  years.  He  served  as  agent  of  the  Erie 
Railroad  at  Union  City  for  thirty-four  years  and  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Pennsylvania  legislature  for  four  years. 

ROY  B.  MLLKIE  of  the  Union  Coal  &  Supply  Co.,  Union 
City,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Union  City  October  7,  1875. 
By  profession  he   is  a  civil  engineer. 

JOHN  W.  JMCMMA,  Assistant  Manager  of  the  Geo.  A. 
Barnitz  Estate,  York.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lancaster 
County,  Pennsylvania,  August  25,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail   coal   business   for   fifteen  years. 

FRANK  Ml'SSELMAN,  Starsburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  New  Danville,  Pennsylvania,  May  5,  1865,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  previ- 
ously with  J.   C.  Walker  &  Son,   Gap,   Pennsylvania. 

JAMES  FRANCIS  NEILAX,  Saxton,  Pennsylvania,  General 
Superintendent  of  the  coal  and  coke  department  of  Joseph 
E.  Throop  and  President  of  the  Neilan  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
in  Hume,  New  York,  August  28,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the 
mining  end  of  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He  has  been 
with  the  Sunshine  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Cambria  Fuel  Co.,  Pitts- 
burgh Coal  Co.,  and  the  Rockhill  Iron  &  Coal  Co. 

K.  H.  NEIMEYER  of  the  Saucon  Supply  Co.,  South  Beth- 
lehem, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Nazareth,  Pennsylvania, 
February  2,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
four  years. 

R.  E.  NEUMEYER  of  the  Saucon  Supply  Co..  South  Beth- 
lehem, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Nazareth,  Pennsylvania, 
February  12,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
four   years. 

JOHN  w.  \E\\  1IROI  Gil,  President  Rogers  Coal  Co..  Scott- 
dale,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Fairmont.  West  Virginia, 
August  5,  1881,  and   has  been  mining  coal  four  years. 

GEORGE  H.  NICHOLS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Clarks 
Summit,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Clarks  Summit  July  23, 
1867,  and  has  be'en  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  He  is 
President  of  the  Abington  National  Bank  and  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Abington  Electric  Light  Co. 

W.  S.  Mill  III  of  North  &  Son,  Mifflin.  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Mifflin  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
seven  years. 

MAX  OI'SATMK.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Allquippa, 
Pennsylvania,  was  horn  In  Hungary  December  15.  1S79.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  four  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  Whitney  A  Kem- 
mcrer. 


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JOHN  H.  PANCO,  General  Foreman  of  the  Harwood  Coal 
Co..  Harwood  Mine,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Germany  in 
1860  and  has  worked  about  the  coal  mines  for  forty-nine 
years,  starting  before  he  was  nine  years  old  as  a  slate 
picker.     He  was  previously  with   Linderman  &   Skeer. 

I'lMMi  W.  PARSONS  of  Miller  &  Parsons,  Corry,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Concord,  Pennsylvania,  May  27,  1875, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

i.l  20RGE  B.  PASSMORE  of  H.  P.  Passmore  &  Bro.,  Oxford, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Oxford,  and  has  been  a  partner 
in   the   retail  firm   for   twenty  years. 

H.  P.  PASSMORE  of  H.  P.  Passmore  &  Bro.,  Oxford,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Oxford  January  22,  1866,  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 

ROBERT  JAMES  ELLIOTT  PEGG,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Danville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Simcoe,  Ontario,  Can- 
ada, December  3,  1848,  and  had  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-three  years  when  he  retired  in   1918. 

MORRIS  P.  PENROSE,  Phoenixville,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Nashaminy,  Pennsylvania,  November  8,  1875,  and  has 
been  engaged   in  the  retail  coal   business  for  ten  years. 

HARRY  PHVTHY'ON,  Belle  Vernon,  Pennsylvania,  Mine 
Inspector  of  Pennsylvania,  is  a  native  of  Brookfield,  born 
July  10,  1872,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  business 
twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Phythyon  was  formerly  associated 
with  the  Pittsburgh-Buffalo  Coal  Co.,  Ellsworth  Collieries, 
and  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  H.  PIERCE,  General  Superintendent  of  the  East 
Bear  Ridge  Colliery  Co.,  Frackville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Frackville  September  26,  1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eight  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Le- 
high Valley  Coal  Co.,  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Paint 
Creek   Collieries   Co. 

ROBERT  WILLIAM  PIERPOINT,  Narberth,  Pennsylvania, 
Sales  Manager  and  Secretary  of  the  James  Pierpoint  &  Sons 
Co.  of  Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 
July  17,  1800,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for 
five   years. 

FRED  S.  PYFER,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  B.  B. 
Martin  Co.,  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lancaster 
November  6,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
thirty-five  years.  He  was  six  years  with  G.  Sener  &  Sons  of 
Lancaster.  He  has  been  a  Director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Re- 
tail Coal  Merchants  Association  for  six  years  and  Chairman 
of  the  Lancaster  County  Coal  Merchants  Association. 

JOHN  QUINN,  Secretary-Treasurer  and  Manager  of  Quinn 
&  Co.,  Houtzdale,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Scotland  July  1, 
1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years. 
He  surveyed  most  of  the  coal  lands  in  Cambria,  Clearfield 
and  Centre  counties,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  previously  with 
the  Freeman-Wilson  Coal  Co.,  Moshannon  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Hoversville  Coal  Co. 

THOMAS  QUINN,  South  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Ireland,  September  16.  1850,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-four  years. 

EARL,  G.  RAKER  with  P.  W.  G.  Raker.  Elizabethville, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Williamstown,  Pennsylvania, 
June  27,  1894,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business 
five  years. 

GEORGE  A.  REIFSNYDER,  Norristown,  Pennsylvania, 
a  salesman  for  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co., 
was  born  in  Pottstown,  Pennsylvania,  November  14,  1879, 
and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  twenty-three 
years. 

T.  MANNING  KENTK,  Manager  of  the  Thermic  Coal  & 
Supply  Co.,  Hollidaysburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Holli- 
daysburg  February  28.  1897.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  two  years. 

LAVERNA  LEE  RICE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Landisburg,  Pennsylvania,  March 
22,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  Mr. 
Rice   is  the   successor  of  F.   E.   Thompson. 

P.  N.  RICH,  Manager  Standard  Coal  Co..  Altoona,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Altoona  June  10,  187S,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Rich  was  formerly  as- 
sociated with  the  Cambria  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

SOL.  C.  RITCHEY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bedford,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Bedford  January  8,  1854,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Ritchie  was  formerly 
with  Harderoad  &  Co. 

G.  B.  ROBERTS,  Vanderbilt.  Pennsylvania.  Treasurer  of 
the  Franklin  Coal  Co.,  also  interested  in  West  Virginia 
mines,  was  born  in  Kirby,  Pennsylvania,  in  1857,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years. 

CAREL  ROBINSON,  Manager  of  the  Superior  Fuel  Co., 
Russelton,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Coalburg.  West  Vir- 
ginia, in  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  mining  business  for 
sixteen  years.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the  New 
River  Co.  and  the  Clinchfield  Coal  Corp, 


GEORGE  THOMAS  ROBINSON;  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Operators  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Citizens  Coal  Co.,  Secretary  of  the  Dixon- 
ville  Coal  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  Conemaugh  Smokeless 
Coal  Co.,  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  England 
February  23,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-seven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Cambria 
Steel    Co.    as    Superintendent    of    Mines. 

C.  W.  RODGERS  of  Rodgers  &  Raub,  retailers  of  Edin- 
burg,  Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen 
years.     He  was  formerly  associated  with  Ashton  &  Rodgers. 

V.  L.  ROUSE,  Manager  of  W.  P.  Rouse  &  Son,  North  East, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Wattsburg,  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 30,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  six- 
teen years. 

CHARLES  FOSTER  ROY,  President  of  the  MacGregor 
Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  E.  J.  Frauenheim  Coal  Co.,  Som- 
erset, Pennsylvania,  and  President  Scull  Coal  Co.,  was  born 
in  Glehroy,  Ohio,  November  3,  1879,  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

H.  R.  SACKETT,  Manager  of  the  H.  R.  Sackett  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Smithfield,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  New  Geneva, 
Pennsylvania,  March  12,1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eighteen  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Sackett 
Coke  Co.,  the  United  Connellsville  Coke  Co.  and  the  West- 
moreland Coke  Co.,  and  also  promoter,  Manager  and  Presi- 
dent of  two  coal  and  coke  companies. 

FRANK  G.  ST.  CLAIR,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  McConnell  Coal  Co.,  Dubois,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Punxsutawney,  Pennsylvania,  December  3,  1866,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  St.  Clair  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Rochester  &  Pittsburgh  Coal 
&  Iron  Co.,  Jefferson  &  Clearfield  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Cowan- 
shannock  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Pittsburgh  Gas  Coal  Co.  and 
St.  Clair.  Rinn  &  Co 

JESSE  H.  SANFORD,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager 
Carnegie  Coal  Co.,  Carnegie,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Vienna,  Ohio,  December  16,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1886.  Mr.  Sanford  is  also  President  of  the 
Carnegie  Dock  &  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Pittsburgh  &  Lehigh 
Dock  Co. 

CLINTON  R.  SAVIDGE,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Mt.  Equity  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Sunbury,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Weaverland,  Pennsylvania,  January  19,  1851,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

RALPH  W.  SAVIDGE,  Superintendent  of  the  Mt.  Equity- 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Sunbury,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  December 
16,  1884,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  mining  end  of  the 
coal  business   for   sixteen   years. 

JV.  H.  SAYLOR  of  W.  H.  Saylor  &  Son,  Pottstown,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  Upper  Potts  Grove,  Pennsylvania,  Oc- 
tober 10,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty 
yea.rs. 

CLARENCE  M.  SCHAEFFER  of  the  Schmuck  Co.,  Hanover, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Westminster,  Maryland,  in  1885, 
and  has   Deen  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

HARRY  S.  SCHEIBLER,  Secretary-Treasurer  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Superior-Connellsville  Coke  Co.  and  of 
the  Westmoreland  Fayette  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Greensburg, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Greensburg  July  27,  1877,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  four  years. 

S.  P.  SCHIEK,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  City  Coal  Co., 
Meadville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  New  York  City  July  30, 
1872,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twelve 
years.     He  bought  his  present  plant  of  S.  Merrell  &  Co. 

SAMUEL  L.  SCHIVELY,  a  retail  coal  merchant  of  Jen- 
kintown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Jenkintown  in  1860. 

M.  SCHLOSSER,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  New 
York  City  April  26,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Black  Diamond 
Coal  Co.  as  Secretary. 

FRANCIS  AIKEN  SCHMIDT,  Secretary  of  the  Allegheny 
River  Mining  Co.,  Kittanning.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  May  30,  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  seven  years. 

C.  F.  SCHROYER,  Manager  of  the  Franciscus  Co..  Lewis- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Milesburg.  Pennsylvania. 
April  16,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve 
years. 

CHARLES  SCHULTZ,  Blossburg,  Pennsylvania,  President 
and  General  Manager  Logan  Hill  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Germany  April  28,  1865.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eighteen  years.  Mr.  Schultz  was  previously  connected  with 
the  Barney  Hill  Coal  Co.  and  the  Corning-Blossburg  Coal 
Corp. 

SOLOMON  IRWIN  SCHWOYER,  junior  partner  of 
Schwoyer,  Savage  &  Co.,  Robesonia,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Kutztown,  Pennsylvania,  January  17,  1891,  and  has  been 
in  the  retail  coal  business  about  four  years. 


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\V.  RALPH  SENSENHH.  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Cedar  Lane,  Pennsylvania,  December  21,  1884,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  thirteen  years,  six 
years  in  business  for  himself.  The  first  seven  years  he  was 
with    Esbenshada  &   Co.   and  G.  H.   Shrelner  &  Son. 

I.  \.  SHAFFBR,  JR.,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General 
.Manager  of  Falls  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Lock  Haven,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  In  Lock  Haven  March  10,  18G8,  and  has  been 
In    the    coal    business    fifteen    years. 

W.  II.  SHANK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Chambersburg, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Mont  Alto,  Pennsylvania.  Decem- 
Im  i    20,    1854.  and  has   been    In   the  coal   business  four   years. 

osi  \it  H.  SHAW,  Superintendent  of  the  Coalmont  Moshan- 
non  Coal  Co.,  Houtzdale,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Shaw- 
ville  -May  22.  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
Ave  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Red  Jacket  Coal 
Mining  to.  and  the  Ajax  Consolidated  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  G.  SHEAHN,  Superintendent  J.  G.  Shearn  &  Son, 
Canonsburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  England  in  1855  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty  years. 

SYLVESTER  s.  SHELLER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Dun- 
cannon,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Duncannon  in  1854  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-seven  years. 

JOSEPH  H.  SHKPP,  Chief  Clerk  and  Assistant  Manager  of 
the  East  Lehigh  Colliery  Co..  Tamaqua,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Tamaqua  in  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  fifteen  years.  He  comes  of  a  mining  family,  being  the 
youngest  son  of  D.  Shepp,  deceased,  who  was  in  the  coal 
business  for  forty  years  and  operated  at  Summit  Hill.  Penn- 
sylvania. 

GEORGE  WEBB  SHILLINGFORD.  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer Empire  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Clearfield,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Peale,  Pennsylvania,  September  13,  1888,  and  has 
been  in   the  coal  business  eight  years. 

JOSEPH  K.  SHl'LTZ,  Washington  Borough,  Pennsylvania, 
was    born    in    Washington    Borough    June    19,    1848.    and    has 
i    in    the   coal    business    for    forty    years.      In    addition   to 
a    retail    lumber    business   he    has    a    100-acre    tobacco    plan- 
tation, one  of  the  largest   in  Pennsylvania. 

SMEDI.EY  &  1UEHL,  retail  coal  and  lumber  merchants  at 
Ardmore,  Pennsylvania,  have  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years. 

ALEXANDER  G.  SMITH,  President  of  the  Harrison  Coal 
Co.,  Rosemont,  West  Virginia,  General  Manager  of  the  Mey- 
ersdale  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Randolph  Coal  Co.,  Meyersdale, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Scotland  March  4,  1871,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  He  was  previ- 
ously with  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  Pennsylvania  division, 
and  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Thomas,  West  Virginia.  He 
is  a  Director  of  the  Somerset  County  Coal  Operators  Associa- 
tion. 

A.  M.  SMITH,  Halifax,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Fal- 
mouth, Pennsylvania,  July  16.  1872,  and  has  been  associated 
with  others  in  the  coal  business  at  Halifax  twenty-three 
years,   and   in   business  for  himself   ten  years. 

ANTHONY  SMITH  of  the  Boggs  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Kittan- 
ning,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Strasburg.  W.  P.,  in  1865, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years. 

HARRY  K.  SMITH,  Administrator  of  the  Cal.  G.  Smith 
Estate,  Wrightsvilln,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Wrights- 
v-ille  April  7,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
five  years. 

WILLIAM  r.  SMITH,  General  Superintendent  of  the  Com- 
nerclal  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Expedit,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Plains,  Pennsylvania,  January  14,  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  all  his  life.  He  was  previously  with  the 
Pennsylvania  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Mitchell  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Peerless  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  the  Columbia  Coal  Mining  Co. 

WILLIAM    HENRY    SMITH,    Newport,    Pennsylvania,    was 
born    in   Newport  April   11,    1849,  and   has  been   in   the   retail 
business  for  ten  years. 

WILLIAM  W.  SMITH.  President  Echard  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
'onnellsvllle,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Dunbar  in  1868  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  Is  also 
interested  In  the  Etna  Connellsvllle  Coke  Co. 

II.  FRANK  SNAVELY,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Con- 
sumers Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Lime  Valley,  Pennsylvania,  September  15,  1878,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  nine  years.  He  started  In  with  his 
father,  F.  H.  Snavely,  first  President  of  the  Consumers  Ice 
\-   Coal  Co..  who  died  November  17,  1917. 

JOHN  W.  SMIIKH,  Huntingdon,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Huntingdon,  September  30,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty-four  years. 

GEORGE  M.  SPALDING,  Wellsboro,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  In  Troy,  Pennsylvania,  in  1860,  and  has  been  In  the 
retail  coal  business  for  twenty-two  years. 

EDWIN  STASTOS  STACKHOl'SE  *of  Bloomshurg,  Penn- 
rylvanla,  General  Manager  E.  S.  Stackhouse  Coal  Co.,  Shick- 
"hlnny,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Shlckshlnny  In  1866  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 


ELMER  B.  STALDT  of  Staudt  &  Schwoyer,  Pennsburg, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Kirbyville.  Pennsylvania,  Octo- 
ber 1.  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  live  years. 

HENRY  K.  8TAIFFER,  Special  Agent  for  B.  Nicoll  &  Co. 
at  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Hollidaysburg, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five  years.  His  previous  experience  has  been  with 
the  Allport   Coal  Mining   Co.   and   the    Watkins   Coal  Co. 

J.  S.  STEVENSON,  senior  member  of  the  retail  firm  of 
Stevenson  Bros.,  Midvale,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  1876 
in  Smithsburg,  Maryland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness since  June,  1917,  when  Stevenson  Bros,  succeeded  J. 
F.  Good,  who  had  been  in  business  in  Midvale  thirty-seven 
years. 

W.  H.  STEVENSON"  of  the  firm  of  Stevenson  Bros.,  Mid- 
vale. Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  1891  in  Smithsburg,  Mary- 
land.    He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1917. 

HENRY  M.  STAl  FFEH.  Leola,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
New  Holland,  Pennsylvania,  April  24,  1863,  and  has  „een  en- 
gaged in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-six  years.  He 
has  one  of  the  most  complete  retail  plants  in  Eastern  Penn- 
sylvania. 

GEORGE  H.  STORY  of  Geo.  H.  Story  &  Co.,  Chester,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  in  1850,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years. 

FRED  STOVER,  General  Manager  and  Treasurer  Zenith 
Coal  Co.,  Butler,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Emlenton,  Penn- 
sylvania, December  2,  1874.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Stover  was  formerly  with  the 
Pickands-Magee  Coke  Co. 

ABRAHAM  L.  STROLSE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Kerr  Coal  Co.,  Freeport,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Kittan- 
ning,  Pennsylvania,  December  19,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-two  years. 

CHARLES  J.  SWARR  of  Charles  J.  Swarr  &  Co.,  Lan- 
caster, Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Lancaster  September  21. 
1862,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-five 
years. 

Albert  J.  THOMPSON,  Wycombe,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Penns  Park,  Pennsylvania,  September  27,  1873,  and  has 
been    in  the   retail  coal   business  for   twenty-one  years. 

C.  A.  THOMPSON,  Mountain  Top,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Foster,  Pennsylvania,  June  6,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the 
retail  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

Wr.  B.  THOMPSON",  Waynesboro,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Franklin  County,  Pennsylvania,  September  17,  1862,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He 
was  previously  with  Thompson  &  Myers. 

ALFRED  CHARLES  THORPE,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Chester,  Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven 
years. 

DOUGLAS  SCOTT  THHOPP,  Earlston,  Pennsylvania,  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  coal,  coke  and  iron  interests  of  Joseph 
Earlston  Thropp.  was  born  in  Lansdowne,  Pennsylvania,  in 
July,  1891,  and  has^  been  In  the  coal  business  since  leaving 
college. 

JOSEPH  EARLSTON  THROPP  of  Earlston,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Valley  Forge,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  twen- 
ty-eight years  in  the  coal  business.  His  great  grandfather 
was  the  largest  coal  and  iron  factor  in  England   in  his  day. 

RAYMOND  MEYERS  TINGLEY,  Herrick  Centre,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  in  Herrick  Centre  July  21,  1870,  and  has 
been  interested  for  twelve  years  in  the  coal  business.  He 
was  formerly  with  G.  S.  Tingley  and  Tlngley  &  Lumley. 

II.  W.  I'odii.  i;.n.ial  Manager  and  Treasurer  of  the  Lane 
Coal  Co.,  Philipshui <g,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  Philips- 
burg  January  23,  1874,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
twenty    years. 

GREYSON  PROVOST  THOI  I'MAN,  Assistant  General  Man- 
ager of  the  G.  B.  Markle  Co.,  Jcddo,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Centralia.  Pennsylvania,  in  1880,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Le- 
high Valley  Coal  Co. 

THOMAS  H.  TPDOR.  Superintendent  Hecla  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Brownsville.  Pennsylvania,  was  born  In  England  Octo- 
ber 25,  1872,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  thirty-two 
years.  Mr.  Tudor  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Key- 
stone Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Pittsburgh- Westmoreland 
Coal  Co. 

HOMER  J.  TURNER  of  Turner  Bros.,  Cambridge  Springs. 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Cambridge  Springs  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  six  years. 

RAY  B.  TURNER  of  Turner  Bros.,  Cambridge  Springs, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Cambridge  Springs  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  six  years. 


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WILLIAM  HICHAIIDSOX -TURKEY,  Secretary,  Treasurer 
and  General  Manager  of  the  Avella  Coal  Co.,  also  interested 
in  the  Pryor  Coal  Co.  and  the  Station  Coal  Co.,  Greensburg, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Greensburg,  September  7,  1859. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  tor  thirty  years.  He  is  by 
training  a  mining  engineer. 

ADDISON  H.  I'LSH,  Millerstown,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Millerstown  November  6,  1852,  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the   retail   coal   business   thirty-seven  years. 

LYMAN  J.  I'MSTEAD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Birdsboro, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Birdsboro  December  17,  1889, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 

H.  J.  VAX  DUSEN,  President  of  the  Oak  Ridge  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Hastings,  Pennsylvania,  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  about  twenty-two   years. 

EDWARD  VERO,  Millvale,  Pennsylvania,  was  born'  in 
Irondale,  Ohio,  October  21,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Pittsburgh  Retail  Coal  Dealers 
Association. 

THEODORE  VOGELEY,  Owner  of  the  Vogeley  Coal  Co., 
Butler,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Butler  June  27,  1867,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

CHARLES  W.  WALKER  of  Wells  &  Walker,  Downing- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Devon  December  27,  1867, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

GEORGE  WALKER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Chambers- 
burg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  St.  Thomas,  Pennsylvania, 
July  9,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

WILLIAM  H.  WALKER  of  W.  H.  Walker  &  Co.,  Kennett 
Square,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Delaware  September  28, 
1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nineteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  with  S.  C.  Walker  &  Co.,  Chaddsford  Junc- 
tion, Pennsylvania. 

PRAKK  J.  WALLIS,  Manager  of  the  Wallis  Coal  Co.,  Har- 
risburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  November 
23,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  February 
10,  1890.  He  was  previously  with  J.  B.  Montgomery,  Harris- 
burg.  He  has  been  a  Director,  Vice  President  and  President 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Association. 

SAMUEL  WALLWORK,  General  Manager  of  the  Wallwork 
Coal  Co.,  Summerville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  England 
in  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He 
was  previously  with  the  Northwestern  Mining  Exchange  Co. 

B.  FRANK  WALTER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Christiana, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years. 

HARRY  H.  WEAVER  of  Fred  Weaver  &  Son,  Elizabeth- 
ville,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Berrysburg,  Pennsylvania, 
September  13,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over 
thirty  years.  This  firm  was  established  in  1870  by  the  late 
Fred  Weaver. 

GEORGE  W.  WEHTZ,  Wernersville,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  in  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania,  February  26,  1836,  and 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 

JEROME  C.  WHITE,  Assistant  Superintendent  Penker 
Coal  Co.,  Portage,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Sonman,  Penn- 
sylvania, July  16,  1896.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
five  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Buffalo,  Rochester 
&  Pittsburgh  Railway  and  the  Rochester  &  Pittsburgh  Coal 
&   Iron   Co. 

JOHK  L.  WHITE,  General  Superintendent  Penker  Coal 
Co.,  Portage,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Heckley,  Penn- 
sylvania. June  24,  1854,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  forty  years.  He  was  previously  with  the  Roch- 
ester &  Pittsburgh  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  the  Pittsburgh  Ter- 
minal  Railway   &  Coal   Co. 


C.  FRANK  WILLIAMSON,  Media,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Media,  Pennsylvania,  February  28,  1861.  He  started  as 
clerk  in  1879  and  now  has  two  yards  at  Media  and  one  at 
Morton,  Pennsylvania.  He  is  a  Director  and  the  first  Treas- 
urer of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Merchants'  Associa- 
tion. 

CHARLES  E.  WILSON,  President  Smithfield  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Dunbar,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  and 
has   been   in   the   coal   business   fourteen   years. 

E.  H.  WIKSLOW,  President  of  the  Ritter  &  Winslow  Co., 
Punxsutawney,  Pennsylvania,  also  interested  in  the  Summit 
Coal  Mining  Co.  and  the  Little  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Punxsu- 
tawney October  10,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twelve  years. 

HARRY  C.  WIKSLOW,  Superintendent  of  the  Williams 
Coal  Co.,  Punxsutawney,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Wins- 
low,  Pennsylvania,  May  24,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  President  of  the 
Hudson  Coal  Co. 

R.  WIKTER  JR.,  Royersford,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Royersford  in  1861,  and  has  been  the  owner  of  his  present 
business,  established  in  1865,  for  twenty  years. 

C.  H.  WISSER,  McKeesport,  Pennsylvania,  Treasurer  and  a 
Director  of  the  Lake  Shore  Gas  Coal  Co.  and  the  Haywood 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Dravosburg,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1849,  and  has  been  active  in  coal  mining  thirty-six  years. 
He  is  also  financially  interested  in  the  Haywood  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  Shinnston,  West  Virginia. 

P.  R.  WISSER,  Buena  Vista,  Pennsylvania,  Secretary  and 
a  Director  of  the  Lake  Shore  Gas  Coal  Co.  and  the  Haywood 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  was  born  in  Dravosburg,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1884,  and  has  been  engaged  in  coal  mining  ten  years.  He 
is  also  financially  interested  in  the  Haywood  Coal  Mining 
Co.,  Shinnston,   West   Virginia. 

RALPH  A.  WOODS,  Sharon,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
Clark,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
for  five  years. 

A.  E.  WOOLR1DGE,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Woodland  Cannel  Coal  Co.,  also  interested 
in  the  Sterling  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Woodland,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  in  Woodland  May  17,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business   for   twenty-five   years. 

DANIEL  P.  WORMAK  of  the  Estate  of  Thomas  Worman, 
Bath,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Stewartsville.  New  Jersey, 
July  14,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years. 

A.  K.  WRIGHT  is  General  Manager  of  the  Peerless  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Clearfield,  Pennsylvania. 

JOHN  F.  WRIGHT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Benton,  Penn- 
sylvania, is  a  native  of  Ireland,  born  in  1866,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 

CHARLES  P.  YEAMANS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Bristol, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Bristol  December  15,  1840,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years. 

WILMER  W.  YOUNG,  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Oetoraro  Coal  Co.,  Riddlesburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  Riddlesburg  June  4,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  operating 
end  of  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven  years.  He  was 
previously  with  the  Keystone   Coal  Co. 

ABRAHAM  J.  ZABRISKIE,  Manager  of  Zabriskie  & 
L'Hommedieu,  Stroudsburg,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Hack- 
ensack,  New  Jersey,-  May  7,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal   business   for   fifteen  years. 

W.  E.  ZIMMERMAN,  Superintendent  for  the  Huff  Coal 
Co  ,  Humbert,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  Humbert  July  26, 
I860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years. 

ELI  Z.  ZINN  of  Zinn  Bros.,  York,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
in  York  March  24,  1871.  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness eighteen  years.  The  firm  was  formerly  Zinn  &  Senft. 
Mr.  Zinn  is  a  Director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Retail  Coal  Mer- 
chants' Association. 


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SOUTH  DAKOTA 


SOUTH  Dakota  has  been  recognized  by  the  United 
States  Geological  Survey  as  a  coal  producing  state 
for  the  past  live  years,  but  the  tonnages  hoisted 
from  the  lignite  fields  in  the  northwestern  part  Off  the 
territory  do  not  begin  to  meet  the  consuming  require- 
ments of  the  inhabitants,  who  still  depend  upon  Illinois 
and  lake  cargo  eastern  coal  for  the  hulk  of  their  fuel. 
Therefore  it  is  as  a  coal  consumer  that  this  agricultural 
commonwealth  makes  its  first  appeal  to  the  fuel  interests. 
The  character  of  the  principal  enterprises  of  the  state 
and  the  Mattered  population  naturally  bring  down  both 
the  per  capita  and  square  mile  consumption.  The  per 
capita  consumption  of  bituminous  coal  in  1915  was  1.49 
tons,  againsl  a  country  average  of  2.04  tons,  while  its 
anthracite  per  capita,  .".'(i  ton.  was  just  one-third  of  the 
average  for  the  United  States  as  a  whole.  Upon  the 
square  mile  basis  the  consumption  of  both  anthracite 
and  bituminous  was  15  tons,  against  a  general  average 
of  123  tons. 

Passing  to  actual  figures  the  total  tonnage  reported 

-Mined  in  the  state  for  the  year  was  1,194,683  tons. 

This,  while  exclusive  of  railroad  fuel  consumption,  in- 


cluded 180,000  tons  of  Pennsylvania  anthracite,  leaving 
the  net  domestic  and  general  industrial  consumption  of 
bituminous  and  lower  grades  at  1,01  1,683  tons.  Over 
a  third  of  this.  357 ,000  tons,  was  lake  cargo  coal.  Illi- 
nois furnished  319,370  tons:  Wyoming.  152,350  tons. 
All-rail  shipments  from  other  producing  states  were  as 
follows:  Colorado.  12^598  tons:  Indiana.  3,897  tons: 
Iowa,  24,120;  Kentucky.  89,220;  Montana.  25.T02; 
North  Dakota,  5,000;  Virginia.  4.000:  West  Virginia, 
10,833  tons.  The  entire  production  within  the  state, 
10,593  tons,  was  consumed  there. 

While  the  lignite  deposits  have  probably  been  worked 
in  a  small  way  locally  for  a  number  of  years,  the  first 
government  report  of  production  was  for  1913,  when 
10.540  tons  of  lignite  were  mined  in  Dewey.  Harding 
Meade  and  Perkins  counties.  The  principal  production 
that  year  was  in  Perkins  county.  8,925  tons.  Pro- 
duction in  1914  totaled  11.850  tons.  Perkins  county 
output  fell  to  G.083  tons,  while  Dewey  jumped  from  858 
tons  to  4,855  tons.  Production  in  1915  fell  to  10,593 
tons,  with  losses  in  all  counties  hut  Dewey  and  Harding. 
In  191G  the  output  further  declined  to  8,880  tons. 


403 


COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


SOUTH    DAKOTA 


ROBKRT  ARJiDT,  proprietor  Aberdeen  Coal  Co..  Aberdeen, 
South  Dakota,  was  born  in  Germany  January  23,  1869,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  Mr.  Arndt  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Geo.  B.   Nicol. 

JAMES  MORKY  BENNETT,  President  Bennett  Grain  Co., 
Plandreau,  South  Dakota,  was  born  February  17,  1866,  at 
Ripon,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
three  years.  Mr.  Bennett  was  previously  connected  with 
Hodges  &  Hyde  for  eight  years  and  the  S.  Y.  Hyde  Elevator 
Co.   for   thirteen  years. 

W.  C.  ROORMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Howard,  South 
Dakota,  was  born  in  Waterloo,  Wisconsin,  January  18,  1856, 
and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

C.  E.  BJORNSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Lebanon,  South 
Dakota,  was  born  in  1853  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  four  years. 

FRASK  R.  BRIIMWELL,  who  handles  coal  at  retail  at 
Huron,  South  Dakota,  was  born  July  3,  1859,  in  Vinton,  Iowa, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  thirty-five  years. 
Mr.  Brumwell  also  handles  lumber  and  farm  implements, 
with  branches  at  Cavour,  Vayland,  St.  Lawrence,  Sioux  Falls, 
and  Parker,  South  Dakota. 

WAITER  C.  BUCHANAN,  Secretary  and  General  Manager 
W.  C.  Buchanan  Lumber  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Sioux  Falls, 
South  Dakota,  was  born  August  3.  1876,  in  Howard  County. 
Iowa,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years. 
Mr.  Buchanan  was  previously  connected  with  the  John  W. 
Tuthill  Lumber  Co.  and  St.  Anthony  &  Dakota  Elevator  Co. 

WM.  J.  BUTTSCHAU,  President  and  Manager  German 
Grain  Co.,  with  headquarters  at  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  This  com- 
pany operates  a  large  number  of  retail  yards  through  the 
Northwest. 

ERNEST  CAVE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Consumers  Fuel 
&  Ice  Co.  of  Watertown,  South  Dakota,  was  born  in  Ontario, 
Canada,  November  29,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  eight  years.  Mr.  Cave  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Cave  Coal  Co.,  Burlington,  Iowa,  and  the  Old  Ben  Coal 
Corp.,   Chicago. 

LOUIS  DORNBUSH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Pollock,  South 
Dakota,  was  born  April  13,  1867,  at  Muskegon,  Michigan,  and 
has  been  handling  coal  for  about  fourteen  years.  Previous 
to  going  into  business  for  himself  Mr.  Dornbush  was  con- 
nected with  DeBoer  &  Dornbush. 

H.  B.  ENCEL,  Redfield,  South  Dakota,  was  born  December 
29,  1871.  at  Jordan.  Minnesota,  and  has  been- in  the  retail  coal 
business  for  ten  years. 

JOHN  FITZGIBBON,  Manager  The  Sioux  Falls  Fuel  Co., 
Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  was  born  at  Troy,  New  York,  in 
1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years. 
Mr.  FitzGibbon  was  previously  connected  with  J.  W.  Sheri- 
dan &  Co. 

J.  A.  GR1SDALE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  German  Grain 
Co.,  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years,  handling  both  the  retail  and  jobbing 
trade. 

SVEN  JOHN  HAGG,  President  and  General  Manager  Sioux 
Lumber  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  McLaughlin,  South  Dakota, 
was  born  April  10,  1870.  in  Sweden,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  This  firm  has  a  branch  at  Shields, 
North    Dakota. 


FRANK  E.  HULBERT,  Manager  Hulbert-Benjamin  Lum- 
ber Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Frederick,  South  Dakota,  was 
born  in  1870  at  Melrose,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  eleven  years. 

O.  T.  LITCHFIELD,  Treasurer  and  Buyer  J.  F.  Anderson 
Lumber  Co.,  Mitchell,  South  Dakota,  was  born  May  13,  1870, 
in  Yankton,  South  Dakota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Litchfield  was  previously  connected 
with  the  Davis  &  Daniels  Co. 

JOHN  PHILLIP  McELROY,  Sales  Agent  for  the  Sheridan 
Coal  Co.,  Rapid  City,  South  Dakota,  was  born  November  4, 
1864,  at  Beverly,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  McElroy  is  also  interested  in  the 
Rapid  City  Fuel  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Rapid  City.  He 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Big  Horn  Collieries  Co. 
and  the  Colorado  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  o'f  Denver,  Colorado. 

WM.  G.  MILNE,  who  handles  coal  at  retail,  together  with 
grain  and  milling,  at  Dell  Rapids,  South  Dakota,  was  born 
in  Canada,  September  8,  I860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  for   fifteen   years. 

HARRY'  T.  PARMLEY,  owner  of  the  retail  coal  firm  of  H. 
T.  Parmley,  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  was  born  August  7, 
1860,  at  Janesville,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-nine  years.  Mr.  Parmley  is  coal  representa- 
tive of  Sioux  Falls  in  the  Rotary  Club  and  has  served  as 
Warden  of  the  State  Penitentiary. 

FRANK  E.  PORTEOUS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Mitchell, 
South  Dakota,  was  born  May  30,  1882,  at  Ethan,  South 
Dakota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

CLARENCE  F.  ROURKE.  member  of  the  retail  coal  firm 
of  Mullen  &  Rourke,  Deadwood,  South  Dakota,  was  born 
April  9,  1879.  at  Henderson,  Michigan,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  ten  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with  Mullen  &  Munn  of  Deadwood.  Mr.  Rourke  was  for 
three  years  a  Director  in  the  Northwestern  Retail  Coal 
Dealers  Association,  and  has  been  a  Director  from  South 
Dakota  for  the  past  two  years  in  the  Northwestern  Traffic 
and  Service  Bureau. 

A.  C.  SCHOENEMAN,  Secretary  Schoeneman  Bros.  Co.,  re- 
tailers of  coal  at  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  was  born  March 

18,  1876,  in  Walnut,  Iowa,  and  has  been  connected  with  this 
company  twenty-two  years.  Schoeneman  Bros.  Co.  oper- 
ate fourteen  other  branches. 

JOHN  H,  SCHROEIJER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Geddes, 
South  Dakota,  was  born  February  22,  1868,  in  Illinois,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  Previous  to  going 
into  business  for  himself  Mr.  Schroeder  was  connected  with 
the  Fullerton   Lumber  Co.  of  Minneapolis. 

JOHN  H.  SELMSER,  Secretary  and  Manager  Selmser  Fuel 
&  Grain  Co.,  Watertown,  South  Dakota,  was  born  March  18. 
1871,  at  Johnstown,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Selmser  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  G.  W.  Van  Dusen  &  Co.  for  thirteen  years  and 
later   with   McBath   &   Selmser. 

JOHN  SNESS,  Manager  Menno  Lumber  Co.,  retailers  of 
coal  at  Menno,  South  Dakota,  was  born  in  Menno,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

J.  J.  STEHLY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hecla,  South  Da- 
kota, was  born  September  3,  1860,  at  Lakeville,  Minnesota, 
and  has  been   In   the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

EDWARD  A.  YVEARNE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Webster. 
South  Dakota,  was  born  at  Hazel  Green.  Wisconsin,  August 

19,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 


404 


TENNESSEE 


TENNESSEE  ranks  thirteenth  among  the  coal 
producing  states  of  the  Union.  That  it  does  not 
come  higher  in  the  list  is  due  to  its  location  With 
■ectto  other  southern  producing  states,  notahly  Ken- 
tucky. Alabama  and  Virginia;  that  it  does  not  fall  lower 
is  due  to  the  high  quality  of  certain  of  its  well-known 
preparations  which  have  enabled  the  operators  in  the 
favored  fields  to  maintain  markets  in  the  lace  of  lower 
production  costs  in  competing  districts.  The  foregoing 
generalization,  of  course,  has  particular  reference  to  con- 
ditions that  existed  prior  to  the  fall  and  winter  of  191 G. 
Prior  to  that  period  competition  had  been  bringing 
down  production  from  the  banner  year  of  1010  so  that 
in  1915  the  total  output  of  the  state  was  the  lowest 
since  1904.  Since  the  period  first  referred  to  produc- 
tion has  again  been  on  the  upward  trend,  the  gain  for 
1916  over  1915  being  107,088  tons,  or  approximately  7 
per  cent. 

The  United  States  Geological  Survey  estimates  that 
about  4,400  square  miles  of  Tennessee  territory  are  un- 
derlaid with  coal  and  that  by  far  the  greater  portion  of 
the  area  contains  one  or  more  beds  of  workable  fuel. 
The  known  measures  cross  the  entire  state  in  a  north- 
east-southwest direction,  with  a  width  of  about  70  miles 
at  the  Kentucky  state  line  and  about  20  miles  less  at 
the  Tennessee-Alabama-Georgia  boundary.  Only  the 
highest  land  at  the  southern  em!  of  that  part  of  the  field 
lying  within  Tennessee  contains  coal. 

The  Tennessee  coal  measures  are  part  of  the  great 
Appalachian  coal  region  which  has  contributed  so  much 
to  the  development  and  prosperity  of  the  eastern  and 
southeastern  part  of  the  United  States.  The  greater 
part  of  the  workable  Tennessee  portions  of  this  region 
lie  in  the  Wartburg,  Walden  and  Sewanee  basins.  The 
Cumberland  basin  of  Kentucky  extends  from  the  Mid- 
dlesboro  field  to  F.Ik  Valley  and  contains  over  3.900 
feet  of  beds.  Brysou  Mountain,  in  Claiborne  county, 
is  -aid  to  contain  96  feet  of  coal,  including  1:5  beds  of 
Workable  thickness.  Seven  of  these  beds  range  in  thick- 
Dess  from   1  to  ti'/a  feet. 

The  Wartburg  basin,  lying  north  of  Emory  river,  in- 
cludes parts  of  Scott.  Anderson  and  Morgan  counties 
and  is  continuous  northward  with  the  commercially  well- 
known  Jellico  basin  of  Tennessee  and* Kentucky.  De- 
velopment  has  been   practically  confined  to  coals  about 


the  margins  of  this  basin,  the  more  important  being  in 
the  Briceville  shale,  where  the  bed  attains  a  thickness 
of  from  three  to  four  feet. 

The  Walden  basin  is  a  narrow  trough  extending  south- 
westwardly  from  the  Emory  river  to  the  Georgia  state 
line.  It  contains  at  least  Seven  workable  beds,  of  which 
the  most  important  one  lies  at  or  near  the  horizon  of  the 
Sewanee.  The  latter  basin  is  also  a  long  and  narrow 
trough,  paralleling  the  Walden  and  separated  from  it 
by  the  Sequatchie  Valley.  The  most  important  of  the 
several  beds  here  found  is  the  Sewanee,  which  has  an 
average  thickness  of  four  feet  over  a  wide  area.  The 
principal  commercial  development  has  been  along  the 
western  margin  of  the  Sequatchie  Valley  and  in  the 
"outliers"  of  the  coal  bed  occupying  the  summit  of  the 
Cumberland  plateau. 

Commercial  development  of  the  coal  resources  of  the 
state  was  begun  in  1840  or  very  shortly  before  that 
date.  The  United  States  Census  for  that  year 
credits  Tennessee  with  an  output  of  558  tons.  Pro- 
duction showed  a  gradual  growth  during  the  next  20 
years,  the  output  reported  for  1860  being  165,300  tons. 
Development  was  retarded  during  the  Civil  war,  but  a 
modest  recovery  was  effected  within  a  few  years  after 
the  close  of  hostilities  and  the  1,000,000-ton  mark  was 
reached  in  1883.  Increase  as  a  whole  proceeded  at  a 
steady  rate  until  1910  when  the  output  reached  7,121,- 
380  tons.  The  high  water  mark  set  in  that  year  was  not 
passed  in  the  six  years  following.  Detailed  statistics 
of  production  since  1883  follow: 


Year.  Ton. 

1883 1,000,000 

1884 1,200,000 

1885 1,440,957 

1886 1,714,290 

1887 1,900,000 

1888.. 1,967,297 

1889 1,925,689 

1890 2,169,585 

1891 2,413,678 

1892 2,092,064 

1893 1,902,258 

1894 2,180,879 

1895 2,535,644 

1896 2,663,106 

1897 2,888,849 

1898 3,02*2,896 

1899 3,330,659 


Year.  Ton. 

1900 3,509,562 

1901 3,633,290 

1902 4,382,968 

1903 4,798,004 

1904 4,782,211 

1905 5,766,690 

1906 6,259,275 

1907 6,810,243 

1908 6,199,171 

1909 6,358,645 

1910 7,121,380 

1911 6,433,156 

1912 6,473,228 

1913 6,903,784 

1914 5,943,258 

1915 5,730,361 

1916 6,137,449 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


Railroad  fuel  demands,  coal  for  coking  for  use  in  the 
southern  furnaces,  and  the  industrial  demands  of  the 
cotton  interests  take  the  bulk  of  the  steam  sizes  pro- 
duced in  Tennessee.  The  coal  from  the  northeastern 
part  of  the  state  (Jellico  seam)  has  a  high  standing  in 
the  South  as  a  domestic  fuel  and  some  of  the  Tennessee 
product  also  finds  its  way  north  of  the  Ohio  river.  Un- 
der normal  conditions  (using  1915  as  a  basis)  approxi- 
mately 23  per  cent,  of  the  total  output  of  the  mines,  or 
1,340,737  tons,  is  consumed  within  the  state.  This 
state  consumption  is  made  up  as  follows :  Used  at 
mines,  167,5G0;  sold  locally,  71,071;  shipped  to  intra- 
state points,  785,968 ;  made  into  coke  at  the  mines,  316.- 
138  tons.  Over  half  the  production  of  the  year,  3,375,- 
461  tons,  was  used  by  the  railroads.  Less  than  20  per 
cent,  was  shipped  to  interstate  destinations  for  general 
industrial  and  steam  consumption.  Interstate  shipments 
for  that  year  totaled  1,014,163  tons  and  were  distributed 
as  follows :  Alabama,  48,942 ;  Florida,  26,886 ;  Georgia, 
481,271;  Indiana,  22,590;  Kentucky,  185,580;  Michi- 
gan, 240;  the  Carolinas,  168,512;  Ohio,  23,974  and 
Texas,  56,168  tons. 

As  a  coal  consumer  Tennessee,  in  common  with  many 
other  southern  states  where  climatic- conditions  are  gen- 
erally mild,  does  not  measure  up  to  the  country  per  cap- 


ita and  per  square  mile  averages.  Bituminous  consump- 
tion per  capita  for  1915  was  1.26  tons,  as  compared  with 
a  country  average  of  2.04  tons,  and  the  anthracite  con- 
sumption was  so  small  that  it  does  not  figure  into  the 
grand  average,  which  is  2.82  tons  (anthracite  and  bitu- 
minous combined)  for  the  United  States  as  a  whole. 
The  square  mile  consumption  was  85  tons,  against  an 
average  for  the  country  of  123  tons.  Upon  the  basis  of 
actual  figures,  however — 3,599,638  tons  of  bituminous 
coal  and  approximately  9,000  tons  of  anthracite — Ten- 
nessee consumption  compared  very  favorably  with  that 
of  other  states  in  the  same  general  territory. 

Nearly  80  per  cent,  of  the  fuel  requirements  of  the 
state  came  from  Kentucky  and  Tennessee  mines.  The 
product  shipped  in  from  Kentucky,  1,560,776  tons,  rep- 
resented approximately  43  per  cent,  of  the  total  coal 
consumed,  while  that  furnished  by  the  Tennessee  mines, 
1,340,776  tons,  represented  slightly  less  than  36  per 
cent.  Virginia  ranked  third  as  a  source  of  supply  with 
a  contribution  of  373,244  tons;  Alabama  came  fourth 
with  161,754  tons.  Six  other  states  also  shared  in  the 
Tennessee  business  of  the  year  with  the  following  ton- 
nages: Arkansas,  15,258;  Georgia,  7,359;  Illinois,  68,- 
559  j  Indiana,  33  j  Pennsylvania,  30,613,  and  West  Vir- 
ginia, 1,305  tons. 


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JOHN  EVAVUER  FATTOX.  «  hat  (iiim.okh.    IViinpxiiee, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Sawanee  l-'in-l  £  Iron  Co.  of 
Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  was  born  In  Marlon  County,  Ten- 
nessee, November  4,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen  years.  Mr.  Patton  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Con- 
ger Coal  Co.  He  has  also  been  Vice  President  pf  tho  South- 
fi'ii  Appalachian  Coal  Operators  Association  and  has  exten- 
alva  business  interests  in  this  section. 


ILIFF    (OXfiEH,    <   li  .-■  r  i :,, -  :, .    Trnnemer, 

President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Conger  Coal  Co.  of  Chatta- 
nooga, Tennessee,  was  born  at  Fayetteville,  Tennessee,  De- 
cember 22,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  two  years. 
He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Sewanee  Fuel  &  Iron  Co. 


JAMES    MEIIAEI'EV    ADAMS.   in i;>i.  TrnnruM*. 

Secretary  Sewanee  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.,  Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 
was  born  January  3,  1892,  at  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  eight  years.  He  is  also  Secretary 
of  the  Conger  Coal  Co.  and  has  many  friends  In  the  trade. 


6EOHCE  \V.  STKPIIKXNO.X,  Chattanooga,  TennruM, 
Sales  Manager  Sewanee  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  of  Chattanoga,  Ten- 
nessee, wan  born  December  18,  1880,  at  Knoxville,  Tennessee, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  waa 
previously  connected  with  the  Jellico  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Mr. 
Stephenson  has  a  wide  acquaintance  in  the  trade  and  has 
many   warm   friends. 


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HARRY    I  .   CORY,  Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 

Owner  of  the  H.  L.  Cory  Coal  Co.  of  Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 
was  born  March  26,  1875,  in  Washburn,  Wisconsin,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  He  is  also 
President  of  the  Pineville  Coal  Co.  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Indian  Head  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Cory  was  formerly  Vice 
President  and  Sales  Manager  of  the  Continental  Coal  Co. 
and  Federal  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Southern  Appalachian  Coal  Op- 
erators Association. 


HARRY    H.    BONNEY, 
Chattanooga,   Tennessee, 

President  of  the  H.  B.  Bonney  Coal  Co. 
of  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  was  born 
September  28,  1884,  in  Shelby  County, 
Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  sixteen  years.  He  was 
previously  connected  with  the  New 
Etna  Coal  Co.  and  was  Secretary  of 
the  Kentucky-Tennessee  Coal  Co. 


REED  CLEVELAND  FITZGERALD,  Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 

Sales  Manager  of  the  Federal  Coal  Co.,  Chattanooga,  Ten- 
nessee, was  born  December  3,  1882,  at  Danville.  Kentucky, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Procter  Coal  Co.  of  Knoxville 
for  five  years.  Mr.  Fitzgerald  is  very  popular  in  the  trade 
and  enjoys  an  unusually  wide  acquaintance  among  the  re- 
tailers in  the  South. 


PHILIP   FRANCIS,  Jellico,  Tennessee, 

Superintendent  of  the  Proctor  Coal  Co.  of  Jellico,  Tennessee, 
was  born  June  7,  1853,  at  Danville,  Pennsylvania,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  about  fifty-five  years.  Mr.  Francis' 
is  also  interested  in  the  Power  Coal  Co.  and  is  a  Director  in 
the  East  Tennessee  Coal  Co.  and  the  Bennett  Jellico  Coal 
Co.  He  worked  through  every  department  of  mining  to  the 
top.    and   has    organized    several    successful   companies. 


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J.  L.   SI/USHER. 
Jellico,   Tennessee, 

President  of  the  Bvans-Jellico  Coal  Co., 
Jellico,  Tennessee,  was  born  July  28, 
1878,  at  Pineville,  Kentucky,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Evans  Blue  Gem  Co.  Mr.  Slusher  was 
previously  connected  with  the  Ten- 
nessee Jellico  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Slusher's 
companies  produce  the  Tennessee  Jelli- 
co Cook  Coal  and  the  Famous  Blue  Gem 
Coal. 


LEONARD   E.   WOODY, 
Jellico,  Tennessee, 

General  Manager  of  the  Blue  Gem  Coal 
Co.,  Jellico,  Tennessee,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 3,  1884.  at  Marion,  Kentucky,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  four 
years.  Mr.  Woody  was  previously  con- 
nected with  the  Nebo  Consolidated  Coal 
&  Coke  Co. 


MAJOR    E.    V.    CAMP,    Knoxville,   Tennessee, 

President  of  the  Coal  Creek  Coal  Co.  of  Knoxville,  Tennessee, 
was  born  August  1,  1839,  in  Knox  County,  Ohio,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  about  fifty  years.  Major  Camp 
was  appointed  United  States  District  Attorney  by  President 
Grant  in  1869,  which  office  he  held  for  one  term.  He  is  a 
lawyer  by  profession  but  has  personally  looked  after  the 
management  of  his  coal  interests  all  these  years  and  now 
has  extensive   realty   holdings   in   Knoxville. 


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GUY  DARST,  Knoxville,  Tennessee, 
Sales  Manager  of  the  Bewley-Darst  Coal  Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was 
born  October  23,  1878,  In  Lynchburg,  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Darst  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Virginia  Iron,  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  as  Sales  Manager  and  ranks  as  one  of 
the  able  and   enterprising  operators   of   the   South. 


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EDGAR   CLYDE   MAHAN,   Knoxville,   Tennessee, 

General  Manager  Sales  Department  Southern  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Knox- 
ville, was  born  in  Williamsburg,  Kentucky,  September  25,  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Mahan  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  New  Caryville  Coal  Co.,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  South- 
ern Mining  Co.,  and  President  of  the  Southern  Appalachian  Coal 
Operators'  Association.  Mr.  Mahan  is  highly  respected  in  the  coal 
trade  and  is  considered  one  of  the  leaders  among  the  Southern  oper- 
ators. 


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HOWELL,    J.   DAVIS,   Knoxville,  Tennessee, 

President  East  Tennessee  Coal  Co.,  Knoxville,  is  a  native 
of  Knoxville,  and  was  born  September  26,  1875.  Mr.  Davis 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years  and  was 
formerly  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Jellico  Coal  Mining  Co. 
He  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  First  Creek  Coal  Co. 
He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Southern  Appalachian 
Coal  Operators  Association  and  Director  of  the  National 
Coal  Association,  and  is  now  on  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  former.  Mr.  Davis  is  popular  in  the  trade  and  has  a 
wide   acquaintance   throughout   the   South. 


WILLIAM    E.   DAVIS,   Lexington,    Kentucky, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Midland  Mining 
Co.,  Lexington,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Knoxville,  Ten- 
nessee, December  7,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  nineteen  years.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the 
East  Tennessee  Coal  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  Kenmont 
Coal  Co.,  Kentucky  Block  Coal  Co.,  Kentucky  Jewel  Coal 
Co..  and  Elk  Fork  Coal  Co.  He  sold  recently  his  interest 
in  the  First  Creek  Coal  Co.  of  which  he  was  President  and 
General  Manager.  He  is  the  pioneer  of  the  Hazard  coal 
fields  in  Kentucky  and  has  equipped  and  operated  some  of 
the   best  properties  in   that  field. 


FRANK    C.    RICHMOND,    SR.,    Knoxville,    Tennessee, 

Secretary  East  Tennessee  Coal  Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was 
born  near  Sterchi,  New  York,  October  19,  1848,  and  has  been 
with  the  East  Tennessee  Coal  Co.  for  forty-two  years.  Mr. 
Richmond  is  one  of  the  deans  of  the  Tennessee  coal  trade 
and   is   highly  regarded  in   that  section. 


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CEORGE    II.    BILLINGSLEY,    Memphis, 

President  Bannon  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Mem- 
phis, was  born  in  Elizabeth,  Pennsyl- 
vania. March  27,  1860.  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  forty-flve  years, 
starting  work  in  the  mines  at  eight 
years  of  age.  He  remained  in  his  na- 
tive town  until  thirty-four  years  of 
age  and  then  went  to  M'emphis  in  1884. 
In  1892  he  organized  the  Bannon  Coal 
Co.  and  in  1902  started  business  under 
the  present  Arm  name.  In  1912  Mr. 
Billingsley's  twin  brother  died,  and 
that  leaving  no  one  in  the  company 
but  himself  and  his  brother's  estate, 
Mr,  Billingsley  then  incorporated  the 
Bannon  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  for  $120,000 
paid-up  stock,  all  held  by  himself  and 
brother's  estate.  The  corporation  has 
an  ice  plant,  making  120  tons  of  ice 
per  day,  and  an  increasing  coal  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Billingsley  and  his  broth- 
er's three  sons,  who  are  very  bright 
young  business  men  like  their  father, 
put  their  life  and  soul  in  the  business. 
Frank  W.  Billingsley,  the  eldest  of  the 
three  sons,  is  General  Manager  of  the 
ice  plant  and  is  a  great  factor  in 
making  the  business  a  success.  George 
R.  Billingsley  is  a  great  fraternal  man, 
being  a  Mason,  Shriner,  Elk,  Eagle, 
Moose,  Knight  of  Pythias,  and  Odd 
Fellow.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Gibraltar  Coal  &  Mining  Co., 
Mercer,  Kentucky,  and  shortly  after 
its  formation  bought  the  Dove  Coal  & 
Mining  Co.,  also  of  Mercer.  He  Is  also 
interested  in  the  gold  mines  of  Cripple 
Creek.  Colorado,  and  Is  a  stockholder 
and  a  Director  of  the  Sonora  Gold  & 
Silver  Mining  Co.  of  Sonora,  Mexico. 


ROBERT    LEE    BROWN,   Memphis,  Tennessee, 

President  Brown  Coal  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee,  was  born  at 
Obion,  Tennessee,  December  30,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Brown  is  also 
President  of  the  Gibraltar  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Mercer  Coal 
Co.,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Ohio  Val- 
ley Coal  Operators'  Association  and  a  member  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  West  Kentucky  Conservation   Association. 


SHIRLEY  H.  KRANER,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
Secretary  Southern  Coal  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee,   was  born 
in    Trenton,    Tennessee,    November   3,    1873,   and    has    been    in 
the  coal  business  twenty-five   years. 


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WILLIAM  T.  C.  BERLIN,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 

President  Hunt-Berlin  Coal  Co.,  Memphis,  is  a  native  of 
Memphis,  born  in  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-six  years.  Mr.  Berlin  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Broadway  Coal  Co.  and  Berlin  Coal  Co.  He  is  Chairman 
of  the  Memphis  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association  and  a 
member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Retail 
Coal  Merchants  Association.  He  is  very  popular  and  has 
many  friends  in  the   coal   trade. 


WILLIAM  JUNIUS  PRESCOTT,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 

Vice  President  Hunt-Berlin  Coal  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
was  born  in  Memphis  September  25,  1875,  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Prescott  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  Hunt 
Bros.  Mr.  Prescott  is  a  Director  of  the  National  Coal  Jobbers 
Association  and  is  one  of  the  most  popular  coalmen  in  the 
trade. 


II  \  1  lis*    G.    LEE,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 

President  Bohlen-Huse  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  four  years. 


FREDERICK  MORGAN  McDOXALD, 
Memphis,  Tennessee, 

President  and  General  Manager  Mc- 
Donald Coal  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
was  born  at  Plum  Point,  Mississippi, 
January  20,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 
Mr.  McDonald  is  also  interested  in  the 
Liberty  Coal  Mining  Co.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Broadway 
Coal  Co.  and  is  Secretary  of  the  Retail 
Coal  Dealers  Association.  His  experi- 
ence in  the  coal  business  includes  the 
retailing,  jobbing  and   mining  ends. 


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,11  \i:    II.   hi  IIIS1I.I,,   MemphiM.  Tennessee, 

President  Memphis  Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  Memphis,  was  born  in 
Brownsville,  Tennessee,  February  10,  1876,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years.  Mr.  Rudisill  is 
President  Latura-Whitten  Coal  Co.,  Secretary  Hunt-Berlin 
Coal  Co.  and  Galloway-Eberhart  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Rudisill  Coal  Co.  He  is  well  known  in 
coal   trade   circles. 


WILLIAM   \V.   SIMMONS,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 

General  Manager  Broadway  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Memphis,  was 
born  in  Courtland,  Alabama,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty  years.  Mr.  Simmons  is  President  of  the  Broad- 
way Coal  Mining  Co.  and  a  member  of  Western  Kentucky 
Coal  Operators  Association,  Ohio  Valley  Coal  Operators 
Association    and    West    Kentucky    Conservation    Association. 


JOHN     J.     n  Mill  M. II.     JR.,    Memphis,      I  .-.....- 

General  Manager  Consumers  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Memphis,  was 
born  February  7,  1876,  In  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  reared  in 
the  city  of  Memphis,  later  attending  the  University  of 
Tennessee  in  Knoxville.  In  1898  he  entered  the  service 
of  the  Consumers  Ice  Co.,  and  when  the  name  was  changed 
In  1912  to  the  Consumers  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  assumed  charge 
of  the  coal  department.  Mr.  Darragh  is  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Board  of  the  Memphis  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association. 


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WILLIAM    HKXRY   LIXDSET,   Nashville,  Tennessee, 

President  Crescent  Coal  Co.,  Nashville,  Tennessee,  is  a  native 
of  Nashville,  born  July  6,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Lindsey  is  Vice  President 
of  the  Napier  Iron  Works,  whose  furnaces  and  iron  ore  In- 
terests are  located  in  Tennessee,  and  is  closely  identified 
with  many  other  large  and   important  corporate  interests. 


FRED   PARKER  WRIGHT,  Bevler,  Kentucky, 

General  Manager  Crescent  Coal  Co.,  Bevier,  Kentucky,  was 
born  in  Winchester,  Massachusetts,  December  5,  1850,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Wright 
has  been  Vice  President  and  President  of  the  West  Ken- 
tucky Coal  Operators  Association  for  twelve  years.  Presi- 
dent Kentucky  Mining  Institute,  and  a  member  of  the 
American  Mining  Congress.  He  is  one  of  the  best  known 
and   highly  regarded   operators   in   the  West  Kentucky  field. 


HIGHLAND     COAL     &     LVMHER     CO., 
Nashville,    Tennessee, 

Originally  started  out  to  mine  coal  for 
its  own  use,  but  gradually  developed 
its  property — 11,000  acres  of  its  own 
land  and  2,000  acres  of  leased  land — so 
as  to  distribute  coal,  estimated  annual 
tonnage  of  300,000  tons,  in  the  states 
of  Tennessee,  Georgia  and  Florida. 

The  company  was  organized  in  1912, 
and  its  officers  are:  W.  B.  Davidson, 
President;  C.  B.  Benedict,  Vice  Presi- 
dent; L.  Clark,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; J.  A.  Sutton,  Sales  Manager. 


C.      KEITH       VAUGHN, 
Nashville,  Tennessee, 

Proprietor  Keith  Vaughn  Coal  Co., 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  August 
18,  1886.  in  Nashville,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  four  years  He 
is  one  of  the  enterprising  retailers  in 
his   city. 


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TENNESSEE  —  Chattanooga 

JOHN  K.  BARNES,  Owner  of  the  J.  R.  Barnes  Coal  Co.  of 
Chattanooga.  Tennessee,  was  born  October  30,  1868,  at 
Gainesville,  Alabama,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-nine  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Big  Moun- 
tain Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Vice  President  of  the  Hibbler- 
Barnes  Co.  and  of  the  Kentucky-Tennessee  Coal  Co.  He  was 
formerly   associated   with  Barney   Bros. 

T.  ODELL  III  SBEE,  Vice  President  of  th«  United  States 
Fuel  Corp.,  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  was  born  July  11,  1888, 
In  Augusta,  Georgia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eiKlit  years.  Mr.  Busbee  has  been  connected  with  the  Roth 
Coal  Co.,  H.  T.  Hackney  Coal  Co.,  and  Southern  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  all  of  Knoxville,  and  has  been  Chairman  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Knoxville  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Asso- 
on. 

>l  I  \  MM. 1M.  A  V  Assistant  Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the 
Retail  Department  of  the  Durham  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Chatta- 
nooga. Tennessee,  was  born  November  1,  1886,  in  Chatta- 
oooga,  and  baa  been  In  tin*  coal  business  thirteen  years.  Mr. 
Ullllgan  was  formerly  connected  Willi  the  New  Soddy  Coal 
Co.,  Fox  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Sale  Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

WILLIAM  .1.  \l\ov.  General  Manager  Fentress  Coal  Co., 
Chattanooga.  Tennessee,  was  born  May  7,  1878,  in  Chatta- 
nooga, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He 
is  also  Vice  President  of  the  -Catoosa  Coal  Mining  Co.  and 
Qeneral  Manager  of  The  Wallins  Creek  Collieries  Co.  Mr. 
Nixon  was  previously  Sales  Agent  for  the  Cumberland  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  and  General  Manager  of  the  Nixon  Coal  Mining 
Co. 

JOHN  F.  WALTER,  President  United  States  Coal  Co.,  Chat- 
tanooga, Tennessee,  was  born  in  Scranton,  Pennsylvania. 
July  4,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 
Mr.  Walter  is  also  President  of  the  Dixie  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 
and   Vice  President  of  the  Tracy  City  Coal  Co. 

F.  HKKS  WOOLFORD,  proprietor  Woolford  Coal  Co.  of 
Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Woolford.  Maryland, 
July  27,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-six 
years. 


TENNESSEE  —  Knoxville 

EDWARD  l»K  MOTT  ATTI.Y.  Assistant  General  Manager 
cross  Mountain  Coal  Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born 
in  Knoxville  September  25,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  about  eighteen  years.  He  is  Assistant  General 
Manager  of  the  Volunteer  Coal  Co.,  the  Shamrock  Coal  Co., 
and    the    Knoxville    Iron  Co. 

LLBXANDEB  honnvman.  President  Blue  Diamond  Coal 
Co.  with  headquarters  at  Knoxville.  Tennessee,  and  prin- 
cipal sales  office  at  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  was  born  in  Scotland 
forty-eight  years  ago,  but  was  educated  as  an  Engineer  in 
the  Kentucky  State  University,  t'p  to  six  years  ago  be  was 
a  well-known  railroad  man  in  the  South,  having  built  the 
Atlanta,  Birmingham  &  Atlantic  Railroad.  He  was  Chief 
Engineer  of  the  Atlantic  it  Birmingham  Const  ruction  Co.. 
Which  spent  several  million  dollars  in  eoal  and  iron  devel- 
opment in  the  Birmingham  (Alabama)  district,  and  in 
building  extensive  ship  terminals  on  the  South  Atlantic 
t.  He  Is  President  of  the  Campbell  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Westbourne  Coal  Co.,  8tar bourne  Coal  Co.,  EUghclitt  Coal 
Co.,    and    the    Calvin    Holmes    Coal    Co, 

AHEL  If,  BROWN,  proprietor  of  the  Blue  Gem  Coal  Co.  of 
Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  In  June.  1856,  in  Knox  Coun- 
ty, Tennessee,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty- 
years. 

WILMS  P.  IJAVIS.  General  Manager  Cross  Mountain  Coal 
Co.  anil  Knoxville  Iron  Co..  Knoxville.  Tennessee,  was  born 
October  2,  1859  In  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the 
eoal  business  over  twenty  years.  He  Is  President  of  the  Coal 
k  operators  Association  and  Vice  President  of  the 
Southern  Appalachian  Coal   Operators   Association. 

L.  R.  EAGER,  President  and  General  Manager  Standard 
Jellico  Mining  Co.,  Knoxville.  Tennessee,  was  born  March 
16.  1881,  at  Volga.  South  Dakota,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years. 

WILLIAM  J.  EVERETT.  Secretary-Treasurer  Jellico  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  June  18.  1867, 
at  Campbell,  Tennessee,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
for  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Everett  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer 
of  the  Bon  Jellico  Coal  Co. 

FRANK  FULLER  FLOVIl.  Vice  President  and  Sales  Man- 
ager of  the  Jellico  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  Sales  Manager  of 
Bon  Jellico  Coal  Co..  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in 
North  Carolina,  August  15.  1874.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirteen  years.  Mr.  Floyd  was  active  In  the 
organization  of  the  Appalachian  Coal  Operators  Association 
at   the  time  of  its   formation. 


.1.  FRITZ  FO.V,  proprietor  of  Martin  &  Fox.  doing  a  whole- 
sale and  retail  coal  business  at  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  is  a 
native  of  Knoxville.  born  July  13,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Fox  has  been  Treasurer 
of  the  Kentucky  and  Tennessee  Retail  Coal  Merchants  Asso- 
ciation and   is  well   known   in  the   trade. 

JOSEPH  PERRY  GAl'T,  Secretary-Treasurer  Pruden  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  Knoxville.  Tennessee,  was  born  April  15,  1867, 
at  Cleveland,  Tennessee,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eleven  years.  Mr.  <!aut  is  also  Interested  in  the  Black 
creek  Coal  Co.  and  First  Creek  Coal  Co. 

VICTOR  NEWTON  HACKER.  President  Pruden  Coal  &. 
Coke  Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Greenville,  Ten- 
nessee, July  22,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eleven  years.  Mr.  Hacker  Is  also  interested  in  the  Back 
Creek  Coal  Co.  and  First  Creek  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  >lc<ll  EEN,  Sales  Manager  Cherokee  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Tennessee  in  1889, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  Mr.  Mc- 
Queen is  also  President  of  the  Buckeye  Coal  Mining  Co. 

CHARLES  F.  ROTH,  proprietor  of  the  Roth  Coal  Co., 
Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  March  18,  1855.  in  Knoxville, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Roth  is  also  President  of  the  local  coal  dealers  association 
and  was  President  of  the  Southern  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Asso- 
ciation and  has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  bettering 
trade   conditions. 

ED.  H.  STEGALL,  General  Manager  Cherokee  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Tennessee  June  28, 
1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr. 
Stegall  is  Vice  President  of  the  Piedmont  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Buckeye  Coal  Mining  Co. 

THOMAS  P.  WITHER  SPOON,  proprietor  Witherspoon  Coal 
Co.,  Knoxville,  Tennesse,  was  born  at  Oak  Forest,  Missis- 
sippi, May  9,  1882,  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  for 
ten  years. 

TENNESSEE  —  Memphis 

ROBERT  AHKEMIllu;  BRIDGES,  President  and  General 
Manager  Coradine-Bridges  Coal  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
was  born  in  Livermore,  Kentucky,  December  16,  1880,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  Mr. 
Bridges  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Black  Diamond 
Coal  &  Mining  Co. 

LOUIS  A.  CARLISLE,  Vice  President  and  Manager  La  wo 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  LaFay- 
ette,  Alabama,  February  18,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
and  iron  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Carlisle  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  DeBardeleben  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Alabama  Fuel  &  Iron  Co.,  Birmingham.  Alabama. 

MATTHEW  J.  CO.WELLY,  Manager  Conley  Coal  Co.,  Mem- 
phis, Tennessee,  was  born  in  Memphis  October  25,  1865,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  Mr.  Con- 
nelly was  formerly  connected  with  the  Bannon  Coal  Co. 
and  the   McDonald  Coal  Co.,   Memphis. 

HR.\RV  F.  IJ1X.  Secretary  Memphis  Coal  Co.,  Inc.,  Mem- 
phis, Tennessee,  was  born  in  Memphis  November  10,  1880. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  Mr.  Dix  was 
formerly  with  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  SHEP  J.  LAWO,  Manager  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.. 
Memphis,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Memphis  February  5,  1888, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  Mr.  Lawo 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Lawo  Coal  Co.  He  is 
very  highly  regarded  in  Southern  coal  trade  circles  and 
takes  an  active  Interest  in  everything  for  the  betterment  of 
the  coal  business. 

WALKER  MIXTEH,  proprietor  of  W.  Minter  &  Co.,  Mem- 
phis, Tennessee,  was  born  In  Georgia  March  11,  1884,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Coil  Coal  Co. 

EDWIN  STREl'LI.  proprietor  Edwin  Streuli  Coal  Co..  Mem- 
phis, Tennessee,  was  born  in  Switzerland.  January  26,  1865, 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years 
Mr.  Streuli  was  formerly  connected  with  the  McHenry  Coal 
Co.,  Southern  Coal  Co.,  and  Memphis  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

ROBERT  <;.  W.ATKINS.  Manager  Valley  Ice  &  Coal  Co.. 
Memphis.  Tennessee,  was  horn  at  Eureka.  Mississippi.  March 
5.  1884.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Davis  Coal  Co.  and 
Johnson  Eaton  Coal  Co. 

EGBERT  BARTON  WHITE.  Office  Manager  Pittsburgh 
Coal  Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee,  was  horn  at  Bradford.  Ten- 
nessee, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  Mr. 
White  was  formerly  Local  Manager  of  the  West  Kentucky 
Coal  Co.  of  Memphis. 

CLYDE  JOHN  ZINK.  Secretary -Treasurer  North  Memphis 
Coal  Co.,  Memphis.  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Springfield.  Mis- 
souri, April  17,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
einht  years. 


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EDWARD  KESLEY  KINK,  Manager  North  Memphis  Coal 
Co.,  Memphis,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Clarion,  Pennsylvania, 
February  15,  1857,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eight  years. 

TENNESSEE  — Nashville 

C.  HOYT  BRADFORD,  Assistant  General  Manager  Fentress 
Coal  Co.,  Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio, 
April  22,  1S67,  and.has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight 
years.  Mr.  Bradford  was  formerly  connected  with  the  City 
Coal  &  Transfer  Co.,  Chattanooga,  Tennessee. 

TYLER  CALHOUN,  Vice  President  Baileys  Creek  Coal  Co., 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  also  Vice  President  of  the  King  Har- 
lan Mining  Co.  and  President  of  the  Bellfort  Land  &  Coal 
Co.  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Nashville  in  1866, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  Mr.  Calhoun 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  & 
Railroad   Co.   as   Superintendent   and  Mining   Engineer. 

A.  A.  DICKERSON,  Manager  Overton  &  Bush,  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  was  born  at  Lynnville,  Tennessee,  December  10, 
1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 
Mr.  Dickerson  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Bon  Air  Coal 
&  Iron  Co. 

CHARLES  C.  MEADOR,  proprietor  Meador  Coal  Co.,  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  was  born  at  Murray,  Kentucky,  April  2, 
1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Meador  was  formerly  connected  with  Pinner,  Meador  & 
James  for  ten  years  and  Manager  for  Overton  &  Bush  for 
four    years. 

JOHN  W.  MEADOR.  Secretary  Meador  Coal  Co.,  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  was  born  in  1898,  and  is  a  brother  of  Charles  C. 
Meador. 

JOHN  DALLAS  SHARPE,  President  and  General  Manager 
John  D.  Sharpe  &  Co.,  Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in 
Nashville  December  4,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  thirty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  Sharpe 
&  Phillips,  John  D.  &  Ed.  F.  Sharpe  and  D.  F.  Sharpe  &  Son. 

GEORGE  N.  WELCH  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  Vice  Presi- 
dent Bills  Branch  Coal  Co.,  Monterey,  Tennessee,  was  born 
in  Monterey  January  26,  1S79,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness one  year.     J.  W.  Welch  is  President  of  the  company. 

DR.  JOHN  P.  WILLIAMS,  JR.,  Vice  President  and  Treas- 
urer Overton-Williams  Coal  Co.,  retailers,  and  Manager 
Tennessee-Kentucky  Fuel  Co.,  wholesalers,  both  of  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  was  born  in  Nashville  February  20,  1879, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  was  Treas- 
urer of  Overton  &  Bush  until  their  charter  was  amended 
and  name  changed  to  present  style.  Previous  to  his  entry 
in  the  coal  business  Dr.  Williams  practiced  medicine  seven 
years. 

WILLIAM  BYRD  YOUNG,  General  Manager  Cllfty  Consoli- 
dated Coal  Co.,  Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Cottage 
Grove,  Tennessee,  November  13,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Young  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Clifty  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


TENNESSEE 


J.  HUBERT  BAIRD,  Manager  Bondurant  Coal  Yards  at 
Bristol,  Tennessee,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years 
and  is  also  interested  in  the  United  Collieries,  Inc.,  of  St. 
Charles,   Virginia. 

WILLIAM  ERNEST  BEACH,  sole  owner  and  Manager  of 
W.  E.  Beach  &  Co.  of  Clarksville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in 
Virginia,  October  8,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
about   eight  years. 

W.  O.  BRANDON,  Manager  Dyersburg  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Inc., 
Dyersburg,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Columbia,  Tennessee,  and 
has  been  in  the  ice  and  coal  business  twenty-four  years. 

C.  B.  BROSFIELD,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Dresden,  Ten- 
nessee, was  born  in  Dresden,  December  18,  1877,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

LOUIS  E.  BRYANT,  President  Virginia  Mining  Co.,  Ro- 
berta, Tennessee,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  April 
16,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr. 
Bryant  is  interested  in  the  Bry  Mac  Coal  Co.,  Helenwood 
Coal  Co.,  and  Alpine  Collieries  Co.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Proctor  Coal  Co.,  East  Tennessee  Coal  & 
Iron  Co.,  Birmingham  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  and  Mining  Engineer 
for  the  State  of  Tennessee,  having  been  in  business  for  him- 
self since  1902. 

L.  S.  BUMGARDNER.  Mine  Foreman  and  Superintendent 
of  the  Clifty  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Clifty,  Tennessee,  was 
born  in  March,  1866,  in  South  Bend,  Indiana,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  He  was  previously 
connected  with  the  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  &  Railroad  Co.  of 
Whitwell.  Tennessee,  and  the  Pratt  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  of 
Birmingham. 

R.  A.  BURGESS,  who  handles  coal  at  retail  at  Dellrose. 
Tennessee,  was  born  July  19,  1867,  at  Diana,  Tennessee,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  two  years. 


ANDREW  MADISAN  BURNS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Jack 
son,   Tennessee,   was  born  July  29,   1874,  at  Parksville,   Ten- 
nessee, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  three  years. 

GEORGE  CAIN,  Engineer  and  Superintendent  Battle  Creek 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Orme,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Whitwell, 
Tennessee,  March  17,  1889,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eleven  years.  Mr.  Cain  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Sewanee 
Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Ala- 
bama Consolidated  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Tennessee  Coal,  Iron  & 
Railroad  Co.,  Fentress  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Harriman  Coal  Co., 
Conger  Coal  Co..  and  Sewanee  Fuel  &  Iron  Co. 

LAWRENCE    OTIS    CALDWELL,    Manager    Caldwell    Coal 
Co.,  Bristol,   Tennessee-Virginia,  was   born  October  16,   1887,. 
in  Bristol  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

SIMEON  BUSH  CHRISTY,  Manager  Coal  Department 
Christy  &  Higgins  Co.,  Murfreesboro,  Tennessee,  was  born 
in  Murfreesboro,  December  4,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  fifteen  years.     This  firm  also  manufactures  ice  and 

JACK  CROUCH,  JR„  Secretary  and  Manager  Tullahoma 
Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Tullahoma,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Clarks- 
ville, Tennessee,  March  11,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  five  years. 

CHARLES  CURRIER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Paris,  Ten- 
nessee, is  a  native  of  Paris,  born  November  6,  1§88,  and 
has  been  in  business  for  himself  for  six  years.. 

FRED  DAHNKE,  Manager  Union  City  Ice  &  Coal  Co., 
Union  City,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Nashville,  April  21,  1874, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

GEORGE  DAHNKE,  President  and  General  Manager  Union 
City  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,  Union  City,  Tennessee,  is  also  President 
and  Manager  of  the  Dahnke  Walker  Milling  Co.,  one  of  the 
largest  milling  concerns  in  the  South,  located  at  Union  City. 

WILLIAM  J.  DALE,  JR.,  Manager  of  Dale  Bros.,  retailers 
of  coal  at  Columbia,  Tennessee,  was  born  August  16,  1881,  in 
Columbia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

HYWEL  BROOKS  D.MIES,  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  Brier  Hill  Collieries,  Monterey,  Tennessee,  was  born 
in  Jellico,  Kentucky,  June  29,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  seven  years.  Mr.  Davies  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Main  Jellico  Mountain  Co.  and  Bengal  Coal 
Co.  and  is  Secretary  of  the  Cumberland  Plateau  Coal  Asso- 
ciation. 

P.  E.  DERMID,  General  Manager  of  the  Dermid  Coal  Co. 
of  Bristol,  Tennessee,  was  born  September  4,  1864,  at  Hen- 
dersonville,  North  Carolina,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eight  years.  He  has  been  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Deal- 
ers' Association. 

ARTHUR  WILEY  EVANS,  General  Superintendent  and 
Mining  Engineer  Big  Brushy  Fuel  Co.  and  Fodder  Stack  Coal 
Co.,  Petros,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Rockwood,  Tennessee, 
July  2,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
four  years.  Mr.  Evans  was  appointed  Mir.ing  Engineer  of 
the  State  of  Tennessee  Coal  Mine  in  1895,  and  designed  and 
developed  the  mine.  He  followed  a  general  engineering 
practice  in  the  Tennessee  coal  fields  for  two  years  and  then 
left  there  for  Alabama,  where  he  followed  up  a  new  develop- 
ment for  seven  years  and  was  appointed  District  Mine  In- 
spector for  two  years.  He  then  went  to  Hazard,  Kentucky, 
designing  a  mining  plant  for  the  East  Tennessee  Coal  Co., 
where  he  was  appointed  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Oneida  & 
Western  Railroad  and  was  again  appointed  Superintendent  of 
the  State  Mine,  from  which  he  resigned  six  months  ago  to 
accept   his   present  position. 

THOS.  H.  FAUCHER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Sparta,  Ten- 
nessee, was  born  in  Sparta  November  26,  1865,  and  has 
been  in  business  for  himself  for  ten  years. 

A.  A.  FISHER,  Secretary  Sun  Coal  Co.,  Caryville,  Ten- 
nessee, was  born  November  25,  1881,  in  St.  Paul,  Minne- 
sota, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years.  He  was 
previously  connected  with  the  Caryville  Coal  Co. 

C.  M.  GOOCH,  President  and  General  Manager  C.  M.  Gooch 
Mining  Co.,  Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Smyrna,  Ten- 
nessee. January  27,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years.  He  is  also  operating  the  Overton  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.'s  properties  in  Overton  and  Fentress  counties,  Tennessee. 
These  properties  are  in  the  center  of  the  coal  field,  and  join 
each  other  at  the  county  line. 

JOSEPH  FLACK  HAMMERLY,  proprietor  of  the  Ham- 
merly  Coal  Co.,  Jackson,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Jackson 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

EDWARD  LEE  HAMPTON,  President  Tennessee  Consoli- 
dated Coal  Co.,  Tracy  City,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Cowan, 
Tennessee,  in  1863,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
seventeen  years.  Mr.  Hampton  was  formerly  Superintendent 
Tracy  City  Branch  of  the  Nashville,  Chattanooga  &  St.  Louis 
Railway  and  is  Vice  President  of  the  Middle  Tennessee  Coal 
Operators  Association. 

*W.  O.  HARRELL,  owner  of  the  Harrell  Feed  &  Coal  Co., 
Dyersburg,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  1874  in  Fayette  County, 
Tennessee,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 


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J.  C.  HIGDON,  General  Manager  New  Etna  Coal  Co.,  White- 
side, Tennessee,  was  born  at  Cole  City,  Georgia,  February  8, 
1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  (or  twenty  years. 

CHAS.  I  ii  mim  km.  HOWARD,  Assistant  Manager  of  the 
Howard  Coal  Co.  of  Jackson,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Jack- 
Bon  September  23,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
six  years. 

CHAS.  Ill  i.lll>.  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Eureka 
Coal  Co.  of  Jellico,  Tennessee,  was  born  July  23,  1877,  in 
Estill  County,  Kentucky,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
seventeen  years.  Mr.  Hughes  is  also  interested  in  the  Burk 
Hollow  Coal  Co.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Jellico  Coal  Co.,  the  Blue  Gem  Coal  Co.,  and  Red  Moon  Coal 
Co. 

THOMAS  SOLON"  111  <;hks,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Clifton, 
Tennessee,  was  born  August  30,  1862,  in  Clifton,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 

WILLIAM  C.  HUTCHESOX,  General  Manager  Bessemer 
Coal,  Iron  &  Land  Co.,  and  Wind  Rock  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Wind 
Rock,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Dayton,  Tennessee,  November 
2,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 
Mr.  Hutcheson  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Dayton  Coal 
&  Iron  Co.,  Ltd.,  and  Virginia  Iron,  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

STEPHEN  RICHARD  JENNINGS,  President  of  the  Blue 
Grass  Coal  Corp..  Johnson  City,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Hills- 
ville,  Virginia,  October  18,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Jennings  was  formerly  Presi- 
dent of  the  Interstate  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  of  the 
Carter  Coal  Co. 

H.  W.  JOHNSON,  Manager  of  the  Johnson  City  Coal,  Ice 
&  Cream  Co.  of  Johnson  City,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  1872 
at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness four  years.  ' 

A8HTON  CASH  LACKEY,  General  Manager  Dixie  Fuel  Co., 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Canton,  Triggs  County. 
Kentucky.  May  7,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eight  years.  Mr.  Lackey  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Empire  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Green  River  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

ROBERT  HAYDEN  LEE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  was  born  in  Tennessee  in  1855,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  forty  years.  Mr.  Lee  is  Vice  President 
of  the  Nashville  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association. 

WILLIAM  GARFIELD  LUSK,  President  and  General  Man- 
ager Lusk  Coal  Mining  Co..  Atpontley,  Tennessee,  was  born 
in  Victoria.  Tennessee,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty   years. 

C.  E.  McFADDEN  of  the  retail  coal  firm  of  McFadden  & 
Shelton  of  Covington,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Tipton  County, 
Tennessee.  April  18,  1866.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-five  years. 

■WALTER  JOHNSON  MeKINLEY,  President  and  General 
Manager  Southern  Jellico  Coal  Co.,  Jellico,  Tennessee,  was 
born  in  Kentontown.  Kentucky,  April  7,  1881.  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  Mr.  McKlnley  was  pre- 
viously connected  with  the  Cooke  Jellico  Coal  Co..  Yellow 
Creek  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Seabrook  Coal  Co. 

Ill  GH  B.  MILLER,  Manager  of  the  Knoxville  Coal  Co., 
Knoxville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Knoxville  December  23, 
1885,  and  has   been  in   the   coal  business  four  years. 

C.  F.  MILLICAN,  President  and  Manager  Knox  Mining  Co., 
Rockwood,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Rockwood  in  1873  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 


GEO.  R.  MULLINS,  sole  proprietor  of  a  retail  coal  business 
at  Greenfield,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Rutherford,  Tennessee, 
October  14,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years. 

JAMES  M.  PHIPPS,  General  Manager  of  the  Goodlettsville 
Coal  Co.,  Goodlettsville,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Goodletts- 
ville November  24,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
about    twenty    years. 

HENRY  LEROY  POPE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Jackson. 
Tennessee,  was  born  July  28,  1885.  in  Jackson  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

ROIIERT  F.  POPE,  Owner  of  the  Davidson  Coal  Co., 
Davidson,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Rockwood,  Tennessee, 
August  8,  1884,  and  has  been  eighteen  years  in  the  coal 
business.    He  was  formerly  with  the  Brier  Hill  Collieries. 

JAMES  THORNTON  PORTER,  General  Manager  Peoples 
Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  Paris,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Paris,  De- 
cember 6,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eigh- 
teen -years.  Mr.  Porter  was  formerly  connected  with  Lamp- 
ley  &   Porter  and  Porter  &  Travis. 

C.  W.  PURCELL,  Manager  Martin  Iron  &  Coal  Co.,  Martin, 
Tennessee,  was  born  in  Kentucky,  November  11,  1866,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

WILLIAM  THOMAS  RICHARDS,  Mine  Superintendent  Chi- 
cago-Tennessee Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Waldensia,  Tennessee,  was 
born  at  Rockwood,  Tennessee,  August  15,  1878,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years.  Mr.  Richards  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Knox  Mining  Co.  and  Roane  Iron 
Co.   of  Rockwood,  Tennessee. 

H.  B.  SHELTON,  member  of  McFadden  &  Shelton,  retailers 
of  coal  at  Covington,  Tennessee,  was  born  September  10, 
1870,  in  Tipton  County.  Tennessee,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-five  years. 

E.  M.  SOWELL,  General  Manager  Sowell  Smith  Lumber 
Co.,  Mt.  Pleasant,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Maury  City,  Ten- 
nessee, in  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1907. 

R.  M.  STACY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Pulaski,  Tennessee, 
was  born  in  Pulaski  August  24.  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal   business  about  twenty-two  years. 

HENRY  JACKSON  SWINDLER.  Manager  Newbern  Coal 
Co.,  Newbern,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Livermore,  Kentucky, 
April  3,  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
three  years.  Mr.  Swindler  was  formerly  connected  with 
Swindler    &    Pope. 

G.  M.  THOROGOOD,  President  Flat  Branch  Coal  Co.  and 
Secretary-Treasurer  Tennessee  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  of 
Tracy  City,  Tennessee,  was  born  at  Cowan,  Tennessee,  July 
2,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Thorogood  is  also  interested  in  the  Tracy  City  Coal  Co. 
and  Nunley  Ridge  Coal  Co.,  with  which  latter  company  he 
was  formerly  connected. 

MISS  ANNIE  WALKER,  Manager  of  the  retail  coal  firm 
of  John  A.  Walker  &  Co.,  Columbia,  Tennessee,  was  born  in 
Clinton,  Alabama,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen 
years.  This  business  was  established  in  1882  by  John  A. 
Walker,  and  since  his  death  has  been  continued  under  the 
firm  name  by  his  daughters. 

■WILLIAM  HERSCHEL  WALKER,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Dickson,  Tennessee,  was  born  in  Lewlsburg,  Tennessee,  No- 
vember 11,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ab*out  six 
years. 

S.  H.  WILHOITE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Goodlettsville 
Coal  Co.,  Goodlettsville,  Tennessee,  was  born  February  24, 
1867,  in  Davidson  County,  Tennessee,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  three  years. 


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TEXAS 


ALTHOUGH  Texas  contains  our  fairly  extensive 
bed  of  bituminous  coal  and  several  scattered 
fields  of  both  bituminous  coal  and  lignite,  geo- 
graphic or  transportation  proximity  to  other  earlier  ex- 
ploited fields  on  the  one  hand  and  the  competition  with 
fuel  oil  on  the  other  have  served  to  retard  the  develop- 
ment of  the  coal  resources  of  the  state  upon  a  large 
scale  and  production  during  recent  years  has  suffered  a 
progressive  decline.  While  the  total  actual  fuel  con- 
sumption within  the  state  compares  favorably  with 
that  of  other  parts  of  the  South,  where  manufacturing 
enterprises  that  are  heavy  coal  consumers  are  not  highly 
developed,  the  vast  territory  covered  by  the  Lone  Star 
state  pulls  down  the  per  capita  and  square  mile  con- 
sumption averages  to  low  figures.  • 

The  largest  bituminous  fields  of  Texas  lie  in  the  north 
central  part  of  the  state  in  what  is  known  as  the  South- 
western field,  which  covers  portions  of  Arkansas,  Okla- 
homa and  northern  Texas.  The  Texas  division  of  this 
field  is  about  250  miles,  long  and  45  miles  wide  and  has 
an  area  of  approximately  11,000  square  miles.  The 
known  coal-bearing  area  is,  however,  much  more  limited 
and  finds  its  principal  commercial  development  in  Wise, 
Palo.  Pinto,  Erath  and  McCullough  counties.  A  small 
bituminous  area  is  also  worked  in  Maverick  county,  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  state,  near  Eagle  Pass,  while  in 
Webb  county,  near  Laredo,  the  lignite  beds,  which  ex- 
tend from  the  eastern  boundary  at  the  Sabine  river  in  a 
southwesterly  direction  to  the  Rio  Grande,  change  into 
bituminotis.  The  bituminous  fields  as  a  whole  are  esti- 
mated to  cover  13,500  square  miles,  of  which  8,200  are 
classed  as  known  to  contain  workable  coal.  While  the 
lignite  area  is  charted  as  covering  the  greater  part  of 
the  eastern  and  southern  portions  of  the  state,  actual 
mining  operations  are  carried  on  in  scattered  areas. 
The  known  lignite  areas  cover  2,000  square  miles,  while 
there  are  53,000  square  miles  that  may  contain  work- 
able beds.  The  principal  centers  of  lignite  production 
are  in  Medina.  Milam  and  Wood  counties,  although  op- 
erations have  also  been  carried  on  in  Anderson,  Bastrop, 
Fayette,  Hopkins,  Houston,  Leon,  Haines.  Robertson, 
Shelby  and  Van  Zandt  counties. 

While  Texas  is  first  mentioned  as  a  coal  producer  in 
the  government  reports  of  1884,  the  tonnage  credited  to 
it  for  that  year  would  indicate  that  development  had 
been  begun  in  a.  small  way,  some  at  a  somewhat  earlier 


date.      Detailed   production   statistics    since    1884    are 
shown  in  the  following  table: 


Year. 
1884. 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
1888. 
1889. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
1893. 
1894. 
1895. 
1896. 
1897. 
1898. 
1899. 
1900. 


Ton.  Year.                               Ton. 

125,000       1901 1,107,953 

100,000       1902 901,912 

100,000       1903 926,759 

75,000       1904 1,195,944 

90,000       1905 1,200,684 

128,216       1906 1,312,873 

184,440       1907 1,648,069 

172,100       1908 1,895,377 

245,690       1909 1,824,440 

302,206       1910 1,892,176 

420,848       1911 1,974,593 

484,959       1912 2,188,612 

544,015       1913 2,429,144 

639,341       1914 2,323,773 

686,734       1915 2,088,908 

883,832       1916 1,987,503 

968,373- 


Local  and  railroad  fuel  purchases  accounted  for  ap- 
proximately 92  per  cent,  of  the  1915  production  of  the 
state.  The  mines  themselves  consumed  59,356  tons, 
local  trade  took  13,266  tons,  and  intrastate  shipments 
amounted  to  800,834  tons,  while  the  railroads  used 
1,037.2-19  tons.  Approximately  100,000  tons  was 
shipped  to  tidewater,  presumably  nearly  all  for  bunker 
fuel,  and  78,203  tons  were  exported  all-rail  to  Mexico. 

The  per  capita  consumption  lor  the  state  for  1915 
was  .18  ton  and  a  square  mile  consumption  of  8  tons. 
This  low  record  is  in  a  large  measure  due  to  the 
vast  area  included  within  the  state,  with  its  corre- 
sponding lack  of  density  in  population.  During  the 
year  mentioned  the  consumption,  using  tonnage  figures 
in  place  of  averages,  was  2,133,822  tons,  exclusive  of 
approximately  22,000  tons  of  Pennsylvania  anthracite. 
Of  this  amount  873,456  tons,  or  more  than  40  per  cent., 
came  from  the  Texas  mines.  Oklahoma,  with  ship- 
ments of  381,131  tons,  ranked  second  as  a  source  of 
Texas  supply;  New  Mexico  came  third  with  313,589 
tons,  and  Colorado  fourth  with  273,337  tons.  The 
Colorado  figures  also  include  some  tonnage  exported 
into  Mexico  through  Texas.  The  other  states  furnish- 
ing part  of  the  Texas  fuel  requirements  and  the  ton- 
nages shipped  were  as  follows:  Alabama.  39,987  tons; 
Arkansas,  78,418;  Georgia,  156:  Illinois.  20,648:  Ken- 
tucky, 40,112;  Pennsylvania.  239;  Tennessee,  56,168; 
Virginia.  54.300,  and  West  Virginia,  2i281. 


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TEXAS 


HI  HE II T  vv.  ADAMS,  Dallas,  Ti'xas.  President  Southern 
Furl  I'd.,  Dallas,  was  born  in  Vermont  in  1870,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Kansas  &  Texas  Coal  Co.,  the 
Texas  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Brewer  Coal  &  Mining  .Co. 

JAMES  A.  ill:  A  I.,  Manager  Farmers'  Union  Warehouse 
Co.,  Shamrock,  Texas,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Missouri. 
March  12,  I860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

HACK  M.  IIOWK.lt.  Manager  of  Allen  &  Bonner,  retailers 
In  business  at  I'lainview.  Texas,  was  born  at  Weatherford, 
Texas,  June  10,  1883,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
ten  years.  .Mr.  Bonner  was  formerly  connected  with  Crow- 
ilus   Bros.   iV;    Hume  Co. 

WILLIAM  COI.I.KV  IHtK.i.s,  Manager  F.  L.  Briggs  &  Son, 
doing  a  coal  business  at  PaduCa.ll,  Texas,  was  born  at  Mexia, 
Texas,  December  28,  1811,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  eight  years.  Mr.  Briggs  is  a  Director  of  the  Retail  Coal 
Dealers'    Association    of   Texas. 

GBOBGH  I..  CALDWELL,  doing  a  retail  business  at  Cor- 
pus Christ  i.  Texas,  was  born  in  Tennessee  in  1858,  and  has 
been  in   business   for  himself  for  fifteen  years. 

K.  VV.  (A  It  II.  President  of  the  Can  Coal  Co..  at  San  Anto- 
nio. Texas,  was  born  at  Chippewa  Falls,  Wisconsin,  May  16, 
1873.  and  has  been  in  .the  coal  business  for  twenty-two 
years.  Mr.  ('air  is  also  President  of  the  Rockdale  Consoli- 
dated Coal  Co,  He  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Retail  Coal 
'•is'    Association    of    Texas. 

KAIII,  COBB,  President  of  the-  Southwestern  Coal  Co., 
wholesalers  at  Amarillo  and  Dallas,  Texas,  McAlester,  Okla- 
homa, and  Wichita.  Kansas,  was  born  in  Pine  Bluff,  Arkan- 
sas. February  27,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years,  the  entire  time  with  this  company.  Mr.  Cobb  is 
also  President  of  the  Sunshine  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  of  Hack- 
ett.  Arkansas,  a  newly  incorporated  company,  and  Vice 
President  of  the  Security  Coal  Co.  of  Huntington,  Arkansas. 
He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  progressive  coal  salesmen 
in   the   Southwest. 

Hit  im.  D.  COLE,  Division  Sales  Agent  of  the  Colorado 
Fuel  &  Iron  Co.  at  Amarillo,  Texas,  was  born  at  Spring 
Valley,  New  York.  April  18,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Cole  is  popular  with  the 
trade  and   has  many   friends  among   the   retailers. 

EDWIN  T.  COLBM  VN,  retailer  in  coal  and  grain  at  Plain- 
view,  Texas,  was  born  at  Arkadelphia,  Arkansas,  December 
23,  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen 
years.  Mr.  Coleman  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Timp- 
son  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  was  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
Texas  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for  three  years,  when 
he  retired  last  year. 

CHARLES  G.  DESIMHI,  Ow:ier  and  Manager  of  the  Bas- 
trop Lignite  Co.,  wholesalers  of  coal  at  San  Antonio,  Texas, 
was  born  at  Belton.  Texas,  August  6,  1880,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  Mr.  Denison,  before  form- 
ing his  present  company,  was  connected  with  the  Bastrop 
Coal  Co. 

GEORGE  WILLIAM  DERBY,  General  Manager  of  the 
Santo  Tomas  Coal  Co.,  miners  of  coal,  with  offices  at  Laredo, 
Texas,  was  born  at  Oswego,  New  York,  in  1874  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Derby- 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Rio  Grande  Coal  Co. 

W.  P.  DIAL,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Memphis,  Texas,  was 
born  at  Woodstock,  Georgia,  February  17,  1864,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  Mr.  Dial  has  other 
coal   interests  at  Kstelline,  Texas. 

O.  D.  DILLINGHAM,  retailer,  engaged  In  business  at  Win- 
ters, Texas,  was  born  at  Columbia,  Kentucky,  February  28. 
1885.  ami   has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years. 

WILLIAM  VVVATT  EVANS,  owner  of  the  Evans  Sales  Co., 
El  Paso,  Texas,  was  born  in  Marion,  Alabama,  September 
21.  187ii.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five 
years.  Mr.  Evans  was  connected  with  Nelson  Morris  &  Co.. 
Morris  &■  Co.,  Rothschild  *.-  Co.,  and  Darbyshire  &  Evans, 
before   forming    the    above   company. 

DEW  H.  F\l  I.KNEIt.  Southern  Sales  Agent  for  the  Mc- 
Alester Fuel  Co.  at  Dallas.  Texas,  with  ofllces  in  the  Wilson 
Building,  was  born  at  St.  Louis.  Missouri.  September  '■'.  Inn2. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1904.  the  entire  time 
with    this   well    known   company. 

H.  M.  HESTER.  Manager  of  the  Abernathy  Coal  &  Grain 
Co.,  doing  a  retail  business  at  Abernathy.  Texas,  was  born 
at  Kaslry,  South  Carolina,  In  April,  1880,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  Mr.  Hester  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Tandy  Coal  &  Grain  Co. 

R,  E.  MINES.  President  of  the  Hines  Lumber  &  Coal  Co., 
El  Paso  Texas,  was  born  In  Holly  Springs.  Mississippi.  No- 
vember  <,  18SS,  and   has   been    in    tlo-  COS]    business  six   years. 


JOHN  F.  Hl.NTEH,  Manager  of  the  Dallas  territory  of 
the  Southwestern  Coal  Co.,  with  offices  at  Dallas,  Texas, 
was  born  at  Emlenton,  Pennsylvania,  July  26,  1886,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years,  having  been  with 
this  company  at  its  Dallas  office  since  it   was  opened. 

JUSTIN  F.  JAKOWICZ,  Manager  Consumers'  Ice  &  Coal 
Co.,  Port  Arthur.  Texas,  was  born  in  Poland,  Russia, 
January  7,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 
He  was  connected  with  a  similar  lirm  at  Beaumont,  Texas, 
before  going  Into  business  at  Port  Arthur. 

WILLIAM  H.  JOHN,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Bridge- 
port Coal  Co.,  Bridgeport,  Texas,  was  born  in  Mt.  Car- 
mel,  Pennsylvania,  December  28,  1868,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  since  his  boyhood.  Mr.  John  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Swansea  Coal  Co.  and  Tom's  Creek  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.   in   Wise  County,    Virginia. 

JAS.  F.  JOHNSTON,  proprietor  of  the  Johnston  Fuel  Co., 
retailers  engaged  in  business  at  San  Angelo,  Texas,  was  born 
at  Dallas,  Texas,  December  15,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  eight  years.  Mr.  Johnston  was  previously 
connected  with  Johnston   &  Moore. 

WILLIAM  C.  KEN  YON,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  Kenyon 
Grain  &  Coal  Co.  at  Amarillo.  Texas,  was  born  in  Kane 
County,  Illinois.  January  3,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  almost  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Kenyon  was  pre- 
viously connected  with  the  Maddrey  Kenyon  Grain  &  Coal 
Co.,  Amarillo  Grain  &  Coal  Co.  and  Lemons  Grain  &  Coal 
Co.  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the   Texas   Retail    Coal   Dealers'   Association   for   six    years. 

CHARLES  JACOB  KLEINER,  General  Manager  of  Kleiner 
Bros.  Coal  Co.  at  Cisco,  Texas,  was  born  in  Cisco  February 
24,   1894,   and  has  been  in  the  coal  trade  for  one  year. 

JOHN  HART.MAN  KLEINER.  Assistant  Manager  of  the 
Kleiner  Bros.  Coal  Co.  at  Cisco.  Texas,  was  born  in  Cisco 
January  29,  1896,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two 
years. 

ORA  DAVIS  I.EISIII 'HG,  retailer  doing  business  at  Clar- 
endon, Texas,  was  born  at  Pink  Hill.  North  Carolina,  in 
1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for   fifteen  years. 

CHARLES  H.  LXLLBY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Fort 
Worth,  Texas,  was  born  in  Willoughby,  Ohio,  November  12, 
1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr. 
Lilley  was  formerly  connected  with  Lilley  &  Bibb.  He  is 
President  of   the  Retail  Coal    Dealers'   Association   of  Texas. 

JAMES  A.  LINCOLN,  Owner  and  Manager  of  the  James  A. 
Lincoln  Coal  Co..  doing  a  wholesale  business  at  Dallas, 
Texas,  was  born  at  Somerville,  Ohio,  May  5,  1871,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years.  Mr.  Lincoln  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Bolen-Darnall  Coal  Co.  of  Kan- 
sas City,  Missouri. 

C.  J.  LYNN,  Manager  of  C.  J.  Lynn  &  Son,  retailers  at 
Ballinger,  Texas,  was  born  in  187n.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirteen  years. 

T.  J.  H.  MeLBOD,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Hillsboro.  Texas, 
was  born  in  Mississippi  September  26,  1875,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  Mr.  MeLeod  is  Vice 
President   of   the    Retail   Coal    Dealers'    Association   of   Texas. 

JOHN  H.  McLERRAN,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Cameron, 
Texas,  was  born  in  Clay  County,  Tennessee,  January  12,  1859, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  himself  for  twenty- 
six   years. 

H.  C.  PEARSON.  Manager  of  Pearson  &  Pieratt,  retailers 
of  coal  at  Lorenzo,  Texas,  was  born  at  Baileyville,  Texas, 
January  13,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six 
years. 

J.  SIDNEY  PI  I.I.IAM.  President  of  the  Pulliam-Trewitt 
Coal  Co..  retail  coal  merchants  al  Dallas,  Texas,"  was  born 
at  Houston.  Mississippi,  July  27.  1878,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Piilliam  was  the  founder 
of  the  Pulliam  Fuel  Co.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the  Retail 
Coal    Dealers   Association  of  Texas. 

l.KIIKIK    I'ltlli:    1MTNAM,    President   and   Manager  of  the 

West    Texas    Fuel   (  o..    F.I    Paso,    Texas,    has   been    in    the   coal 

business  fifteen  years. 

LEWIS  THOMAS  HANDEL,  retailer  engaged  in  business 
at  Chilllcothe.  Texas,  was  born  in  Perry  County.  Tennessee, 
December  23,  1865,  and  has  been  in  tin-  coal  business  for 
himself  for  eight  years 

W.  «'.  SII.LIMAN,  President  and  General  Manager  Calvin 
Coal  Co.,  San  Antonio,  Texas,  was  born  at  Clinton,  Alabama, 
December  10,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Silliman  organized  the  (list  Texas  State 
Mining    Board    and    served    upon    It    for   two   years. 

DAVID     HENIIV     THOMPSON,     President     of     the     D.     H. 

Thompson  Lumber  Co.,  dealers  in  coal  at  retail  at  Waxa- 
hachie.  Texas,  was  born  February  :!.  L88S,  anil  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  almost    thirty  years. 


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UTAH 


FROM  the  point  of  view  of  commercial  mining  Utah 
makes  a  strong  appeal  to  the  practical  operator 
because  of  the  number  of  thick  veins,  ranging  up 
to  20  feet,  found  in  its  coal  measures.  Although  its 
early  development  was  somewhat  retarded  because  of 
lack  of  extensive  transportation  facilities  this  handicap 
has  been  lessened,  while  the  growth  of  the  metal  indus- 
try in  the  West  gives  it  an  attractive  market  close  to 
home.  Larger  general  markets  opened  up  to  it  during 
the  winter  of  1917-1918  because  of  the  country-wide 
difficulties  in  transportation  and  the  rising  demands  of 
the  East. 

The  coal  fields  of  the  state  are  known  to  contain 
workable  beds  covering  an  area  of  over  13,000  square 
miles  and  there  are  2,000  square  miles  which  may  also 
contain  workable  beds.  The  largest  and  commercially 
most  important  field  of  the  states  lies  in  the  Uinta 
basin,  which  parallels  the  southern  side  of  the  Uinta 
Mountains  and  extends  to  the  southeast  as  far  as  Crested 
Butte,  Colo.  The  coal  bearing  rocks  are  exposed  in  the 
Book  Cliffs  along  the  southern  rim  of  the  basin  and  an; 
easily  accessible,  but  those  in  the  center  of  the  basin 
are  under  such  heavy  cover  that  it  is  doubtful  if  they 
can  ever  be  worked.  The  Book  Cliffs  field  and  its 
southern  extension,  the  Wasatch  plateau,  produce  over 
90  per  cent,  of  the  output  of  the  state,  with  the  center 
of  activity  in  Carbon  county.  The  coal-bearing  rocks 
of  this  field,  outcropping  in  western  Colorado  and  east- 
ern Utah,  contain  several  beds  varying  in  thickness  from 
three  to  20  feet.  The  most  important  Utah  mines  are 
at  Sunnyside,  Castlegate,  Winterquarters  and  Clear 
Creek.  Next  in  importance  to  the  Book  Cliffs  field 
comes  the,  Weber  Biver  field  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
state.  Two  beds,  ranging  from  seven  to  14  feet  in  thick- 
ness, have  been  worked  in  this  field  at  Coalville,  Summit 
county.  Another  important  field  is  in  the  southern  part 
of  the  state  in  Iron,  Washington,  Kane  and  Garfield 
counties.  The  coal  here  varies  from  less  than  one  to 
more  than  ten  feet  in  thickness.  Some  semi-anthracite 
and  a  fair  grade  of  cannel  have  been  found  in  this  part 
of  the  state. 

The  first  record  of  Utah  production  was  for  the  year 
1870  when  5,800  tons  were  reported.  There  is  a  hiatus 
in  figures  until  1876,  when  production  reached  50,400 
tons.  Output  increased  for  the  next  three  years,  fell  to 
50,000  in  1879  and  dropped  to  14,748  tons  in  1880. 


The  next  year  it  jumped  to  52,000  tons,  reached  100,000 
tons  in  1882  and  doubled  in  1883.  Output  between 
that  year  and  1900,  when  the  1,000,000-ton  mark  was 
passed,  showed  pronounced  fluctuations,  particularly  in 
the  early  part  of  the  period.  The  yearly  output  since 
1900  is  shown  in  the  following  table: 


Year.  Ton. 

1900 1,147,027 

1901 1,322,614 

1902 1,574,521 

1903 1,681,409 

1904 1,493,027 

1905 1,332,372 

1906 1,772,551 

1907 1,947,607 

1908 1,846,792 


Year.  Ton. 

1909 2,266,899 

1910 2,517,809 

1911 2,513,175 

1912 3,016,149 

1913.. 3,254,828 

1914 3,103,036 

1915 3,108,715 

1916 3,567,428 


Until  the  development  of  the  conditions  referred  to 
in  the  opening  paragraph  Utah  looked  to  the  home  mar- 
ket for  the  distribution  of  the  major  portion  of  its  out- 
put. For  example,  in  1915  out  of  a  total  production 
of  3,108,715  tons  1,903,749  tons  never  left  the  state. 
Of  this  internal  consumption  104,304  tons  were  used 
at  the  mines,  47,224  tons  were  sold  locally,  1,097,834 
tons  were  shipped  to  intrastate  points  and  654,387  tons 
were  made  into  coke.  Part  of  the  latter,  of  course,  ulti- 
mately reached  points  outside  of  the  state.  The  rail- 
roads used  565,489  tons,  leaving  639,447  tons  for  ship- 
ment to  interstate  points  for  general  industrial  and 
domestic  use.  Of  the  tonnage  last  mentioned  Idaho 
took  227,417  tons;  Nevada,  169,928;  California,  161,- 
987;  Washington,  32,039;  Oregon,  30,755;  Montana, 
17,301,  and  Wyoming,  50  tons. 

Upon  a  per  capita  consumption  basis  Utah's  bitu- 
minous consumption  of  2.79  tons  was  .75  ton  above  the 
average  for  the  country  as  a  whole  and  only  .03  ton 
less  than  the  combined  anthracite  and  bituminous  aver- 
age. Its  square  mile  consumption,  however,  was  only 
23  tons,  or  100  tons  less  than  the  national  average.  Ac- 
cording to  government  figures  for  the  year  under  review, 
1915,  no  Pennsylvania  anthracite  was  used  in  Utah. 
The  total  bituminous  consumption,  exclusive  of  a  small 
quantity  of  Colorado  coal  included  in  the  Nevada  con- 
sumption figures,  was  1,978,702  tons.  Of  this,  as  before 
stated,  1,903,749  tons,  or  slightly  in  excess  of  96  per 
cent.,  was  Utah  coal.  Wyoming  contributed  74,788  tons 
and  West  Virginia  shipped  165  tons. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


UTAH 


WILLIAM  A.  11  \  II*.  retail  coal  merchant  In  business  at 
Richmond,  Utah,  was  born  in  Richmond  July  24,  1863,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

CHARLES  W.  BROWN,  General  Sales  Agent  of  the  Cen- 
tral Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  was  born  in 
Akron,  Ohio,  October  15,  1881.  He  has  been  in  the  service 
of  this  company  since  the  early  part  of  1916  as  North- 
western representative,  with  headquarters  at  Spokane, 
Washington. 

John  S.  CRITCHLOW,  General  Sales  Manager  United 
States  Fuel  Co.,  with  several  branches  and  main  office  at 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  in 
1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years. 

JOY  W.  DUNYON,  proprietor  of  the  J.  W.  Dunyon  Coal  Co.. 
doing  a  retail  business  at  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  was  born  at 
Salt  Lake  City  November  25,  1865,  and  has  been  in  business 
for   himself  for   fourteen   years. 

THOMAS  J.  DYE  was  General  Sales  Agent  of  the  Central 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  until  March  31,  1918, 
when  called  into  the  military  service  of  his  country.  He 
was  born  In  Rexbury,  Idaho,  November  17,  1890,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  eight  years.  Mr.  Dye  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Utah  Fuel  Co.  of  Castle  Gate,  Utah. 

JOHN  FARR,  proprietor  of  the  John  Farr  Coal  Co.,  Og- 
den,  Utah,  was  born  at  Ogden,  January  4,  1863,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  almost  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Farr 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Manmath  Coal  Co.  He  has 
been  President  of  the  Utah  Retail  Coal  Merchants  Associa- 
tion. He  succeeded  his  father  in  business,  a  pioneer  retail 
coal  man  of  1847,  prominent  in  Ogden  City  as  Mayor  for 
twenty-two  years. 

HENRY  FRANS  FERN STROM.  Manager  of  the  Bamberger 
Coal  Co.,  retailers  in  business  at  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  was 
born  at  Salt  Lake  City,  August  22,  1877,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  twelve  years.  Mr.  Frenstrom  is  a 
member  of  the  Advisory  Committee  of  National  Fuel  Ad- 
ministrator Garfield. 

S.  N.  LEE,  partner  in  the  Lee  Coal  Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal 
business  at  Brigham  City,  Utah,  was  born  in  Denmark 
March  31,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years. 


WILLIAM  II.  l.i:\\is.  Manager  of  the  Utah  Coal  &  Supply 
Co.,  doing  a  retail  business  at  I'rovo,  Utah,  was  born  in 
Provo,  Utah,  is  a  native  of  Provo,  born  July  9,  1888,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  three  years. 

EDWARD  H.  O'BBIEX,  President  Citizens  Coal  Co.,  Salt 
Lake  City,  Utah,  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  born  in  1874, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury. Mr.  O'Brien  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Dia- 
mond Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Wyoming  and  the  coal  department 
of  the  Anaconda  Copper  Mining  Co.  of  Montana  and  knows 
every  branch  of  the  coal  industry  thoroughly.  Including  min- 
ing, wholesaling  and   retailing  of  coal. 

DELBKRT  HILL  PAPE,  General  Manager  of  the  Lion  Coal 
Co.  and  Wyoming  Coal  Co.,  miners  with  offices  at  Ogden. 
Utah,  was  born  at  Park  City,  Utah,  January  11,  1884,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years.  Mr.  Pape 
was  previously  connected  with  the  Central  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and  is  well  known  in  the  western  coal  trade  because  of  his 
interest    in    mining    conditions. 

LEON  FELIX  RAINS,  with  offices  in  the  Newhouse  Build- 
ing, Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tennessee, 
February  1,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fif- 
teen years.  Mr.  Rains  is  President  of  the  Carbon  Fuel  Co., 
Wasatch  Coal  Co.,  Rains  Mercantile  Co.  and  Blazon  Coal  Co., 
General  Manager  of  the  Wattis  Coal  Co.  and  Wattis  Mercan- 
tile Co.,  partner  Rains-Wattis  Agency  Co.,  and  Sales  Agent 
Wyopa-Kemmerer  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Pennsylvania  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co., 
St.  Paul  &  Western  Coal  Co.,  and  City  Fuel  Co.  of  Chicago. 

ALEX.  H.  HOLLO.  Secretary  of  the  Parowan  Mining  & 
Coke  Co.  at  Parowan,  Utah,  was  born  In  Scotland  September 
17,  1867.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 
Mr.  Rollo,  before  coming  with  this  company,  was  associated 
with  Wood-Taylor  Co.  of  Cedar  City,  Utah. 

HEBER  S.  HIPPER,  Manager  of  the  Knight  Coal  Co.,  re- 
tail coal  yard  of  the  Spring  Canyon  Coal  Co.,  wholesalers  at 
Provo.  Utah,  is  a  native  of  Provo,  born  July  9,  1888,  and  has 
been  in   the  coal   business   for  three   years. 

FREDERICK  A.  SWEET,  President  of  the  Standard  Coal 
Co.,  producers  with  offices  at  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  was  born 
at  Hinckley,  Illinois,  February  2,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  ten  years.  Mr.  Sweet  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Independent  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Consolida- 
tion Fuel  Co.  and  is  also  interested  at  present  in  the  Stand- 
ard Fuel  Co.,  a  retail  company  at  Salt  Lake  City. 


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VIRGINIA 


VltilMN  l.\.  tile  first  of  the  original  Thirteen  Col- 
onies, also  enjoys  the  honor  of  being  the  first 
state  in  the  Union  to  enter  the  ranks  of  the 
country's  bituminous  coal  producers.  Although  in  re- 
cent years  it  has  been  overshadowed  in  tonnage  by  a 
number  of  its  juniors,  most  notably  by  its  sister  com- 
monwealths of  West  Virginia  and  of  Pennsylvania,  it 
still  holds  a  place  well  towards  the  front,  its  production 
in  1916'  being  ninth  in  point  of  tonnage.  Much  of 
the  coal  mined  has  a  high  reputation,  some  of  it  being 
classed  with  semi-anthracite  and  semi-bituminous.  In 
addition  it  is  the  gateway  through  which  the  tidewater 
traffic  of  West  Virginia  must  pass.  While  eighteenth 
in  point  of  total  consumption  within  the  state  in  1915, 
it  was  fifth  among  the  southern  commonwealths. 

The  earliest  developments  of  the  coal  resources  of  the 
state  were  in  what  is  generally  known  as  the  Richmond 
basin.  This  basin,  which  is  included  within  the  coun- 
ties of  Chesterfield,  Goochland,  Henrico  and  Powhatan, 
lies  in  the  southeastern  part  of  Virginia  about  thirteen 
miles  above  tide  on  the  James  River.  The  coal  bearing 
formations  are  of  the  Triassic  age.  The  occurrence  of 
coal  in  this  locality  was  known  as  far  back  as  1700; 
mining  began  the  latter  half  of  the  eighteenth  century 
and  in  1789  shipments  were  made  to  some  of  the  north- 
ern states.  By  1882  production  was  estimated  at  54,- 
000  tons,  this  field  being  the  only  bituminous  coal  area 
then  a  factor  in  the  coal  history  of  the  country. 
The  district  reached  its  hey-dey  of  production  in  1833 
when  the  output  rose  to  142,587  tons.  With  the  rise  of 
the  Pocahontas  field  in  the  early  '80s,  the  Richmond 
basin  mines  were  placed  at  a  substantial  disadvantage 
and  operations  practically  ceased.  Rehabilitation  and 
redevelopment  of  certain  Henrico  County  properties 
were  inaugurated  in  1909. 

The  most  important  coal  bearing  area  of  Virginia  is 
the  southeastern  extension  of  the  well-known  Pocahon- 
tas Flat  Top  field  of  West  Virginia.  Development  upon 
a  commercial  scale  began  with  the  extension  of  the  New 
River  division  of  the  Norfolk  &  Western  Railway  into 
Tazewell  County  in  1883.  The  first  car  shipped  from 
this  field  to  Norfolk  was  distributed  among  the  poor. 
Tazewell  County  held  undisputed  sway  until  the  com- 
pletion of  the  Clinch  Valley  branch  of  the  railway  named 
in  1892.  This  branch  of  the  Norfolk  &  Western,  tap- 
ping the  rich  deposits  of  Wise  County,  in  a  few  years 


made  that  county  the  leading  coal  producing  field  of  the 
state.  Starting  with  a  production  of  126,216  tons  iu 
1893,  against  a  Tazewell  County  output  of  653.3 ;  !.  by 
1897  Wise  County  production  had  outstripped  that  of 
Tazewell. 

About  eleven  years  ago  (1907)  development  was  be- 
gun in  the  "Pocket"'  coal  district,  lying,  for  the  most 
part,  in  what  is  known  as  Black  Mountain,  which  is  a 
portion  of  the  Cumberland  Range.  By  1910  a  dozen 
separate  beds  of  workable  thickness  had  been  located  and 
extensive  exploitation  of  the  field,  particularly  in  Lee 
County,  was  under  way.  This  district  of  the  south- 
western part  of  the  state  was  further  aided  by  the  con- 
struction of  the  Carolina,  Clinchfield  &  Ohio  Railway 
from  Dante,  Va.,  to  Spartanburg,  S.  C.  The  opening 
up  of  this  line  made  possible  further  exploitation  of  the 
coal  fields  in  Dickenson,  Russell  and  Buchanan  counties. 
Although  the  coal  fields  of  the  southwestern  part  of 
the  state  are  of  comparatively  limited  extent,  "the  high 
quality  of  the  coal,"  says  the  United  States  Geological 
Survey,  "and  the  number  and  thickness  of  the  beds  give 
promise  of  a  considerably  increased  production  within 
the  next  few  years."  Much  of  the  coal  in  this  district  is 
of  high  grade  steam  and  coking  quality. 

In  addition  to  the  Richmond  basin  and  the  south- 
western fields  the  state  also  contains  two  small  basins 
of  Pocono  (basal  Mississippian)  age  situate  to  the 
southeast  of  the  main  Allegheny  coal  field  in  the  state. 
The  northern  basin  lies  in  Frederick  County  ;  the  south- 
ern, in  Pulaski  and  Montgomery  counties.  It  is  from 
these  basins  that  the  Virginia  semi-anthracite,  contain- 
ing between  84  and  86  per  cent,  fixed  carbon,  comes. 
Prior  to  1904,  the  coal  from  these  mines  had  only  a 
local  sale,  but  since  that  date,  development — and  espe- 
cially of  the  Pulaski-Montgomery,  or  southern,  basin  — 
has  spread  the  fame  of  this  Virginia  coal  over  a  wide 
area. 

As  lias  been  staled,  the  first  production  was  sometime 
prior  to  1789,  but  the  records  compiled  by  the  Geolog- 
ical Survey  do  not  go  back  further  than  1822,  when  the 
state  was  credited  with  an  output  of  54,000  tons.  Growth 
was  steady  until  1837,  when  the  output  had  reached  an 
estimated  total  of  160.000  tons.  The  next  year  the 
state's  production  had  jumped  to  300.000  tons  and  by 
1840  had  reached  424,894  tons.  The  output  which,  it 
will  be  recalled,  also  included  the  coal  fields  of  what  is 


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COAL. MEN    OF  AMERICA 


now  West  Virginia  suffered  a  continuous  decline  until 

I860,  when  the  total  was  only  310,000  tons.  Recovery 
started  in  1852  and  by  1855  production  bad  risen  to 
:;sn.;>-.'  tons.  The  output  was  subject  to  increases  and 
decreases  until  1860,  when  a  production  of  173,360  tons 
was  reported.     With  the  opening  of  the  Civil  War  the 

output  dropped  to  145,165  tons,  while  the  separation  of 

the  Old   Dominion  into  two  states  in   1863  left   what  is 

now  Virginia  with  an  estimated  production  of  only 
40,000  tons.  War  days,  the  reconstruction  period  and 
the  panic  of  '73  were  all  reflected  in  the  fluctuating 
output  of  the  following  years.  With  the  opening  up 
of  the  Pocahontas  Flat  Top  field,  to  which  reference 
w;is  made  in  an  earlier  paragraph,  production  received 
an  impetus  that  pushed  it  over  the  1,000.000  ton  mark 
in  1888,  only  to  fall  hack  again  in  1889.  Production 
since  that  date  is  shown  in  the  following  tabulation: 


Year.  Ton. 

1890 784,011 

1891 736,399 

1892 675,205 

1893 820,339 

1894 1,229,083 

1895 1,368,324 

1896 1,254,723 

1897 1,528,302 

1898 1,815,274 

1899 2,105,791 

1900 2,393,754 

1901 2,725,873 

1902 3,182,983 

1903 3,451,307 


Year.  Ton. 

1904 3,410,914 

1905 4,275,271 

1906 4,254,879 

1907 4.710,895 

1908 4,259.042 

1909 4,752,217 

1910 6,507,997 

1911 6,864,667 

1912 7,846,638 

1913 8,828,068 

1914 7,959,535 

1915 8,122,596 

1916 9,707,474 


The  high  quality  of  coal  produced  in  this  state  in 
normal  times  permits  Virginia  to  distribute  her  output 
over  -10  per  cent,  of  the  states  of  the  Union.     In  1915, 


out  of  a  production  of  8,122,596  tons,  about  25  per  cent, 
was  coked  at  the  mines  or  used  within  the  state,  about 
35  per  cent,  was  shipped  to  various  other  parts  of  the 
country,  approximately  nine  per  cent,  went  to  tidewater 
and  the  railroads  ahsorhed  in  the  neighborhood  of  31 
per  cent.  In  detail,  the  distrihution  figures  were  as 
follows:  Consumed  within  the  state,  2,004,344  tons 
(viz.,  135,799  tons  used  at  the  mines.  62,210  tons  sold 
to  local  trade,  829,983  tons  shipped  to  intrastate  points 
and  956,352  tons  coked) ;  shipped  to  other  states,  2,824,- 
961  tons;  shipped  to  tidewater,  7GG.575  tons;  used  by 
railroads,  2,526,716  tons. 

Nearly  50  per  cent,  of  the  total  tonnage  shipped  to 
interstate  points  went  to  the  Carolinaa,  which  used 
1,366,943  tons.  Georgia  came  next  with  368,751  tons. 
Shipments  to  other  states  were  as  follows:  Alabama, 
67,961  tons;  District  of  Columhia  (and  Maryland), 
3,913;  Florida.  40,230;  Illinois.  120,300;  Indiana.  152,- 
291  :  Iowa,  1,500;  Michigan,  29,205  :  Minnesota,  17.000; 
Missouri,  1,500;  Xorth  Dakota.  15.391;  Ohio.  109,132; 
South  Dakota,  4,000;  Tennessee,  373,244;  Texas.  54.- 
300  and  Wisconsin,  9,000  tons. 

As  a  consumer  Virginia  depended  upon  her  own 
mines  and  those  of  West  Virginia  for  her  principal 
requirements.  Out  of  a  total  bituminous  consumption 
of  4,286,834  Ions.  Virginia,  as  appears  above,  contrih- 
uted  2,004.344  tons  to  her  own  needs,  while  West  Vir- 
ginia furnished  2,228,268  tons.  Pennsylvania  was 
called  upon  for  51,064  tons;  Maryland  for  787;  Ken- 
tucky for  2,004  and  Alabama  for  301  tons.  Pennsyl- 
vania anthracite  shipments  were  approximately  170,000 
tons.  The  average  consumption  of  coal  per  capita  for 
the  state  was  1.41  tons;  per  square  mile.  104  tons. 


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JOHN  A.  ESSER,  Esserville,  Virginia, 
President  J.  A.  Esser  Coke  Co.,  Esserville,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Mauch 
Chunk,  Pennsylvania,  December  15,  1848,  and  has  been  connected  with 
coal  and  coke  companies  continuously  since  July,  1864.  Mr.  Esser  is 
well  known  in  the  trade  and  has  been  associated  with  the  following 
companies:  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.,  1864-1881;  H.  C.  Frick  & 
Co.,  1881-1896;  General  Manager  Virginia  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  1896-1900; 
General  Manager  Colonial  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  1900-1910;  General  Manager 
Norton  Coal  Co.,  1912-1913,  at  which  time  he  bought  his  present  plant, 
and  since  then  has  more  than  doubled  the  output.  The  plant  has  102 
coke  ovens,  turning  out  the  best  grade  of  foundry  coke. 


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OSCAR   W.  GARDNER,  Lynchburg,  Virginia. 

President  of  The  Chesapeake  &  Virginian  Coal  Co.,  Inc., 
distributors,  with  offices  at  Lynchburg,  Virginia,  Cleveland 
and  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  Huntington,  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Gallipolis,  Ohio,  June  4,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Gardner  was  formerly 
associated  with  the  Guggenheim  interests  and  the  New 
River  Collieries  Co.  He  has  several  other  coal  interests,  and 
his  company  is  known  in  the  trade  as  one  of  the  largest 
distributors  of  West  Virginia  coal. 


CLINTON   DE   WITT,  JR..    I ,5 ■■•■ n -g,   Virginia. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  The  Chesapeake  &  Virginian 
Coal  Co.,  Lynchburg.  Virginia,  large  wholesalers,  with  many 
branches,  was  born  at  Lynchburg  February  12,  1881,  and  has 
been  Interested  In  operating  companies  for  the  past  twelve 
years.  Mr.  DeWltt  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Turkey  Gap  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Ivy  White  Ash 
Coal  Co. 


HERT   K.   Ml  I.I.N,  Cleveland,   Ohio. 

Western  Manager  The  Chesapeake  &  Virginian  Coal  Co.  of 
Lynchburg,  Virginia,  at  566  Rockefeller  Building,  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  was  born  in  Gallipolis,  Ohio,  October  31,  1867,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Mills  was 
previously  connected  with  the  Pittsburgh  &  Wheeling  Coal 
Co.,  Pittsburgh  &  Ohio  Mining  Co.,  and  Pittsburgh-West- 
moreland Coal  Co. 


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WEBB  .1.  WII.1.ITS,  Norton,  Virginia, 
President  Norton  Coal  Co.,  Norton,  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Three  Rivers,  Michigan,  March  8,  1882,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fifteen  years,  the  entire-  time  with  the  Nor- 
ton Coal  Co.  Mr.  Willits  is  also  President  of  the  Hawthorne 
Coal  CO,  and  Oladeviile  Coal  Co.  of  Norton.  Virginia.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Coal  Operators  Committee  and 
on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Kilgore  Coal  Corp.  of  Norton, 
Virginia,  and  Old  Dominion  Coal,  Iron  &  Coke  Co.  of 
Roanoke.  Virginia.  This  latter  company  is  handling  the 
major  portion  of  coal  and  coke  produced  by  their  operations. 


WIl.MKIt  \\  II- 1. IS  111)1  STOW,  Norfolk.  Virginia, 
Co-partner  of  Paul  L.  Joins  In  the  ownership  of  the  Pan- 
handle Coal  Co.,  Norfolk,  Virginia,  formerly  Norfolk  Man- 
ager Houston  Coal  COi  and  having  charge  of  the  company's 
export  Interests  at  Hampton  Roads,  was  born  in  Collamer, 
Pennsylvania,  February  10,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1904.  Mr.  Houston  has  had  experience  In  tin- 
production  and  silling  of  coal  and  was  formerly  General 
Superintendent  at  Minis  for  Thacker  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Thacker  Fuel  Co.,  and  l.ynn  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  near  Thacker, 
West  Virginia.      He  opened  the  Norfolk  office  of  the  Houston 

Coal  Co.  in  1911,  prior  to  which  time  he  was  located  al  the 
Chicago  office. 


WALKER   ('.  COTTRELL,  Itlekmond.  Virginia, 

Owner  of  Samuel  H.  Cottrell  &  Son,  doing  a  large  retail  busi- 
ness at  Richmond,  Is  a  native  of  Richmond,  born  in  1878.  and 
a  son  of  Samuel  H.  Cottrell.  Mr.  Cottrell  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty-two  years  and  has  acquired  a  num- 
ber of  other  Interests.  He  has  held  many  offices  in  the 
Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  of  Virginia  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Retail 
Coal  Merchants'  Association,  President  of  the  Richmond 
Rotary  Club  and  Vice  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
Richmond  Public  Schools.  Mr.  Cottrell  is  unusually  popular 
In  the   trade  and  highly   regarded   In  his  city. 


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VIRGINIA 


WILLIAM  H.  ASTON,  President  Bridgeport  Coal  Co.  of 
Bridgeport,  Texas,  is  a  resident  of  Meadow  View,  Virginia, 
having  been  born  in  Meadow  View  May  11,  1S65.  Mr.  Aston 
was  formerly  President  of  the  Swansea  Coal  Co.  of  Coeburn, 
Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five 
years. 

J.  M.  BLESSING,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Wytheville, 
Virginia,  was  born  August  15,  1879,  in  Wythe  County,  Vir- 
ginia, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  two  years. 

G.  W.  BOND,  Manager  of  the  Bedford  Coal  Co.,  Bedford, 
Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Bedford  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   a   year. 

C.  W.  BONDUHANT,  President  and  General  Manager  United 
Collieries,  Inc.,  St.  Charles,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Bristol, 
Virginia,  in  1887  and  has  had  fifteen  years'  mining  experi- 
ence. 

CHARLES  HENRY  BOSCHEN,  retail  coal  merchant  doing 
business  at.  Ashland,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Richmond,  Vir- 
ginia, January  24,  1876,  and  has  been  in  business  for  him- 
self for  five  years. 

IRVING  L.  BRAGG,  Southern  Sales  Agent  American  Coal 
Co.  of  Allegheny  County  at  Roanoke,  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Roanoke  July  28,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
ten  years.  Mr.  Bragg  was  formerly  connected  with  Hat- 
ton,  Brown  &  Co. 

THOMAS  V.  BRENNAN,  Southern  Sales  Manager  Whitney 
&  Kemmerer  Co.,  Norton,  Virginia,  was  Dorn  m  Covington, 
Kentucky,  January  12,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness seven  years.  Mr.  Brennan  was  formerly  connected  with 
Carver  Bros.  Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

WILLIAM  S.  BRYAN,  retail  coal  merchant  in  business  at 
Staunton,  Virginia,  was  born  October  26,  1868,  in  Staunton 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 

JOS.  E.  CALDWELL,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  C.  W. 
Kanode  Coal  Co.,  producers  at  Cambria,  Virginia,  was  born 
at  Wytheville,  Virginia,  February  4,  1868,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  two  years.  This  company  is  opening  a 
mine  within  two  hundred  yards  of  and  on  the  same  vein 
as  that  from  which  was  taken  the  coal  to  fire  the  "Merri- 
mac." 

LEE  DAVIS  CALFEE,  retailer  engaged  in  business  at 
Wytheville,  Virginia,  was  born  in  1862  in  Wythe  County, 
Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years. 

OSCAR  L.  COHRON,  member  of  the  firm  of  C.  H.  Cohron 
&  Son,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Stuart's  Draft,  Vir- 
ginia, has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

CHARLES  WILLIAM  COMPTON,  Secretary  and  Sales  Man- 
ager Banner  Pocahontas  Fuel  Corp.,  with  offices  in  the  Mac- 
Bain  Building,  Roanoke.  Virginia,  was  born  at  Mechanics- 
burg,  Virginia,  March  18,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1907.  Mr.  Compton  was  President  of  the  Poca- 
hontas Sewell  Coal  Co.  from  1912  to  1917. 

SAMUEL  H.  COTTRELL  of  Samuel  H.  Cottrell  &  Son,  re- 
tail firm  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Henrico  County, 
Virginia,  in  1850  and  died  November  24,  1917,  leaving  an 
irreproachable  reputation.  His  name  has  long  been  iden- 
tified with  the  coal  interests  of  this  locality,  the  first 'active 
operation  of  coal  in  the  United  States  having  been  on  the 
property  of  a  grandfather  four  generations  removed  from 
him.  Mr.  Cottrell  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen 
of  the  city  of  Richmond  for  eighteen  years  and  was  one  of 
the  most  highly  respected  and  prominent  retailers  in  his 
section.  At  has  death  his  entire  interests  were  taken  over 
by  his  son.  Walker  C.  Cottrell,  for  nineteen  years  a  member 
of  the  firm. 

W.  I.  COX,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  Friend  &  Co.,  Inc., 
Petersburg,  Virginia,  was  born  October  30,  1874,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-three  years. 

CLARENCE  JACKSON  CREVELING,  General  Superintend- 
ent of  the  Blackwood  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  elackwood,  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1864  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years.  Mr.  Creveling  was  formerly 
connected  with  Pardee  Bros.  &  Co.  and  is  a  Director  of  the 
Southwestern  Virginia  Coal  Operators'  Association.  He  was 
the  Virginia  delegate  to  the  National  Mining  Congress. 

FRANK  S.  DIUGUID  of  Diuguid  Bros.,  handlers  of  coal  at 
retail  in  Lynchburg,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Lynchburg  Sep- 
tember 7,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve 
years.  Mr.  Diuguid  is  Vice  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  As- 
sociation of  Virginia. 
Coal  Co. 

CHARLES  GAVON  DUFFY,  Superintendent  Stonega  Coke 
A  Coal  Co.,  Stonega,  Virginia,  was  born  September  27,  1875, 
in  Somerset,  Somerset  County,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Duffy  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  H.  C.  Frick  Coke  Co.  for  nine  years, 
having  been   in  his  present  connection  twenty-one  years. 


JACOB  KENTON  EVANS,  proprietor  of  the  Evans  Feed  Co., 
doing  a  retail  business  at  Clifton  Forge,  Virginia,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

GEORGE  BENSON  FEREBEE,  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Nottingham  &  Wrenn  Co.,  Norfolk,  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Princess  Anne  County,  Virginia,  March  22,  1861, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-one  years.  Mr. 
Ferebee  is  also  interested  in  some  West  Virginia  coal  mines. 

J.  T.  FISHER,  retailer  at  Winchester,  Virginia,  was  born 
August  24,  1848,  in  West  Virginia  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-two  years. 

TAZEWELL  FITZGERALD,  Southern  Manager  of  the  Nor- 
folk &  Chesapeake  Coal  Co.,  Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Richmond,  Virginia,  October  15,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Fitzgerald  was  previ- 
ously connected  with  the  W.  R.  Johnson  Coal  Co. 

ROBERT  FLEMING,  President  Robert  Fleming  &  Co.,  Nor- 
ton, Virginia,  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1855  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  all  his  life.  Mr.  Fleming  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Banner  Coal  Co.,  Virginia  Coal  Co.,  Nor- 
ton Coal  Co.  and  others,  and  his  experience  has  been  in  Illi- 
nois, Iowa,  Tennessee  and  Virginia. 

OSCAR  ROBERTSON  FULLER,  partner  of  Peerman  & 
Fuller,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Danville,  Virginia,  was  born 
in  Pittsylvania  County,  Virginia,  October  27,  1874,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  since  1899.  Mr.  Fuller  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Conway  &  Walker. 

CHARLES  SMITH  GAW,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Waynes- 
boro, Virginia,  was  born  in  April,  1873,  at  Woodstock,  Vir- 
ginia, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  Lavell  &  Gaw. 

CHARLES  EVINGTON  GEOGHEGAN,  retail  coal  merchant 
engaged  in  business  at  Chase  City,  Virginia,  was  born  at 
Clarksville,  Virginia,  January  20,  1867,  and  has  been  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  for  twenty  5  ears. 

PETERSON  AGEE  GOODWYN,  President  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Goodwyn  Coal  &  Ice  Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Bristol,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Petersburg,  Virginia,  August 
2,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 
Mr.  Goodwyn  is  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Asso- 
ciation of  Bristol,  Virginia-Tennessee. 

B.  THEODORE  GRIFFIN,  President  Griffin  Bros.,  Inc.,  of 
Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Hertford,  North  Carolina, 
November  5.  1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years.   Mr.  Griffin  is  President  of  the  Norfolk  Coal  Exchange. 

F.  G.  GROVE,  retail  coal  merchant  engaged  in  business 
at  Luray,  Virginia,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty 
years. 

ORVILLE  W.  GUY,  President  O.  W.  Guy  Co.,  Norfolk, 
Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Norfolk,  born  November  22,  1876, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 
Mr.  Guy  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Water  Front  Coal 
Co.  as  Secretary  and  Treasurer  and  is  one  of  the  best  known 
coalmen  in  his  section. 

S.  HORACE  HAWES,  President  S.  H.  Hawes  &  Co.,  Rich- 
mond, Virginia,  was  born  in  Powhatan,  Virginia,  June  5, 
1838,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1867,  over 
half  a  century. 

J.  T.  HEARD,  retail  coal  merchant  engaged  in  the  general 
merchandise  business  and  the  manufacture  of  slack  staves 
at  Elkton,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Henry  County,  Virginia, 
October  20,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years. 

JAMES  H.  HILL,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  James  H. 
Hill  Co.,  Inc.,  Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Norfolk  Decem- 
ber 11,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost  forty 
years.  Mr.  Hill  was  formerly  connected  with  Geo.  W.  Taylor 
&  Co.  and  Norfolk  Coal  &  Ice  Co.  and  is  a  Past  President  of 
the  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  of  Virginia. 

SAMUEL  HURT  HOBBS  of  Hobbs  Hoy  Co.,  Petersburg, 
Virginia,  was  born  in  Dinwiddie  County,  Virginia,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1865,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 
Mr.  Hobbs  was  formerly  President  of  the  City  Fuel  Co. 

JAMES  C.  HOY  of  the  Hobbs  Hoy  Co.,  Petersburg.  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  at  Petersburg  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  all  his  life.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  J.  C. 
Hoy  &  Bro.  and  Jackson  &  Hoy. 

CHRISTIAN  S.  HBTTER,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Lynch- 
burg, Virginia,  was  born  in  Bedford  County,  Virginia,  Oc- 
tober 19,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
six  years.  Mr.  Hutter  was  formerly  connected  with  I.  H. 
Adams  &  Bros,  and  was  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Vir- 
ginia and  Carolina  Coal  Association. 

MONTGOMERY  C.  JACKSON,  President  Jackson  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Inc.,  Petersburg,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Petersburg 
December  26,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-three  years. 

GRATTON  C.  JONES,  proprietor  of  the  Christiansburg  Fuel 
Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Christiansburg,  Virginia, 
is  a  native  of  Christiansburg,  born  October  1,  1881.  He  has 
been   in  the  coal   business  twelve   years. 


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iii:i<\ll':  HiAVOHTn  JONES,  Clifton  Forge,  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Culpeper  County,  Virginia.  January  18,  1868, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Jones 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  Smokeless  Fuel  Co.  and  White  Oak  Coal  Co. 

W.  I.  JONES,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  O.  W.  Guy  Co..  Nor- 
folk, Virginia,  was  born  in  18S6  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   for  six   years. 

TYLER  Kit V/.lK.lt  KIUU.  retail  coal  merchant  engaged  in 
business  at  Crockett,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Cove  Creek,  Vir- 
ginia. May  3,  1873,  and  has  been  in  business  for  himself  for 
twelve  years. 

THOMAS  P.  KINNEY,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Standard  Coal  &  Wood  Co.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Danville,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Staunton,  Virginia,  in  1869 
and  has  been   In  the  coal  business  two  years. 

CHARLES  P.  LATHROP.  senior  partner  of  C.  P.  Lathrop 
&  Co.,  large  retailers  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Richmond  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  fifty 
years.  He  was  formerly  associated  with  S.  P.  Lathrop.  Mr. 
Lathrop  is  one  of  the   leading  retailers   in    his   section. 

JAMES  J.  LEWIS,  Manager  Lewis  &  Co.,  retailers  at 
Salem.  Virginia,  was  born  in  Pittsylvania  County,  Virginia, 
in  1871  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 
Mr.  Lewis  was  formerly  connected  with  D.  T.  Martin  &  Co. 
and  F.  C.  Wiley. 

LEE  LONG,  Vice  President  of  the  Clinchfleld  Coal  Corp. 
and  President  of  the  Virginia  Banner  Coal  Corp.,  with  offices 
at  Dante,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Morganfield,  Kentucky,  De- 
cember 26,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twen- 
ty-five years.  Mr.  Long  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Eureka  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Imperial  Colliery  Co.  and  Keeney 
Creek  Colliery  Co.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Mining 
Congress  and  Workmen's  Compensation  Commission  of  Vir- 
ginia. 

WILMER  MAHONE,  retailer  doing  business  at  Newport 
News,  Virginia,  was  born  in  York  County,  Virginia,  April  11, 
1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

WILLIAM  EMRY  McCOY\  President  of  W.  E.  McCoy  Coal 
Co.,  miners  at  McCoy,  Virginia,  Is  a  native  of  McCoy,  born 
July  5,  1892.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five  years. 

W.  M.  MENIFEE,  retail  coal  merchant  in  business  at  Har- 
risonburg, Virginia,  was  born  at  Mount  Crawford,  Virginia, 
August  6,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six 
years.     He  was  formerly  connected  with  Swank  &  Hoover. 

C.  E.  MORRISETT,  Vice  President  O.  W.  Guy  Co.,  Inc., 
Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  born  April  3,  1872,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-three  years.  Mr.  Morrisett  is  Sec- 
retary-Treasurer of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association  of 
Virginia. 

CHARLES  B.  NEEL,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Raven  Red 
Ash  Coal  Co.,  Red  Ash,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Tazewell 
County,  Virginia,  August  5,  1878.  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  ten  years.  Mr.  Neel  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  of 
Laurel  Coal  Corp.  and  a  Director  of  the  Kennedy  Coal  Corp. 
He  was  formerly  in  the  transportation  department  of  the 
Norfolk  &  Western  Railway  and  also  Manager  of  a  lumber- 
producing  firm.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Southwest  Virginia 
Coal  Operators'  Association. 

W.  A.  NEWBERRY,  President  of  the  Newberry  Land,  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  at  Bland.  Virginia,  was  born  at  Bland  Febru- 
ary 26,  1868,  and  has  been  with  this  company  since  its  forma- 
tion. 

W.  C.  NEWMAN,  handling  coal  at  retail  in  Farmville,  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Hanover  County,  Virginia,  in  1869,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  Mr.  Newman  was  a 
director  in  the  Virginia  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  and 
owns  a  large  acreage  of  coal  lands  in  Mason  and  Fayette 
counties,  West  Virginia. 

THOS.  J.  NOTTINGHAM,  President  Nottingham  &  Wrenn 
Co.,  Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  Sep- 
tember 1,  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  over  thirty- 
five  years.  Mr.  Nottingham  is  also  interested  in  the  Hamp- 
ton Roads  Colliery  Co.  and  was  formerly  associated  with  his 
father,  Thos.  J.  Nottingham,  and  Wm.  A.  Wrenn,  composing 
the  firm  of  Nottingham  &  Wrenn. 

GROVER  E.  ORR,  Business  Manager  Benedict  Coal  Corp., 
St.  Charles,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Lee  County,  Virginia. 
March  25,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  nine 
years.  Mr.  Orr  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Virginia- 
Lee  Co. 

ROBERT  LEE  PEERMAN  of  Peerman  &  Fuller,  retail  coal 
merchants  in  business  at  Danville,  Virginia,  was  born  at 
Rustberg,  Virginia,  October  12,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  1897.  Mr.  Peerman  was  previously  connected 
with  Conway  &  Walker  and  F.  L.  Walker  &  Co.  and  Is  Vice 
President  of  the  Virginia  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association. 


PARK  L.  PRICE,  Manager  Price  &  Chick,  retailers  at 
Roanoke,  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Virginia,  born  there  April  6, 
1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Price  is  President  of  the  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  of 
his  city. 

GEORGE  M.  It  Kill.  General  Manager  and  Secretary-Treas- 
urer of  Fort  Branch  Coal  Corp.,  Richmond,  Virginia,  is  a 
native  of  Virginia  and  until  1905  was  with  ihe  American  To- 
bacco Co.,  when  he  became  connected  with  this  company. 

EDWARD  TRENT  ROBINSON,  President  and  Manager 
Robinson  Supply  Co..  retail  coal  merchants  at  Lexington, 
Virginia,  was  born  in  Richmond.  Virginia.  July  28,  1865,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Robinson 
was   formerly  connected  with   the   Robinson   &  Hutton  Co. 

JOHN  E.  SEATON,  part  owner  of  W.  E.  Seaton  &  Sons, 
Richmond,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Richmond  January  31,  1871, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-two  years. 
C.  A.  Seaton,  his  brother,  Is  interested  with  him  in  this 
business. 

W.  A.  SMOOT,  President  W.  A.  Smoot  &  Co.,  Alexandria, 
Virginia,  was  born  in  Alexandria  May  16,  1878,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years,  associated  with  his 
father  until  his  death,  July  10,  1917.  Mr.  Smoot  is  a  man  of 
affairs  in  his  community,  taking  a  very  active  part  in  its 
business  life,  and  is  looked  upon  as  a  man  of  exceptional 
ability,  sterling  character  and  well  posted  on  practical  lines. 
Mr.  Smoot  is  President  of  the  National  Retail  Coal  Mer- 
chants' Association,  Director  of  the  Alexandria  Chamber  of 
Commerce  and  a   member  of  the   Virginia  State   Legislature. 

GEORGE  OLIVER  SNAPP,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Win- 
chester, Virginia,  was  born  in  1855  in  Winchester  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

W.  B.  SPRATT,  President  Lewis  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Inc..  Rich- 
lands,  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Virginia,  born  in  1858,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Spratt 
was  formerly  with  the  Big  Town  Hill  Creek  Coal  Co. 

J.  WILLIAM  SWAN,  retailer  handling  coal  at  Culpeper, 
Virginia,  was  born  at  Culpeper  in  1863  and  has  been  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  since  1889. 

RALPH  E.  TAGGART,  General  Manager  Stonega  Coke  & 
Coal  Co.,  large  producers,  with  branch  at  Big  Stone  Gap. 
Virginia,  was  born  in  Leisenring,  Pennsylvania,  April  17, 
1887,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

FLOYD  TYLER,  proprietor  of  Tyler  &  Ryan,  Richmond, 
Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Richmond  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-two  years.  Mr.  Tyler  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  R.  N.  Northen  &  Co. 

WILLIAM  ROGERS  VAUGHAN,  General  Manager  A.  H. 
Vaughan  Coal  Co.,  South  Boston,  Virginia,  was  born  in  South 
Boston  August  31.  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
three  years.  Mr.  Vaughan  is  a  graduate  of  Hampden  Sid- 
ney College  and  gave  up  a  professional  career  to  continue 
the  business  established  by  his  father,  who  died  in  1914, 
while  Mayor  of  the  city. 

WILLIAM  H.  WARREN,  Secretary  and  Sales  Agent  for 
Virginia  of  the  New  River  Coal  Co.,  Richmond,  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Fayette  County,  West  Virginia,  March  30,  1866.  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  Mr.  War- 
ren is  also  Eastern  Sales  Agent  of  the  Wyatt  Coal  Co.,  and 
is  connected  with  a  number  of  producing  companies  in  the 
New  River  field  on  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  and  the  Virginian 
Railways  and  in  the  Logan  County  (West  Virginia)  fields 
on  the  Guyandotte  branch  of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Rail- 
way. He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  New  River  Con- 
solidated Coal  Co..  New  River  &  Kanawha  Coal  Co.  and  New 
River  Consolidated  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  began  his  career  as 
a  coal  man  in  the  employ  of  the  Rush  Run  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
of  Rush  Run,  West  Virginia. 

FRANK  H.  WHEELER,  retailer  In  business  at  Clifton 
Forge,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Hillsboro,  West  Virginia,  June 
30.  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years.  Mr. 
Wheeler  was  formerly  associated  with  F.  S.  Spencer. 

BENJAMIN  C.  WHITE,  senior  partner  of  B.  C.  White  & 
Bro.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Chatham.  Virginia,  was 
born  at  Chatham  July  22,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  six  years. 

THOMAS  WHY'TE,  President  Friend  &  Co.,  Inc.,  Peters- 
burg, Virginia,  was  born  at  Petersburg  October  15,  1878,  and 
has  beer)  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

HENRY  BOYKIN  WILKIN'S,  retail  coal  merchant  In  busi- 
ness at  Portsmouth,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Gates  County, 
North  Carolina,  February  21,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    for   thirty-one   years. 

J.  A.  WILKINS,  son  of  Henry  Boykln  Wilkins,  is  in  busi- 
ness with  his  father  at  Portsmouth.  Virginia.  He  was  born 
October  20,  1894,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four 
years. 

DANIEL  T.  ZENT.MEYER,  Manager  credit  and  advertising 
department  of  the  Chrlstlansburg  Fuel  Co.  of  Christians- 
burg,  Virginia,  was  born  at  Floyd.  Virginia.  September  6, 
1898.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  several  years. 


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WASHINGTON 


WASHINGTON  is  the  only  one  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  states  in  which  the  coal  mining  industry 
has  attained  any  considerable  importance. 
Fuel  oil  and  wood  have  operated  to  keep  down  the  con- 
sumption of  coal  within  the  state  and  the  former  has 
affected  production,  but  despite  these  drawbacks,  the 
coal  fields  of  the  state,  with  their  record  of  CO  years 
behind  them,  have  been  able  to  maintain  production 
above  the  3,000,000  ton  mark  first  set  15  years  ago  and 
preliminary  reports  for  last  year  place  the  1917  output 
at  over  4,000,000  tons. 

The  principal  Washington  coal  fields,  live  in  number, 
lie  in  the  western  and  central  portions  of  the  state. 
These  fields  are  known  as  the  North  Puget  Hound,  em- 
bracing operations  in  Skagit  and  Whatcom  counties; 
the  South  Puget  Sound,  embracing  operations  in  King 
and  Pierce  counties ;  the  Puget  Sound  basin,  which  lies 
cast  of  Seattle;  the  Roslyn  field  in  Kittitas  County  on 
the  eastern  slope  of  the  Cascade  Mountains  in  Kittitas 
County  and  the  Southwestern  field  in  Cowlitz  and  Lewis 
counties.  In  point  of  present  production  the  South 
Puget  Sound  and  Poslyn  fields  lead. 

In  quality  Washington  coals  range  from  bituminous 
coal  found  in  Kittitas,  Pierce,  King,  Lewis,  Whatcom 
and  Skagit  counties  through  sub-bituminous  coal — 
found  in  Lewis,  Pierce,  King  and  Snohomish  counties — 
to  lignite1 — found  in  Columbia,  Cowlitz  and  Lewis  coun- 
ties. Certain  of  the  bituminous  coals  are  of  coking 
grade  and  the  Uniied  States  Geological  Survey  states 
that  "some  natural  coke  and  anthracite  have  been  ol>- 
served."  The  coking  coals,  found  in  the  Wilkeson-Car- 
bonada  district  of  the  South  Puget  Sound  field  and  also 
in  the  Xorth  Puget  Sound  field  are  said  to  be  the  only 
coking  coals  known  to  exist  on  the  Pacific  Coast  slope 
of  the  United  States.  The  sub-bituminous  coals  in  the 
South  Puget  Sound  district  have  been  utilized  in  do- 
mestic consumption,  while  the  high  grade  bituminous 
has  been  used  in  Alaskan  and  Oriental  bunker  trade  and, 
during  the  current  year  (1918)  has  been  shipped  to 
Chile. 

The  discovery  of  a  low  grade  lignite  in  the  Cowlitz 
Valley  in  1848  marked  the  beginning  of  the  coal  history 
of  Washington.  Four  years  later  bituminous  coal  was 
discovered  on  Bellingham  Bay.  Whatcom  County  and 
the  first  commercial  development,  from  which  ship- 
ments were  made  in  1860,  was  in  this  field.     This  mine 


was  in  continuous  operation  until  1878,  when  it  was 
abandoned  because  of  a  fire  originating  in  spontaneous 
combustion.  The  northern  field  remained  inactive 
until  1891.  Coal  was  discovered  in  King  County  in 
1859  and  mining  was  begun  a  short  time  thereafter. 
For  a  long  time,  the  San  Francisco  market  was  a 
heavy  consumer  of  coal  from  the  mines  in  this  field, 
but  the  growth  of  the  fuel  oil  industry  has  practically 
eliminated  this  business.  Further  developments  in  King 
County  took  place  in  the  early  '70s  and  rail  connections 
between  the  Kenton  mines  in  that  field  and  Seattle  were 
established  in  1877.  The  Green  River  district  in  the 
same  county  also  came  into  prominence  about  that  time 
as  did  the  Pierce  County  mines  opened  in  1875,  but 
subsequently  abandoned.  The  Roslyn  field  also  began 
to  attract  attention  about  this  time. 

The  first  record  of  production  appears  in  the  1860 
Census  when  Whatcom  County  was  credited  with  an 
output  of  5,374  tons.  Development  proceeded  slowly 
until  the  exploitation  of  the  King  and  Kittitas  county 
mines  in  the  '80s.  From  a  production  of  110,342  tons 
in  1871),  the  state  advanced  to  380,250  tons  in  1885,  and 
the  1,000,000-ton  mark  was  passed  in  1888.  Produc- 
tion since  that  date  is  shown  in  the  following  tabula- 


tion : 

Year.  Ton. 

1889 1,030,578 

1890 1,263,689 

1891 1,056,249 

1892 1,213,427 

1893 1,264,877 

1894 1,106,470 

1895 1,191,410 

1896 1,195,504 

1897 1,434,112 

1898 1,884.571 

1899 2,029,881 

1900 2,474,093 

1901 2,578,217 

1902 2,681,214 


Year.  Ton. 

1903 ' 3,193,273 

1904 3,137,681 

1905 2,864,926 

1906 3,276,184 

1907 3,680,532 

1908 3,024,943 

1909 3,602,263 

1910 3,911,899 

1911 3,572,815 

1912 3,360,932 

1913 3,877,891 

1914 3,064,820 

1915 2,429,095 

1916 3,038,588 


Under  normal  conditions,  about  39  per  cent,  of  the 
output  of  the  state  is  consumed  within  its  own  borders. 
As  a  class  the  railroads  are  the  largest  customers,  tak- 
ing about  47  per  cent,  of  the  output.  Out  of  a  total 
1915  production  of  2.429,095  tons  the  carriers  ac- 
counted for  1.149,446  tons;  126,047  tons  were  used  at 
the  mines:  intrastate  shipments  took  592,444  tons,  and 
64.707    tons    were    sold    locally.      Shipments    to    inter- 


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state  rail  dentinal ions  totaled  172,090  tons  and  were 
confined  to  two  states;  Idaho  took  25,000  tons  and  Ore- 
gon 147,000  tons.  Tidewater  shipments  totaled  150.07  1 
tons;  of  this  tonnage  12,171  tons  were  exported  to  for- 
eign countries.  8!), 232  tons  were  used  for  liunker  fuel 
in  domestic  and  47,816  tons  for  liunker  trade  in  foreign 
commerce,  while  1,362  tons  were  shipped  via  water 
routes  for  consumption  at  San  Francisco. 

The  coal  from  Washington  mines  consumed  within 
the  state  represented  over  90  per  cent  of  the  require- 
ments of  the  commonwealth  for  the  year.     The  total 


consumption,  including  approximately  1,000  tons  of 
Pennsylvania  anthracite,  was  1.0S7,(iS4,  ions.  Alabama 
shipped  21  tons:  Montana,  20,859;  Utah,  32,039;  Wy- 
oming, 100,277  tons.  Upon  the  per  capita  basis  the 
total  consumption,  .43  ton,  was  among  the  lowest  re- 
ported. The  same  was  true  of  the  square  mile  average 
of  16  tons.  These  Washington  figures  should  he  com- 
pared with  the  national  averages  of  8.82  and  123  tons 
respectively.  As  explained  in  the  opening  paragraph, 
fuel  oil  and  wood  play  a  great  part  in  pulling  down  the 
Washington  averages. 


WASHINGTON 

JAY  AGXEW,  proprietor  of  the  Agnew  Fuel  Co.  and  the 
Monarch  coal  mine  of  Centralia,  Washington,  was  born  in 
1872  at  Hudson,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness   three    years. 

PERCY  H.  BROWNE,  Manager  Caine-Grimshaw  Co.,  re- 
tailers of  coal  at  Bellingham,  Washington,  was  born  August 
1.  1881.  in  Brown's  Valley.  Minnesota,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  twelve  years. 

DANIEL  P.  BUCKINGHAM,  General  Manager  and  Secre- 
tary The  Roslyn  Fuel  Co.,  Seattle,  Washington,  was  born 
January  16,  1878.  He  is  also  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the-  Independent  Coal   &  Coke  Co. 

J.  W.  Bl'LLOCK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington, was  born  in  1868  in  Binghamton,  New  York,  and  has 
been  In  the  coal  business  fifteen  years  and  is  well  known 
in    that   section. 

JOHN  II.  FERRYMAN,  President  Wenatehee  Fuel  Co., 
Wenatchee,  Washington,  was  born  November  6,  1866,  in  Leb- 
anon, Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  four- 
teen years. 

A.  B.  FOSSEEX,  President  and  Manager  of  A.  B.  Fos- 
seen  &  Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  North  Yakima,  Washington, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  two  years. 

WILBl'R  B.  IVES,  President  of  the  Cumberland  Coal 
Co.,  Seattle.  Washington,  was  born  in  Meriden,  Connecticut, 
December  10,  1873.  He  was  previously  connected  with  Amos 
Ives,  doing  a  retail  business  at  Meriden.  His  brother,  C.  A. 
Ives,  is  Secretary  of  the  company. 

BERNARD  HAWLEY  JOHNSTON,  President  and  Treas- 
urer Mendota  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Vice  President  Farmers 
A  Merchants  Bank,  Centralia,  Washington,  was  born  in 
Warsaw.  Illinois,  September  18,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  since  1883.  Mr.  Johnston  was  previously  con- 
nected with  the  Mendota  Coal  Co.  and  Rogers  Coal  Co.  of 
Mendota,  Missouri. 

JOHN  JOHNSON,  President  Johnson-Bungay  Fuel  Co., 
Spokane.  Washington,  was  born  in  Sweden  in  1863,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 

ALEC  R.  McLEOD,  President  and  Secretary  of  Wain- 
wright &  MeLeod,  Inc.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington, was  born  February  22,  1862,  in  Nova  Scotia.  Mr. 
M'-I.eod  was  previously  connected  with  the  Issaquah  Coal  Co. 

GEO.  R.  MILLER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Monks  & 
Miller,  Inc.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Seattle,  Washington,  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania  April  13,  1875,  and  has  been  In  the 
dial    business    twelve    years. 

WII.I.IVM  B.  MONKS,  President  Monks  &  Miller,  Inc., 
retail  coal  merchants  at  Seattle,  Washington,  was  born 
March  2,  1871,  In  Butler,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  thirteen  years.  He  Is  also  interested  in  the 
May  Creek  coal  property.  Mr.  Monks  is  Chairman  of  the 
Coal  Dealers  Association  of  the  Seattle  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  Commercial  Club  and  has  always  taken  a  keen 
Interest  In  anything  for  the  betterment  of  the  retail  coal 
trade. 

ALEXANDER  11.  MONTGOMERY,  owner  of  the  Mont- 
gomery Fuel  &  Transfer  Co.  at  Bellingham,  Washington, 
wan  born  In  Chicago,  Illinois.  August  8,  1855,  and  has  been 
In    th«    CO»l    business    AftMD    years. 


ROBERT  ORR.  proprietor  of  the  Orr  Fuel  Co.,  Centralia, 
Washington,  was  born  March  20,  1862,  in  Motherwell, 
Scotland,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  thirty- 
nine  years,  twenty-flve  of  which  he  has  worked  in  the 
mines.  Mr.  Orr  was  previously  connected  with  the  Gale 
Creek  Coal  Co.,  Snoqualmie  Coal  Co.,  and  the  Perth  Coal 
Co.,  all   of  Washington. 

IRA  OWEN,  proprietor  and  Manager  of  the  Twilight  Lum- 
ber &  Fuel  Co.,  Spokane,  Washington,  was  born  June  28, 
1877,  in  Gorin,  Missouri,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
nine  years.  Mr.  Owen  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Potlatch  Lumber  Co.  and  the  Northern  Lumber  Co. 

JAS.  S.  RAMAGE.  President  Continental  Coal  Co.,  Spo- 
kane, Washington,  was  born  in  Canada  December  17,  1868, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr. 
Ramage  was  for  two  years  President  of  the  National  Apple 
Show  and  President  of  the  Spokane  Chamber  of  Commerce 
for  one  year.  Previous  to  his  present  connection  he  was  in 
business  for  himself. at  Worthington,  Minnesota.  He  has 
gone  to  France  in  volunteer  work  for  the  American  Red 
Cross. 

WILLIAM  G.  RAMAGE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Hawkeye  Fuel  Co.,  Spokane,  Washington,  was  born  in  1867 
in  Canada,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  thirteen 
years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Continental  Coal 
Co.  Mr.  Ramage  was  previously  associated  with  James  S. 
Ramage  at  Worthington.  Minnesota. 

RAY  S.  ROBERTS,  member  of  the  Great  Western  Fuel 
Co.  of  Spokane,  Washington,  was  born  at  Ulysses,  Nebraska, 
August  16,  1890,  and  has  been  in  the  cos.1  business  eight 
years. 

SIMEON  ROBERTS,  Manager  6f  the  Great  Western  Fuel 
Co.  of  Spokane,  Washington,  was  born  in  Bloomington. 
Illinois,  October  31.  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirteen    years. 

CLEMENT  SCOTT,  Manager  and  Sole  Owner  of  the  Red 
Ash  Coal,  Ice  &  Transfer  Co.  of  Vancouver,  Washington, 
was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  April  6,  1876,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  His  company  also 
handles  building  materials,  fertilizers,  blasting  supplies  and 
has  the  only  furniture  storage  warehouse  in  town.  Mr.  Scott 
is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Commercial  Club  of  Vancouver 
and  is  Financial  Chairman  of  the  Local  Red  Cross.  He  is 
Kxalted  Ruler  of  Vancouver  Lodge  of  Elks  and  ranks  high 
in   Masonic   circles. 

JAMES  SELI1EN  V1NING.  proprietor  of  the  retail  coal 
DUSlneM  .allied  on  as  J.  S.  Vlning  at  Seattle,  Washington, 
was  born  September  15,  1867,  In  Maine,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  has  held  the  position  of 
President  of  the   Retail  Coal  Dealers  Association  of  Seattle. 

\MORY  D.  WAINWRIGHT,  Vice  President  and  Treasurer 
Wainwright  &  MeLeod.  Inc.,  Seattle,  Washington,  was  horn 
December  17,  1860,  In  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Wainwright  was 
previously   connected   with   the    Issaquah   Coal   Co. 

WARREN  HARPER  YEAKEL,  Manager  Yeakel  Fuel 
Co.,  retailers  of  coal  at  Spokane.  Washington,  was  born 
December  1.  1873.  In  Polo,  Illinois,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty-three  years.  Mr.  Yeakel  was  previously 
connected  with  his  tether,  Samuel  K.  Yeakel.  In  business  at 
Polo. 


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AS  A  GOOD  WINE  needs  no  bush,  so,  too,  may 
it  be  said  that  the  coal  resources  of  West  Vir- 
ginia cry  for  no  Christopher  Columbus  to  dis- 
cover them  for  a  waiting  world.  Unlike  the  diffident 
Alden  they  speak  for  themselves.  The  semi-bituminous 
coals  of  the  Pocahontas,  New  River  and  Tug  River 
fields,  for  example,  have  won  not  only  a  national,  but 
an  international  reputation;  in  many  sections  of  the 
United  States  they  are  classed  as  a  premier  domestic 
fuel,  as  smithing  coals  they  are  used  from  coast  to  coast, 
they  are  a  favorite  coking  coal,  esteemed  for  bunkering 
and  for  myriad  industrial  uses.  The  high  volatile  dis- 
tricts are  also  known  far  beyond  the  confines  of  the  state 
carved  out  of  the  Old  Dominion.  Coal  is  the  industry 
of  West  Virginia.  It  is  the  commodity  that  gives  it 
wealth  and  business  prestige. 

The  coal  producing  area  of  the  state  is  included  in 
the  coal  fields  of  the  great  Appalachian  region,  which 
crosses  West  Virginia  from  Pennsylvania  and  Mary- 
land on  the  north  to  Virginia  and  Kentucky  on  the 
south.  The  greater  part  of  the  state  is  underlaid  with 
coal-bearing  rocks ;  the  exceptions  are  the  area  lying  to 
the  east  of  the  escarpment  of  the  Allegheny  Mountains 
and  portions  of  the  territory  south  of  the  Ohio  River, 
below  Wetzel,  which  Dr.  I.  C.  White,  state  geologist, 
has  said  are  barren  of  workable  coals. 

At  present  there  are  eleven  different  mining  districts 
recognized  in  the  state.  The  number  of  coal  seams  so 
far  classified  totals  102 ;  of  this  number,  52  are  of  suffi- 
cient thickness  to  be  considered  workable.  The  total 
area  of  coal-bearing  formations  in  the  state  is  estimated 
at  9,500  square  miles.  The  specific  districts  referred 
to  in  the  first  sentence  of  the  paragraph  are  known  as 
the  Elk  Garden,  Upper  Potomac,  Roaring  Creek,  Pan- 
handle, Fairmont,  New  River,  Kanawha,  Pocahontas, 
Tug  River,  Thacker  and  Kenova.  The  greater  per- 
centage— estimated  as  high  as  90 — of  the  tonnage  pro- 
duced comes  from  five  districts,  viz.,  the  Fairmont  (or 
Clarksburg)  and  the  Elk  Garden  (or  Piedmont)  in  the 
northern  portion  of  the  state  and  the  New  River,  Kana- 
wha and  Pocahontas  regions  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
state. 

The  principal  workings  of  the  Fairmont  district  are 
in  Harrison  and  Marion  counties.  The  beds  from 
which  the  coal   is  mined  belong  to  the   Monongahela 


formation  ("Upper  Productive  Coal  Measures") ;  the 
most  important  bed  in  this  formation  is  the  famous 
Pittsburgh,  which  reaches  an  average  thickness  of  8% 
feet.  "The  Waynesburg  and  Sewickley  coals,  the  for- 
mer poor  and  the  latter  good,"  says  the  United  States 
Geological  Survey,  "also  occur  in  this  district  and  run 
from  5  to  10  feet  in  thickness,  but  are  seldom  mined." 

From  the  point  of  view  of  operation  the  Elk  Garden 
or  Piedmont  field  is  the  oldest  in  the  state.  Coal  was 
mined  here  contemporaneously  with  the  opening  of  the 
Georges  Creek  field- in  Maryland  and  prior  to  the  sep- 
aration of  West  Virginia  from  Virginia.  Geologically 
speaking  the  region  lies  in  the  detached  Potomac  basin 
and  is  included  in  Mineral,  Grant  and  Tucker  counties. 
The  strata  of  this  narrow  eastern  basin  are  much  more 
strongly  folded  than  those  of  the  regions  to  the  west. 
The  beds  worked  range  from  4  to  11  feet  in  thickness. 
The  coal,  which  is  ranked  as  semi-bituminous,  conies 
principally  from  the  "Big"  (Pittsburgh),  the  "Thomas" 
(Upper  Freeport)  and  the  "Davis"  (Kittanning)  beds. 

The  New  River  field,  which  shares  with  the  Pocahon- 
tas region  the  bulk  of  the  production  of  the  semi-bitu- 
minous "smokeless"  coal,  is  "confined  to  the  valley  of 
New  River  and  its  tributaries,  and  to  the  Slab  Fork  and 
Winding  Gulf  drainage  areas  of  Guyan  River.  The 
productive  portions  are  in  Fayette  and  Raleigh  coun- 
ties. The  coals  of  this  district  are  of  middle  or  lower 
Pottsville  age  and  lie  below  the  Kanawha  and  Alle- 
gheny formations  of  the  northern  part  of  the  state.  The 
three  coal  beds  which  furnish  the  larger  part  of  the 
New  River  production  are  the  Sewell,  which  runs  from 
2V2  to  6  feet;  the  Beckley,  4  to  C  feet,  and  the  Quinni- 
mont  (Fire  Creek),  from  3  to  5  feet  in  thickness,  the 
last  named  lying  below  and  to  the  southeast  of  the 
others.  One  seam  of  coal,  belonging  properly  to  the 
Kanawha  field  and  the  upper  Pottsville,  lies  high  in  the 
hills  of  the  New  River  district  and  is  extensively  mined 
at  Ansted." 

The  Kanawha  field,  which  adjoins  the  New  River  on 
the  west,  includes  the  western  portion  of  Fayette,  all  of 
Kanawha  and  portions  of  Putnam  and  Boone  counties. 
The  coals  in  this  field  vary  both  in'  character  and  thick- 
ness. The  beds  range  from  3  to  5  feet  where  mined, 
although  in  some  cases  the  thickness  reached  is  11  feet 
or  more.     No  small  portion  of  the  coal  in  this  field  is 


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the  well-known  Kanawha  gas.  The  principal  beds  are 
the  Xorth  Coalburg  and  Xo.  5  of  the  Allegheny  age  and 
the  Stockton,  Coalburg,  Winifrede,  Cedar  Grove,  Xo.  2 
gas  and  Eagle  seams  in  the  upper  Pottsville  formation. 

The  Pocahontas  field  extends  from  McDowell  and 
Mercer  counties  in  the  southeastern  corner  of  the  state 
into  Tazewell  County,  Virginia.  The  most  important 
seam  is  the  Xo.  3,  which  ranges  from  4  to  11  feet,  with 
an  average  thickness  of  over  6  feet.  In  addition  to  this 
seam,  operations  are  also  carried  on  in  Xo.  4,  War 
Creek  (Beckley),  Welch  and  Davey  seams.  The  Welch 
and  Beckley  seams  are  worked  in  the  Tug  River  dis- 
trict, served  like  the  Pocahontas,  which  it  adjoins,  by 
the  Xorfolk  &  Western  railroad. 

The  Thacker  and  Kenova  fields,  west  of  the  Kanawha. 
are  of  the  same  general  character  as  that  field. 

While  West  Virginia  was  producing  coal  at  the  time 
of  its  separation  from  Virginia  in  1863,  it  was  not  until 
ten  years  later  that  its  output  reached  1,000,000  tons 
and  it  was  not  until  1882  that  the  2,000,000-ton  mark 
was  passed  ;  production  showed  more  rapid  gains  from 
that  time  although  ten  more  years  elapsed  before  10,- 
000,000  tons  were  produced.  This  slow  growth  is  ex- 
plained in  part  by  the  competition  which  the  state  had 
to  meet  in  marketing  its  coals  against  the  older  fields 
and  in  the  lack  of  a  home  market  because  of  the  low 
rank  occupied  I > v  WV.-t  Virginia  as  a  manufacturing 
entity.      While  no  great   impetus  lias  been  given  to   its 

home  market,  as  appears  from  the  detailed  statistics  of 
production  since  1894,  the  state  appears  to  have  been 
able  to  take  care  of  competition: 


Year. 
1894.... 
1895... 
*1896... 
1897... 
1898.... 


Ton.                Year.  Ton. 

11,027,757  1900 43,290,350 

11,387,961  1907 48,091,583 

12,876,290  1908 41,897,843 

14,248,159  1909 51,849,220 

16,700,999  1910 61,671,019 

1899. 19,252,995  1911 59,831,580 

1900 22,647,207  1912 66,786,687 

1901 24,068,402  1913 71,254,130 

1902 24,570,820  1914 71,707.626 

1903 29,337,241  1915 77,184,009 

1904 32,406,752  1910 86,460,127 

1905 37,791,580 

'"The  coal  industry  of  West  Virginia,"'  said  a  govern- 
ment report  treating  upon  the  distribution  of  coal,  "has 
been  developed  under  unique  conditions.  There  has 
been  little  home  market,  so  the  operators  had  to 
seek  markets  for  their  coal  in  other  parts  of  the  United 
States  and  in  foreign  countries.  Immense  reserves  of 
high-grade  coal  in  easily  workable  beds  have  permitted 
mining  on  a  large  scale1  and  at  a  low  cost.  Proximity 
to  the  Atlantic  seaboard,  where  good  harbors  afforded 
opportunity  for  foreign  and  coastwise  shipments,  and 


excellent  railroad  outlets  to  the  markets  of  the  West  and 
Xorthwest  have  enabled  the  coal  industry  of  the  state 
to  develop  at  a  rapid  rate. 

"Including  the  coal  made  into  coke  at  the  mines 
(l,09o,279  tons)  and  that  used  for  steam  and  heat  at 
the  mines  (1,141,178  tons)  the  consumption  of  West 
Virginia  coal  in  the  state  in  1915  was  but  6,000,000 
tons,  or  8  per  cent,  of  the  total  output.  More  than 
32,500,000  tons,  or  42  per  cent,  of  the  output,  was 
shipped  to  other  states  by  rail  or  by  river  for  use  other 
than  as  railroad  fuel.  The  shipments  to  the  Great 
Lakes  for  cargo  were  8,700,000  tons,  or  11  per  cent,  of 
the*  total,  and  shipments  to  tidewater  were  more  than 
20,400,000  tons,  or  27  per  cent,  of  the  output.  The 
lake  cargo  shipments  included  800,134  tons  for  railroad 
use  in  the  Xorthwest  and  the  tidewater  shipments  in- 
cluded 1,776,419  tons  sent  by  vessels  coastwise  to  New 
England  and  there  used  by  the  railroads.  The  quantity 
of  railroad  fuel  that  reached  its  destination  by  all-rail 
routes  was  9,478,401  tons,  or  12  per  cent,  of  the  pro- 
duction; the  total  quantity  of  West  Virginia  coal  used 
by  railroads  in  1915  was  12,054,954  tons,  or  15.7  per 
cent,  of  the  total  output." 

The  total  production  for  the  year  in  question  was 
:  5 .184,069  tons.  Of  this,  6,000,117  tons  were  consumed 
within  the  state;  this  figure  included  the  coal  used  at 
the  mines,  that  coked,  1,091,371  tons  sold  locally,  and 
1.7  7  2.281)  tons  shipped  to  points  within  the  state.  In- 
cluding the  coal  coked  and  that  used  at  the  mines,  the 
total  consumption  within  the  state  was  6,232,299  tons. 
This  consumption  included  35,000  tons  of  anthracite, 
87  tons  of  bituminous  from  Kentucky,  6,525  tons  from 
.Maryland,  15,500  tons  from  Ohio  and  175,000  tons  from 
Pennsylvania.  Upon  a  per  capita  basis,  the  anthracite 
consumption  was  too  small  to  be  taken  into  account; 
the  curious  fact  about  the  bituminous  consumption  was 
that  it  was  2.01  tons — the  only  instance  where  the  per 
capita  of  a  state  was  the  same  as  the  average  bitumin- 
ous per  capita  for  the  country  as  a  whole.  Upon  a 
square  mile  basis  the  consumption,  258  tons,  was 
slightly  more  than  double  the  national  average  of  123 
tons. 

The  all-rail  shipments  to  other  states  from  West 
Virginia  aggregated  32,555.406  tons  in  1915.  Four 
states — Illinois,  Indiana,  Michigan  and  Ohio — absorbed 
over  55  per  cent,  of  this  tonnage.  In  detail  the  ship- 
ments were  as  follows:  Alabama,  2,800  tons;  Arizona, 
450;  California,  17,250;  Carolinas,  977,782;  Delaware, 
245,451;  Florida,  31,980;  Georgia,  41.332;  Illinois, 
5,079,032;  Indiana,  4,072,001  ;  l„wa.  159.1  1 1:  Kansas, 
390;  Kentucky,  443,407;  Maryland  and  District  of  Co- 
lumbia, 814.379;  Michigan.  1,326,412;  Minnesota.  40,- 
704;  Missouri,  158,763;  Xebraska.  1.55:!;  Nevada.  300; 
Xew  England  states,  20,419 ;  Xew  Jersey.  645.600 ;  Xew 


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Mexico,  50;  New  York,  2,072,670;  North  Dakota.  425; 
Ohio.  5,375,560;  Pennsylvania,  t,945,295;  South  Da- 
kota, 10,833;  Tennessee,  1,305;  Texas,  2,281;  Utah, 
165;  Virginia,  2,228,268,  and  Wisconsin,  839,105  tons. 
All-rail  exports  were  42,913  tons. 

No  review  of  West  Virginia  would  be  complete  with- 
out reference  to  the  foreign  and  bunker  trade  in  coals 
from  that  state.  The  figures  have  an  added  signifi- 
cance now  because  those  who  cherish  the  belief  that  the 
close  of  the  World  War  means  a  greater  export  market 
for  American  coals  turn  first  to  the  fields  of  West  Vir- 
ginia as  the  logical  ones  to  most  successfully  meet  for- 
eign competition  in  overseas  and  South  American  mar- 


kets.    The  latest  export  and  bunker  statistics  for  the 
Hampton   Eoads  ports    show   the  following: 

, Exports , 

Year.       Anthracite.  Bituminous.         Coke.    Foreign  bunker. 

1915 GOG  5,183.846  32,903  1,703,50G 

1916 353  5,095,596  36,198  2,961.709 

1917 7,705  4.157,827  16,888  1,976,332 

Among  the  destinations  for  which  cargoes  have 
cleared  from  the  Virginia  piers  during  1911-16  were 
Argentina,  the  Azores,  Brazil,  British  Guiana,  Canary 
Islands,  Chile.  Colombia.  Costa  Rica,  Ecuador,  Egypt. 
France,  French  Africa.  Greece,  Gibraltar,.  Italy,  Mex- 
ico, Morocco.  Norway.  Panama,  Portugal.  Spain, 
Sweden.  Venezuela.  Uruguay  and  the  West  Indies. 


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l>lt.  J.  A.  WOOD.  AmlKO,  Weal  Virginia. 

A  well-known  character  In  the  New  River  field,  having:  de- 
veloped many  successful  properties  in  that  district,  entered 
the  business  comparatively  late  in  life.  After  practicing 
medicine  for  twenty-four  years,  he  embarked  in  the  coal 
business  as  an  operator  in  the  New  River  field.  He  is  Pres- 
ident and  Treasurer  of  the  Amigo  Coal  Co.,  Amigo,  an  opera- 
tion started  in  1915,  and  with  a  present  capacity  of  75,000 
tons  annually.  In  this  enterprise  he  is  closely  associated 
with  J.  C,  Sullivan.  Vice  President,  with  whom  he  has  been 
identified   also   in   various   preceding  coal  enterprise* 


I   HI    I)   «.  WOOD,  Aniiico.   \Vext  Virginia, 

.Manager  and  Secretary  Amigo  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in  Kana- 
wha County,  the  son  of  Dr.  J.  A.  Wood,  and  received  his  tech- 
nical training  at  the  University  of  West  Virginia.  The 
output  of  the  Amigo  Coal  Co.  goes  to  Tidewater  and  Atlantic 
seaports  as  run  of  mine,  and  is  there  sold  through  the  East- 
ern Export  Corp.,  Richmond,  Virginia.  The  practical  qual- 
ities of  Mr.  Wood  have  been  effectively  demonstrated  in  the 
rapid   development   of  this   property. 


Mead  -  Toliver  Coal  Company 

Raleigh  County 
Beckley,  West  Virginia 


Daring  its  comparatively  brief  career  to  date, 
the  Mead-Toliver  Coal  Company  has  scored  an 
unusually  rapid  progress.  It  began  shipments  in 
December,  L916,  ami  its  recent  developments  point 
Hi  an  annual  production  of  300,000  tons.  The 
property  of  the  company  is  located  on  Stone  Coal 
Creek  of  the  Winding  Cult'  field,  and  transporta- 
tion facilities  are  available  over  both  the  Virginian 
and  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  railroads.  The  prop- 
erty carries  the  Beckley  scam  in  a  6%-fool  vein 
and  this  was  first  developed,  and  also  a  scam  of 
Pocahontas  No.  :!.  Mines  Nc*.  1  and  2  of  the  com- 
pany produce  the  Beckley  product  hut  preparations 


were  speedily  begun  to  open  Mine  No.  :'>  near  the 
station  of  Killarnev,  about  a  mile  from  Mines  1 
and  2,  to  operate  the  Pocahontas  No.  3  seam.  The 
mines  are  equipped  with  modern  electric  shaker 
screens  and  loading  boom-. 

The  output  goes  eastward  and  to  tidewater. 
It  is  sold  through  the  Eastern  Coal  &  Export  Cor- 
poration. Richmond,  Virginia. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are:  C.  II.  Mead, 
President  and  Ceiicral  Manager;  J.  H.  Craft,  Vice 
President,  and  J.  P.  Nowlin,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer. 


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J.  ELLIOTT  HALL,  Bluefield,  West  Virginia, 

General  Manager  Appalachian  Coal  Land  Co.,  Bluefield,  is  as 
well-known  to  the  coal  interests  of  West  Virginia  as  probably 
any  man  in  the  state.  He  has  had  a  wide  experience  in  all  that 
goes  to  make  for  the  prosperity  of  this  wonderful  coal-producing 
state. 


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RAGLAND    COAL    COMPANY 

Beckley,  West  Virginia 

One  of  the  newer  coal  operations  in  the  Beckley  seam  of  New 
River  coal  is  the  Ragland  Coal  Co.,  the  property  of  which  is  located 
at  Pemberton,  Raleigh  County,  West  Virginia.  Shipments  are 
made  on  both  the  Chesapeake  and  the  Virginian  Railways. 

Tom  Rush  Ragland  is  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  company,  with  offices  at  Beckley,  and  J.  L.  Smith  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer.  Mr.  Ragland  has  been  identified  with  the  coal 
business  for  many  years.  He  was  formerly  associated  with  the 
Ciuley  Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  the  Fort  Defiance  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and  the  West  Virginia  Coal  Mining  Co.  It  was  through  his  efforts 
that  the  properties  of  the  two  last  named  companies  were  developed. 
All  the  coal  interests  of  President  Ragland,  however,  are  now  (en- 
tered in  the  Ragland  Coal  Co.,  which  in  its  brief  history  has  become 
one  of  the  active  and  successful  operations  in  this  field. 


<il  V    I).   FRENCH, 
Blurfield,    Went    Virginia, 

District  Manager  Producers  Coal  Co. 
at  Bluefleld.  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness seven  years.  For  five  years  Mr. 
French  was  Assistant  to  the  General 
Manager  at  Cincinnati.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  coal  department  of  the 
Norfolk  &  Western  Railway  at  Blue- 
field. 


tm 


M.    FRANKLIN    UK  AMI:  II,    lllii.-tl.ld.    Went    VlrKlnin, 

General  Manager  Beamer  Ked  Ash  Coal  Co.,  Bluefleld,  was 
born  In  North  Carolina  September  15.  1878,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  five  years.  Mr.  Beamer  is  also  Inter- 
ested In  the  Flat  Rock  Coal  Co. 


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FRANK    S.    EASLEY, 
Bluefield,    We»t    Virginia, 

President  Bluefield  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Bluefleld,  is  a  native  of  Virginia,  born 
August  3,  1878.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Easley 
was  formerly  connected  with  the 
American  Smelting  &  Refining  Co., 
Pocahontas  Fuel  Co.  and  Pocahontas 
Coke  Co.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  a 
number   of   producing   companies. 


SIDNEY     S.     COPER, 
m ii •lir ill.    Went    Virginia, 

General  Manager  Bluefleld  Coal  &  Coke 
Co..  Bluefield,  was  born  in  Bedford, 
Virginia,  March  16,  1862,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 
Mr.  Cofer  has  also  some  interests  in 
operating  coal  mines.  He  was  for- 
merly Secretary  of  the  Flat  Top  Fuel 
Co.  and  General  Manager  of  the  Pro- 
ducers Coal  Co.  prior  to  which  time 
he  was  with  the  Norfolk  &  Western 
Railway. 


STEPHEN    H.    JIEEM, 
Bluefield,    West    Virginia, 

Vice  President  Diamond  Block  Coal  Co., 
Hazard,  Kentucky,  was  born  at  Shen- 
andoah, Virginia,  in  1879  and  is  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Virginia  Military  Institute. 
After  following  his  profession  of  en- 
gineer for  a  time  in  the  Lake  Superior 
ore  regions,  he  went  to  Pocahontas. 
Virginia,  in  1900  and  established  his 
own  engineering  business  and  has  been 
retained  by  practically  all  operators 
in  the  Pocahontas  field  at  one  time  or 
another.  Mr.  Meem  became  an  opera- 
tor in  1913  and  is  also  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  S.  H.  Meem  &  Co.,  manufac- 
turers' agents  of  heavy  mine  equip- 
ment. He  is  member  of  the  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers  and  Vice 
President  of  the  Acme  By-Product  Coal 
Co.,    Fleming,    Kentucky. 


VICTOR  R.  WHITE,  Bluefleld,  We»t  Virginia. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  Flat  Top  Fuel  Co..  Bluefield,  West 
Virginia,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  February,  1906. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Berwind-White  Coal  Mining  Co. 
and  with  the  Berwind  Fuel  Co.,  of  which  he  was  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  from  September  1.  1910,  to  April  1,  1916. 
Mr.  White  was  born   in  Chicago  June   1ft.   1885. 


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W  AI.TKK    s.   WOOD,  Boone,   W'rxl    Virginia. 

President   of   the   Keeney's  Creek   Colliery   Co.,    Boone,   West 
Virginia. 


H.    S.    »  \.    Hrnmnell,    We>(     \  irgluln, 

Manager  Extrajoca  Coal  Co.,  Bramwell,  was  born  in  Mon- 
treal, Canada,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years.  Before  engaging  in  the  coal  business  he  was  a  lum- 
berman in  Michigan.  Mr.  Brown  formed  the  Welch  Coal 
Co.  in  1902  and  was  active  in  the  same  until  December  1, 
1U16. 


<  hi..  JOHDPH    I..   III'.!  BY,   lleury,  \<  .•»«    VirKlnia. 

A  strong  character  and  a  pioneer  in  the  New  River  dis- 
trict, was  born  In  Northumberland  County,  Pennsylvania. 
Colonel  Beury  left  Pennsylvania  at  the  close  of  the  Civil 
War  and  went  prospecting  In  the  coal  regions  of  Virginia. 
He  later  anticipated  the  building  of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio 
Railway  and  was  ready  to  ship  coal  from  his  operations 
at  Qulnnimont,  West  Virginia,  when  the  railroad  opened  up 
Since  that  time  he  was  very  active,  with  large  holdings 
and  operations  In  the  New  River  field.  He  died  at  Beury 
West   Virginia,  June  3,   1903.  where  he   had   lived  since  1883. 


THOMAS  O.   BlcrilV.  Churlrxlon,  V\>xt    Virginia. 

President  Stone  Cliff  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Charleston,  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  all  his  life  and  has  always  been 
Identified  with  his  father's  interests.  Mr.  Beury  is  also 
President  of  the  Beury-New  River  Land  Co.,  holding  in  fee 
3,200  acres  of  land  near  Fayette,  West  Virginia,  on  which 
the  Elmo  Mining  Co.'s  and  Sunbury  Coal  Co.'s  operations  are 
located.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Nuttalburg  Smokeless 
Coal  Co.  and  Beury  Bros.  Coal  Co.  and  General  Manager 
of  the  Phoenix  Coal  Co.  Practically  the  entire  output  of 
the  mines  that  Mr.  Beury  controls  Is  marketed  through  the 
West  Virginia  Coal  Co.,  Richmond.    Virginia. 


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CABIN  CREEKCONSOLIDATED 
COAL  COMPANY 

Charleston,  West  Virginia 

This  company  has  an  annual  capacity  of  4,000,000  tons,  con- 
ducting nineteen  operations  on  Cabin  Creek  in  Kanawha  County. 
West  Virginia.  These  nineteen  mines  are  located  along  the 
Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railroad  and  are  as  follows: 

Kayford,  Raccoon,  Shamrock,  Thistle,  Buckeye,  Old  Acme, 
Ruby,  Empire,  Keystone,  Caledonia.  Red  Warrier,  United  1  and  2, 
Belle  Clare,  Davis,  Quarrier,  Rose,  Holley  and  Cherokee. 

Thousands  of  acres  of  some  of  the  choicest  coal  lands  in  the 
state  of  West  Virginia  are  worked  under  the  brands  of  Acme  Splint 
and  Keystone  Gas  and  Steam.  These  brands  are  favorably  known 
in  both  western  and  eastern  markets. 

The  officers  of  the  Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  have 
been  prominently  connected  with  the  coal  business  of  West  Vir- 
ginia for  many  years.  They  include  Win.  M.  Puckett,  President ; 
James  Kay,  Vice  President;  Josiah  Keeley,  General  Manager;  E. 
B.  Needham,  Treasurer  and  Auditor;  Simon  P.  Richmond,  Secre- 
tary, and  G.  E.  Krehbiel.  Assistant  to  President. 

The  Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  maintains  its  own 
sales  department  in  the  Kanawha  National  Bank  building,  Charles- 
ton, West  Virginia.  President  Puckett  is  also  General  Sales  Ageirl 
and  he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  best  posted  men  in  the  oqal 
industry. 

Branch  sales  offices  are  also  maintained  at  2110  Union  Cen- 
tral Building,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Charles  R.  Moriarity  is  West- 
ern Sales  Manager.  The  Northern  Sales  Office  is  located  at  1228 
Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  with  C.  P.  Moriarty  as  Manager.  B. 
H.  Randolph  is  Eastern  Sales  Manager,  with  offices  in  the  American 
National   Bank  Building,  Richmond,  Virginia. 


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General  Manager  Kelly's  Creek  Colliery  Co.,  Charles- 
ton, was  born  in  Seottsvillc.  Virginia,  March  24,  1863, 
and  has  heen  interested  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years. 
In  1882  Mr.  Dawson  became  connected  with  the  K.  &  M. 
R.  E.  and  held  practically  every  position  up  to  Superin- 
tendent, when  he  organized  the  Kelly's  Creek  Coal  Min- 
ing Co.,  which  he  sold  after  three  years'  management. 
He  next  went  into  Southwest  Virginia  and  built  the 
Lake  Erie  &  Lick  Creek  Railroad  and  projected  the 
Dawson  Coal  &  Coke  <'o.  Air.  Dawson  returned  to 
Kanawha  in  190.3  and  constructed  the  Kelly's  Creek 
and  Western  Railroad  and  organized  the  Kelly's  Creek 


Colliery  Co.,  of  which  he  remained  General  Manager 
until  the  sale  of  the  property  in  April,  1917.  He  has 
always  been  interested  in  any  movement  for  the  better- 
ment of  coal  trade  conditions  and  has  been  president 
of  the  Kanawha  Coal  Association,  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  West  Virginia  Coal  Asso- 
ciation and  Splint  and  Gas  Coal  Association  of  West 
Virginia  and  Past  President  of  the  West  Virginia  Coal 
Association.  Mr.  Dawson  is  also  very  active  in  the 
public  life  of  bis  community.  He  was  Production  Man- 
aver  of  the  United  States  Fuel  Administration  for  the 
High  Volatile  Fields  of  Southern  AVest  Virginia. 


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JOHN   \Y.   MOORE,  Charleston,   Went   Virginia, 

President  and  General  Manager  Ivy  Branch  Coal  Co., 
Charleston,  was  born  in  Summersville,  West  Virginia,  No- 
vember 5,  1867.  Mr.  Moore  has  been  actively  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years  and  Is  a  prominent 
factor  in  southern  coal  trade  circles.  He  is  owner  of  the 
Kanawha  Western  Fuel  Co.  Mr.  Moore  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Chesapeake  Mining  Co.,  Coalburg  Colliery 
Co.,  Hughes  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  Kanawha  Gas  Coal  Co.  as 
General  Manager.  He  was  Western  Manager  of  the  Chesa- 
peake &  Ohio  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  at  Cincinnati  for  one  year. 
The  Ivy  Branch  Coal  Co.,  which  is  owned  by  himself  and 
his    family,    was    organized   by   Mr.    Moore    in    1915 


LEO    F.     illlillll:.    I  li.ul.-~ Wext    Virginia, 

Vice  President  and  Superintendent  Ivy  Branch  Coal  Co., 
Charleston,  is  a  native  of  Maiden,  West  Virginia,  born 
February  15,  1891.  Mr.  Moore  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years,  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Black  Bet- 
sey Coal   &   Mining   Co.    as   traveling   salesman. 


II I   it  ill   li  I    S.  MOORK,  Charleston,   West   Virginia, 

Secretary  Ivy  Branch  Coal  Co.,  Charleston,  was  born  in 
Handley.  West  Virginia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
since  1915,  the  entire  time  with  the  Ivy  Branch  Coal  Co. 
Before  he  became  connected  with  his  father's  coal  interests 
he   was   with   Lewis   Hubbard   &   Co.,   wholesale   grocers. 


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NEW  RIVER  COAL  COMPANY 

Charleston,  West  Virginia 

The   New   Rivet  Coal   Co.   was  organized   June   1.    1909,  by 

certain  mines  in  the  New  River  District  for  the  purpose  of  mar- 
keting their  coal  in  the  different  markets  of  the  country.  Tin:  New 
River  Coal  Co.  represents  and  sells  the  coal  of  the  following  com- 
panies, on  the  line  of  the  Virginian  Railway,  in  Raleigh  and  Wyo- 
ming Counties:  MacAIpin  Coal  Co.,  MacAlpin;  Slab  Fork  Coal 
Co,,  Slab  Fork;  Sullivan  Coal  ft  Coke  Co..  Sullivan,  and  Alpha 
Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  Alpoca. 

Also  the  following  West  Virginia  companies  on  .the  line  of  the 
Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railway:  Scotia  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Rush  Run; 
Star  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Red  Star;  Beechwood  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Claremont;  Beury  Bios.  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Echo;  South  Side  Co., 
Caperton;  Branch  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Elverton ;  Export  Coal  Co.„ 
Lawton;  Laurel  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Lawton ;  Quinnimont  Coal  Co., 
<>ninnimont :  Hemlock  Hollow  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Lawton;  Green- 
wood Coal  Co.,  Lawton:  Turkey  Knob  Coal  Co.,  Macdonald. 

The  mines  enumerated  above  produce  approximately  1,800,000' 
to  2,000,000  tons  of  coal.  Tidewater  shipments  made  to  both 
Newport  News  and  Sewall's  Point. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are  as  follows:  (I.  If.  Caperton, 
President;  Geo.  W.  .Tones,  Vice  President;  W.  H.  Warren,  Sec- 
retary; C.  1).  &feCoy,  Treasurer;  Directors — G.  H.  Caperton.  E. 
W.  Knight.  John  Laing,  C.  C.  Beury.  Geo.  Lawton,  W.  0.  Caper- 
ton. Geo.  W.  Jones.  W.  H.  Warren.  Walter  S.  Wood. 

The  New  River  Coal  Co.  maintains  sales  offices  in  New  York, 
Norfolk  and  Richmond,  Virginia,  Greensboro,  North  Carolina. 
Cincinnati.  Ohio,  with  general  offices  at  Charleston,  West  Virginia. 
The  company  has  a  contract  for  the  shipment  of  1,250,000  to 
1  ..'.on. iioo  tons  of  coal  to  New  England  through  the  New  England 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of  Boston,  Mass.  The  company  ships  coal  into 
all  markets  and  is  a  producer  of  all  grades  of  smokeless  coals. 

The  Export  Agent  is  Fred  R.  Kobe.  Inc..  N'o.  1  Broadway, 
NVw  York  City:  Tidewater  Agent.  A.  G.  Avers.  Citizens  National 
Bank  Building,  Norfolk.  Virginia:  Eastern  Representative,  W. 
II.  Warren.  American  National  Bank  Building.  Richmond,  Vir- 
ginia: Southern  Sale-  Agent,  C  W.  Lee,  Greensboro,  North  Caro- 
lina: Western  Sale-  Agent,  (J.  W.  Tuohy,   Union  Central   Life 

Building,  Cincinnati.  Ohio. 


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JOHN    UIMi,   Charleston,  West   Virginia, 

President  Wyatt  Coal  Co.,  Charleston,  is  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, born  August  24,  1865.  Mr.  Laing  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-six  years.  He  is  also  President  of  the 
MacGregor  Coal  Co.,  MacAlpin  Coal  Co.,  and  MacBeth  Coal 
Co  His  ancestors  have  long  been  connected  with  mining 
industries  and  he  seems  to  have  inherited  their  ability  to 
develop  rich  mining  lands.  The  Wyatt  Coal  Co.,  of  which 
he  is  President,  operates  twenty  mines  in  Kanawha, 
Raleigh,  Logan  and  Gilmer  counties,  with  a  daily  output  of 
18.000    tons. 


T.  J.  ROBSOX,  Charleston,  W.  Va, 

Sales  Manager  Wyatt  Coal  Co.,  Charles- 
ton, was  born  April  7,  1882,  in  Maiden, 
West  Virginia,  and  has  been  interested 
in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  Mr. 
Robson  is  also  Auditor  of  the  Wyatt  Coal 
Co.,  Main  Island  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Mac- 
Gregor Coal  Co.  and  MacAlpin  Coal  Co. 
and  Secretary  of  the  MacBeth  Coal  Co. 


Main  Island  Creek  Coal  Company 

Omar,  Logan  County,  West  Virginia 


One  of  the  big  factors  in  the  Logan  field  is  the 
Main  Island  Creek  Coal  Co..  located  on  the  Chesa- 
peake &  Ohio  Railway  in  Logan  County.  The 
company  has  twelve  operations  now  active  and 
twelve  additional  operations  are  under  construc- 
tion.   The  daily  capacity  is  8,000  tons. 

The  company  has  the  following  officers:  John 
Laing,  President ;  J.  E.  Barlow,  General  Superin- 
tendent, and  John  B.  Lee,  Assistant  Superintend- 
ent. Mr.  Laing,  the  President,  has  developed 
many  prosperous  coal  mining  companies  in  West 
Virginia,  and  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
successful  coal  operators  in  that  State. 

The  company  has  recently  established  a  sales 


department  at  303  Robson-Prichard  Building. 
Huntington,  West  Virgnina,  with  E.  J.  Payne  in 
charge  as  General  Sales  Manager,  Mr.  Payne 
directing  the  sale  of  the  entire  output  of  the  Main 
Island  Creek  mines  from  that  point.  Branch  sales 
offices  have  also  been  established  as  follows:  At 
Cincinnati  in  charge  of  C.  T.  Randall,  with  office 
in  the  Union  Central  Building;  at  Detroit  in 
charge  of  W.  L.  Walton,  with  office  in  the  Dime 
Savings  Building;  at  Toledo  in  charge  of  E.  S. 
VanHart;  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  in  charge  of  E. 
E.  Longstreth,  and  at  Chicago  in  charge  of  D.  M. 
Cohen. 


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THE   (AHHOX    FUEL   COMPANY, 
Cincinnati,   Ohio, 

Was  organized  in  1902  by  J.  R.  Thomas 
and  C.  A.  Cabell  of  Charleston,  West 
Virginia.  Its  executive  offices  are  in 
Charleston  and  Its  mines  on  Cabin 
Creek.  Kanawha  County,  West  Virginia 
Twelve  mines  are  being  operated  under 
the  supervision  of  Mr.  C.  A.  Cabell. 
Vice-President  and  Manager  of  the 
company.  The  tonnage  has  been  de- 
veloped to  two  and  one-half  miliion 
tons  annually,  due  to  a  careful  and  in- 
telligent study  of  market  requirements 
and  satisfactory  service  to  its  patrons 
Mr.  J.  R.  Thomas,  the  President,  is 
located  at  Charleston.  The  sales  of 
the  Carbon  Fuel  Co.  are  in  charge  of 
Mr.  W.  J.  Magee,  with  headquarters  at 
the  Cincinnati  office,  who  has  been 
identified  tr.  this  capacity  since  the 
company's   organization. 


R.    B.    COBB,    Charleston,    West    Virginia, 

Deputy  State  Inspector,  Charleston,  was  born  in  Kanawha 
County,  West  Virginia,  January  11,  1872,  and  has  been 
Identified  with  the  coal  industry  thirty-two  years.  Mr. 
Cobb  passed  all  his  life  in  the  mines  and  held  every  posi- 
tion in  the  operating  end  of  the  business.  He  is  a  self- 
educated  man  and  never  went  to  school  a  day  in  his  life, 
applying  himself  in  all  his  spare  moments  to  getting  an 
education.      He    has    been    with    the    government    since    1913. 


F.   M.  FISHER, 
Charleston,  West    Virginia, 

Late  President  F.  M.  Fisher  Coal  Co., 
Charleston,  was  a  native  of  Lewis- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  born  in  1854.  Mr. 
Fisher  had  been  identified  with  the  coal 
industry  ten  years,  and  was  connected 
with  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  thirty 
years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Wattles-Fisher  Coal  Co.  and  Mill 
Creek  Cannel  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Fisher  died 
August  23.  1917,  after  having  led  a  very 
active  life. 


ill  in    MORTON.   Charleston,   West   VlrKlnla, 

General  Manager  Imperial  Coal  Sales  Co.,  Charleston,  is  a 
native  of  Charlotte,  West  Virginia,  born  January  29.  1858, 
and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one 
years.  Mr.  Morton  Is  also  President  of  the  Coal  Valley 
Mining  Co.,  General  Manager  of  the  Imperial  Colliery  Co. 
and  Christian  Colliery  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  Wood 
Coal  Co.,  Peytona  Mining  Co.  and  Christian  Colliery  Co. 
He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  Splint  and  Gas  Coal  AssocltiMon  of  West  Virginia.  Vice 
Chairman  of  the  Kanawha  Shippers"  Association  and  as 
President    of    the    Kanawha    Coal    Operators'    Association. 


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WIUHTHAN  1>.  ROBERTS,  <  h:i  rl.-slon.  West  Virginia, 
Editor  and  Publisher  "West  Virginia  Mining  News."  Charles- 
ton, is  a  native  of  Weaverville,  North  Carolina,  born  August 
25,  1875.  Mr.  Roberts  has  been  in  the  publishing  business 
ten  years  and  is  author  of  "The  Man  with  a  Job."  distrib- 
uted extensively  by  employers  to  their  workmen.  He 
founded  and  edited  the  "Appalachian  Trade  Journal"  in 
Johnson  City,  Tennessee,  in  1907.  He  has  also  served  as 
publicity  representative  for  the  New  River  and  "Winding 
Gulf  Operators'  Associations  and  represents  several  com- 
panies   in    the    Kanawha    field. 


EDWIN    WALTER   TILDESL.EY,   Charleston,    West    Virginia, 

Commission  Coal  Purchasing  Agent,  with  offices  in  the 
Union  Trust  building,  Charleston,  was  born  in  Columbus, 
Ohio,  March  20,  1891,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven 
years.  Mr.  Tildesley  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Halmar  Coal  Mining  Co.  and  is  now  a  stockholder 
and  Director,  handling  their  business  on  a  commission  basis. 


S.   J.    WOOD, 
Charleston,  West  Virginia, 

Secretary  and  General  Sales  Manager 
Dickinson  Fuel  Co.,  Charleston,  was 
born  in  Clay  County,  West  Virginia. 
June  29,  1890,  and  has  been  interested 
in  the  coal  btisiness  ten  years.  Mr. 
Wood  acted  as  District  Manager  for 
the  Halmar  Coal  Mining  Co.  four  years 
and  also  served  as  a  Director  of  the 
National    Coal    Jobbers    Association. 


WILLIAM   E.   WRIGHT, 
Charleston,   West    Virginia, 

Treasurer  and  Manager  Indian  Run 
Coal  Co.,  Charleston,  West  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Fayetteville,  West  Vir- 
ginia, March  23,  1878,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Wright  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Winifrede  Coal  Co.  and  Sun- 
day Creek  Coal  Co.  'The  Indian  Run 
Coal  Co.  has  branch  agencies  at  Day- 
ton and  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  Detroit,  Mich- 
igan, with  an  annual  output  of  1,000,000 
tons. 


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KANAWHA    VALI.KV    COAX    CO.. 

Kaniwha    National    llmik    IIiiIIiIIiik. 
Charlt-xton,    \\e«l    VlrKlnia. 

This  company  was  started  in  the 
spring  of  1 » 13,  by  Otto  J.  Cox,  and 
later  In  the  same  year  was  Incorpor- 
ated and  organized  with  Otto  J,  c<,\ 
:is  President,  E.  M.  Cox  Treasurer,  and 
Roy    Coa    Secretary. 

The  company  is  the  exclusive  selling 
agrent  for  the  Valco  Coal  Co.,  Kagle 
(Jas  Coal  Co.,  Lens  Creek  Coal  Co., 
Piney-Pocahontaa  Coal  Co.,  and  Lin- 
coln Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  all  of  which  are 
controlled  by  the  Cox  boys.  The  Kan- 
awha Valley  Coal  Co.  is  also  agent  for 
the  Sterling  Block  Coal  Co.,  Superior 
Kanawha  Coal  Co.,  Britton  Coal  Co., 
and   the   Wehole  Coal   Co. 

These  mines  are  located  on  the  Ches- 
apeake &  Ohio  and  Kanawha  &  Mich- 
igan Railways,  and  are  in  the  Coal 
River  District  of  the  Kanawha  Held 
and    the   New    River    field. 

The  company  handles  both  steam  and 
domestic   coal. 


S.  A.  LEWIS,  <  i- i-i.. -in.  Went  VirKinia, 
President  and  Manager  Lewis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Chelvan, 
was  born  in  New  Haven,  West  Virginia,  in  1865  and  "has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  forty-two  years.  Mr. 
Lewis  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Hutchinson  Coal 
Co.  and  Hutchinson  Fuel  Co.  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Kanawha  County  Coal  Operators  Association,  Kanawha 
County  Coal  Shippers  Association,  Kanawha  Gas  and  Splint 
Association  and  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Coal  Shippers  Asso- 
ciation. 


VINCENT  K.  (ilM'KK.  ClarkHburg.  Weal  \  i  ru  n.i.-i. 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  Francois  Coal  Co., 
Clarksburg,  was  born  in  Howesvllle,  West  Virginia,  Novem- 
ber 30,  1874,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
seventeen  years.  Mr.  Gocke  Is  also  Vice  President  of  the 
Klngwood  Coal  Co.  and  President  of  the  Aster  Coal  Co.  He 
was  formerly  associated  with  the  Daniel  Coal  Co.  and  Vin- 
cent Coal  Co.  and  is  a  member  of  the  Finance  and  Transpor- 
tation Committee  of  the  Northern  West  Virginia  Coal  Oper- 
ators   Association. 


DA.MBL   HOWARD.  ClarkHburg.  Went  Virginia, 

President  and  General  Manager  Central  Fairmont  Coal  Co. 
and  Fairmont  Big  Vein  Coal  Co.,  Clarksburg,  was  born  In 
Ireland  November  19,  1848,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Howard  is  a  past  Presi- 
dent of  the  Central  West  Virginia  Coal  Operators  Asso- 
ciation. 


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BROOKS    SWEARENGEN    HUTCHINSON,    Fllirmont,    \V.   V»„ 

President  Rich  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Empire  Fuel  Co.  and  Hutch- 
inson-Arnold  Coke  Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  in  Monongalia 
County,  West  Virginia,  July  10,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  seven  years.  Mr.  Hutchinson  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Logan  Mining   Co. 


PRANK    EHLEX    HUTCHINSON, 

LoKan,  \\  <->t  Virginia, 
Superintendent  Logan  Mining  Co.,  Lo- 
gan, is  a  native  of  Fairmont,  West 
Virginia,  born  October  6,  1892.  Mr. 
Hutchinson  is  also  Vice  President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Rich  Creek 
Coal  Co.  and  Empire  Fuel  Co.  and  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  business 
four   years. 


BERNARD   LEE    HUTCHINSON,   Cincinnati,    Ohio, 

Cincinnati  Manager  Hutchinson  Coal  Co.,  was  born  in 
Beechwood,  West  Virginia,  January  12,  1890,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  eight  years.  He  is  also  General  Mana- 
ger of  the  Empire  Fuel  Co.  and  Vice  President  of  the  Rich 
Creek  Coal  Co.  For  five  years  he  was  with  the  Logan 
Mining  Co. 


JAMES   FLOYD   COLE, 
Fairmont,    West    Virginia, 

Secretary-Treasurer  Rich  Creek  Coal 
Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  in  Grafton, 
West  Virginia,  April  20,  1883,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 
Mr.  Cole  is  also  Auditor  of  the  Empire 
Fuel  Co.,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
Braxton-Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  Moun- 
tain State  Fuel  Co.  and  President  of 
the  Crescent  Fuel  Co.  He  was  former- 
ly identified  with  the  Hutchinson  Coal 
Co.   and  Logan  Mining  Co. 


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(HAS.    H.    IJIFFKMJKRFFER, 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  - 

President  of  the  Harry  B.  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  of  Fairmont,  West  Virginia,  and  the 
Blair-Parke  Coal  Co.  at  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  at  Baltimore, 
.Maryland.  May  23  1877,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  seventeen 
years.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Abrams  Creek  Coal  &  Coke  C».  and  is 
well  known  in  the  trade. 


JOHN   A.   CLARK,    Fairmont,    \\     - 1    Virginia, 

Secretary-Treasurer  Harry  B.  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Vice 
President  Madeira-Hill-Clark  Coal  Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born 
in  Cumberland,  Maryland,  January  22,  1855,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  forty  years.  Mr.  Clark  was  formerly 
connected   with    the   Newburg  Orel   Coal   Co. 


JOHN    A.   CLARK,   JR., 
Fairmont,   Wart    Virginia, 

General  Superintendent  Harry  B.  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  in 
Newburg,  West  Virginia,  December  7, 
1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eleven  years.  Mr.  Clark  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  Harry  B.  Coal  Co.  and  Sal  ■ 
vatore  Coal  Co.  and  was  formerly  iden- 
tified with  the  Madeira-Hill-Clark  Coal 
Co. 


(  IIAHI.KS   II.  \V A«.(ii:M:it.   Fairmont,   Went    Virginia. 

Assistant  Secretary-Treasurer  Harry  B.  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Fairmont,  was  born  in  Newport,  Kentucky,  September  4, 
1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr. 
Waggener  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Harry  B.  Coal 
Co.  He  was  formerly  identified  with  the  Montana  Coal  & 
Coke  Co. 


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HARRY    B.    CLARK,    Fairmont,    West    Virginia, 

President  Harry  B.  Coal  Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  in  New- 
burg:,  West  Virginia,  December  19,  1882,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Clark  is  also  interested 
in  the  Harry  B.  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  Madeira-Hill-Clark  Coal  Co. 


THOMAS    WATSON    ARNETTE,    Fairmont,    West    Virginia. 

President  and  General  Manager  Antler  Coal  Co.,  Fairmont, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Rivesville,  West  Virginia. 
August  29,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
five  years.  Mr.  Arnette  has  also  acted  as  President  of  the 
Har-Mar  Coal  Co.  and  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Hutchinson   Coal  Co.   and   Consolidated  Coal  Co. 


ALEXANDER    R.    WATSON, 
Fairmont,   West    Virginia, 

President  Alexander  R.  Watson  Co., 
Fairmont,  was  born  in  Taylor  County, 
West  Virginia,  September  25,  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  three 
years.  Mr.  Watson  is  also  President 
of  the  Initial  Fuel  Co.  and  Old  Domin- 
ion Coal  Co.  and  a  member  of  the  West 
Virginia   Coal    Operators   Association. 


W.   D.    NORTH, 
Fairmont,    West    Virginia, 

Sales  Manager  Alexander  R.  Watson 
Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  in  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  May  24,  1888,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  three  years.  Mr. 
North  is  also  General  Manager  of  the 
Initial  Fuel  Co.  and  Old  Dominion  Coal 
Co.  He  is  a  member  of  the  West  Vir- 
ginia   Coal    Operators    Association. 


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GEOBGE    UK    HOLT, 
Fairmont,    Went     Virginia, 

Secretary  and  General  Manager  Red 
Rock  Fuel  Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  at 
MaBontown,  Pennsylvania,  October  30, 
1858.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty  years.  Mr.  De  Bolt  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Montana  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  West  Fairmont  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  and  Consolidation  Coal  Co. 


C<  H.  JK\KI\S, 
Fairmont,  \\«->t  Virginia, 
Secretary-Treasurer  Hutchinson  Coal 
Co.  and  Vice  President  Logan  Mining 
Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  in  Barbour 
County,  West  Virginia.  November  13, 
1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Jenkins  has  also 
served  as  President  of  the  Central  West 
Virginia  Coal  Operators  Association  and 
Vice  President  of  the  West  Virginia 
Coal  Association. 


H.    II.    STAGGERS, 
Fairmont,  Went    Virginia, 

West  Virginia  Agent  Moreland  Coke 
Co.,  Fairmont,  was  born  in  Fairmont 
April  21.  1886,  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Staggers  is  also  interested  in  W  A. 
Marshall  &  Co.  He  owned  and  oper- 
ated for  several  years  mines  of  his  own, 
which  he  sold. 


W.  E.  WATSON,  JR.. 
Fairmont,  Wp«t  VirKinia, 
General  Manager  Rosebud  Fuel  Co.  and 
Fairmont  &  Cleveland  Coal  Co.,  Fair- 
mont, was  born  In  Detroit,  Michigan. 
May  19,  1885.  Mr.  Watson  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  nine  years  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Fairmont 
Coal  Co.   three  years. 


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THE   E.  E.  WHITE  COMPANY 

Glen  White,  West  Virginia 


E.    E.    WHITE, 
President    and    General    Manager    The    E.   E.   White   Co. 


Every  coal  mining  operation  is  just  a  little  different  from 
any  other  operation.  They  are  modified  by  the  personali- 
ties of  their  projectors  and  managers,  by  their  environ- 
ment, by  policies  put  into  effect  and  by  various  other  fac- 
tors. Concerning  the  E.  E.  White  Coal  Co.,  Glen  White, 
Raleigh  County,  West  Virginia,  there  is  much  that  might 
be  said  of  general  interest  to  the  coal  trade. 

The  E.  E.  White  Coal  Co.  operates  two  plants  at  Glen 
White  and  Stotesbury,  respectively.  The  Glen  White 
plant  is  located  near  the  head  of  Shockley  Creek,  about 
eight  miles  southwest  of  Beckley,  and  the  Stotesbury  mine 
lies  four  miles  due  south  of  Glen  White  on  Winding  Gulf 
Creek.  The  former  of  these  two  operations  is  a  shallow 
shaft  mine,  working  the  Beckley  Seam,  while  Stotesbury 
is  a  drift  mine  in  the  same  seam. 


The  company  was  chartered  under  the  law  of  West  Vir- 
ginia December  26,  1907,  by  the  following  incorporators: 
E.  E.  White,  Voris  Auten,  T.  E.  Snyder,  Thomas  M. 
Righter,  J.  M.  Humphrey,  A.  C.  Stahl,  Edward  Williams, 
B.  S.  Daddow,  B.  F.  Bartho,  P.  A.  Vought  and  T.  Bickel. 

A  staff  of  officers  and  directors  was  chosen  immediately 
afterwards,  and  it  is  a  remarkable  and  significant  cir- 
cumstance that  this  staff  served  continuously  without  any 
change  of  personnel  during  the  first  ten  years  of  its  exist- 
ence. 

The  President  and  General  Manager  is  E.  E.  White, 
Glen  White,  West  Virginia;  Vice  President,  T.  E.  Snyder, 
Hazelton,  Pennsylvania;  Secretary-Treasurer,  Preston  A. 
Vought,  Mount  Carmel,  Pennsylvania. 

The  Board  of  Directors  consists  of  John  Laing,  Charles- 


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ton.  West  Virginia;  Thos.  H.  Wk-kham,  Beckley,  West  Vir- 
ginia; E.  E.  White,  Glen  White,  West  Virginia;  F.  U  Buck, 
Ashland,  Pennsylvania:  J.  M.  Humphrey,  Wilkes-Barre, 
Pennsylvania;   Voris  Auten,  Mount  Carmel,  Pennsylvania; 


C.    H.     ST  A  HI,, 

\»visi:ini   General  Managrr. 


Tobias  Bickel,  Mowry,  Pennsylvania;  Edward  Brennan, 
Shamokin,  Pennsylvania;  C.  A.  Gable,  Mount  Carmel, 
Pennsylvania;  Preston  A.  Vought,  Mount  Carmel,  Pennsyl- 
vania; T.  E.  Snyder,  Hazelton,  Pennsylvania;  and  T.  If. 
Righter,  Mount  Carmel,  Pennsylvania. 

Eighteen  months  after  the  company  was  organized,  the 
shafts  and  drift  openings  were  completed,  towns  were  built 
and  all  necessary  construction  work  perfected  for  the  ship- 
ment of  coal.  Shipments  began  July  1,  1909,  and  within 
eight  years  thereafter  had  aggregated  considerably  more 
than  5,000,000  tons.  The  total  coal  area  of  the  property  is 
5,185  acres,  the  greater  portion  of  which  is  leased  from 
the  Beaver  Coal  Co. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  operations  of  the  E.  E. 
White  Coal  Co.  were  developed  by  men  whose  early  expe- 
rience was  gained  in  the  anthracite  regions.  They  had 
experience  in  coal  seams  lying  at  all  angles  of  formation, 
from  0  degrees  to  90  degrees,  and  of  varying  thicknesses. 
On  the  Board  of  Directors  were  two  former  operators,  two 
present  anthracite  operators,  one  general  manager,  and 
one  mining  engineer  of  the  anthracite  fields.  On  the  oper- 
ating force  there  are  not  only  officials  and  foremen,  but 
many  engineers,  miners  and  day  men  from  the  same  fields. 
Just  as  the  English,  Welch  and  Scotch  miners  brought 
into  the  anthracite  fields  many  of  the  methods  of  European 
mining,  so  have  these  anthracite  men  introduced  into  the 
development  and  working  of  the  West  Virginia  mines 
methods  in  vogue  in  the  Pennsylvania  anthracite  regions. 
That  this  preparatory  knowledge  has  been  a  valuable 
asset  to  the  E.  E.  White  Coal  Co.  is  indicated  by  the  suc- 
cess of  its  operations. 

Especially  has  the  personality  of  the  directing  spirit  of 
the  enterprise  impressed  itself  upon  the  development  of 
the    company.     President    and    General    Manager    E.    E. 


White  began  his  business  career  as  a  trapper  boy  in  the 
mines,  and  from  that  humble  position  in  the  coal-mining 
industry  he  advanced  steadily  through  every  job  in  the 
mining  series  until  his  indomitable  will  and  lofty  ideals 
found  adequate  opportunity  for  expression  in  the  develop- 
ment of  this  company,  founded  by  himself,  and  now  enjoy- 
ing a  degree  of  success,  compatible  with  the  genius  for 
business  which  he  has  imparted  to  the  activities  of  the 
concern. 

President  White  was  born  near  Plymouth,  England,  in 
1858,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  forty 
years.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  McAlpin  Coal  Co.  of  Mc- 
Alpin,  West  Virginia,  and  is  also  interested  in  Pennsylvania 
anthracite  mines.  He  was  formerly  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Beckley  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the 
Columbus  Collieries  and  President  of  the  Winding  Gulf 
Operators  Association  of  West  Virginia. 

The  influence  of  President  White  is  perhaps  nowhere 
more  conspicuously  shown  than  in  the  social  opportunities 
which  the  employes  of  the  company  enjoy.  Coming  up 
from  the  ranks,  Mr.  White  has  that  intimate  knowledge  of 
the  workingman's  heart,  his  joys  and  his  sorrows,  his  ideals 
of  life  and  his  appreciation  of  the  recognition  due  him  from 
his  employers —  that  has  enabled  him  to  meet  adverse  labor 
conditions  and  develop  among  his  men  that  esprit  de  corps 
that  has  made  it  one  of  the  vital  and  influential  assets  of 
the  organization.  A  man  of  this  type,  surrounded  as  he  is 
by  a  staff  of  experienced,  competent  and  courteous  officers, 
has  given  to  the  growth  of  the  company  a  momentum 
which  may  be  recorded  as  one  of  the  memorable  achieve- 
ments in  the  development  of  the  coal  mining  industry  in 
West  Virginia. 

The  towns  of  both  Glen  White  and  Stotesbury  have  been 
carefully  located,  due  regard  having  been  given  not  only 


R.    F.    ROTH, 

i    hi.  r      I    ii^iii,  .  i 


to  convenience  of  mine  operation,  but  to  the  attractive- 
ness of  residence  itself  for  the  mine  worker.  Glen  White 
in  particular  has  an  unusually  favorable  environment. 
Situated  on  a  broad  expanse  of  bottom  land,  skirted  by  low 


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hills  beautifully  wooded  and  the  fiat  grounds  sodded  almost 
as  smoothly  as  a  college  campus,  the  town  is  extremely 
beauteous  to  the  visitor's  eye.  Great  care  has  been  exer- 
cised in  the  construction  of  buildings.     Substantial  miners' 


J.    N.    COLEMAN, 
Superintendent    Stotesnury    Mine. 


houses  and  a  wide  variety  of  public  buildings  were  erected 
to  enhance  the  enjoyment  of  social  life  in  the  communi- 
ties. 

Mining  institutes  are  maintained  at  Glen  White  and 
Stotesbury  for  the  instruction  of  employes  wishing  to  pre- 
pare themselves  for  examination  for  the  various  grades  of 
mine  foreman  and  for  the  general  advancement  of  the 
mining  science.  Many  young  men  have  taken  advantage 
of  the  educational  opportuities  thus  afforded,  thereby 
greatly  adding  to  the  efficiency  of  mine  operation.  An 
enumeration  of  all  the  commendable  things  done  by  the 
company's  management  for  the  benefits  of  its  employes 
would  require  large  space. 

Equally  careful  and  thorough  has  been  the  equipment 
of  the  mines  with  the  latest  appliances  for  promoting  the 
skill  of  the  men  and  for  increasing  the  efficiency  of  oper- 
ation. 

In  addition  to  the  general  inside  foreman,  a  man  of  long 
and  varied  experience,  and  his  assistants,  each  of  whom 
has  a  certificate  of  efficiency  from  the  State,  the  company 
employs  a  man  whose  title  is  "Safety  Inspector"  and  whose 
duty  principally  is  to  find  fault.  He  is  expected  to  visit 
as  much  of  the  mine  as  possible  every  day,  keep  tab  on 
ventilation,  mine  timbering,  etc.,  report  faulty  conditions, 
instruct  both  company  men  and  miners  in  good  and  safe 
practices  and  warn  them  against  had  ones.  He  has  full 
power  to  discharge  an  employe  for  violation  of  the  mining 
laws  or  rules  of  the  company. 

Every  entry  and  room  in  the  mines  is  driven  on  lines 
set  by  the  engineers.  An  interesting  detail  to  the  actual 
mine  operation  is  the  tonnage  speedometer,  conspicuously 
posted  at  both  mines  showing  total  output  daily,  monthly 
and  annually,  since  the  beginning  of  operations.  A  red  cir- 
cle by  its  advances  indicates  daily  the  growth  of  tonnage. 


The  men  thus  see  the  progress  of  their  work  at  the  end  of 
each  day,  and,  somehow,  the  mines,  as  shown  in  the  com- 
parative chart,  keep  running  at  their  maximum  capacity. 
That  this  chart  has  an  influence  in  speeding  up  the  work 
of  the  men  is  clearly  indicated. 

The  workings  of  the  Glen  White  mines,  covering  an  area 
of  about  700  acres,  are  ventilated  by  a  current  of  150,000 
cubic  feet  of  air  per  minute.  Close  to  the  shaft  bottom 
the  intake  is  divided  into  three  main  splits,  which  are  fur- 
ther subdivided  allowing  each  entry  a  supply  of  from 
20,000  to  30,000  cubic  feet  of  air  per  minute.  All  per- 
manent stoppings  are  stone  set  in  cement  mortar,  and  a 
force  of  masons  is  kept  constantly  at  work  building  these 
stoppings.  The  return  air  crosses  the  main  haulage  ways 
via  overcasts  of  stone  and  brick  masonry  and  reinforced 
concrete. 

All  entries  and  rooms  are  connected  by  breakthroughs 
at  a  maximum  distance  of  80  feet,  and  where  necessary 
brattice  is  carried  from  the  last  breakthrough  to  the  face. 
In  no  part  of  the  mines  is  there  left  a  blank  end,  every 
entry  or  room  when  stopped  being  connected  right  at 
the  face  to  the  adjoining  entry  or  room,  thus  keeping  the 
air  circulating  directly  across  the  face  of  the  workings. 
Each  panel  before  being  robbed  is  connected  at  one  or 
more  places,  furthest  from  the  intake  with  the  return 
airway  of  the  entry  above,  so  that  there  is  always  a  cur- 
rent of  fresh  air  passing  over  and  through  to  the  faces. 

From  the  time  the  first  pick  was  sunk  in  the  opening  of 
these  mines  the  motto  of  the  company  has  been  "Safety 
First"  and  there  is  no  danger  common  to  coal  mining  that 
is  not  carefully  watched.  The  main  haulage  roads  in  all 
three  mines  are  lighted  by  electricity,  and  neatly  lettered 
sign  boards  are  posted  in  conspicuous  places  bearing 
warnings  of  dangerous  practices  and  pointing  out  the 
direction  to  the  exits. 


E.   E.   WHITE,   JR. 
ChemiHt. 


Sanitary  conditions  have  been  maintained  in  a  most 
extraordinary  manner.  It  is  stated  that  Glen  White  in 
its  ten  years'  existence  has  never  developed  a  single  con- 
tagious disease  that  originated  within  the  town  limits. 


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JARIUS  COLLINS,  Bramwell,  West  Virginia. 

For  thirty  years  this  prominent  citizen  of  West  Virginia  has 
been  actively  identified  with  the  development  of  coal  properties  in 
that  state,  lie  was  horn  at  Clayton.  Alahania.  in  1859,  and  eni- 
barked  in  the  coal  business  when  a  young  man.  lie  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Collins  Colliery  Company,  Clenjean.  West  Vir- 
ginia. Mr.  Collins  is  at  present  General  Manager  of  the  Louisville 
Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Goodwill,  West  Virginia,  of  which  Isaac  T.  Mann, 
No.  1  Broadway.  New  York,  is  President.  Mr.  Collins  is  also  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Greenbrier  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  McDowell.  Wesi 
Virginia,  and  of  the  Kimball-Pocahontas  Coal  Co..  Big  Four,  Wesi 
Virginia. 

Mr.  Collins  is  President  of  the  Fourscain  Block  Collieries  Co., 
Diablock.  Kentucky,  the  Klkhornseam  Collieries  Co..  Yeager,  Ken- 
tucky, and  the  Hoo  Hoo  Coal  Co.,  Lester.  West  Virginia.  lie  is 
also  a  Director  of  the  Pocahontas  Coke  Co.,  the  Superior  Supply 
Co..  and  the  National  Carbide  Corporation,  all  of  Bluefield,  West 
Virginia. 

He  is  Treasurer  of  the  Pocahontas  Operators'  Association, 
Bramwell,  West  Virginia. 


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W.    i:.    DEEGANS,    Huntington,    West    Virginia, 

President  and  General  Manager  W.  E.  Deegans  Coal  Co., 
Huntington,  was  born  at  Coal  Grove,  Ohio,  in  -1875  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  Mr. 
Deegans  is  also  President  and  General  Manager  of  ten  or 
twelve   other   concerns. 


A.  W.   EIT7AVATER,    Huntington.  West    Virginia, 

Secretary-Treasurer  W.  E.  Deegans  Coal  Co.,  Huntington, 
was  born  in  Lockwood,  West  Virginia,  October  8,  1884,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  was  pre- 
viously associated  witli  the  White  Oak  Coal  Co.,  Macdonaid, 
West  Virginia,  and  more  recently  with  the  Chesapeake  Min- 
ing Co.,  Handley,  West  Virginia.  Mr.  Fltzwater  has  a  wide 
experience  in  accounting  and  is  regarded  as  an  authority 
on  that  subject. 


OTHO   C.  HUFFMAN, 
Huntingdon,  West  Virginia, 

General  Sales  Manager  W.  E.  Deegans 
Coal  Co.,  Huntington,  was  born  in  Har- 
risonburg, Virginia,  April  26,  1881,  and 
has  been  identified  with  the  coal  busi- 
ness seventeen  years. 


JOHN  FAULKNER,  Huntington,  West  Virginia, 

General  Purchasing  Agent  W.  E.  Deegans  Coal  Interests  in 
West  Virginia,  comprising  Paragon  Colliery  Co.,  Deegans 
Eagle  Coal  Co.,  Cub  Fork  Coal  Co.,  Orville  Coal  Co.,  Guyan 
Valley  Coal  Co.,  Koyal  Block  Coal  Co.,  Sterling  Colliery  Co., 
New  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  Virginian  Smokeless  Fuel  Co., 
Miller  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  Mullens  Smokeless  Coal  Co., 
Aileen  Coal  Co.,  and  Mount  Hope  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  was  born 
in  York  County,  England,  in  1856,  and  came  to  the  United 
States  in  the  year  1890.  since  which  time  he  has  been  ac- 
tively engaged  in  the  coal  business.  Mr.  Faulkner  is  also 
President  of  The  Bank  of  Mullens,  West  Virginia,  and  Vice 
President  of  the  National  Bank  of  Thurmond,  West  Virginia. 


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loll\  I..  lt()HI\SOi\', 
Grafton.  Went  Virginia. 
President  Gabe  Fork  Coal  Co.,  Grafton, 
was  born  in  Pruntytown,  West  Vir- 
ginia, December  5,  1867,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty  year?.  Mr. 
Robinson  is  also  interested  in  the 
Knash,   Carder   and   Lynn    mines. 


A.  J.  KING,  HuntluKton,  Went   Virginia, 

President  and  General  Manager  Aracoma  Coal  Co.,  Hunting- 
ton, was  born  in  Salineville,  Ohio,  May  19,  1874,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  He  is  also  President 
and  General  Manager  of  the  Sunbeam  Coal  Co.,  Eagle  Island 
Coal  Co.  and  Thermo-Pocahontas  Coal  Co.  Mr.  King  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  H.  C.  Frick 
Coke  Co.,  Pocahontas  Consolidated  Collieries  Co.,  New  River 
Collieries  Co.,  Virginia  Iron  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  James 
W.  Ellsworth  &  Co.,  and  in  1909  was  in  the  Department  of 
Mines  of  West  Virginia. 


GEORfiK    DON  AM)    Mil. I. Kit,    ll.inllnitlon.    Wrxt    VlrKlnia. 

Vice  President  Trinity  Coal  Co.,  Huntington,  was  born  In 
Huntington  December  20,  1888,  and  has  Just  been  in  the  coal 
business  two  years.  Mr.  Miller  is  also  interested  in  the 
Don  Coal  Co..  Sekay  Coal  Co.,  Alonzo  Coal  Co.,  Trinity  Coal 
Co.,  and  Waldon  Coal  Co. 


FRANK    ENSLOW, 

Illinium Went  Virginia, 

Prominent  operator  of  Huntington, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  that  city  in 
1882.  Mr.  Enslow  followed  the  legal 
profession  until  two  years  ago  when 
he  entered  the  coal  business.  He  is  ac- 
tively Identified  with  the  Sekay  Coal 
Co.,  Don  Coal  Co.,  Sharlow  Coal  Co.. 
Eagle  Island  Coal  Co.,  West  Virginia 
Standard  Coal  Co.,  and  five  or  six 
others.  Mr.  Enslow  is  always  ready  to 
promote  any  proposition  for  the  im- 
provement of  Huntington  or  the  good 
of  the  coal  trade  and  is  President  of  the 
Day  and  Night  Bank,  first  of  its  kind 
in  this  part  of  the  United  States. 


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HARVEY      H.      MORRIS,      Huntington. 

President  West  Virginia  Standard  Coal 
Co.  and  Kentucky  Elkhorn  By-Product 
Coal  Co.,  and  Vice  President  Elkhorn 
Collieries  Co..  Huntington,  was  born  at 
Coalburg.  West  Virginia,  April  11,  1873. 
and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  in- 
dustry since  January  1,  1916.  He  la 
also  interested  in  the  Huntington  By- 
product Coal  Co.  and  Virginia  Elkhorn 
By-Product  Coal  Co.,  Huntington,  op- 
erating companies  in  Eastern  Kentucky 
and  Virginia;  also  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Huntington  Investment  Co., 
real  estate,  and  the  Kyle  Smith  Air- 
craft Co.,  builders  of  airplanes,  both 
of  Huntington.  Prior  to  entering  the 
coal  business  he  was  connected  with 
the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railway  Co.  for 
several  years,  as  trainmaster  of  both 
the  Kanawha  and  Guyandot  coal  fields, 
and  later  Superintendent  at  Hunting- 
ton, Richmond  and  Ashland,  Kentucky, 
resigning  in  December,  1915,  to  become 
President  of  the  West  Virginia  Stand- 
ard Coal  Co. 


W.      H.      CUNNINGHAM,      Huntington, 

Consulting  engineer,  was  born  at  Al- 
lentown,  Pennsylvania,  in  1882,  and 
has  been  interested  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness all  his  life.  He  is  a  graduate  of 
Kiskiminetas  Springs  Preparatory 
School  and  Lehigh  University.  His  first 
coal  experience  was  with  his  father, 
who  was  associated  with  E.  J.  Berwind 
in  Pennsylvania.  After  graduation  he 
went  to  the  Pocahontas  fields  as  min- 
ing engineer,  then  as  a  mechanical  en- 
gineer and  Superintendent  for  the  Davis 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  was  later  Man- 
ager of  Mines  and  General  Manager 
for  the  Western  Kentucky  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Cunningham  went  to  Huntington  in 
1912  and  is  not  only  active  in  coal  op- 
erations but  also  in  many  other  local 
enterprises.  He  is  Secretary-Treasurer 
of  the  Don  Coal  Co.,  Sharlow  Coal  Co., 
Bengal  Coal  Co.,  Eagle  Island  Coal  Co., 
and  Sekay  Coal  Co.,  and  Secretary  Trin- 
ity Coal  Co.  He  has  been  Secretary  of 
the  West  Virginia  Coal  Association 
since  its  organization  in  1915  and  Sec- 
retary of  the  Kentucky  Mine  Owners 
Association,  and  represents  West  Vir- 
ginia on  the  Red  Cross  Advisory  Board 
for  the   Potomac   Division. 


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ALBERT    J.    COWKI.I.V,    Huntington.    West    Virginia, 

Vice  President  and  Sales  Manager  Clear  Creek  Coal  Co., 
Huntington,  was  born  in  Foster,  Kentucky,  November  7, 
1877.  Mr.  Connelly  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years  and  was  formerly  identified  with  the  Sunday  Creek 
Coal  Co.,  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  Norfolk  &  Chesapeake  Coal  Co. 
and  Producers  Coal  Co.   of  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 


1'AII,    HARDY, 
Huntington,  West  Virginia, 

President  Monte  Coal  Co.,  Huntington, 
was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  in  1877 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years.  He  was  previously  con- 
nected with  the  Island  Creek  Coal  Co. 
and  Pond  Creek  Coal  Co.  He  was  in 
charge  of  one  of  the  very  first  opera- 
tions   in    the    Logan    field. 


LITZ-SiMITH    FUEL  COMPANY 

Huntington,  West  Virginia 


The  Litz-Smith  Fuel  Co.  was  organized  March 
30,  1915,  with  main  offices  at  Huntington,  West 
Virginia,  for  the  purpose  of  handling  the  output 
of  the  mines  of  the  Litz-Smith  interests,  this  out- 
put amounting  to  about  750,000  tons  a  year  with 
a  prospective  development  of  2,500  to  3,000  addi- 
tional acres,  owned  by  Litz  &  Smith  on  the  ex- 
tension of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  road  from  Man 
to  Gilbert. 

The  officers  of  the  Litz-Smith  Fuel  Co.  are  as 
follows:  R.  R.  Smith,  President;  A.  Z.  Litz,  Vice 
President;  W.  P.  Neekamp,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

The  mines  of  the  Litz-Smith  interests  now  operat- 
ed include  two  mines  of  the  Shamrock  Coal  Co., 
Logan,  West  Virginia,  which  was  organized  Octo- 
ber 5,  1909.  These  mines  are  known  as  Litz-Smith 
Nos.  1  and  2,  with  a  daily  output  of  1,350  tons,  in 
the  Island  Creek  seam. 

The  Litz-Smith  Coal  Co.,  organized  March  27, 
1914,    operates    at    Accoville,    West     Virginia,    what 


is  known  as  Litz-Smith  mine  No.  3,  with  a  produc- 
tion of  750  tons  a  day  in  the  Eagle  Gas  seam. 

The  Litz-Smith  Island  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Chaun- 
cey,  West  Virginia,  organized  March  30,  1915,  op- 
erates what  is  known  as  Litz-Smith  mine  No.  4, 
with  a  production  of  1,250  tons  a  day  in  the  Island 
Creek  seam. 

All  of  the  above  mines  are  on  the  Chesapeake 
&  Ohio  Railway  in  Logan  County,  West  Virginia. 

The  Litz-Smith  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  situated 
on  the  Dry  Fork  Branch  of  the  Norfolk  &  West- 
ern Railway  in  McDowell  County,  West  Virginia, 
was  organized  March  30,  1915,  and  has  a  produc- 
tion of  10,000  tons  a  month  of  No.  3  Pocahontas 
coal. 

All  of  the  above  interests,  both  of  the  company 
and  the  mines,  are  practically  owned  by  Messrs. 
Litz  and  Smith,  and  in  addition  they  are  both 
largely  interested  in  real  estate  and  coal  lands  in 
southern    West    Virginia,    Kentucky    and    Virginia. 


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DAN    A.    MOSSMAN,    Huntington,    Went    Virginia, 

Prominent  retailer  of  Huntington,  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  born 
May  13,  1860.  He  was  formerly  in  the  retail  coal  business 
at  Portsmouth  and  Gallipolis,  Ohio,  and  went  to  Hunting- 
ton thirty-four  years  ago,  where  he  started  another  retail 
yard,  which  he  continued  to  operate  for  eight  years,  when 
he  retired.  Mr.  Mossman  is  a  prominent  and  influential  citi- 
zen of  Huntington  and  has  large  realty  holdings  there.  He 
is  an  officer  of  six  or  seven  of  Huntington's  leading  indus- 
tries and  a  tireless  worker  for  its  best  interests.  For  eight 
years  he  was  President  of  the  Huntington  Chamber  of 
Commerce   and   for   four   years   its  ATice   President. 


W.    I..    ROBINSON,    Kinder,    West    Virginia, 

In  charge  of  operations  for  the  Bengal  Coal  Co.,  Kistler,  is-, 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  born  in  1886,  and  has  been  in- 
terested in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Robinson 
opened  operations  for  the  Dry  Fork  Colliery  Co.  and  was 
later  with  the  Carter  Coal  Co.  He  has  also  been  connected 
with   the   Shawmut  Mining  Co.   in   Pennsylvania. 


THOMAS    W.   FITZSIMMONS, 
Kyle,  West  Virginia. 

General  Mine  Superintendent  Powhatan 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Kyle,  West  "Virginia, 
passed  his  early  life  in  the  anthracite 
fields  of  Pennsylvania  and  has  been  in- 
terested in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
one  years.  He  is  also  connected  with 
the  Lynchburg  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Eure- 
ka Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Elk  Ridge  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  as  General  Mine  Superin- 
tendent. 


C.    I.    L.ANTZ, 
Morgantown,    West   Virginia, 

General  Manager  Rosedale  Coal  Co., 
Morgantown,  was  born  in  Kirby,  Penn- 
sylvania, November  12,  1882,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  five 
years.  He  is  an  associate  member  of 
the   American    Society   Civil   Engineers. 


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H.  S.  GAY,  Shamokin,  Pennsylvania. 
Vice  President  ami  General  Manager  of  the  Gay  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Logan,  West  Virginia,  since  his  graduation  at  Lafayette  College, 
Eastern.  Pennsylvania,  in  1882,  has  been  interested  in  coal  mining, 
starting  in  as  a  mining  engineer  in  the  anthracite  fields.  Later  he 
became  Assistant  Engineer  for  the  Susquehanna  Coal  Co.,  and  was 
for  ten  years  Superintendent  for  J.  Langdon  &  Co.  at  Shamokin. 
He  was  the  pioneer  operator  in  the  Logan  field  of  West  Virginia  in 
1904. 


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JAMES  H.  GENT,  Fort  Branch,  West  Virginia, 
Mine  Superintendent  Fort  Branch  Coal  Corp.,  Fort  Branch, 
is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  born  June  12,  1871.  Mr.  Gent 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  thirty-three  years 
and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Frieze  Fork  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Thaeker  Coal  Co.,  Glen  Alum  Coal  Co.,  Poca- 
hontas Consolidated  Coal  Co.  and  MacDowell  Coal  Co.  This 
company  opened   operations  in   this  field   in   1905. 


FREO     HAISI,1I\ 
l.ojr.-iii.   West   Virginia, 

Secretary  and  Superintendent  of  Mines. 
Flynn-Haislip  Coal  Co.,  Logan,  was 
born  in  Woodstock,  Virginia,  January 
10,  1887,  and  has. been  identified  with 
the  coal  industry  eight  years.  Mr. 
Haislip  has  had  considerable  practical 
experience  in  connection  with  coal 
mining  and  was  previously  with  the 
Hutchinson  Coal  Co.  in  the  Fairmont 
fields.  The  mine  in  which  his  firm  is 
interested  is  located  on  the  Dingess 
Run   river. 


JUDGE  J.   B.  WILKINSON, 
liOKan,   Went    Virginia. 

Prominent  land  owner  of  Logan,  with 
an  extensive  law  practice  among  the 
coal  trade,  was  born  in  Logan  County, 
West  Virginia.  He  is  interested  in  the 
Guyan  Coal  Co.  and  Big  Huff  Coal  Co., 
land  holding  companies,  as  well  as 
many  others.  He  acquired  lands  in 
Guyan  and  Main  Island  Creek  valleys 
prior  to  the  coming  of  any  operators 
into  these  fields.  Judge  Wilkinson  is 
prominent  locally  and  very  active.  For 
sixteen  years«he  served  as  county  pros- 
ecutor and  was  elected  twice,  without 
any  opposition,  as  State  Circuit  Judge, 
in  which  capacity  ho  served  twelve 
years,  until  he  resigned  in  1916. 


THOMAS  WILSON, 
ItOgHn,  West  Virginia, 
General  Manager  H.  T.  Wilson  Coal 
Co.,  Logan,  is  a  native  of  Clearfield 
County,  Pennsylvania,  born  June  5, 
1888.  He  had  his  first  experience  in  the 
oonl  business  in  the  bituminous  fields 
of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  started  in 
as  a  trapper  boy  and  then  took  up  en- 
gineering. Mr.  Wilson  went  to  West 
Virginia  in  1906  and  this  Wilson  mine 
is  one  of  the  early  openings  in  the 
Logan  field.  It  has  a  five-foot  seam 
and  is  modern  in  every  way,  with  facil- 
ities for  careful  preparation  of  coal. 
Mr.  Wilson  was  also  connected  with 
Peale,  Peacock  &  Kerr  and  a  member 
of  the  Guyan  Valley  Coal  Operators 
Association. 


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NEW    RIVER    COMPANY 

MacDonald,  West  Virginia 

A  modern  office  building,  located  right  in  the  heart  of  their 
extensive  and  important  West  Virginia  mining  operations,  is  one 
of  the  unique  possessions,  of  which  the  Xew  River  Co.  may  not 
only  he  rightfully  proud  but  it  is  one,  the  advantage  of  which  in 
the  coal  mining  industry  will  commend  itself  generally.  From 
this  centralized  office  building  the  executive  affairs  of  the  company 
are  managed,  the  sales  department  as  well  as  the  producing  end 
of  the  business.  And  a  moment's  reflection  will  show  how  closely 
these  two  branches  of  the  industry  are  related.  One  advantage 
is  that  the  method  of  preparation  comes  right  under  the  watchful 
eye  of  the  sales  representatives  and  that  questions  relating  to 
preparation,  etc.,  can  be  settled  before  the  car  of  coal  starts  on  its 
way  to  the  consumer. 

The  extensive  product  of  the  Xew  River  Co.  is  marketed  for 
inland  shipments  exclusively  through  the  White  Oak  Coal  Co., 
the  executive  offices  of  which  are  comfortably  housed  in  the  Mac- 
donald.  West  Virginia,  office  structure,  alluded  to. 

R.  H.  Gross,  President  of  the  Xew  River  Co.,  is  located 
al  No.  85  Devonshire  street,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  EL  X. 
Sweet,  Vice  President,  at  60  Congress  street,  Boston.  B.  F. 
Dow.st,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and  A.  H.  Mclntire,  Assistant 
Treasurer,  have  their  offices  at  the  Macdonald  headquarters. 

The  extensive  organization  at  Macdonald  is  headed  by  S.  A. 
Scott,  General  Manager,  whose  progressive  methods  and  wise 
comprehension  of  the  multitudinous  details  of  the  coal  industry 
are  familiarly  known  throughout  the  coal  industry.  The  opera- 
tion of  the  mines  is  in  charge  of  P.  C.  Thomes.  Manager  of 
Mines.  In  his  persistent  efforts  towards  greater  efficiency,  Mr. 
Thomes  has  regard  not  only  for  equipment,  but  his  broader  surrey 
takes  in  as  well  the  housing  and  handling  of  the  many  hundreds 
of  men,  connected  with  the  operation  of  the  company's  mines. 

In  brief  the  policies  of  the  company  look  far  into  the  future 
as  well  as  to  the  immediate  present.  The  correctness  of  this 
attitude  is  well  illustrated  by  a  computation  made  recently  by  an 


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officer  of  the  company,  showing  that  even  at  the  present  large  rate 
of  production  it  would  take  250  years  to  exhaust  the  company's 
present  holdings. 

The  New  River  Co.'s  operations  number  fifteen,  five  of  which 
are  located  in  Raleigh  County  and  ten  in  Fayette  County.  Four 
of  the  mines  are  located  on  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railroad  and 
eleven  on  both  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  and  the  Virginian  Railway. 
The  company  specializes  in  the  preparation  of  prepared  coal.  The 
company  owns  outright  or  controls  under  perpetual  lease  a  total 
of  50,000  acres  of  land  underlaid  with  coal,  some  of  it  bearing 
as  many  as  three  workable  seams.  The  Fayette  County  opera- 
tions include  those  located  at  Lochgelly,  Summerlee,  Oakwood, 
Whipple,  Scarbro,  Prudence,  Harvey,  Collins,  Dunloop  and  -Mac- 
donald.  The  Raleigh  County  mines  are  Cranberry,  Nos.  1,  2  and 
3,  located  respectively  at  Cranberry,  Skelton  and  Sprague,  Beck- 
ley  and  Mabscott.  The  daily  capacity  of  the  fifteen  plants  is 
12,000  tons.  These  mines  are  equipped  throughout  with  the 
latest  types  of  electrical  machinery  for  both  mining  and  haulage, 
all  standardized  and  interchangeable.  In  the  recent  extensive 
installation  of  this  modern  machinery  due  regard  has  been  given 
to  a  greatly  increased  production  in  the  future. 

The  company's  Raleigh  County  mines  all  produce  Sewell 
seam  coal,  which  fs  standard  for  the  United  States  navy. 

The  White  Oak  Coal  Co.,  which  markets  the  products  of 
the  New  River  company,  has  as  officers  R.  H.  Gross,  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, President;  F.  B.  Dowst,  Macdonald,  West  Virginia.  Vice 
President;  S.  A.  Scott,  Macdonald,  General  Manager.  "White 
Oak"  smokeless  coal  products  include  lump,  egg,  mine  run,  steam 
and  smithing.  Shipments  include  tidewater,  bunker  and  export, 
lake  and  all  rail — east,  west  and  south. 

Tidewater  agents  are  C.  H.  Sprague  &  Son,  70  Kilby  street, 
Boston,  Massachusetts.  European  cargo  agents  are  Moore  & 
Fletcher,  101  Leadenhall  street,  S.  E.,  London,  E.  C,  England. 

The  White  Oak  Coal  Co.  maintains  branches  at  Chicago,  In- 
dianapolis, Richmond  and  Washington.  The  Chicago  office  is  in 
charge  of  C.  D.  Ebbc-rt,  Peoples  Gas  building;  Indianapolis  office, 
C.  W.  Trowbridge,  Hume-Mansur  building;  Washington  office, 
L.  A.  Snead,  Woodward  building;  Richmond!  office,  A.  T.  Massey, 
American  National  Bank  building. 


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PERRY  <  RITl  HI.EY  THOMAS,  Macdonald, 

Manager  of  Mines  New  River  Co.,  Mac- 
donald, West.  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  January  28, 
1888,  and  has  been  interested  in  the 
coal  business  for  the  past  fourteen 
years.  He  is  Vice  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  Lick  Fork  Coal  Co.,  Lick 
Fork,  West  Virginia,  and  a  Director  in 
the  East  Gulf  Coal  Co.,  and  was  pre- 
viously with  the  Temple  Iron  Co.  and 
the  H.  C.  Frick'Coke  Co. 


E.   J.    PAYNE,    Huntington, 

General  Sales  Manager  of  the  Main 
Island  Creek  Coal  Company,  with 
headquarters  at  303  Robson-Prichard 
Building.  Huntington,  West  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Newport,  Kentucky. 
March  29,  1883.  He  has  been  identified 
with  the  coal  trade  for  thirteen  years. 
He  is  a  director  of  several  operating 
companies  and  was  formerly  associat- 
ed with  the  Berwind-White  Coal  Co. 


FRED   EASI.EY,   Omar,   West   Virginia, 

General  Manager  Island  Creek  Superior 
Coal  Co.,  Omar,  is  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia, born  in  1872.  He  is  also  in- 
terested in  the  No.  5  Block  Coal  Co.  and 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  King 
Coal  Co.  and  Mohawk  Coal  Co.  in  an 
executive   capacity. 


STAR    COAL    &    COKE    COMPANY, 
Red   Star,   West  Virginia. 

This  company  was  organized  in 
1893.  It  is  producing  about  a  thou- 
sand tons  of  New  River  Smokeless 
Coal  daily  in  prepared  sizes.  Two 
mines  are  operated,  both  located  on 
the   Chesapeake   &   Ohio   Railroad. 

George  W.  Jones,  President  and 
Manager  of  the  company,  with  resi- 
dence on  the  property,  was  born  in 
Fayette  County,  West  Virginia,  and 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
in  Fayette  County  all  his  life.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Lundale  Coal 
Co.  in  the  Logan  field,  and  the  Slab 
Coal  Co.  and  the  MacAlpin  Coal  Co.  in 
the   New   River  field. 


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RALEIGH  COAL  &  COKE  COMPANY, 

Raleigh,  West  Virginia 


In  1901  the  Raleigh  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  secured  a  lease  on 
10,000  acres  of  land  in  Raleigh  County,  West  Virginia,  and 
in  the  same  year  began  its  operations  under  the  direction 
of  T.  J.  Morgan  of  Wellston,  Ohio,  the  first  president  of 
the  company.  Mr.  Morgan  had  been  prominently  identi- 
fied with  the  Wellston  Coal  Co.  and  the  Dayton  Coal  & 
Iron  Co.,  and  was  generally  regarded  in  the  coal  trade  as 
one  of  the  big  and  successful  coal  men  of  that  district.  He 
died  November  11,  1908,  at  Wellston. 


are  three  loading  booms  and  a  box  car  loading  equip- 
ment, with  coal  bin  attached.  This  is  a  four-track  tipple, 
provided  with  the  most  up-to-date  and  modern  equipment. 
The  prominent  position  of  the  company  is  the  result  of 
efficient  management  in  every  department. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are:  President,  J.  M. 
Wright  Cincinnati;  Secretary,  A.  A.  Liggett;  Treasurer,  H. 
V.  Stevenson;  General  Manager,  Ernest  Chilson;  Superin- 
tendent of  Mines,  J.  P.  White. 


JOHN    M.    WHUiHT, 
President    K.-ili-iuli   Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


THE    1.ATK    T.    J.    MORGAN, 
President    Raleigh     Coal    &    Coke    Co. 


During  the  seven  years  prior  to  his  death  the  Raleigh 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  had  made  remarkable  progress  as  one  of 
the  most  active  producers  in  Raleigh  county.  The  seams 
mined  are  known  as  the  Beckley  and  Sewell.  Six  mines 
were  developed,  with  both  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  and 
the  Viriginia  railways  as  outlets.  These  mines  have  an 
annual  capaeily  cf  700,000  tons.    One  of  the  policies  early 

adopted   was  a  broad 

minded  attitude  to- 
ward the  employes  of 
the  company.  The 
homes  provided  are 
large  and  well  kept. 
The  mining  camp, 
within  three  miles  of 
Beckley,  is  an  ideal 
one,  social  conditions 
averaging  unusually 
high.  An  illustration 
of  this  is  the  fact  that 
44  autos  are  owned 
by  miners  in  this 
camp. 

The  mines  are 
known  as  drift  mines, 
with  one  steel  and 
four  timber  tipples. 
The  steel  tipple  is  220 
feet  high,  employing 
the  scraper  retarding 
conveyor  and  shaker 
screen,  as  well  as  the 
drag  conveyor.    There 


President  J.  M.  Wright  is  the  son-in-law  of  T.  J.  Mor- 
gan, the  founder  of  the  company. 

Ernest  Chilson  is  a  capable  executive,  whose  first  expe- 
rience in  1890  was  with  B.  R.  &  P.  mines,  Punxatawny,  Pa. 
Later  he  went  to  West  Virginia  in  charge  of  the  Southern 
Coal  &  Transportation  Co.'s  operations.  He  was  then 
with    the    Stonega    Coal    &     Coke    Co.    and    eleven    years 

ago  he  assumed  the 
management  of  the 
Raleigh  Coal  &  Coke 
Co. 

H.  V.  Stephenson, 
Treasurer,  has  offices 
at  the  properties  and 
has  been  identified 
with  this  organiza- 
tion and  the  Mor- 
gan interests  for  25 
years. 

A.  A.  Liggett,  Sec- 
retary, is  actively  in 
charge  of  western 
sales,  with  office  at 
1510  First  National 
Bank  building,  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. 

Eastern  sales  to 
tidewater  are  handled 
through  the  Chesa- 
peake &  Ohio  Coal 
Agency  Co.,  Eastern 
Agents,  Boston. 


View    of    a    Raleigh    Coal    &    Coke    Co.  Tipple. 


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COAL  MEN   OF  AMERICA 


SLAB  FORK  COAL  COMPANY 

Slab  Fork,  Raleigh  County, 
West  Virginia 

This  company  firsi  began  operation  in  10o:  at  Slab  Fork  along 

the  Virginian  Railway.  New  River  Coal  to  the  amount  of  300,000 
tons  is  produced  annually  from  four  openings. 

The  officers  of  the  Slab  Fork  Coal  Co.  are:  G.  II.  Caperton  of 
Charleston  President,  Malcolm  Jackson  of  Charleston  Vice  Presi- 
dent. S.  P.  Richmond  of  Charleston  Secretary,  and  \V.  (;.  Caperton 
of  .Slab  Fork  Treasurer  and  General  Manager.  \Y.  M.  Warwick  is 
Mine  Superintendent. 

The  company  has  Imilt  upwards  of  two  hundred  houses  in  the 
town  of  Slab  Fork,  which  are  occupied  by  the  operatives  of  the 
mines. 

The  (nining  town  of  Slab  Fork  nestles  in  a  picturesque  valley 
which  is  spanned  by  an  immense  trestle  of  the  Virginian  Railway. 
Living  conditions  are  maintained  at  a  high  level.  Churches,  Eor 
both  white  and  colored  employes,  are  provided  by  the  company 
with  regular  services  on  Sunday.  Facilities  for  schooling  of  the 
children  are  above  the  average. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


SULLIVAN  COAL  &  COKE  CO. 

Sullivan,  Raleigh  County 
West  Virginia 

This  company  has  been  operating  mines  in  this  locality  since 
1007.  At  the  present  time  they  are  running  three  openings  and 
producing  New  River  Smokeless  Coal,  practically  all  for  steam 
consumption.  Shipments  are  made  over  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio 
and  the  Virginian  railroads,  mostly  to  Eastern  territory  and  to 
tidewater.  The  output  is  sold  through  the  New  River  Coal  Co.  of 
Charleston,  West  Virginia. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are :  Walter  S.  Wood  of  Charles- 
ton, President:  J.  C.  Sullivan  of  Tralee,  Vice  President;  James 
P.  Brown  of  Charleston,  Secretary;  G.  G.  Wood,  General  Man- 
ager and  Treasurer;  with  residence  on  the  property.  F.  B.  Conway 
is  Superintendent  of  Mines. 


P.   M.    COOK,   Terry,    Went    Virginia, 

General  Manager  Cook  &  Carter  Coal  Co.,  Terry,  was  born 
and  reared  in  Wyoming;  County,  West  Virginia.  Gaining  re- 
sourcefulness in  a  Webster  County  lumber  camp,  he  was  at- 
tracted to  coal  mining  with  which  in  various  capacities  he 
has  been  identified  for  more  than  twenty-five  years,  his 
experiences  ranging  from  coal  digger  to  mine  owner.  As 
Mine  Foreman  and  Mine  Superintendent  his  practical  judg- 
ment   has    been    clearly    demonstrated. 


COOK  &   CARTER  COAL  COMPANY, 

Terry,   Raleigh    County, 

West  Virginia. 

This  company  is  one  of  the  newer 
operating  companies  of  Raleigh  Coun- 
ty. The  officers  are:  B.  E.  Carter, 
President;  Harvey  Cook.  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  and  Frank  M.  Cook,  Gen- 
eral Manager.  Mr.  Carter  is  also  Pres- 
ident of  the  Raleigh  County  Bank  at 
Beckley,    West    Virginia. 

This  company  is  located  on  the  Ches- 
apeake &  Ohio  railway  at  Terry,  Ra- 
leigh County,  West  Virginia.  New 
River  Smokeless  Coal  of  the  Fire 
Creek  Seam  is  produced.  The  company 
purchased  1,500  acres  in  fee  and  ac- 
quired the  leasehold  of  an  adjoining 
tract  of  1,300  acres  formerly  held  by 
the  Stonewall  Coal  &  Coke  Company. 
The  capacity  of  the  two  mines  is  1.500 
tons   daily. 

The  market  is  reached  through  the 
agency  of  Nowlin  Brothers,  Lynchburg, 
Virginia. 


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\\II. MAM   It.  .|i>ii\»h\.   SmitherH,    w  .--.i    Virginia. 

President  W.  R.  Johnson  Coal  Co.,  Smithers,  was  born  in 
Cresci  nt,  West  Virginia,  April  4.  1887,  and  has  been  iden- 
tilied  with  the  coal  industry  since  his  graduation  from 
V.  M.  1.,  Lexington,  Virginia,  about  ten  years  ago.  He  is 
also  President  of  the  Kanawha-Gauley  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and 
has  served  as  Vice  President  of  the  Kanawha  Coal  Opera- 
tors Association.  He  is  now  serving  his  country  in  France 
;is  First  Lieutenant.  323  Field  Artillery.  83rd  Division. 


WILLI  AM    K.    IIKIDCI'.S.    SmitherN.    West    Virginia. 

Secretary  and  General  Manager  W.  R.  Johnson  Coal  Co., 
Smithers,  was  born  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  January  30, 
1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Bridges  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Kanawha- 
Gauley  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  K.  &  M.  Railway  Coal  Ship- 
pers  Association. 


I..  I).  Ill  UN  S,  HoikIm.  \Vt-»t  \  iriclllln. 
Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Coalburg  Colliery  Co., 
Bonds,  was  born  in  Meadow  Hluff.  West  Virginia,  May  18, 
1879,  <ind  has  been  in  the  coal  business  since  1901.  Mr. 
Burnt  is  also  General  Manager  of  the  Wet  Branch  <'";il  Co. 
He  was  previously  conni'ded  with  the  Mt.  Carmel  Coal  Co. 
inn!    Gnuley   Consolidated   Coal   Co. 


J.    M.   nidi.    \V(l»onl>iirK,    Wet    Virginia. 

President  orr  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Wilsonburg,  West  Virginia, 
was  born  In  Hiorra,  West  Virginia,  March  30,  1875,  and  has 
been  Identified  with  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  Is 
■  graduate  of  West  Virginia  Fniverslty  and  has  a  degree  as 
mining  engineer.  Mr.  Orr  was  formerly  with  the  Orr  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  and  is  a  member  of  the  Central  West  Virginia 
Coal    Operators   Association. 


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JOHN   C.  SULLIVAN 

Tralee,  Wyoming  County,  West  Virginia 

Ah  interesting  figure  and  prominent  factor  in  the  production 
of  coal  from  the  New  River  fields  is  John  (_'.  Sullivan.  He  is 
Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  Mead-Pocahontas  Coal 
Co.,  the  Hart}'  Coal  Co.,  Barkers  Creek  Coal  Co..  Wood-Sullivan 
Coal  Co.,  and  the  Pickshin  Coal  Co.,  with  executive  offices  at 
Tralee,  West  Virginia. 

The  shipping  point  for  the  Mead-Pocahontas  Coal  Co..  whieli 
began  shipments  in  1913,  is  Mullens,  West  Virginia.  The  Harty 
Coal  Co.  ships  from  Tralee,  West  Virginia*,  and  began  making 
deliveries  in  1915.  The  Barkers  Creek  Coal  Co.  ships  from  Bark- 
ers, West  Virginia,  and  began  in  1915.  Wood-Sullivan  Coal  Co. 
has  been  shipping  since  191fi  from  Vanwood,  West  Virginia,  and 
the  Pickshin  Coal  ^o.  since  1917,  located  at  Pickshin,  West  Vir- 
ginia. 

Coal  from  all  of  these  operations  is  what  is  known  as  New 
Rivcr-Pocahontas  No.  3.  Shipments  are  made  over  the  Virginian 
and  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railways.  These  mines  are  modernly 
equipped  to  prepare  their  coal  to  all  required  sizes. 

Sales  for  these  companies  are  handled  by  the  Chesapeake 
&  Ohio  Coal  Agency  Co.,  Boston.  Massachusetts,  and  the  Raleigh- 
Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  of  the  same  city. 

Mr.  Sullivan  was  born  at  Coalburg.  Kanawha  County.  West 
Virginia,  May  29,  1868.  He  began  work  in  the  mines  when  only 
ten  vears  old  and  has  had  an  extended  experience  in  the  various 
phases  of  mining,  having  been  connected  with  various  mines 
Throughout  the  Kanawha  and  New  River  valleys. 

Tn  addition  to  the  extensive  operations  noted  above,  Mr.  Sul- 
livan has  to  his  credit  and  responsibility  the  following  official 
connections:  President,  Sabine  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  Otsego,  West 
Virginia;  President  Mead-Toliver  Coal  Co.,  Stonecoal,  West 
Virginia :  President  Raleigh-Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  Norfolk.  Vir- 
ginia :  President  Bank  of  Wyoming.  Mullens.  West  Virginia ;  Vice 
President.  Sullivan  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Sullivan.  West  Virginia ; 
Vice  President.  Amigo  Coal  Co.,  Amigo,  West  Virginia. 


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COLONEL   WILLIAM    LECKIE,    Welch,    West    Virginia. 

This  striking  example  of  the  self-made  coal  men  of  West  Virginia  was 
born  in  Scotland  in  1855.  He  started  to  work  in  the  coal  mines  when  ten 
years  old.  At  twenty-one  he  migrated  to  America  and  found  employment 
in  the  anthracite  mines  of  Pennsylvania.  Saving  his  money,  he  obtained 
an  education  at  Dickerson  College.  Returning  to  the  coal  mining  industry, 
he  worked  for  the  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and  then  for  the  Buck  Moun  • 
tain  Coal  Co. 

Serving  for  three  years  as  superintendent  for  the  Lehigh  &  Wilkes-  Barre 
Coal  Co.,  he  then  had  charge  of  several  mines  of  the  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navi- 
gation Co.  at  Pottsville.  The  next  two  years  were  with  the  Webster  Coal 
Co.,  now  the  Pocahontas  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  followed  by  a  service  with  the 
Loyalhanna  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  Colonel  I^eckle  was  next  sent  to  Pocahontas. 
Virginia,  as  General  Manager  for  the  Pocahontas  Coal  Co. 

In  1906  he  began  acquiring  coal  interests  of  his  own.  and  the  degiee  of 
success  that  has  attended  his  investments  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  lie  is 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the  following  companies:  West  Virginia 
Pocahontas  Coal  Co.;  Lathrop  Coal  Co.;  Panther  Coal  Co.;  Leckie  Col- 
lieries Co.;  Leckle  Fire  Creek  Coal  Co.;  Douglas  Coal  Co.;  Pond  Creek  Coal 
&  Land  Co.:  Mount  Rose  Coal  Co.  Col.  Leckie  is  also  President  of  the 
Leckle  Coal  Co.,  a  selling  concern,  and  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ana- 
wait.  West  Virginia. 

•  Notwithstanding  his  distinctive  success  as  a  coal  operator.  Colonel 
Leckle  is  at  h?art  thoroughly  democratic.  His  camps  are  model  ones, 
with  modern  homes,  concrete  walks  and  landscaping.  His  interest  in  social 
and  welfare  work  has  frequently  been  demonstrated  In  the  most  effective 
manner.  Ills  popularity  with  the  miners  is  accounted  for  In  part  by  the  fact 
that  he  has  never  forgotten  that  he  himself  was  a  miner  and  the 'evident 
pride  he  has  manifested  in  that  circumstance  on  many  occasions. 

Colonel  Leckle  has  also  made  notable  contributions  to  the  mining  jour- 
nals,  especially  to   "Mines  and  Metallurgy." 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


FIRE   CREEK    SMOKELESS    FUEL    CO. 
Lego,  West  Virginia 


While  it  is  one  of  the  later  operations  of 
Raleigh  County,  the  Fire  Creek  Smokeless  Fuel 
Co.,  located  on  Stonecoal  Creek;  in  the  Wind- 
ing Gulf  Smokeless  field,  has  made  unusually 
rapid  progress  in  its  brief  career.  The  com- 
pany began  shipments  in  December,  1916,  op- 
erating in  the  Beckley  and  the  Fire  Creek 
seams. 

The  company's  lease  comprises  1,700  acres, 
containing  four  workable  seams.  It  is  esti- 
mated that  the  property  contains  24,000,000 
tons,  which  fact  promises  indefinite  continu- 
ance of  operation.  Beginning  with  two  mines. 
which  speedily  developed  an  output  of  500  tons 
daily,  the  company  have  been  planning  an  ex- 
tensive increase  in  production.  The  tracks  of 
both  the  Virginian  and  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio 
Railways  reach  the  mines,  thus  affording 
splendid  shipping  facilities.  The  output  goes 
principally  to  the  cast  and  is  handled  by  the 
Eastern  Coal  &  Export  Corp.  of  Richmond, 
Virginia. 


Great  care  has  been  taken  in  the  upbuilding 
of  the  mining  community,  centering  in  these 
operations.  Inasmuch  as  the  construction  work 
.was  recently  begun,  there  has  been  every  oppor- 
tunity to  provide  the  latest  improvements  and 
the  mining  camp  may  therefore  be  regarded  as 
strictly  modern.  The  houses  are  durably  con- 
structed and  many  public  buildings  have  been 
erected.  One  interesting  circumstance  is  that 
the  streets  all  run  at  an  angle  across  the  valley, 
thereby  securing  perfect  drainage. 

E.  C.  Taylor  is  President  and  General  Mana- 
ger in  active  charge  of  this  operation.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Virginian  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  pro- 
ducing of  coal  for  a  long  time,  having  been  for 
thirteen  years  with  the  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.  of  Greensburg,  Pennsylvania. 

Other  officers  of  the  company  are:  T.  F. 
Bailey,  Jr.,  of  Huntington,  West  Virginia,  Vice 
President;  and  J.  C.  B.  Taylor,  of  Page,  West 
Virginia,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 


C.    L>.    IHUDISOIV,    War    Eagle,    W.    Va. 

President  and  Manager  Traders  Coal 
Co.,  War  Eagle,  was  born  at  Glouster, 
Ohio.  March  27,  1879,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  industry 
eighteen  years.  Mr.  Biddison  is  also 
connected  with  the  Sunday  Creek  Co. 
and  the  Jewett,  Bigelow  &  Brooks  Coal 
Co. 


WOOU-PECK   COAL    CO., 
Sullivan,    West    Virginia. 

This  is  a  300  ton  operation  produc- 
ing New  River  smokeless  coal  from 
the  Beckley  Seam,  located  in  Raleigh 
county.  The  company  was  organized 
in  1910.  Officers  are:  R.  C.  Jeffreds. 
President;  J.  D.  Duval,  Vice  President 
and  Secretary;  Dr.  W.  W.  Koiner, 
Treasurer   and   General   Manager. 

The  output  of  this  mine  goes  mostly 
to  tidewater,  shipments  being  made 
over  both  the  Virginian  Railway,  and 
the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railway.  The 
selling  is  looked  after  by  the  Northern 
Coal   Co.    of   Boston,   Massachusetts. 

The  postoffice  and  express  office  of 
this  operation  is  Sullivan,  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  the  shipping  point  for  coal 
is   Woodpeck,   West    Virginia. 


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COAL   MEN   OF  AMERICA 


LYNWIN  COAL  CO. 

Winding  Gulf,  West  Virginia 

Among  the  successful  companies  that  have  established  for 
themselves  a  gratifying  output  of  coal  in  the  well  known  Winding 
Gulf  Section  of  Ealeigh  County,  West  Virginia,  must  be  men- 
tioned the  Lynwin  Coal  Co.,  which  became  a  producing  concern 
in  the  year  1906.  The  plant  of  the  company  is  located  near  Wind- 
ing Gulf  post  office.  Unlike  many  other  operations  the  location 
selected  for  the  homes  of  the  men  is  on  the  very  top  of  the 
mountain,  where  the  freshest  and  purest  air  is  always  to  be  had. 
The  water  is  obtained  from  an  artesian  well,  600  feet  deep, 
driven  at  the  foot  of  the  mountain  and  pumped  up  the  mountain 
side  300  feet  to  a  huge  reservoir,  whence  it  is  piped  to  the  homes 
of  the  men.  The  houses  of  the  miners  are  not  only  thus  provided 
with  running  water  but  also  with  electric  lights  and  other  modern 
improvements 

E.  J.  Flanigan,  the  resident  General  Manager  and  Superin- 
tendent of  the  mine  property,  has  given  special  study  to  the 
comforts  and  conveniences  for  the  men  and  the  policy,  aside  from 
its  humanitarian  side,  has  been  in  many  ways  of  great  material 
advantage  to  the  company.  Theaters,  bath  house,  gardening  fa- 
cilities, etc.,  have  been  the  means  of  broadening  the  lives  of  the 
men  and  securing  their  contentment. 

The  mines  are  entered  by  drift.  The  tipple  is  equipped  with 
picking  tables  and  loading  booms.  The  seam  mined  is  the  well 
known  Reekley.  The  company  maintains  two  operations  and 
produces  from  500  to  600  tons  daily.  The  openings  are  located 
on  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  as  well  as  the  Virginian  Railway  and 
shipments  are  made  via  either  road.  Although  the  bulk  of  the 
company's  product  goes  to  tidewater,  much  of  it  also  finds  west- 
ern markets.  Sales  are  handled  by  the  Eastern  Coal  &  Export 
Corp.  of  Richmond,  Virginia. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are  as  follows:  President.  C.  L. 

win.  Greensburg,  Pennsylvania;  Vice  President,  P.  P.  Grif- 
fin. Lock  Haven,  Pennsylvania:  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  P.  C. 
Lynch,  Blue  Jay.  West  Virginia:  General  Manager  and  Superin- 
tendent, residing  on  the  property,  E.  J.  Flanigan. 


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WEST   VIRGINIA  — Bluefield 

W.  P.  BANE,  Vice  President  Bluefield  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Bluefield,  West  Arirginia,  is  a  native  of  Virginia. 

C.  L,.  BORDEN,  Shipping  Agent  Wm.  C.  Atwater  &  Co. 
at  Bluefield,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Christiansburg, 
Virginia,  in  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years,   the  entire   time  with  his  present  company. 

GARLAND  RAY  CARTER,  President  and  Treasurer  Car- 
ter Red  Ash  Collieries  Co.,  Bluefield.  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  East  Stone  Gap,  Virginia,  October  6.  1889,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  six  years.  Mr.  Carter  is  also 
President  and   Treasurer   of  the   Buchanan   Coal   Co. 

WILLIAM  D.  t'OFER,  Secretary  Bluefield  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Bluefield,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Bedford,  Vir- 
ginia, born  October  10,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  three   years. 

JOHN  P.  HOUSTON,  Shipping  Agent  for  Castner.  Curran 
&  Bullitt,  Inc.,  at  Bluefield,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of 
Virginia,  born  in  1872  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  six- 
teen years. 

HARMAN  WOODWARD,  Sal3S  Manager  Flat  Top  Fuel 
Co..  Bluefield,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Staunton.  Vir- 
ginia, October  23,  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eight  years.  Mr.  Woodward  was  formerly  Secretary-Treas- 
urer of  the  Pocahontas  Coke  Co.,  Bluefield,  West  Virginia. 


WEST    VIRGINIA  — Charleston 

JOHN  C.  BLAIR,  President  and  Treasurer  Peytona  Mining 
Co.  and  Treasurer  Malleable  Coal  Co.,  Charleston.  West 
Virginia,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1884  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  seven  years.  Mr.  Blair  is  Manager  of  the 
Eastern  Petroleum  Co.,  Vice  President  of  the  Louis  F.  Pryn 
Co.,  and  a  member  of  The  Blair-Butler  Co.,  a  partnership. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Kanawha   Coal    Shippers   Association. 

CLARENCE  A.  BROCKMAN,  General  Manager  Stone  Cliff 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Charleston,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Virginia  October  27,  1881.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
Bixteen  years.  He  was  previously  identified  with  the  Nut- 
talburg  Coal  &  .Coke  Co.,  Thurmond  Coal  Co.  and  Elk  River 
Coal   &  Lumber   Co. 

JOHN  C.  BURNS,  Manager  John  C.  Burns  &  Co.,  Charles- 
ton, West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Charleston  June  24,  18G3. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  This 
company  owns  1,000  acres  of  Jefferson  County  land.  Mr. 
Burns  is  a  Director  of  two  banks  in  Charleston  and  served 
ten  years  on  the  bench  of  the  Jefferson  County  Court. 

JAMES  MARTIN,  General  Superintendent  Wyatt  Coal 
Co.,  Charleston,  West  Arirginia,  is  a  native  of  Scotland, 
born  March  26,  1874.  Mr.  Martin  is  connected  with  the 
McGregor  Coal  Co.,  MacAlpin  Coal  Co.  and  McCaa  Coal  Co. 
He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  many  years,  beginning 
work  in  the  mines  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  making  rapid 
progress.  Mr.  Martin  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
New  River  Smokeless  Coal  Co.,  New  River  Collieries  Co. 
and  Nichol  Colliery  Co.  and  was  State  Mine  Inspector  for 
five   years. 

SIMON  P.  RICHMOND,  Secretary  Scotia  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Charleston,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Summers  Countv. 
West  Virginia,  January  20,  1870,  and  has  been  interested  in 
the  coal  business  about  ten  years.  Mr.  Richmond  is  also 
Secretary  of  the  Cabin  Creek  Consolidated  Coal  Co..  South 
Side  Co.,  Slab  Fork  Coal  Co.,  Chesapeake  Mining  Co.,  and 
Coalburg  Colliery  Co. 

HOUGHTON  A.  ROBSON,  former  President  Cardiff  Coal 
Co.,  Charleston,  We^t  Virginia,  was  born  in  Cotton  Hill. 
West  Virginia,  February  1.  1856,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  about  ten  years.  Mr.  Robson  served  as  State  Mine 
Inspector  of  West  Virginia  four  years  and  was  also  con- 
nected with  the  Wyatt  Coal  Co.  for  a  while. 

E.  H.  SHONK,  Vice  President  Webb  Coal  Mining  Co., 
Charleston,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Pennsyl- 
vania, December  22,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Shonk  is  also  Treasurer  of  the'Shonk 
Land  Co.  and  Shonk-Garrison  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Shonk's  family 
came  from  the  anthracite  fields,  where  they  were  pioneer 
operators  and  are  now  big  landholders  in  West  Virginia. 
with    valuable    operations. 

T.  E.  B.  SILER,  President  Seng  Creek  Coal  Co.,  Marsh 
Fork  Coal  Co.  and  Silush  Coal  Co.,  Charleston.  West  Vir- 
ginia, is  a  native  of  Lot,  Kentucky,  born  January  20,  1858. 
Mr.  Siler  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Bird  Eye  Coal 
Co..   Jellico,   Tennessee. 

SAMUEL  G.  SMITH,  Manager  Blue  Creek  Coal  &  Land 
Co.,  Charleston,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1884.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten    years. 


H.  T.  SMARR  is  General  Manager  of  the  Central  Coal  Co., 
Charleston,   West   Virginia. 

GEORGE  R.  WOOD,  President  and  General  Manager  Wet 
Branch  Mining  Co.,  Charleston,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of 
Ohio,  born  in  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Wood  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Buffalo-Eagle 
Colliery  Co.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the  Pitts- 
burgh Coal  Co.,  Berwind-White  Coal  Mining  Co.,  and  the 
New  River  and   Pocahontas  Consolidated  Coal  Co. 


WEST    VIRGINIA  — Fairmont 


ULYSSES  NEAR  ARNETTE.  General  Superintendent 
Antler  Coal  Co.,  Fairmont,  West  Virginia,  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  two  years. 

ALVEY  I'.  BRADY,  a  Director  of  the  Monongalia  Coal  Co., 
Fairmont.  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  West  Virginia,  born 
May  2,  1880.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Brady  is  also  a  Director,  stockholder  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Abrams  Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  was  previously  con- 
nected with  L.  B.  Brydon  &  Co.  and  Southwestern  Splint 
Fuel  Co. 

BROOKS  FLEMING.  JR.,  Assistant  General  Manager  of 
Operations  of  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co.,  Fairmont,  West 
Virginia,  was  born  in  Fairmont  July  10.  1882,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Fleming  has  some 
other   coal   interests   in   West  Virginia. 

GUY  B.  HARTLEY,  Manager  Cambria  Coal  Co.,  Fair- 
mont, West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Masontown,  West  Vir- 
ginia, June  26,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years.  Mr.  Hartley  is  also  interested  in  the  Morgantown 
Coal  Co.,  and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Lehigh  Coal 
Co.  as  receiver.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute 
of  Mining  Engineers  and  acted  as  Chief  Mining  Engineer 
for  the  Monongahela  Valley  Engineering  Co.,  which  repre- 
sents twenty   independent  coal  companies  in  West  Virginia. 

DAN  RICHARD  LAWSON,  Secretary  Central  West  Vir- 
ginia Coal  Operators'  Association,  Fairmont,  West  Virginia, 
was  born  in  St.  Paul,  Kansas,  January  8,  1879,  and  has  been 
interested  in  the  coal  business  about  ten  years.  Mr.  Lawson 
was  formerly  identified  with  the  New  River  Consolidated 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  has  served  as  Deputy  Distributor  in 
the  Fairmont  region  for  the  Fuel  Administration. 

ERNEST  MC  COY,  President  and  Manager  McCoy  Coal  Co., 
Fairmont.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Fairmont  October  15, 
1871,  and  has  been  handling  coal  eleven  years.  Mr.  McCoy 
is  also  interested  in  the  Fairmont  Fuel  Co.  and  was  for- 
merly  connected   with   the   Fairmont  Coal   Co. 

BERNARD  HUGH  MC  GINLEY,  Secretary-Treasurer  Ant- 
ler Coal  Co.,  Fairmont,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Mauch 
Chunk,  Pennsylvania,  in  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness four  years.  Mr.  McGinley  was  formerly  with  the  Con- 
solidation Ccal  Co. 

SEYMOUR  MC  INTIRE,  President  South  Pittsburgh  Coal 
Co.  and  South  Fairmont  Coal  Co.,  Fairmont.  West  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Fairmont  in  1867  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty  years.  Mr.  Mclntire  is  also  interested  in  the 
Haywood  Coal  Co.  and  is  a  Director  of  four  companies. 

HOWARD  W.  SHOWALTER,  President  Westwood  Coal 
Co.  and  Diamond  Coal  Co.,  Fairmont,  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Harrisville,  West  Virginia,  April  4.  1881,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  Mr.  Showalter  is  also 
interested  in  the  Rosebud  Fuel  Co.  and  Fairmont  &  Cleve- 
land Coal  Co. 

DAVID  VICTOR,  President  Monongah  Fuel  Co.,  Fairmont. 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Fairchance,  Pennsylvania,  Janu- 
ary 5,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years. 
Mr.  Victor  began  work  in  the  mines  at  the  age  of  17.  He 
was  later  a  mine  inspector  for  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co. 
He  was  also  connected  with  the  Fairmont  Coal  Co.  and  the 
Monongah  Co.     Mr.  Victor  deals  in  undeveloped  coal  lands. 

JOHN  MAGRUDER  WOLFE,  General  Superintendent  Jam- 
ison Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Fairmont  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  July  10,  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  ten  years.  Mr.  Wolfe  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Keystone  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 


WEST    VIRGINIA— Huntington 

THOMAS  F.  BAILEY,  Treasurer  Banks  Supply  Co.,  Hunt- 
ington, West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  of  the  Fire  Creek  Smoke- 
less Fuel  Co.  and  Kentucky  Elkhorn  By-Product  Coal  Co., 
and  a  Director  of  the  Bengal  Coal  Co.,  Huntington  By- 
Product  Coal   Co.,    and   Sharlow   Gas  Coal   Co. 


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iiMtm  l\  JONES,  jii.,  Secretary-Treasurer  Harry  P. 
Jones  &  Sons  Coal  Co..  Huntington,  West  Virginia,  was  born 
in  Monongahela,  Pennsylvania.  August  1,  1897.  and  has  been 
interested  in  the  coal  business  four  years.  Mr.  Jones  is  also 
Treasurer  of  the  West  Virginia  &  Kentucky  Coal  Co.,  and 
was   previously   connected   with    the   Jones-Parsons   Coal  Co. 

W  tl.TEH     WILLIAM     PAYNE,    retail     coal     merchant     of 

Huntington,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio, 
January  21,  1881,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  nine 
years.  Mr.  Payne  was  formerly  connected  with  the  New 
River  Co.  and  the  McKell  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

KHKIl  C.  PRKHAKI),  Secretary-Treasurer  Island  Creek 
Colliery  Co.,  Huntington.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Gray- 
son, Kentucky,  March  1,  1871,  and  has  been  interested  in 
the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  is  also  Secretary- 
Treasurer  of  the  Alemma  Coal  Co.  of  Switzer,  Rum  Creek 
Collieries  &  By-Products  Co.  of  Yolyn,  and  Gilbert  Coal  Co., 
and  President  of  the  Blooming  Rose  Coal  Co.,  all  of  West 
Virginia.  Mr.  Prichard  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
White  Oak  Fuel  Co.,  Falls  Colliery  Co.  and  Belleciare 
Coal   Co. 


WEST  VIRGINIA 


CHARI.ES  JACOB  ADAMS,  Superintendent  Madeira-Hill- 
Clark  Coal  Co.,  Wilsonburg,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Clarion  County.  Pennsylvania,  January  24,  1858,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  forty-eight  years.  Mr.  Adams  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Thacker  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Red 
Jacket  Consolidated  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Borderland  Coal 
&  Coke   Co. 

J.  BLAINE  IGEE,  Superintendent  Shamrock  Coal  Co., 
Logan.  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Tennessee,  born  Febru- 
ary 24,  1887,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

ROY  E.  BAILEY,  Assistant  Secretary  Sugar  Creek  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Mount  Hope,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  West 
Virginia,  born  July  24,  1892,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  six  years. 

\V.  H.  II  M.I, ARM,  Superintendent  Dry  Branch  Coal  Co., 
Dry  Branch,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Chelyan.  West  Vir- 
ginia, August  6,  1880,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal 
business  all  his  life.  Mr.  Ballard  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  McKell  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

FRANK  DANIEL  H  \  It  icon.  General  Superintendent  Wini- 
frede  and  Belmont  Coal  Co.  and  Winifrede  Railroad  Co., 
Winifrede,  West  Virginia,  Coal  Co.,  is  a  native  of  Ashland, 
Pennsylvania,  born  September  22,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  Is  also  interested  in  the 
Britton  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Barron  was  formerly  connected  with 
the   New   River  Collieries  Co.  and  Olcott  Coal   &   Iron-  Co. 

C.  B.  BATES,  Auditor  Kellys  Creek  Colliery  Co.,  Ward, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Beatrice,  Nebraska,  December 
11,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years,  the 
entire  time  with  the  present  company. 

w  1 1.1,1AM  WILKBfl  BBDDOW,  Superintendent  Lundale 
''oil  Co.,  Ltindale,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Minersvllle, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1885  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Beddow  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co., 
Susquehanna  Coal  Co..  I.ehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.,  Logan 
Mining  Co.  and  Kohenoor  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

JOHN  WADE  BEI.I,,  Secretary  and  General  Manager 
Keeney's  Creek  Colliery  Co.,  Winona.  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Goshen,  Virginia,  October  26.  1882,  and  has  been 
Interested  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He  is  also 
Vice  President  of  the  Meadow  River  Smokelss  Coal  Co.  and 
Becretary  and  General  Manager  of  the  Greenbrier  Collteriea 
Co.  Mr.  Bell  was  formerly  with  the  Stonewall  Coal  & 
Coke  Co. 

JOSEPH  B.  BERTKE.  Assistant  to  General  Manager 
Winifrede  Coal  Co..  Winifrede.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  October  14,  1889,  and  has  been  In  the  Coal 
business  ten  years. 

BENNETT  RANDOLPH  III  \  s.  Williamson,  West  Virginia, 
was  born  In  Lincoln  County,  West  Virginia,  in  1876,  and 
has  been  identified  with  the  coal  business  Ave  years.  He 
is  a  member  of  Hip  law  firm  of  Wiles  <fc  Bias  and  is  also 
Vice  President  of  the  Matewan  Coal  Co.,  President  of  the 
Warbride  Mining  Co.,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Standard 
Thacker  Coal  Co.   and   a    Director  of  the  Wigarb  Mining  Co. 


F.  W.  BOHGMAX,  Superintendent  and  Manager  Borgman 
Coal  Co.,  Tunnelton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Harris- 
ville.  West  Virginia,  September  25,  1870,  and  has  been  in 
the    coal*  business    seven    years. 

JAMES  G.  BOYD,  General  Manager  Blaine  Mining  Co., 
Potomac  Manor,  West  Virginia,  Is  a  native  Scotchman,  born 
October  10,  1863,  and  has  been  Interested  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness forty  years.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Lick  Branch  Coal  Co.  and  Dor- 
chester Coal  Co.,  and  served  as  a  State  Mine  Inspector  two 
years.  Mr.  Boyd  is  the  oldest  mine  manager  in  point  of 
service  on  the  line  of  the  Western  Maryland  Railway  and 
has  filled  every  position  in  and  about  a  coal  mine,  and  is  an 
expert  in   the  business. 

«.i  "Uti.i  S.  BRACKETT,  Superintendent  Pittsvein  Coal 
Co.,  Flemington,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Pottstown. 
Pennsylvania,  September  15,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Brackett  was  previously  con- 
nected with  the  Maryland  Coal  Co.  and  engaged  in  general 
mining  engineering  practice. 

A.  SPATES  BRADY,  Elkins,  West  Virginia,  a  coal  oper- 
ator owning  a  mine  at  Mabie,  Randolph  County,  West  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Brady's  Mills,  Maryland,  October  8.  1876, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years,  having  been 
connected  with  numerous  coal  companies  in  Northern  West 
Virginia  as   mining   engineer. 

JOSEPH  GARDNER  RRADI.EV.  President  and  General 
Manager  Elk  River  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.,  Dundon,  West  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  September  12.  1881. 
and  has  been  .in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr.  Brad- 
ley is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  and  President 
of  the  West  Virginia  Coal  Association  and  Vice  President  of 
the  West  Virginia  Splint  and  Gas  Coal  Association. 

JOHN  W.  lilt  AMI  AM.  General  Superintendent  Clear  Fork 
Coal  Co.,  Jarrolds  Valley,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Pond 
Gap,  West  Virginia,  January  12.  1865,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Branham  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Stevens  Coal  Co.,  Cabin  Creek  Consoli- 
dated Coal  Co.  and  Olcott  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  all  of  West 
Virginia. 

THOMAS  FREDERICK  BROWN.  General  Manager  Brown 
Coal  Co.,  Princeton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Oakvale, 
West  Virginia,  in  1897,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal 
business  ten  years.  Mr.  Brown  was  formerly  with  the 
Pioneer   Coal   Co.,    Princeton. 

WILLIAM  A.  BROWN  of  the  Brown  Coal  Co..  Princeton, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Oakvale,  West  Virginia,  in 
1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  was 
formerly   with   the   Pioneer  Coal   Co.,   Princeton. 

T.  FRANK  Bl'RK.  Auditor  Elkins  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Mor- 
gantown.  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Yardvllle,  New 
Jersey,  born  Decenfner  16,  1870,  and  has  been  interested  in 
the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Before  coming  with  this 
company    Mr.    Burk    was   a    public    accountant. 

AARON  CARVER,  Superintendent  Ajax  Coal  Co.,  Fayette, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1861  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Carver  was 
formerly  identified  with  Carver  Bros.,  Montgomery,  West 
Virginia. 

T.  W.  CHAMBERS,  Superintendent  Eureka  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Eckman,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Pamplin,  Virginia, 
March  21,  1875,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
one  years.  Mr.  Chambers  is  also  acting  as  Purchasing 
Agent  for  the  Lynchburg  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  He  was  formerly 
with   the   Powhatan  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

PETER  THOMAS  COI.GAX,  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  Spruce  Valley  Coal  Co.,  Blair,  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Dublin.  Ireland.  September  21,  1877,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years.  Mr.  Colgan  has  other 
coal  Interests  in  the  Middlesboro,  Kentucky,  field.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Nicholson  Coal  Co..  Clear  Creek 
Coal  Co.  and  Manrlng  Coal  Exchange,  and  is  Receiver  for 
the  Halsey  Red  Ash  Coal  Co. 

G.  J.  COTTUEI.L,  General  Manager  Fort  Defiance  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Fort  Defiance.  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  North 
Carolina,  born  June  4,  1889.  and  has  been  In  the  coal  busi- 
ness six  years.  Mr.  Cottrel]  is  also  manager  of  the  Green- 
brier Coal  Co.  of  Belva.  West  Virginia,  and  Treasurer  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Lory  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Julian.  West 

Virginia.      He    was  former]]    mm I«l   witli   the  Commissary 

department  of  fhe  Paint  Creek  Collieries  Co. 

H.  M.  CRAWFORD,  Hernial  Manager  II.  M.  Crawford  & 
Co.  and  Luella  Coal  *  Coke  Co.  I'hillppl.  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  it  It  tan  tag,  Pennsylvania.  June  1'.'  1867,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years  He  is  also  President  of 
the  Talbot -Crawford  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Crawford  was  formerly 
with    the   Midland   Coal   *    Coke  Co. 


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FLOYD  B.  CUNNYNGHAM.  Superintendent  of  Coal  Mines, 
Pulaski  Iron  Co.,  Eckraan,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Rhea 
County,  Tennessee,  January  8,  1877,  and  has  been  interested 
in  coal  and  blast  furnaces  twenty  years.  Mr.  Cunnyng- 
ham  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Dayton  Coal  &  Iron 
Co.,  Dayton,  Tennessee,  and  Virginia  Iron,  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
Roanoke,  Virginia. 

R,  DARDEN",  owner  of  The  Darden  Co..  Elkins,  West  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Murfreesboro,  North  Carolina,  in  1867 
and  has  been  handling  coal  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Darden  is 
also   interested   in   lumber   manufacturing  and  banking. 

HARLE1  M.  DAVIS.  Assistant  Superintendent  Davis  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  Davis,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Salem,  West 
Virginia,  February  16,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty  years.  Mr.  Davis  was  previously  identified  with 
the   Consolidation   Coal   Co. 

ALEXANDER  CAMDEN  DAWSOX  of  Deegans  Eagle  Coal 
Co.,  Accoville,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Clay  County, 
West  Virginia,  July  30,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  ten  years.  Mr.  Dawson  was  chief  engineer  of  rail- 
road construction   ten   years. 

HENRY  DEEM.  Superintendent  Cannelton  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Cannelton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Volcano,  West 
Virginia,  September  22,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Deem  was  formerly 
with  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  M.  A.  Hanna  Coal  Co. 

.1.  W.  DEVISON,  General  Superintendent  of  Mines,  New 
England  Fuel  &  Transportation  Co.,  Grant  Town,  West  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Westville,  Nova  Scotia,  Canada,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1871.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five 
years.  Mr.  Devison  is  also  interested  in  the  Jewett,  Bigelow 
&  Brook  Coal  Co.  of  Twin  Branch,  West  Virginia.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  Dominion  Coal  Co.,  H.  C.  Frick 
Coke  Co.,   and   Crows  Nest  Pass  Coal  Co. 

THOMAS  F.  DOWNING.  General  Manager  Tuma  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  and  Monitor  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Wilkinson,  West 
Virginia,  is  a  native  Englishman  with  thirty  years'  experi- 
ence in  the  coal  business. 

ARTHUR  HAMILTON  FEXIMORE.  Vice  President  Right 
Fork  Coal  Co.,  Ivyton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Clare- 
mont,  West  Virginia,  January  4,  1889,  and  has  been  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  He  is  a  son  of  J.  C.  Feni- 
more,  deceased,  promoter  and  operator  of  mines  in  the  New 
River  and  Kanawha  fields.  Mr.  Fenimore  is  also  interested 
in  the  Sovereign  Coal  Co.,  Ivy  White  Ash  Coal  Co.  and 
Guyandotte  Coal  Co.,  and  was  previously  connected  with 
the  New  River  Co.,  Branchland  Coal  Co.  and  Dunglen 
Coal  Co. 

YV.  R.  FENIMORE.  President  and  General  Manager  Right 
Fork  Coal  Co.,  Ivyton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Thur- 
mond, West  Virginia,  September  30,  1889,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Fenimore  is  a  son  of 
J.  C.  Fenimore,  deceased,  prominent  promoter  and  operator. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Ivy  White  Ash  Coal  Co.  and 
Sovereign  Coal  Co.  and  was  previously  connected  with  the 
Dunglen   Coal   Co. 

HENRY'  L.  FISHER,  Superintendent  Cabin  Creek  Con- 
solidated Coal  Co.,  Kayford,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of 
Bedford  City,  Virginia,  born  January  9,  1873.  Mr.  Fisher  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  industry  twenty-three  years  and 
was  previously  connected  with  the  Quinnimont  Coal  Co.. 
Turkey  Knob  Coal  Co.,  Southwest  Virginia  Improvement 
Co..  Virginia  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.,  Dun  Loop  Coal  Co.,  and 
Holly  Coal  Co. 

JAMES  F>.  FLANAGAN,  President  and  General  Manager 
Flanagan  Coal  Co.,  Welch.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Silver 
Creek,  Pennsylvania,  August  21,  1868,  and  has  been  an 
operator  ten  years.  Mr.  Flanagan  is  also  interested  in  the 
Cumberland  Cannel  Coal  Co.  In  his  youth  he  worked  for 
the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  at  their  Eagle 
Hill   colliery   in    Pennsylvania. 

H.  H.  FLETCHER,  Superintendent  Quincy  Coal  Co., 
Quincy,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Dot,  Virginia,  July  22, 
1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  five  years.  He  holds 
the  degrees  of  Bachelor  of  Science  and  Master  of  Arts  from 
William   and   Mary   College. 

WILLIAM  GANTZ,  Mine  Foreman  for  the  Rosemont  Coal 
Co..  Rosemont,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Uniontown, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1873,  and  has  been  connected  with  the 
coal  industry  thirty-two  years.  Mr.  Gantz  was  formerly 
with  Marshall  &  Jameson.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
Pitcairn  Coal  Co.  of  Pennsylvania. 

C.  M.  GATES,  President  and  General  Manager  Matewan 
Coal  Co.,  Williamson,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Scottdale, 
Pennsylvania,  October  17,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-five  years.  He  is  also  Vice  President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Wigarb  Minim?  Co.,  Williamson. 
Mr.  Gates  was  formerly  with  the  H.  C.  Frick  Coke  Co.  and 
subsidiaries  fifteen  years  and  Crystal  Block  Coal  Co.  five 
years. 


HARRY  S.  GAY,  JR.,  General  Superintendent  The  Gay 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Logan,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Lykens, 
Pennsylvania,  April  7,  1889.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  De- 
partment of  Mines,  Lehigh  University,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business  six  years. 

RICHARD  GERSTELL,  JR.,  Secretary-Treasurer  Davis 
Coal  Mining  Co.,  Grafton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  at  Key- 
ser,  West  Virginia,  July  11,  1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Gerstell  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Century  Coal  Co.,  Davis  Colliery  Co.  and 
Davis   Bryden   Coal   Co. 

JOHN  C.  GILMOUR,  Superintendent  Litz-Smith  Island 
Creek  Coal  Co.,  Chauncey,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of 
Scotland,  born  May  5,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years.  Mr.  Gilmour  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Carbon  Fuel  Co.  and  Quincy  Coal  Co. 

PATRICK  A.  GRADY',  Superintendent  of  Mines.  Boone 
County  Coal  Corp.,  Clothier,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Ashley,  Pennsylvania,  February  15,  1882,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years.  Mr.  Grady  Is 
Secretary  and  a  Director  of  the  Fourseam  Block  Colliery 
Co.,  Hazard,  Kentucky.  He  was  formerly  State  Mine  In- 
spector, Twelfth  District,  West  Virginia,  for  five  years, 
General  Superintendent  of  the  Davy  Pocahontas  Coal  Co. 
for  three  years  and  a  safety  and  efficiency  engineer  for  the 
Collins  interests  in  West  Virginia  and  Ohio  until  he  became 
connected  with  his  present  company  in  1917. 

FLOYD  HACKETT,  Secretary  Hackett  Coal  Co.,  Cedar 
Grove,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Shiawnssee  County,  Michi- 
gan, September  25,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
eight  years. 

SAMLEL  HACKETT,  President  and  General  Manager 
Hackett  Coal  Co..  Cedar  Grove,  West  Virginia,  was  born 
in  Tuscola  County,  Michigan,  December  5,  1872.  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years.  Mr.  Hackett's 
first  experience  was  in  the  mines  of  Michigan.  Later  he 
was  in  a  retail  coal  business  at  Flint,  Michigan.  He 
founded  the  Caledonia  Coal  Co.  and  Consumers  Coal  Co.  of 
Saginaw,  Michigan.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Kanawha 
County   Coal   Shippers'   Association. 

CHARLES  A.  HARMOX.  Chief  Electrician  Cabin  Creek 
Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Kayford,  West  Virginia,  was  born 
in  Raymond  City.  West  Virginia,  August  19,  1877,  and  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr. 
Harmon  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Marmet  Coal  Co., 
Beury-New  River  Coal  Co.,  Piney  Mining  Co.  and  Ephraim's 
Creek  Coal  Co. 

WILLIAM  T.  HARY'EY',  Superintendent  Argyle  Coal  Co., 
Yolyn.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Oak  Hill,  West  Virginia, 
in  1888  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

JOHN  L.  HATFIELD.  President  Rosedale  Coal  Co..  Mor- 
gantown,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Greene  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, April  19,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen  years. 

HENRY  HOUSTON  HOXAKER,  Mining  Superintendent. 
United  Pocahontas  Coal  Co,  Crumpler,  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Tazewell  County,  Virginia,  August  4,  1873,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Honaker 
started  as  door  boy  and  worked  himself  up  to  his  present 
position.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Ashland  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.  and  the  Pocahontas  Consolidated  Coal  Co. 

FREDERICK  W.  HORCHLER,  Manager  Horchler  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Newburg,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Newburg 
May  28,  1869.  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-four  years,  thirty-two  years  as  a  mine  worker  and 
two  years  as  an  operator.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Newburg  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Austen  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

CARL  L.  HORNOR,  General  Manager  Hornor  Bros., 
Clarksburg,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Harrison  County. 
West  Virginia.  July  2,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness ten  years.  Mr.  Hornor  is  also  interested  in  the  Stone 
Coal  Co.,  Burrows  Coal  Co.,  Trainer  Coal  Co.,  and  Catherine 
Coal   Co. 

WAYNE  B.  HORXOR,  Manager  The  J.  M.  Macdonald  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Clarksburg.  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Clarks- 
burg, born  in  1888,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three 
years. 

A.  M.  HOWERY,  General  Manager  and  Secretary  East 
Bank  Mining  Co.,  East  Bank,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of 
East  Bank,  born  December  16,  1872.  Mr.  Howery  has  been 
connected  with   the  coal  business  ten  years. 

EDWARD  E.  HI'DDLESTON,  General  Manager  Royal  Coal 
Co.,  Royal,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Kanawha  County, 
West  Virginia.  April  17,  1876,  and  has  been  identified  with 
the  coal  trade  seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Stone  Cliff  Coal  Co.,  Glendale  Colliery  Co., 
Beckley   Coal   &   Coke  Co.   and   Export   Coal   Co. 


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BERT  0.  HVI.TOV,  General  Superintendent  Tidewater 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  King  Coal  Co.,  Vivian,  West  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Virginia  June  27,  1886.  and  has  been  with  these 
companies  eleven  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Mill 
Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Coaldale  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and 
McDowell   Coal   &  Coke  Co. 

ROBERT  III  l« ns  mm.  Secretary  and  General  Sales 
Manager  West  Virginia  Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Elkins.  West  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  Elkins  December  3,  1877,  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  fifteen  years,  the  entire  time  with  above 
company.  Mr.  Isner  is  also  interested  in  the  Inter-Mountain 
Coal  &  Lumber  Co  ,  which  owns  22,000  acres  of  coal  and 
timber  lands   in    Harlan   and   Leslie  counties.   Kentucky. 

NOEL  v.  JAMKS.  late  Secretary-Treasurer  War  Eagle 
Coal  Co.,  Wax  Kagle.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Zaleski, 
Ohio,  February  11,  1860,  and  was  connected  with  the  coal 
business  twenty  years.  He  was  also  interested  in  the 
Thacker  Coal  Mining  Co.     Mr.   James  died  March  4.  1916. 

■WILLIAM  EWAHT  JAMKS.  General  Superintendent  Mount 
Carbon  Co..  Powellton.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Wales. 
Great  Britain,  and  has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years.  Mr.  James  acted  as  General  Superintendent 
for  the  Carbon  Coal  Co.  and  West  Virginia  Collieries  Co. 
six    years. 

Al'BREY  E.  JENNINGS.  Secretary-Treasurer  Lathrop  Coal 
Co.,  Welch,  West  .Virginia,  was  born  in  Lynchburg.  Vir- 
ginia, September  28,  1876,  and  has  been  interested  in  the 
coal  business  seven  years.  He  is  also  Secretary-Treasurer 
of  the  Panther  Coal  Co.,  Leckie  Collieries  Co.,  Douglas  Coal 
Co.,  Leckie  Fire  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  Pond  Creek  Coal  & 
Land  Co.  Before  entering  the  coal  business  Mr.  Jennings 
had  a  varied  experience  and  was  later  connected  with  the 
Dixon   interests  in   the  New   River  field. 

GEORGE  MILTON  JOM-.s.  President  and  General  Man- 
ager Amherst  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
•iger  Lundale  Coal  Co.  and  Amherst  Fuel  Co.,  Lundale,  West 
Virginia.  was  born  in  Oak  Hill.  West  Virginia,  November  12, 
1886.  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  six  years. 
He    is   a   stockholder   in    various   New    River  concerns. 

C.  D.  Jl  NKINS.  Sales  Manager  North  American  Coal  Co., 
Morgantown.  West  Virginia,  was  horn  in  Mineral  County. 
West  Virginia.  March  13,  1864,  and  has  been  interested  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Junkins  was 
formerly  with  the  H.  G.  Davis  Coal  Co..  Davis  &  Elkins 
Coal  Co.,  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  J.  A.  Clark  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.,  Clark  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Clark  Coal  Co.  and  Nebo  Con- 
solidated Coal  &  Coke  Co. 

THOMAS  I.  KEENER,  Superintendent  Albright  Smoke- 
less Coal  Co.,  Tunnelton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  New- 
burg,  West  Virginia.  August  17,  1878.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Keener  was  formerly 
with   the   Hite  Coal   &  Coke  Co. 

C.  D.  M.  KRAMER,  Superintendent  Ryan  Coal  Co.,  Clarks- 
burg. West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Catawba,  West  Virginia, 
January  7,  1869.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
seven  rears.  Mr.  Kramer  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Hutchinson  Coal  Co. 

<  ilwtl.E*  II.  LEE,  President  Lee  Coal  Co.  and  Bailey- 
Wood  Coal  Co.,  Glen  Jean.  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Ellis- 
ton.  Virginia,  June  28.  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness fifteen  years.  Mr.  Lee  is  also  Secretary  of  the  Willis 
Branch  Coal  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  Nlchol  Colliery  Co. 
Before  going  into  the  coal  business  he  practiced  medicine 
and  surgery. 

FRANK  M.  I.KE.  President  Alpha  Pocahontas  Coal  Co., 
Alpoca,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Lynchburg,  Virginia. 
June  30,  1873,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Lee  was  formerly  President  of  the  Wright  Coal 
&    Coke   Co. 

JOHN  F.  LOGAN.  Mine  Superintendent  Algoma  Coal  Co., 
Algoma,  West  Virginia,  was  born  In  Jefferson,  North  Caro- 
lina, February  14.  1873.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Logan  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
United  states  Coal  Co.,  Gary,  West  Virginia,  and  acted  as 
mine   foreman  and   superintendent   fifteen   years. 

J.  EDGAR  LONG,  President  J.  E.  Long  Coal  Co.,  Clarks- 
burg. West  Virginia,  was  born  In  Williamsport,  Pennsyl- 
vania. January  5.  1879.  Mr.  Long  has  been  engaged  In  the 
coal  business  for  a  ouarter  of  a  century  and  was  formerly 
connected   with   the   J.   H.   Weaver  interests. 

OLMKH    riM.i:v    MCCOY,   Secretary  Nlchol   Colliery  Co., 

Qlen   .1.  an.  West   Virginia,  was  born  In  Ohllllcothe,  Ohio,  and 

has  been    in    the    coal    business   fifteen    years.      Mr.    McCoy   Is 

also     Secretary-Treasurer     of     the     Kanawha.     Qlen     Jean     & 

•ern   Rallroa  1   Co. 


C,  H.  MEAD  of  Beckley,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Belfonte,  Kentucky,  February  12,  1879,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  since  1903.  Mr.  Mead  is  identified  as 
President  with  the  Mead-Toliver  Coal  Co.,  Sabine  Smoke- 
less Coal  Co.  and  Mllams  Fork  Smokeless  Coal  Co.  and  as 
Secretary  of  the  Mead-Pocahontas  Coal  Co.  and  Pickshin 
Coal  Co.  He  was  previously  connected  with  the  Red  War- 
rior Coal  Co.  and  C.  H.  Mead  &  Co.  as  President  and  Pey- 
tona  Block  Coal  Co.  as  General  Manager. 

ERNEST  M.  MERRILL,  President  Ernest  M.  Merrill  En- 
gineering Co.,  Beckley,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Newark, 
Ohio,  September  7,  1878.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
fifteen  years.  Mr.  Merrill  is  Treasurer  of  the  Mordue  Col- 
lieries Co.,  Secretary  of  the  Bowyer  Smokeless  Coal  Co.. 
real  estate  agent  for  the  Wyoming-Pocahontas  Coal  Co. 
and  New  Flat  Top  Mining  Co.  and  consulting  engineer 
for  twelve  other  coal  companies  in  the  smokeless  coal 
field.  He  is  the  author  of  "American  Coals  for  Export" 
and  "Coal  Mining  in  West  Virginia."  He  was  graduated 
from  the  Ohio  State  University  in  1902,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers  and  American  In- 
stitute  of   Mining   Engineers. 

WILLIAM  C.  MITCHELL,  General  Manager  Plymouth 
Coal  &  Mining  Co.,  Plymouth,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Spilman.  West  Virginia,  March  22,  1866,  and  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business  twenty-seven  years.  Mr. 
Mitchell  is  also  interested  in  the  Coalburg-Kanawha  Mining 
Co.  of  Coalburg,  West  Virginia,  and  was  formerly  with 
Carver  Bros. 

ARCHIBALD  ROGER  MONTGOMERY.  JR..  General  Super- 
intendent Boone  County  Coal  Corp.,  Clothier,  was  born  in 
Radnor,  Pensylvania,  July  1,  1886.  and  has  been  interested 
in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  Mr.  Montgomery  was 
previously   connected    with    the   Beech   Coal   Co. 

JONATHAN  M.  MOORE,  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager Monte  Coal  Co.,  Ottawa,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Bloomington.  West  Virginia,  June  8,  1875,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  He  is  also 
President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Ruthanne  Coal  Co.  and 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Big  Eagle  Min- 
ing Co.  and  was  formerly  with  the  Davis  Coal  &  Coke  Co., 
The  New  River  Co.,  Raleigh  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  The  Coal 
River  Co.  The  latter  company  shipped  the  first  carload  of 
coal  from  Boone  County  in  1909.  This  company  was  suc- 
ceeded by  the  Monte  Coal  Co.  April  1,  1916. 

THOMAS  J.  O'NEIL.  Superintendent  Ashland  Coal  &  Coke 

Co.,    Ashland,    West    Virginia,    was   born    in    Pennsylvania    in 

1871.     Mr.  O'Neil   has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years 

and  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Philadelphia  &  Read- 

'  ing  Coal  &  Iron  Co. 

GEORGE  S.  PATTERSON.  Secretary-Treasurer  Bottom 
Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  General  Manager  Sycamore  Coal 
Co.,  Vivian,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania, 
born  in  1861.  Mr.  Patterson  is  a  graduate  of  Lehigh  Univer- 
sity. He  was  a  mining  engineer  for  seven  years  and  later 
an  operator.  He  has  served  as  a  President  of  the  Coal 
Operators  Association   of  the   Williamson   field. 

s\MIKI.  W.  PATTERSON'.  President  Sycamore  Coal  Co.. 
Vivian.  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  born 
September  24,  1863,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business 
thirty-eight  years.  He  is  also  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Bottom  Creek  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Majestic  Collieries  Co.  Mr.  Patterson  was  for- 
merly with  J.  C.  Haydon  &  Co..  Mahanoy  City,  Pennsylvania. 

CHARLES  A.  PHILLIPPI.  mining  engineer  of  the  Federal 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Grant  Town,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Allegheny  County,  Maryland,  September  7,  1880.  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Phillippl  was 
previously  identified  with  the  Consolidated  Connellsvllle 
Coke  Co.  and  the  United  States  Steel  &  Wire  Co.  of  Union- 
town,  Pennsylvania. 

WILLIAM  A.  PHILLIPS,  President  Ashland  Coal  &  Coke 
C,  Ashland,  West  Virginia.  Pemberton  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  of 
Affinity,  West  Virginia,  and  Majestic  Collieries  Co.  of  Majes- 
tic, Kentucky,  was  born  in  Wales,  England,  in  1848,  and  has 
been    in    the   coal   business   thirty  years. 

\\lll.l\M  O.  PEIHIVAL.  General  Superintendent  Island 
Creek  Coal  Co..  Holden,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky, born  January  23,  1880,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  seven  years. 

ALON7.0  I».  RICE,  General  Manager  United  Pocahontas 
Coal  Co.,  Worth,  West  Virginia,  Is  a  native  Virginian,  born 
January  11,  1857,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  a  quarter 
of  a  century.  He  Is  also  Interested  in  the  Roanoke  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.  Mr.  Rice  was  previously  with  the  Indian  Ridge 
Coal  Co.,  Zenith  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Roanoke  Coal  &  Coke  Co. 
and   Vulcan   Coal   Co. 


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JAMBS  STEPHEN  RILEY,  Genera]  Manager  and  Secre- 
tary Manbar  Coal  Co.,  Manbar,  is  a  native  of  West  Vir- 
ginia, born  December  25,  1888,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the 
coal  industry  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Riley  was  previously 
connected  with  the  Ephraim  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  Superior 
Pocahontas  Coal  Co. 

JUSTUS  JAY  ROSS,  General  Manager  Logan  Mining  Co., 
Logan,  was  born  in  Simpson,  West  Virginia,  October  14, 
1879,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  Mr. 
Ross  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  Ross  Coal  Co.,  Island  Creek 
Coal  Land  Co.,  Logan  Mining  Co..  and  Hutchinson  Coal  Co. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Hutchinson  Coal  Co.  as  General 
Superintendent. 

H.  H.  ROTHWELL,  President  and  General  Manager  Roth- 
well  Coal  Co.,  Dubree,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  England, 
born  in  1867,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  business 
in  the  New  River  field  thirty  years.  Mr.  Rothwell  was  for- 
merly connected  with   the  Nuttallburg  Coal   &  Coke  Co. 

EDWIN  ALLEN  RUSSELL,  Secretary-Treasurer  Hygrade 
Coal  Co.,  Keyser,  West  Virginia,  is  a  native  of  Grant  County, 
West  Virginia,  born  March  25,  1878,  and  has  been  inter- 
ested in  the  coal  industry  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Russell  was 
formerly  with  the  Fairmont  Coal  Co.,  now  known  as  the 
Consolidation   Coal  Co. 

CLAUDE  J.  RYAN,  General  Superintendent  Hutchison 
Coal  Co.,  Hepzibah,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Bridgeport, 
West  Virginia,  August  27,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Ryan  is  also  Vice  President  of 
the  Ryan  Coal  Co.  of  Hepzibah.  and  was  formerly  identified 
with  the  Monongah  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  Consolidation  Coal 
Co.  He  has  served  as  Treasurer  of  the  Central  West  Vir- 
ginia Coal  Operators'  Association,  and  is  now  serving  as 
Treasurer  of  the  Northern  West  Virginia  Coal  Operators 
Association. 

CHARLES  R.  SAJiTROCK,  Superintendent  Black  Betsey 
Consolidated  Coal  Co.,  Black  Betsey,  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Raymond  City,  West  Virginia,  February  19,  1883, 
and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 

THOMAS  A.  SHEWEY,  Mine  Manager  Grey  Eagle  Coal 
Co.,  Armor,  Mingo  County,  West  Virginia.  Dempsey  Coal 
Co.,  Armor,  West  Virginia,  and  Warfield  Coal  Co.,  Kermit, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Virginia,  December  13,  1877, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  Mr. 
Shewey  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Cirris  Coal  & 
Coke  Co.,  Margaret  Mining  Co.,  and  the   Traders  Coal  Co. 

B.  J.  SHUMATE,  Superintendent  Hawley  Coal  Co.,  Clute, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Marshes,  West  Virginia,  in  1882 
and   is  just  beginning  his  career  as  a  coal  man. 

ERWYN  A.  SMITH,  General  Manager  Jackson  Coal  &  Min-. 
ing   Co..    Hartford,   West   Virginia,    was   born    in   Cincinnati, 
Ohio,   February   26,   1876,   and  has   been   in   the   coal   business 
twenty  years. 

HORACE  F.  SMITH,  Secretary-Treasurer  Jackson  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  Hartford,  West  Virginia,  has  been  with  this 
company   twenty   years. 

WILLIAM  H.  SMITH,  Secretary-Treasurer  Smith  &  Son, 
New  Martinsville,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  West  Virginia 
in   1879  and  has  been  handling  coal  twelve  years. 

P.  St.  SNYDER,  President  Long  Branch  Coal  Co.,  Mount 
Hope,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Green  Brier  County,  West 
Virginia,  December  12.  1869.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness six  years.  Mr.  Snyder  is  also  President  of  the  DeW'itt 
Fuel  Co.  and  East  Gulf  Coal  Co.  and  Vice  President  and 
Sales  Manager  of  the  Pemberton  Fuel  Co.  He  is  a  member 
of   the   New   River  Association. 

EUGENE  SOMMERVILLE,  proprietor  Eugene  Sommerville 
Coal  Co.,  Grafton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  West  Vir- 
ginia,  and   is  just  beginning  his  career  as  a  coal   man. 

HERSCHEL  V.  STEPHENSON,  Treasurer  and  Purchasing 
Agent  Raleigh  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Raleigh,  West  Virginia,  is 
a  native  of  Jackson,  Ohio,  born  January  7,  1871,  and  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  business  twenty-five  years. 
Mr.  Stephenson  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Wellston 
Coal  Co.,  Milton  Coal  Co.,  Dayton  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  and 
Jackson   County  Coal   Co.,   all   of  Wellston.   Ohio. 

W.  P.  TAMS,  JR.,  President  Gulf  Smokeless  Coal  Co., 
Tarns,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Staunton,  Virginia,  In 
1883  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years.  He 
is  also  interested  in  the  Gulf  Coal  Co.  and  Wyoming  Coal 
Co.  and  was  formerly  connected  with  The  New  River  Co. 
Mr.  Tarns  has  served  on  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the 
Smokeless   Coal    Operators'   Association. 

.1.  C.  R.  TAY'LER,  General  Manager  Loup  Creek  Colliery 
Co.,  Page,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Albemarle  County, 
Virginia,  August  21,  1874,  and  has  been  interested  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-one  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
with   the   Gauley   Mountain   Coal   Co..    Ansted.   West    Virginia. 


FREELAND  H.  TIBBETS,  Superintendent  Masteller  Coal 
Co.,  Beryl,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Morgantown,  West 
Virginia,  August  10,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
forty-five  years.  Mr.  Tibbets  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Lowmoor  Iron  Co.  of  Virginia  and  Davis  Coal  &  Coke 
Co.   at  Beryl. 

LAURENCE  E.  TIERNEY,  Powhatan,  West  Virginia,  is  a 
native  of  Schuylkill  County,  Pennsylvania,  born  June  25, 
1862,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  coal  industry  thirty- 
two  years.  He  is  President  and  General  Manager  of  the 
Lynchburg  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  the  Eureka  Coal  &  Coke 
Co..  President  of  the  Tierney  Mining  Co.  and  Mohawk  Coal 
&  Coke  Co.,  General  Manager  and  Secretary-Treasurer  of 
the  Elk  Ridge  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
Tierney  Coal  Co.  and  a  Director  of  the  Page  Coal  &  f'oke 
Co.  and  Crozer-Pocahontas  Co.  Mr.  Tierney  has  served  as 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Pocahontas 
Operators  Association,  Vice  President  of  the  West  Vircinia 
Board  of  Trade,  is  a  member  of  Franklin  Institute,  Phila- 
delphia, and  the  American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers, 
New   York   City. 

C.  H.  VARIAN,  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Point  Pleasant, 
West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Letart,  West  Virginia,  January 
12,  1854,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 
Mr.  Varian  operates  two  yards. 

DOUGLAS  VASS,  General  Sales  Agent  Beech  Flats  Coal 
Co.,  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Mobile,  Alabama, 
January  27,  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three 
years.  He  is  interested  with  others  in  stripping  proposi- 
tions and  operating  five  mines  in  Danville,  Illinois,  and  one 
at  Rush  Run,  Ohio.  They  operate  the  largest  steam  shovel 
and  largest  electric  shovel  in  the  world  and  have  an  output 
of   2,000   tons   a   day   when   both   shovels   are   working. 

LARENZO  D.  VAUGHN,  Grafton,  West  Virginia,  District 
Mine  Inspector  for  the  State  of  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Whiteside,  Tennessee,  in  1858,  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  forty-five  years.  Mr.  Vaughn  was  for- 
merly  connected   with  the  Davis  Coal   &  Coke  Co. 

VICTOR  STOCKTON  VEAZEY,  President  and  General 
Manager  Sunset  Mining  Co.,  Mount  Hope,  West  Virginia, 
was  born  in  Pratt,  West  Virginia,  February  20,  1883,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  two  years.  Mr.  Veazey  is  also 
interested  in  the  DeWitt  Fuel  Co.  He  is  connected  with  the 
McKell  Coal  &  Coke  Co.  and  several  other  companies  as 
Chief   Engineer. 

C.  L.  VOGELSANG,  President  and  General  Manager  The 
Elkland  Coal  Mining  Co.,  Clay,  West  Virginia,  was  born 
in  Gallia,  France,  January  27.  1886.  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  six  years.  Mr.  Vogelsang  is  also  interested 
in  the  Domestic  Coal  Co.  of  Wellston,  Ohio.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Domestic  Coal  Co.,  Hickory  Ash 
Coal  Co.,  and  Elliott   Splint  Coal  Co. 

E.  V.  WALKER,  Superintendent  Branch  Coal  &  Coke  Co.. 
Elverton,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Fayetteville,  West 
Virginia,  January  8,  1886,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
ten  years.  Mr.  Walker  was  formerly  identified  with  the 
New   River   &   Pocahontas   Consolidated   Coal   Co. 

LAWRENCE  WILEY,  General  Manager  Piney  Creek  Coal 
Co.,  Sullivan,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in  Raleigh  County, 
West  Virginia,  in  1883,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  eighteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the  Poca- 
hontas Consolidated  Collieries  Co.,  United  States  Coal  & 
Coke   Co.,    and   Sullivan   Coal   &   Coke   Co. 

JOHN  AUGUSTINE  WILLIS,  Secretary-Treasurer  and 
Manager  Coalburg-Kanawha  Mining  Co.,  Coalburg,  West 
Virginia,  was  born  in  Rock  Hall,  Jefferson  County,  West 
Virginia,  September  17,  1877.  Mr.  Willis  is  a  graduate  of 
the  West  Virginia  University  and  has  been  handling  coal 
seventeen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Coal- 
burg-Kanawha Coal  Co.,  Winifrede  Coal  Co.,  Kanawha  & 
Hocking  Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  and  Kelly's  Creek  Mining  Co. 

G.  H.  WISSER,  President  and  a  Director  of  the  Haywood 
Coal  Mining  Co..  Shinnston,  West  Virginia,  was  born  in 
Dravosburg,  Pennsylvania,  in  1880.  He  has  been  with  his 
present  company  eight  years. 

GEORGE  WOLFE,  Treasurer  and  General  Manager  Wind- 
ing Gulf  Colliery  Co.,  Winding  Gulf,  West  Virginia,  was 
born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  August  2.  1874,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  twenty  years.  He  is  also  General  Man- 
ager and  Treasurer  of  the  Superior  Pocahontas  Coal  Co.  of 
Davy.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
West  Virginia  Coal  Operators  Association,  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Tug  River  Coal  Operators  Association  and 
of  the  Winding  Gulf  Coal  Operators  Association.  Mr.  Wolfe 
was   previously   connected   with   Berwir.d-White   Fuel  Co. 

G.  G.  WOOD,  General  Manager  Sullivan  Coal  &  Coke  Co.. 
Sullivan.  West  Virginia,  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  Wood 
Coal   Co. 


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WISCONSIN 


WITH  a  climate  that  makes  fuel  consumption  in 
winter  time  not  a  matter  uf  choice  but  one  of 
necessity,   and    with   a    manufacturing   rank. 
baaed  on  the  value  of  its  products,  among  the  first  ten 

states  of  the  Tnion,  it  is  not  strange  that  Wisconsin 
should  lie  ninth  in  total  normal  coal  consumption  nor 
that  its  fuel  requirements  from  the  per  capita  and 
square  mile  basis  are  comfortably  above  the  average  for 
the  United  States  as  a  whole.  Producing  no  coal  her- 
self, the  state,  nevertheless,  is  not  only  a  worth  while 
buyer  of  the  coals  from  other  commonwealths  for- 
tunate enough  to  have  the  commodity'  of  commodities 
within  their  own  borders,  but  through  its  lake  porta  also 

serves  as  a  distributor  for  substantial  tonnages  of  east- 
earn  coal  moving  westward. 

In  1915  the  total  fuel  requirements  of  the  state,  ex- 
clusive of  railroad  and  steamship  consumption,  was  set 
at  9,382,249  tons  by  the  United  States  Geological  Sur- 
vey. Of  this  tonnage  1.7:50,000  tons  were  credited  to 
the  Pennsylvania  anthracite  fields.  Analysis  of  the 
bituminous  figures,  totaling  7,652,249  tons,  throws  an 
interesting  sidelight  upon  the  strength  of  the  western 
lake  markets  for  eastern  coals.  Despite  the  greater 
proximity  on  a  strictly  mileage  basis  to  the  Illinois 
fields,  over  (ill  per  cent,  of  the  coal,  other  than  the  an- 
thracite mentioned,  consumed  within  the  state  that  year 
was  received  via  the  Great  Lakes.  The  lake  tonnage 
was  nearly  four  times  that  furnished  by  Illinois.  In 
detiiil.  the  figures  were  as  follows:  Lake  tonnage, 
l.ss:s,ooO;  Illinois.  1,260,188;  Indiana,  128,190;  Ken- 
tucky, 379,644;  Ohio.  10,428;  Pennsylvania,  142,694; 
Virginia,  9,000;  West  Virginia,  839,195  tons.  The  per 
capita  consumption  was  3.34  tons  (2.64  bituminous  and 
.70  anthracite)   as  against  the  general  average  of  2.82 


tons.  The  square  mile  consumption  was  Ki7  tons.  4  1 
.tons  greater  than  the  average  for  the  country  as  a  whole. 
The  principal  dock  points  of  Wisconsin  are,  of  course, 
Superior  and  Milwaukee.  Statistics  in  connection  with 
'the  first  named  port  have  been  treatefl  with  those  of 
Dulutb,  reported  under  .Minnesota.  Milwaukee  sta- 
tistics, as  compiled  by  the  Milwaukee  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  show  the  following  situation  for  the  past 
five  years: 

Receipts.         1913.  1914.  1915.  191G.          1917. 

Lake    5,228,770  4,950,578  4,805,205  4,590,384  3,948,096 

Car   ferry...      322,708  158,004  212,183      359,824      238,191 

All-rail    308,785  250,852  193,157      240,174      987,613 


Total 


5.8C0.2C3  5,300,094  5,270,545  5,196,382  5,173,900 


The  anthracite  receipts  by  lake  for  the  above  years 
were  as  follows:  1913,  1,153,406  tons;  1914.  1,061,704; 
1915,  1,088,434;  1916,  853,217;  1917,  922,538  tons. 
Bituminous  receipts  were  as  follows:  1913,  4,075,364; 
1914.  3,888,874;  1915,  .3,776,771;  1916,  3,737,167; 
1917,  3,025,558  tons. 

Shipments  via  rail  and  lake  from  Milwaukee  during 
the  same  period  have  been  as  follows:  1913,  1,000,599; 
1914,  1,468,250;  1915,  1,656,396;  1916,  1.417.543; 
1917,  973,235  tons.  Deducting  these  figures  from  the 
receipts  for  the  same  years  and  the  tonnage  consumed 
or  held  in  storage  at  Milwaukee  during  the  periods  in 
question  would  he  as  follows:  1913.  4,859,664  tons; 
1914,  3,891,844;  1915.  3,614,149;  1916,  3,778.839; 
1917,  1,200,665.  These  figures  include  not  only  the 
coke  and  gas  operations  at  the  Cream  City,  but.  pre- 
sumably, also  take  into  account  railroad  and  vessel  fuel 
consumption. 


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COAL   MEN    OF   AMERICA 


RICH  AH  I)  W.  HOUGHTON,  Milwaukee,  Wixeonxin. 

President  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was 
born  in  Milwaukee  in  1869  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-five  years.  This  company  has  a  number  of  yards 
at  different  points  and  is  one  of  the  largest  and  most  suc- 
cessful  in   this  section. 


ROSSITKR    H.    WILBUR,   Waukesha,    Wisconsin, 

Vice  President  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.,  Waukesha,  Wisconsin, 
was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  September  30,  1869,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  with  this  company  ever  since 
he  was  twenty  years  of  age. 


GEORGE  H.  WILBUR,  Waukesha,  Wisconsin, 

General  Manager  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.,  Waukesha,  Wisconsin, 
was  born  in  Unadilla  Forks,  New  York,  in  1839  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Wilbur  is  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer  cf  all  the  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.'s  retail 
yards. 


HAWLEY    W.    WILBUR,   Waukesha,    Wisconsin, 

Yard  Manager  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.,  Waukesha,  Wisconsin, 
was  born  in  Burlington,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Wilbur  takes  an  active  part  in 
all  movements  for  the  betterment  of  civic  and  trade  con- 
ditions. 


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RAY  \\  I  I.HI  It,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin, 
With  the  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was 
born  in  Milwaukee  September  22,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  twenty  years,  the  entire  time  with  this 
company.  He  is  a  Past  President  of  the  Illinois  and  Wiscon- 
sin Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  and  a  popular  member 
of  the  coal  trade. 


SIDXKY    H.    Ili:\.mil\.  Milwaukee.    Wlxcmmlii, 

President  S.  H.  Benjamin  Fuel  &  Supply  Co..  209  Grand  Ave.. 
.Milwaukee.  Wisconsin,  is  a  native  of  Milwaukee,  having  been 
born  there  on  March  21,  1882.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  ten  years  and  has  many  friends  in  the  trade. 


BDWABD  CALLAWAY,  Milwaukee,  Wi«r<»n»in. 
President  Callaway  Fuel  Co.,  Mllwaukei  ,  was  born  in  Mil- 
waukee June  11),  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
nineteen  years  Mr.  Callaway  Is  a  member  of  the  Retail 
Ku.-I  Dealers'  Club  of  Milwaukee  and  a  well-known  mem- 
f   the   Milwaukee  coal   trade. 


CliAIUDNCIB    B.   PATRICK,    Milwaukee.    «i hmh. 

Vice  President  Callaway  Fuel  Co.,  Milwaukee,  was  born  In 
MaifiiKi".  Illinois,  December  28,  1874,  and  has  been  in  the 
Coal  business  live  years.  Mr.  Patrick  was  formerly  at  Rock- 
foid.  Illinois,  for  ('.  M,  Moderwell  &  Co.  In  1917  he  repre- 
sent. <l  the  National  Coal  Jobbers'  Association  at  Washing- 
tun. 


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JOSKI'H  KAIJKMACHEH,  Milwaukee,  WixpoiiMin, 

Managing  Partner  of  F.  Wittig  &  Co.,  Milwaukee,  was  born 
in  St.  Marys,  "Wisconsin,  June  30,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-eight  years.  Mr.  Rademacher  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  Gross  Coal  Co.  and  Milwaukee 
Coal  Co.  He  is  President  of  the  Milwaukee  Fuel  Dealers' 
Social  Club  and  a  Director  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin 
Retail   Coal    Dealers'   Association. 


JOHN    A.  WITTIG,  Milwaukee,  \Y  ixcoiisin, 

Co-partner  F.  Wittig  &  Co..  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was 
born  in  Milwaukee  July  20,  1884,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Wittig  succeeded  his  father, 
Ferdinand  Wittig.  who  founded  this  company  in  1896  and 
died  in  190G.  whereupon  the  son  formed  a  partnership  with 
Joseph  Rademacher.  This  firm  specializes  in  charcoal,  sell- 
ing at   wholesale  and   retail. 


The  Milwaukee -Western  Fuel  Company 

Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 


The  Milwaukee-Western  Fuel  Company  was  in- 
corporated May  14,  1901.  From  a  comparatively 
small  beginning  its  growth  has  been  steady  until  it 
has  now  reached  the  point  where  3,000,000  tons  of 
coal  are  handled  over  its  docks  in  a  season. 

The  company  operates  eight  docks,  all  located  in 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  covering  an  area  of  about 
85  acres,  with  three  miles  of  waterfront  and  6% 
miles   of   railway   sidetracks. 

Equipment  of  the  most  modern  type  is  used  for 
the  unloading  of  boats  and  the  loading  of  cars,  and 
for  the  handling,  storing  and  preparation  of  coal. 

Twelve  boats  can  be  unloaded  at  one  time,  the 
unloading  rigs  having  a  capacity  of  40,000  tons  in 
ten  hours.     Car  loading  capacity  is  400  cars  a  day. 


To  properly  care  for  its  local  trade  the  company 
is  now  operating  a  large  fleet  of  motor  trucks  con- 
sisting of  thirty  5-ton  and  five  2-ton  trucks,  hav- 
ing disposed  of  all  of  its  teams. 

Early  in  January  of  this  year  the  general  offices 
of  the  company  were  moved  from  14  Grand  avenue 
to  large  and  modern  quarters  in  the  W'ells  Building 
where  it  occupies  the  entire  fourteenth  floor  and 
about  half  of  the  thirteenth  floor. 

Officers  of  the  company  are:  Edward  A.  Uhrig. 
President;  Alex  R.  Uhrig,  Vice  President;  Joseph  W. 
Simpson,  Vice  President,  in  charge  of  City  Sales; 
Alfred  Teller,  Vice  President,  in  charge  of  Country 
Sales;  William  F.  Ardern,  Vice  President  and  Gen- 
eral Superintendent;  Chester  Moody,  Treasurer; 
Edward  U.  Demmer,  Secretary. 


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ALFRED  TKI.I.KK.   Milwaukee.  YVixcoiiNin. 

Vice  President  Milwaukee-Western  Fuel  Co.,  Milwaukee, 
was  born  in  Sparta,  Wisconsin.  November  18,  1868,  and  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  H.  M.  Benjamin  Coal  Co.  Mr. 
Teller  has  a  wide  personal  acquaintance  among  retail  coal 
merchants    in    his    territory. 


CHARLES   DICKl.V    WEEKS,  Milwaukee,  WUronaln, 

Manager  of  the  Milwaukee  Solvay  Coke  Co.,  First  National 
Bank  Bldg.,  Milwaukee,  was  born  in  Covington,  Kentucky, 
February  6,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  Mr.  Weeks  is  also  Manager  of  Coal  Sales  and  Pur- 
chases of  the  Milwaukee  Coke  &  Gas  Co.,  Northwestern 
Iron  Co.,  the  Newport  Mining  Co.  and  Newport  Chemical 
Works,  Inc.,  and  Vice  President  of  Elkhorn  Piney  Coal 
Mining  Co.,  with  operations  at  Weeksbury.  Kentucky,  Pow- 
ellton  and  Stanaford,  West  Virginia,  and  the  St.  Clair  Coal 
Mining  Co.  with  operations  at  Eagle,  West  Virginia.  He 
was  six  years  with  the  Henry  F.  Weaver  Coal  Co. 


CHARLES    BECKER,    Milwaukee, 

President  Wisconsin  Coal  Co.,  with  of- 
fices in  the  Germania  Building.  Milwau- 
kee. Wisconsin,  was  born  in  .Milwaukee 
November  14,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the 
eoal  business  twenty  years.  Mr.  Becker 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Ka- 
nawha Fuel  &  Virginia  Coal  Co.  and 
left  these  Interests  to  form  his  present 
company  In  1907.  He  is  the  eldest  all- 
rail    shipper    in    Milwaukee. 


AUGUST    J.    LAHOHOFF,    Milwaukee,    \\  l~e»n«lii. 

President  and  Treasurer  North  Avenue  Fuel  Co.,  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Jefferson.  Wisconsin,  October  29, 
1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-two  yeare. 
Before  engaging  in  the  coal  business  Mr.  Laughoff  was  in 
the  grocery  business.  lie  was  instrumental  in  organizing 
the  Milwaukee  Coal  Dealers'  Club  in  1W04  and  was  its  Presi- 
dent for  three  years,  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors.  Mr.  1  .itnghoff  lias  also  been  active  in  the  Illinois 
and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal   Dealers'  Association. 


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C.  S.  DODGE,  Monroe,  WlKeonsin, 

President  C.  S.  Dodge  &  Son,  Monroe,  Wisconsin,  was  born 
in  Fulton,  Wisconsin,  July  31,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the 
lumber  and  coal  business  thirty-six  years.  Mr.  Dodge  was 
doing  a  coal  business  in  Nebraska  from  1887  to  1891,  when 
C.  S.  Dodge  &  Son  and  the  Dodge  Lumber  Co.  were  formed 
at  Monroe,  "where  they  now  operate  two  yards.  He  was 
also  President  of  the  Dodge  Lumber  Co  until  recently,  when 
he  sold  his  interest  to  his  son  and  sister,  Laroy  Dodge  and 
Flora  (Dodge)  Drach.  He  has  been  Treasurer  of  the 
Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for  a 
number  of  years. 


WISCONSIN  —  Milwaukee 


PERCY  BRAMAN,  SH.,  President  and  Treasurer  Braman 
Coal  Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Oswego,  New 
York,  in  1863  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty 
years.  Mr.  Braman  is  also  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Milwaukee  Coal  Co.  He  has  served  as  President  of  the  Re- 
tail Coal  Dealers'  Association  of  Milwaukee.  He  was  for- 
merly connected  with  the  H.  M.  Benjamin  Coal  Co.,  Hatfield 
Coal  Co.  and  Milan  Coal  Co.,  and  has  been  Deputy  Commis- 
sioner of  Public  Works  of  Milwaukee  for  the  past  four 
years,    also   having   been   an    alderman    for    several   terms. 

PERCY  V.  BRAMAN,  Secretary  Braman  Coal  Co.,  Milwau- 
kee, Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Milwaukee  December  3.  1885. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Braman 
is  also  Manager  of  the  Milwaukee  Coal  Co.  He  was  formerly 
connected   with  the  Kanawha  Fuel  Co. 

HERBERT  I..  CONGER,  General  Sales  Agent  Central  Coal 
Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  with  offices  in  the  Pabst  Build- 
ing, was  born  at  Manchester,  Iowa,  February  25,  1860,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Conger 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co. 
and  Milwaukee-Western  Fuel  Co. 

HENRY  COOK,  JR.,  Manager  Henry  Cook  Co.,  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Milwaukee  January  4,  1894,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years.  This  business 
was  established  by  Mr.  Cook's  father  twenty-five  years  ago. 


Gl'Y  F.  GREGG,  formerly  General  Sales  Agent  Milwaukee 
Gas  Light  Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Milwau- 
kee June  27,  1869,  and  was  in  the  coke  business  twelve 
years,  until  his  resignation  June  1,  1918,  to  become  actively 
identified  with  the  firm  of  Morris  F.  Fox  &  Co.,  a  large 
bond  investment  house  in  Milwaukee,  of  which  he  has  been 
elected  Vice  President.  He  was  formerly  connected  with 
the  Metropolitan  Coke  Co.,  became  associated  with  the 
Milwaukee  Gas  Light  Co.  in  1905  as  Manager  of  the  Coke 
Department,  and  four  years  later  was  appointed  Sales  Man- 
ager, in  which  position  he  Is  succeeded  by  R.  O.  Jasperson, 
who  has  been  connected  with  the  company  for  the  last  five 
years  as  Advertising  Manager. 

ADAM  GROSS,  President  Gross  Coal  Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  Milwaukee  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  thirty  years. 

MORTON  M.  HOWIE,  traveling  salesman  for  the  Phila- 
delphia &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  out  of  Milwaukee.  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  Vernon,  Wisconsin,  January  31.  1868, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-two  years.  Mr. 
Howie  was  formerly  connected  with  the  North  Western  Fuel 
Co.  and  D.  W.   Howie. 

FRKI)  E.  JENS,  Secretary-Treasurer  Kipp  Fuel  Co.,  Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  July  13, 
1887,  and  has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

EDWIN  W.  LANGHOFF,  Vice  President  and  Secretary 
North  Avenue  Fuel  Co..  Milwaukee.  Wisconsin,  is  a  son  of 
A.  J.  Langhoff.  He  was  born  in  Chicago.  Illinois,  Febru- 
ary 1,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

EDMUND  T.  MoDONALD,  Sales  Agent  Philadelphia  & 
Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was  born 
in  Milwaukee  July  7.  1861.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
thirty-two  years.  Mr.  McDonald  was  formerly  connected 
with  F.  R.  Buell  &  Co.  and  was  Skout  of  the  Order  KoKoal. 
He  has  a  wide  acquaintance  and  stands  high  in  the  trade. 

ADAM  R.  MUTH  of  Jacob  Muth  &  Co.,  Milwaukee.  Wiscon- 
sin, is  a  native  of  Milwaukee,  born  October  15,  1885,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

JACOB  MUTH,  President  and  Treasurer  Jacob  Muth  &  Co.. 
Milwaukee.  Wisconsin,  "was  born  in  Germany  December  5, 
1854.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years. 
Mr.  Muth  was  formerly  associated  with  William  Callaway  & 
Co.  and  is  a  Director  of  the  Fuel  Dealers'  Social  Club  of  Mil- 
waukee. 

J.  E.  MI  Til  (MRS.),  co-partner  of  Jacob  Muth  &  Co.,  Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Germany  April  16,  1862.  and 
has  been  actively  engaged  in  this  company  for  fourteen 
years. 

CARI,  G.  P.VUI.I,  General  Sales  Manager  Wisconsin  Coal  & 
Dock  Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Davenport. 
Iowa,  in  1874  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty 
years.  Mr.  Pauli  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Coal  &  Supply  Co. 

JAMES  PHELPS.  Secretary-Treasurer  B.  F.  Berry  Coal  Co., 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was   born   at   Galland,   Iowa,   April    1, 

1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years.  Mr.  Phelps  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Phila- 
delphia &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Co.,  Ohio  Coal  Co.,  Western 
Coal  &  Coke  Co..  Peninsular  Coal  Co.,  Standard  Coal  Co..  and 
King  Knob  Coal  Co. 

REINHOLD  SCHMIDT.  Treasurer  North  Side  Coal  Co..  Mil- 
waukee,    Wisconsin,    was    born     in    Germany     in     November, 

1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one  years. 

W.  J.  SUTTON.  President  and  Treasurer  W.  J.  Sutton  Fuel 
&  Cartage  Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-one  years.  Mr.  Sutton  was  a  Director  of  the 
Milwaukee  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for  three  years. 

EDWARD  A.  I'HRIG,  President  Milwaukee-Western  Fuel 
Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Milwaukee  March  26, 
1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty  years.  Mr. 
Lhrig  was  formerly  connected  with  the  B.  Fhrig  Fuel  Co. 
He  is  highly  respected  in  his  community  and  is  a  prominent 
leader  in  the  coal  trade. 


WISCONSIN 


JOHN  MILTON  FISKE.  JR.,  Sales  Agent  Milwaukee  office 
of  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Sales  Co.,  was  born  in  Toledo,  Ohio, 
April  30,  1877,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven- 
teen years. 

EDWIN  A.  FLEMMING,  proprietor  E.  A.  Flemming  Coal 
Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Iron  Ridge,  Wiscon- 
sin, May  22,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen 
years.  Mr.  Flemming  was  formerly  associated  with  J.  H. 
Pauly  and  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Fuel  Dealers'  Social 
Club  for  the  past  six  years. 


FREDERICK  C.  ARNOLD,  Manager  Arnold  Fuel  Co.,  Osii- 
kosh,  Wisconsin,  is  a  native  of  Oshkosh,  born  May  20.  1852. 
Mr.  Arnold  has  been  retailing  coal  for  twenty-six  years. 

JEROME  BAKER,  Manager  Whitewater  Lumber  Co., 
WThitewater,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Rockford,  Illinois,  No- 
vember 22,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty 
years.  Mr.  Baker  is  also  Vice  President  Rockford  Lumber  & 
Fuel  Co.  and  President  Whitewater  Commercial  &  Sav- 
ings Bank.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Minnesota 
Lumber  Co.  Mr.  Baker  is  highly  regarded  and  has  many 
friends  in  that  section. 


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GRORGH   S.    II A  l.l>\\  I N .   retail    coal    merchant   of   Kenoalia, 

Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Stanstead,  Canada.  .March  24.  1835, 
and  has  been  Barring  the  public  for  half  a  century  in  the 
capacity  of  retail  coalman.  He  operates  a  dock  in  connection 
with  his  coal  yard. 

BARKY  MEHRII.I.  BALDWHT,  son  of  George  S.  Baldwin, 
is  .Manager  for  his  father,  who  does  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Kenosha,  Wisconsin.  Mr.  Baldwin  was  born  in  Kenosha 
April  SO,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty- 
Seven    years. 

ItHHKM'K  KBimn.I,  BALDWIN,  grandson  of  George  S. 
Baldwin  of  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  and  acting  as  cashier  anil 
office  manager  for  him,  was  born  at  Kenosha  August  5.  1X90, 
and   has    been    In   the  coal    business  for   eight   years. 

STEPHEN  IJ.  HAI.I.IET.  President  and  Manager  Balliet 
Supply  Co.,  Appleton,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Appleton  in 
1885.  and   has   been   in   the  coal   business  four   years. 

H.  II  VKl.  \Mi:\T.  Manager  De  Pere  Co-Operative  Coal  Co., 
lie  Cere.  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Xew  London,  Wisconsin, 
February  24,  1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
fourteen    years. 

GBOHGB  r.  ItEEIH.E.  Manager  Beedle  Coal  Co.,  Beloit, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Roekton  Township  March  12,  1865, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 

(il'STAV  BESKE,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Atwater,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  Dodge  County,  Wisconsin,  February  24, 
1873,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

KH'HARI)  J.  RI.OEDEL,  proprietor  of  the  Bloedel  Fuel  Co., 
Fond  du  Lac.  Wisconsin,  was  born  October  4,  1856,  and  is  a 
native  of  Wisconsin.  Mr.  Bloedel  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twi  nty  vears  and  succeeds  his  father,  Henry 
Bloedel. 

WH.I.IVM  C.  BOIIEYSTEDT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Ar- 
cadia, Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Trempealeau,  Wisconsin, 
October  2,  1871).  and  has  been  retailing  coal  for  eleven  years. 

KKKD  BOSSERT,  proprietor  of  the  Bossert  Coal  Co.  of 
Grand  Rapids,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Hennepin  County, 
-Minnesota,  and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  fif- 
teen years.  Mr.  Bossert  has  a  very  modern,  well-equipped 
coal  yard. 

AI.IIEKT  H.  lilt  I  II H,  Secretary-Treasurer  Brehm  Bros. 
Co.,  retailers  at  Burlington,  Wisconsin,  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  forty-five  years.  Mr.  Brehm  is  interested  in 
the  coal  business  with  the  Wilbur  Lumber  Co.  of  Milwaukee, 
which  company  does  most  of  the  buying,  while  Brehm  Bros. 
at  i end  to  the  distribution.  The  firm  was  established  in 
1868  by  B.  Brehm,  his  father. 

GEORGE  T.  CAYSTII.E.  Treasurer  and  General  Manager 
Carrol]  Coal  Co.,  Racine.  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Sheboygan 
Falls,  Wisconsin,  December  13,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Caystile  was  formerly 
connected  with  E.  L.  Hedstrom  &  Co. 

EREI)  T.  CHITTENDEN,  Vice  President  Middleton  Lum- 
ber &  Fuel  Co..  Ripon.  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Ripon  in 
1883  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years. 

ED.  CLACK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Pittsville.  Wiscon- 
sin, was  born  in  England  November  20,  1861,  and  has  been 
doing  a  retail  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

BORERS'  ii.  CLARK.  President  Clark  Grain  &  Fuel  Co., 
Chippewa  Falls.  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Beloit,  Wisconsin, 
August  15.  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty- 
seven  years.  Mr.  Clark  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  Clark  &  Taylor. 

HENRY  II.  coi.kmw.  retailer,  in  business  at  Chippewa 
Falls.  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Rochester,  New  York,  August 
5.  1847,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  a  quarter  of  a 
century. 

■It  MEM  M.  CI  SICK,  Manager  Cusick.  Richards  &  Roberts, 
Oregon,  Wisconsin,  was  born  In  Oregon  October  15,  1857, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Cuslch  was  President  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail 
Coal  Dealers'  Association  for  two  terms  and  member  Board 
of  Directors  for  eight  years.  He  Is  one  of  Wisconsin's  lead- 
ing retailers. 

H.  G.  DAKDIS.  President  Dardis  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co.,  Bur- 
lington, Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  Jan- 
uary I,  1856,  and  has  been  doing  a  retail  coal  business  for 
thirty    years. 

61V  V.  DEHI\<;.  retailer.  In  business  at  Columbus,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  Columbus  September  28,  1872,  and  has 
been    in    the    coal    business    twenty-one  years. 

J.  E.  mil  l.K  of  Castle  &  Doyle,  Madison,  Wisconsin,  was 
born  in  Madison  In  April,  1875,  and  has  been  In  the  coal 
business  for  twenty  years.  J.  H.  Castle  is  the  other  member 
of  the  firm,  which  Is  one  of  the  largest  retail  concerns  In  the 
state. 


J.  H.  Dl'.VNE.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Cedarburg,  Wiscon- 
sin, was  born  March  13.  1849,  In  Cedarburg  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  ten  years. 

PRANK  M.  Ill  IIKIOi:,  proprietor  F.  M.  Durkee  &  Son,  Lake 
Geneva,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Heuvelton,  New  York,  in 
1854  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  almost  forty  years. 
He  is  one  of  the  best  known  retailers  in  southern  Wisconsin. 

C.  L.  Dl'VAI,!,,  Secretary-Treasurer  Kewaunee  Grain  Co., 
Kewaunee,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Kewaunee  February  8. 
1898,  and  has  been  handling  coal  at  retail  for  five  years.  He 
is  now  In  the  Service. 

H.  B.  EASTMAN,  Manager  Kastman  Lumber  Co.,  Platte- 
ville,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Georgetown  Wisconsin,  Octo- 
ber 17,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years. 

NATHAN  WALTER  ELLIS,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Sparta, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Mazomanie.  Wisconsin,  March  19, 
1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  two  years. 

EMU.  BKMBRT,  Superintendent  Lehigh  Valley  Coal  Sales 
Co.,  Superior,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Wyandotte,  Michi- 
gan, November  7,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Emraert  was  formerly  connected 
with  Coxe  Bros.  &  Co.,  Inc. 

C.  H.  FINTEL,  President  C.  H.  Fintel  Co.,  Genesee  Depot, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Blue  Grass,  Iowa,  in  1862  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Fintel  was 
Vice  President  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal 
Dealers'  Association  for  one  year  and  Treasurer  for  two 
years. 

YV.  G.  EISHER,  proprietor  of  the  Berlin  Produce  Co., 
Berlin.  Wisconsin,  was  born  July  26,  1888,  in  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, and  has  been   in   the  coal   business  for  two  years. 

MAURICE  I..  FITZGERALD,  President  Fitzgerald  &  Mc- 
Donald, Tomahawk,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Oshkosh,  Wis- 
consin, March  1,  1866,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
eight   years. 

CHARLES  E.  FLOYD,  Manager  C.  E.  Floyd  &  Sons,  Eureka, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  November  23,  1855,  at  Aurora,  Wiscon- 
sin, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

ALEXANDER  W.  FLLEGEL,  General  Superintendent  of 
Docks,  Island  Creek  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Superior,  Wisconsin, 
was  born  in  Germany  February  4,  1881,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Fluegel  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  Jones  &  Adams  Co.  and  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co. 

HARVEY  B.  GAINES,  Manager  C.  B.  Gaines'  Sons  Co., 
Bristol,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Bristol  December  3,  1878. 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years, 
the   entire   time   with  above   company. 

JOHN  L.  GASPAR,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Waukesha, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  New  York  City  May  19,  1837,  and  is 
of  French  descent,  his  parents  having  been  natives'  of 
France.  They  were  married  in  New  York  City.  Mr.  Gaspar 
came  to  Waukesha  September  3,  1841,  and  has  -been  in 
the  coal  business  forty-five  years.  Mr.  Gaspar  was  for- 
merly connected  with  Kendick  &  Gaspar,  Gaspar  &  LeClear 
and    Gaspar    &    Lyons. 

CI.EVE  D.  GATES,  Secretary-Treasurer  Caldwell  &  Gates 
Co.,  Rio,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Maine,  New  York,  March  30, 

1866,  and    has   been   In    the    coal    business   for    twenty    years. 
This  firm  operates  eight  yards. 

CHARLES  E.  GEORGE,  Manager  C.  E.  George  Co.,  suc- 
cessors to  L.  Stark  Co.,  Weyauwega,  Wisconsin,  was  born 
in  Burnips  Corners,  Michigan,  December  14,  1870,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 

JOHN  YV.  GIIISON,  Superintendent  North  Western  Fuel  Co., 
Washburn,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Bryn  Mawr,  Wales,  No- 
vember 28,  1871.  Mr.  Gibson  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-two  years,  the  entire  time  with  the  above  com- 
pany. 

WILL  MeCLl'HE,  JR.,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Prairie  du 
Chlen,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Prairie  du  Chien  May  24, 
1879,  and  has   been   in   the  coal  business  for  three   years. 

CHARLES  II.  GITTNER,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Glttner 
Coal  &  Supply  Co..  Waukesha.  Wisconsin,  was  born  In 
Waukesha  November  15.  1897.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness a  year. 

HENRY  L.  GITTNER,  President  Glttner  Coal  &  Supply  Co., 
Waukesha.    Wisconsin,    was    born    in    Waukesha   January    26, 

1867,  and  has  been   In   the  coal  business  twenty-ono  years. 

MRS.  1,11, 1, IAN  I.  GITTNER,  Vice  President  Glttner  Coal 
£  Supply  Co.,  Waukesha.  Wisconsin,  was  born  In  Waukesha 
in  1871  and  has  been  Interested  in  the  coal  business  fifteen 
years. 

WALTER  E.  GI.EASOX,  Secretary  and  General  Manager 
Consumers  Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Portage,  Wisconsin,  was  born 
at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  January  17,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  eight  years.  Mr.  Oleason,  before  coming  with 
this  company,  was  with  the  Brittingham  &  Hixon  Lumber 
Co.,   North   Star  Lumber  Co.   and   Walker  Lumber  Co. 


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FRANK  E.  f.KEESi,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Fort  Atkinson, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Alfred,  New  York,  May  23,  1862,  and 
has  been   retailing  coal   for  ten   years. 

ALAIS  GROSS,  Secretary-Treasurer  Gross  &  Jacobs  Co., 
Stevens  Point,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Kelhausen,  France, 
January  21,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty-five  years. 

VIVIAN  HARVEY,  President  V.  Harvey  &  Son,  Platteville, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Benton,  Wisconsin,  in  1856  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

urn.  \M>  C.  HARVEY,  Secretary-Treasurer  V.  Harvey  & 
Son,  Platteville,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Highland,  Wiscon- 
sin, in  1888  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  seven 
years. 

WILLIAM  H.  HAWKINS,  General  Sales  Agent  C.  Reiss 
Coal  Co.,  Sheboygan,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Litchfield,  Illi- 
nois, June  15,  1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Hawkins  was  formerly  connected 
with  the  Sunday  Creek  Coal  Co.  and  has  many  friends  in  the 
coal   trade. 

WILLAHD  S.  HKDDI.IOS,  Secretary-Treasurer  and  General 
Manager  Brittingham  &  Hixon  Lumber  Co.  and  Heddles 
Lumber  Co.  of  Madison,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Edgerton, 
Wisconsin  January  17,  1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness  twenty-nine   years. 

CHRISTIAN"  HENNINGSEN,  retailer  of  Oakfield,  Wiscon- 
sin, was  born  at  Nakskov,  Denmark,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  twenty-three  years. 

CHARLES  H.  HILL,  Manager  Beloit  Lumber  Co.,  Beloit, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Washington,  Maine,  November  12, 
1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  Before 
engaging  in  the  coal  business  Mr.  Hill  was  in  the  shoe 
business  sixteen  years,  fourteen  years  as  a  traveling  sales- 
man. He  is  one  of  the  Directors  of  the  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association,  and  this  com- 
pany, which  does  a  large  wholesale  and  retail  business, 
is  a  branch  of  the  Rockford  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co.  of  Rock- 
ford,   Illinois. 

PETER  J.  HOFFMAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Black  River 
Falls,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Hixton,  Wisconsin,  February 
10,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

CHARLES  E.  HOOK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Cumberland, 
Wisconsin,  "was  born  at  Independence,  Iowa,  December  8, 
1874,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three  years. 

ALBERT  HOLLISTBR  of  Delavan,  Wisconsin,  proprietor 
of  A.  Hollister  &  Sons,  Williams  Bay,  Wisconsin,  was  born 
in  Williams  Bay  June  15,  1854.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness thirty-five  years.  Mr.  Hollister  formerly  did  business  at 
Manchester,  Iowa,  under  the  firm  name  Hollister  Lumber  Co. 
When  the  old  Northwestern  Coal  Association  was  formed  at 
Minneapolis  he  was  its  first  President  and  held  office  for 
three  years,  and  is  at  present  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Delavan. 
Mr.  Hollister  has  retired  from  active  work,  his  sons  having 
taken  up  his  interests. 

F.  W.  Hl'HLBlT,  Secretary-Treasurer  F.  Hurlbut  Co., 
Green  Bay,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Green  Bay  in  1880  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years. 

C.  W.  IRISH,  well-known  retail  coal  merchant  of  Clinton, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Clinton  August  1,  1850,  and  has 
been   in   the   coal   business   since    1900. 

PAUL  F.  IRWIN  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  the  Struck  & 
Irwin  Fuel  Co.,  Madison,  Wisconsin.  He  has  been  seventeen 
years  in  the  coal  business,  formerly  with  the  Milwaukee- 
Western  Fuel  Co.,  Hunter  W.  Finch  &  Co..  C.  Reiss  Coal  Co., 
and  Spring  Valley  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Farmersburg, 
Indiana,  August  10,  1877,  and  is  well  known  to  the  western 
retail   trade. 

DAVID  C.  JACKA,  President  Mineral  Point  Dray  &  Coal 
Co.,  Mineral  Point.  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Mineral  Point 
January  28,  1869,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  three 
years. 

ALDEN  O.  JOHNSON,  buyer  for  J.  B.  Johnson  &  Sons, 
Neenah,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Waupaca,  Wisconsin,  June 
28,  1885,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four  years. 

ELMER  S.  JOHNSTON,  General  Manager  Johnston  Fuel  & 
Warehouse  Co.,  Baraboo,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Ironton, 
Wisconsin,  August  29.  1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  H. 
M.  Johnston  Lumber  Co. 

JULIUS  KNOBLAUCH,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Prescott, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  New  Trier,  Minnesota.  June  29,  1860, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years. 

BENJAMIN  EMORY  KELLOGG,  Owner  and  General  Man- 
ager H.  Kellogg  &  Son,  Oconomowoc,  Wise  »nsin,  was  born 
in  Oconomowoc  March  24,  1867,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  thirty-three  years.  Mr.  Kellogg  is  a  former  Vice 
President  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association. 


JACOB  BERNARD  LAIN,  retailer,  in  business  at  Kiel, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  August  5,  1863,  in  Germantown,  Wis- 
consin, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr. 
Laun  is  connected  with  Laun  Bros,  at  Elkhart  Lake,  Wis- 
consin, A.  A.  Laun  Co.  at  New  Holstein,  Wisconsin,  and  Laun 
Bros.,    Wausaukee,    Wisconsin. 

ELMER  I.  LINDOW,  President  West  Allis  Fuel  &  Supply 
Co.,  West  Allis,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Manawa,  Wisconsin, 
November  29.  1878,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten 
years.  Mr.  Lindow  was  formerly  connected  with  Meigs  & 
Lindow,  Inc.  J.  A.  Raniszewski  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of 
the   company. 

T.  F.  MACKMILLER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Iron  River, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Watertown,  Wisconsin,  December  17, 

1861,  and  has  been  retailing  coal  for  eighteen  years. 

JOHN  MALONE,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at  Hammond, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Cylon,  Wisconsin,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected    with    Keyes    &    Malone. 

CHARLES  LELAND  MARSTON,  President  Marston  Bros. 
Co..  Appleton,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Hardwick,  Vermont, 
February  5,  1860,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty- 
five  years.  Mr.  Marston  is  a  charter  member  and  organizer 
of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion and  was  on  its  Executive  Committee  for  many  years. 

JOHN  I.  MAYER,  Sales  Agent  Gross  Coal  Co.,  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Menasha,  Wisconsin,  November  17, 
1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-two  years. 
Mr.  Mayer  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Lehigh  Valley 
Coal  Sales  Co. 

ALEXANDER  A.  MeDONELL,  Manager  Tarbox  &  McDon- 
ell,  Ashland,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Alexandria,  Ontario, 
August  17,  1858,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twenty  years.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Lake 
Superior    Coal   Co. 

EDW.  M.  MeDOXALD,  Manager  and  Treasurer  Fitzgerald 
&  McDonald  of  Tomahawk,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  De  Pere, 
Wisconsin,  August  13,  1876,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness eight  years. 

JAMES  H.  MEADE,  proprietor  Iron  County  Lumber  &  Fuel 
Co.,  Hurley,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Greenland,  Michigan, 
August  17,  1872,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight 
years. 

BLASE  W.  MEIDL,  proprietor  Whitelaw  Lumber  Yards, 
Whitelaw,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Franklin  August  12,  1878, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen  years. 

WILLIAM  W.  MENZIES,  proprietor  of  Plowright  &  Men- 
zies,  Janesville.  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Rock  Prairie  March 
22,   1872,  and  nas  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve  years. 

H.  L.  MEYER,  proprietor  of  H.  L.  Meyer  &  Co.,  Hilbert, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Kiel,  Wisconsin,  June  3,  1879,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  Mr.  Meyer  is 
also  interested  in  the  Sherwood  Lumber  Co.  of  Sherwood, 
Wisconsin.  He  is  a  former  member  of  the  Membership  Com- 
mittee of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers 
Association. 

HERBERT  O.  MEYERS,  part  owner  in  Meyers  &  Schal- 
lert  Lumber  Co.,  Johnson  Creek,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at 
Verona,  Wisconsin,  in  1864,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Meyers  resides  at  Ev- 
ansville,    Wisconsin. 

E.  L.  MILLS,  senior  member  of  Crump  &  Mills,  Lake  Mills, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Whitewater,  Wisconsin.  February  9, 

1862,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years. 
He  was  connected  with  Hubbs  &  Mills  from  1893  to  1910. 

FERDINAND  C.  MINTZLAFF,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Grafton,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Grafton  January  20,  1864, 
and   has  been  in   the   retail   coal   business  eighteen   years. 

WILLIAM  C.  MITCHELL,  President  and  Treasurer  Port 
Washington  Fuel  Co.,  Port  Washington,  Wisconsin,  was  born 
in  Milwaukee  in  March,  1871,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Mitchell  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  North  Western  Fuel  Co.,  D.  W.  Howie  and 
Geo.    S.   Eastman. 

C.  F.  MOHR.  retail  coal  merchant  of  Portage,  Wisconsin, 
was  born  in  Germany  December  31,  1845.  Mr.  Mohr  has  been 
doing  a  retail  coal  business  for  thirty  years. 

B.  A.  MORGAN,  proprietor  of  the  Morgan  Co.,  Hurley, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Canada  in  1878  and  has  been  retail- 
ing coal  for  ten  years. 

V.  L.  MORISETTE,  Manager  Marion  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co., 
Marion,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Wausau,  Wisconsin,  July  21, 
1882,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  ten  years.  Mr. 
Morisette  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Heddles  Lum- 
ber Co. 


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OLOF  J.  OLSON.  Manager  Cambridge  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co., 
Cambridge,  Wisconsin,  was  born  April  16,  1855.  in  Cambridge 
and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  about  twenty  years.  Mr. 
Olson  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Cambridge  Lumber 
Co. 

R.  L.  PAXKKATZ,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Menasha,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  Menasha  March  21.  1892,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  two  years.  He  was  formerly  asso- 
ciated with  W.  W.  Pankratz. 

PBTER  N.  PETERSON,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Amherst, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Norway  May  1,  1850,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years.  He  has  served  as  a 
Director  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association. 

CHRIS  J.  POM  M  EH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Waupaca,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  Denmark,  April  10,  1869,  and  has  been 
in   the  coal  business  fifteen  years. 

P.  A.  RICHARDS,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Durand,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  New  York  in  1854  and  has  been  retailing 
coal   for  twenty  years. 

MARTIN  J.  ROACH,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Greenleaf 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Chilton.  Wisconsin,  December  16, 
1S64,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

BEN'  H.  RODERICK,  proprietor  of  the  Roderick  Lumber 
Co.,  Brodhead.  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Brodhead  in  1883  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  eleven  years.  Mr.  Roderick 
is  also  owner  of  the  Juda  Lumber  &  Fuel  Co..  Juda,  Wiscon- 
sin, a  branch  yard. 

\v.  R.  HI  LAM),  retailer,  in  business  at  Bangor.  Wisconsin, 
was  born  in  New  York  December  13,  1861,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  for   five   years. 

A.  H.  RISCH  &  SON  CO.,  doing  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Reedsville,  Wisconsin,  have  been  in  the  coal  business  twelve 
years. 

A.  H.  SAl  \DEHS,  Manager  T.  A.  Saunders  &  Son,  Milton, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Walworth,  Wisconsin,  September  4, 
1880,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

TRUMAN  A.  SAUNDERS,  proprietor  of  T.  A.  Saunders  & 
Son,  Milton,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Berlin.  New  York,  Janu- 
ary 4,  1844,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  at  the  same 
location  twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Truman  is  a  charter  mem- 
ber  of   the  Wisconsin   Lumber   Dealers'   Association. 

WILL,  H.  SCHALLERT,  President  and  General  Manager 
Meyers  &  Schallert  Lumber  Co.,  Johnson  Creek,  Wiscon- 
sin, was  born  at  Watertown,  Wisconsin,  December  10,  1876, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twelve  years. 

QBOBGB  SCHWEIGER.  proprietor  Beaver  Dam  Wood  Co., 
Beaver  Dam,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Beaver  Dam  April  28, 
1866,  and  has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

'i  ORGE  W.  SHEPHERD  of  Shepherd  Bros.,  Platteville. 
Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Platteville  March  17,  1859,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

THOMAS  \.  SHEPHERD  of  Shepherd  Bros.,  retailers  at 
Platteville,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Platteville  April  28, 
1861,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  eight  years. 

J.  I'.  SHERIDAN",  retail  coal  merchant  of  Kendall,  Wis- 
consin, was  horn  at  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  November  19,  1859, 
and   has   been   in   the   coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

AUGUST  SIEEEHT,  President  and  Manager  Aug.  Siefert 
Hardware  Co.,  Reedsburg,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Germany 
August  14,  1855,  and  has  been  handling  coal  thirty-five 
years.  He  was  Postmaster  under  President  Harrison,  mem- 
ber of  the  Library  Board  many  years,  and  is  now  serving 
his   third   term  as   Mayor  of   Reedsburg. 

BURTON  E.  SKINNER,  proprietor  of  the  Star  Coal  Co., 
Belolt,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Beloit  December  20,  1872, 
and  has  been   In  the  coal  business  eleven  years. 

FRANCIS  M.  SPELLMAN,  proprietor  F.  M.  Spellman  Fuel 
Co.,  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Rlpon,  Wisconsin,  No- 
vember 28,  1881.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  five 
years.  His  yard  is  very  modern  and  well  equipped.  Before 
going  into  business  for  himself  Mr.  Spellman  was  associated 
with    Louis   Schneider   for   two   years. 


CHARLES  HENRY  STEVENS,  retailer  of  Omro.  Wiscon- 
sin, was  born  at  Shawano,  Wisconsin,  January  30,  1857,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty -eight  years.  Mr. 
Stevens   was   with   O'Connor   *   Stevens   for   one    year. 

JAS.  F.  SULLIVAN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Phillips.  Wis- 
consin, is  a  native  of  Lansing,  Michigan,  born  there  Sep- 
tember 24,  1870,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  four 
years. 

ULYSSES  S.  SWANK,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Adell,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  the  town  of  Sherman,  Sheboygan  Coun- 
ty, Wisconsin,  December  25,  1868,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business   three   years. 

JOHN  G.  THOMAS,  senior  member  of  J.  G.  Thomas  &  Son, 
Dodgeville,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Wales.  Great  Britain, 
February  15,  1854,'  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
twelve  years. 

ROY  J.  THOMAS,  junior  member  of  J.  G.  Thomas  &  Son, 
Dodgeville,  Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Barneveld,  Wisconsin, 
December  26,  1882. 

JOHN  HENRY  TIMM,  President  J.  H.  Timm  Co.,  Plymouth, 
Wisconsin,  was  born  In  Winooska,  Wisconsin,  June  4.  1858, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr.  Timm 
was  formerly  connected  with  Huson  Bros.  &  Timm  Co.  He 
is  a  charter  member  of  the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Retail 
Coal    Dealers'    Association. 

JAS.  A.  UROUHART,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Oconto,  Wis- 
consin, was  born  in  Canada  in  1863  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  fifteen  years. 

WILLIAM  P.  WALSH,  proprietor  Standard  Ice  &  Fuel  Co., 
Superior,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Ireland  April  20,  1866,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten  years. 

FRED  MASON  WATTLES,  Secretary  and  Manager  of  Sales 
Interstate  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Green  Bay,  Wisconsin,  was  born 
in  Towanda,  Pennsylvania,  August  21,  1882,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Wattles  is  also 
a  stockholder  in  several  West  Virginia  and  Ohio  mining 
companies.  He  was  formerly  connected  with  the  Rockhill 
Iron  &  Coal  Co.,  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Marine  Coal  Co.,  Wat- 
tles-Fisher Coal  Co.,  and  Wattles  Rail  &  Dock  Co. 

GEORGE  MOSCHIP  WATTLES,  Secretary  and  Sales  Man- 
ager Interstate  Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Green  Bay,  Wisconsin,  was 
born  January  28,  1892,  in  Denver,  Colorado,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  seven  years.  He  was  formerly  connected 
With  the  Wattles-Fisher  Coal  Co.  and  the  Wattles  Rail  & 
Dock  Co.  and  was  North  Western  Sales  Agent  for  the  Inter- 
state Coal  &  Dock  Co.  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  until  De- 
cember, 1917,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  main  office 
at   Green    Bay,    Wisconsin,   in   his   present   capacity. 

DAVID  R.  WILLIAMS,  senior  partner  of  Williams  &  Da- 
vies,  Cambria,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Wales.  Great  Britain, 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  twenty-two  years. 
Mr.  Williams  was  formerly  connected  with  Williams  &  Bob- 
erts. 

W.  G.  WOHLFEIL,  Manager  Walker  Lumber  Co..  Colum- 
bus, Wisconsin,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  seven  years. 
Mr.   Wohlfeil  bought  the  interests  of  Scoular  &  Lawrence. 

ALVIN  F.  RO*E,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Monroe,  Wiscon- 
sin, is  a  native  of  Monroe,  born  July  5,  1858.  Mr.  Rote  has 
been  retailing  coal  for  fifteen  years. 

MABEL  WOI.KE,  Secretary  Fitzgerald  &  McDonald.  Tom- 
ahawk, Wisconsin,  was  born  In  Tomahawk  July  4.  1892,  and 
has  been  interested  in  the  coal  business  eight  years. 

YV.  M.  WORKMAN,  Secretary  De  Pere  Co-Operative  Coal 
Co.,  West  De  Pere,  Wisconsin,  was  born  in  Ripon.  Wisconsin, 
December  13,  1850,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  ten 
years. 

PETER  J.  YER1.Y,  Secretary  Carglll  Coal  Co..  I.airosse. 
Wisconsin,  was  born  at  Braidwood,  Illinois,  October  6.  1872, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-four  years. 
Mr.  Yerly  was  formerly  connected  with  the  General  Wil- 
mington Coal  Co.,  Park  County  Coal  Co.,  Buchanan  Coal  Co. 
and  William   Maltby. 


489 


WYOMING 


THE  ESTIMATED  tonnage  of  coal  in  the  ground 
in  Wyoming  exceeds  that  of  any  other  state  in 
the  Union  with  the  possible  exception  of  North 
Dakota.  This  is  the  striking  statement  made  by  the 
United  States  Geological  Survey.  The  coal  reserves 
of  Wyoming,  moreover,  are  superior  to  those  of  the  Da- 
kota claimant  for  first  honors  in  that,  while  the  North 
Dakota  deposits  are  almost  entirely  lignitic,  the  coal 
bearing  formations  of  Wyoming  range  from  sub-bitu- 
minous to  a  medium  grade  of  bituminous  coal.  The 
unmined  tonnage,  estimated  at  424,000,000,000  tons,  is 
attributed  to  the  large  number  of  coal  bearing  forma- 
tions in  the  state,  the  great  number  and  thickness  of  the 
beds — one  in  the  southwestern  part  of  the  state  is  90 
feet — and  the  size  of  the  coal  fields  which  underlie 
about  half  the  area  of  Wyoming. 

The  Powder  River  field,  which  lies  in  the  basin  be- 
tween the  Black  Hills  and  the  Bighorn  Mountains  and 
extends  from  the  North  Platte  Kiver  to  the  Montana 
state  line,  is  the  largest  of  the  districts  now  under  ex- 
ploitation. This  field  contains  approximately  15,000 
square  miles,  of  which  at  least  11,000  square  miles  are 
known  to  contain  beds  of  workable  thickness.  This  field 
furnishes  about  "20  per  cent,  of  the  production  of  the 
state.  The  principal  operations  are  at  Sheridan,  Mon- 
arch and  Diet/!  in  Sheridan  County,  and  at  Cambria  in 
Weston  County. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  present  productive  activity, 
however,  the  Powder  River  field  is  outranked  by  the 
Green  River.  This  field,  lying  in  the  southwestern  part 
of  the  state,  contains  4,800  square  miles  of  territory 
known  to  contain  workable  coal  and  approximately 
1,200  square  miles  believed  to  lie  underlaid,  at  least  par- 
tially, with  coal  of  workable  thickness.  There  are  also 
20.000  square  miles  in  this  field  in  which  the  coal-bear- 
ing formations  are  under  such  heavy  cover  that  ulti- 
mate recovery  is  considered  doubtful.  Sweetwater 
County  is  the  center  of  the  mining  operations  in  this 
field ;  it  is  the  home  of  the  Rock  Springs  coal.  Opera- 
tions are  also  carried  on  in  Carbon  County.  According 
to  the  latest  detailed  figures  available,  Sweetwater 
County  contributes  about  40  per  cent,  of  the  production 
of  the  state. 

Second  in  importance  from  the  production  side  is  the 
Bear  River  region  in  Uinta     and     Lincoln     counties. 


which  produce  about  25  per  cent,  of  the  coal  mined  in 
Wyoming.  The  product  of  this  field  is  largely  bitumi- 
nous. The  Kemmerer  district  is  the  most  important  in 
this  field.  Another  field  that  has  been  attracting  greater 
attention  during  the  last  decade  is  the  Bighorn  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  state.  The  Hanna  field  in  the 
eastern  part  of  Carbon  County  is  the  home  of  the 
Hanna  mines  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  and  one  of 
the  older  fields  in  point  of  development.  Among  the 
fields  that  have  not  as  yet  come  to  the  front  rank  are 
the  Wind  River  basin  in  Eremont  County;  the  Henrys 
Eork.  southwestern  Sweetwater  County;  Muddy  Creek 
field,  Eremont  County :  Fall  River  basin  and  Upper 
Green  River  fields  in  Uinta  and  Fremont  counties,  and 
the  Mount  Leidy,  Lander  Peak  and  Grays  River  fields 
in  Uinta  County.  "The  Green  River  and  Bear  River 
basins  and  a  small  area  in  Weston  County  produce 
bituminous  coal.  The  output  from  the  other  districts 
is  sub-bituminous." 

The  production  history  of  the  state  began  in  1865  and 
was  probably  carried  on  in  connection  with  the  con- 
struction of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad;  the  tonnage 
produced  that  year  was  800  tons.  Five  years  later, 
when  the  railroad  was  completed,  the  output  had  in- 
creased to  approximately  50,000  tons.  The  next  year 
saw  a  marked  increase  to  147,328  tons;  in  1876  it  had 
grown  to  334,550,  the  aftermath  of  the  panic  of  '73 
leaving  but  little  impress  on  the  volume  of  the  output ; 
in  1887  the  1,000,000-ton  mark  was  left  behind,  and  in 
1891  the  state  passed  2,000,000  tons  with  a  margin  of 
327,841  tons  to  spare.  Production  since  that  date  is 
shown  in  the  following  table: 

Year.  Ton.               Year.  Ton. 

1891 2,327,841  1904 5,178,55G 

1892 2,503,839  1905 5,602,021 

1893 2,439,311  1900 6,133,994 

1894 2,417,4G3  1907 0,252,990 

1895 2,246,911  1908 5,489,902 

1896 2,229,624  1909 6,393,109 

1897 2,597,880  1910 7,533,088 

1898 2,863,812  1911 6,744,864 

1899 3,837,392  1912 7,368,124 

1900 4,014,002  1913 7,393,066 

1901 4,485,374  1914 6,475,293 

1902 4,429,491  1915 6,554,028 

1903 4,635,293  1916 7,910,647 

When  the  pressure  of  heavy  competition  from  the 


490 


COAL   MEN   OF  AMERICA 


east  is  considered  the  operators  in  the  Wyoming  fields 
have  succeeded  to  a  marked  degree  in  pushing  their 
coals  to  the  Missouri  River  and  beyond,  while  enjoying 
a  far  western  trade.    In  1915,  out  of  a  total  production 

of  <;.•">."> i.i tt-'s  tons,  l,? 2 1,011,  or  approximately  88  per 

cent,  of  the  output,  was  shipped   to  various   interstate 

destinations  in  the  following  quantities:     California, 

48,546  tons;  Colorado.  KM;  Idaho.  B7,619;  Iowa.  16,- 
1IS;    Kansas,   :;s.:,|<>;    Missouri.    1.IS1;    Montana,   59V 

608;  Nebraska,  363,418;  Nevada,  14,523;  North  Dako- 
ta. 96,558;  Oregon,  106,787;  South  Dakota.  152,350; 
Utah,    74,788,   ami    Washington,    100,877    tons.     The 


railroads  absorbed  1,283,290  ton-,  or  approximately  <;■"> 
per  cent,  of  thr  production.  Wyoming  used  609,546 
tons,  or  approximately  eight  per  cent.  This  represented 
by  Far  the  major  portion  of  the  total  consumption  of 
the  state,  its  outside  purchases  being  limited  to  20,984 
tons  from  Colorado.  SO  tons  from  Utah,  and  200  tons 
of  Pennsylvania  anthracite.  The  per  capita  consump- 
tion for  the  state.  '.'.1  1  tons.  was  .66  ton  under  the  coun- 
try average,  while  the  square  mile  consumption  was  only 
six  tons,  against  an  average  of  123  tons  for  the  United 
States. 


WYOMING 


(i.tBKMH     \.    iiMtNvni).   General    Superintendent    The 

Owl  I'lTt-k  Coal  Co..  Gebo,  Wyoming,  was  born  in  Rochester, 
New  York.  March  28.  1S75.  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
nine  years.  Mr.  Barnard  is  Secretary  of  the  Northern  Wy- 
oming Coal  Operators  Association. 

PETER  KOOI,  President  Kooi  Coal  Co.,  well-known  coal 
operator  of  Kooi,  Wyoming,  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  about  fourteen  years. 
He  was  formerly  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Wyoming 
Coal  Mining  Co..  Monarch,  Wyoming,  and  is  one  of  the  best 
known  and  most  popular  coal  operators  in  the  West.  He 
has  a  wide  acquaintance  and  many  warm  friends  in  the 
trade. 


WILLIAM  DAVID  BRBJNlfAN,  Assistant  General  Manager 
of  The  Union  Pacific  Coal  Co.,  Cheyenne,  Wyoming,  was 
born  October  29,  1877,  in  Malone,  New  York,  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  seventeen  years.  He  'was  previously 
connected  with  the  Superior  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Brennan  is  serv- 
ing as  Secretary  of  the  Southern  Wyoming  Coal  Operators. 

C.  B.  SEYMOUR,  General  Manager  of  the  Carney  Coal 
Co.,  Carneyville,  Wyoming,  was  born  in  1866  at  Norwalk, 
Connecticut,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirteen 
years. 

JAMES  K.  WALSH  of  the  Carney  Coal  Co.,  retailers  of 
coal  at  Sheridan,  Wyoming,  was  born  February  19,  1855, 
in  Ontario,  Canada,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  thir- 
teen   years. 


491 


ALASKA 


ALASKA,  first  pictured  to  the  country  as  a  frozen 
northland  that  the  Russian  bear  was  glad  to  re- 
linquish, then  opened  up  with  a  glow  of  romance 
by  the  Klondike  rush,  still  later  the  subject  of  propa- 
ganda designed  to  remove  first  impressions  of  Arctic 
harshness,  has  in  the  past  year  again  been  in  the  public 
eye — this  time  because  of  its  coal  deposits.  These,  it  is 
claimed,  with  the  development  of  the  government  rail- 
road in  that  territory,  may  yet  become  a  real  factor 
in  the  coal  trade  history  of  this  country. 

The  two  fields  of  greatest  importance  at  this  par- 
ticular time  are  the  Bering  River  and  the  Matanuska. 
The  Bering  River  field  lies  about  25  miles  to  the  north- 
east of  Controller  Bay.  Surveys  have  revealed  the 
presence  of  anthracite,  semi-anthracite,  bituminous  and 
semi-bituminous  coal.  The  coal  beds  which  geolo- 
gists say  may  be  workable  vary  from  three  to  25  feet 
in  thickness,  although  at  some  points  the  maximum  is 
still  greater  than  that  just  stated.  The  anthracite  in 
this  field  has  an  average  fixed  carbon  content  of  81  per 
cent,  and  the  semi-bituminous  72  per  cent.  Some  of 
the  bituminous  coal  is  of  coking  grade. 

In  the  Matanuska  field  numerous  coal  beds,  with  pos- 
sible working  thicknesses  of  from  three  to  32  feet,  have 
been  reported.  In  quality  the  coal  ranges  from  lignite 
to  anthracite.  "The  bituminous  coal,  which  seems  to 
form  the  main  body,"  say  Alfred  H.  Brooks  and  George 
C.  Martin,  who  have  contributed  a  number  of  reports 
on  the  Alaskan  fields  to  the  United  States  Geological 
Survey,  ••appears  to  pass  into  a  lignite  at  the  west  end 
of  the  field,  while  there  is  some  evidence  that  the  same 
coal  is  represented  by  an  anthracite  near  the  east  end 
of  the  belt.  The  lower  grade  coal  from  this  field  con- 
tains from  48  to  50  per  cent,  fixed  carbon.  The  bitum- 
inous coal  has  from  61  to  77  per  cent.  One  analysis 
of  the  anthracite  yields  84  per  cent,  fixed  carbon.  The 
bituminous  coal  can,  in  part,  be  coked.  The  coal 
measures  are  much  folded  and  faulted,  a  condition  that 
may  prevent  the  economic  recovery  of  some  of  the  coal." 

Coal-bearing  rocks  are  also  widely  distributed  in  the 
Cook  Inlet  region  and  it  is  considered  possible  that  the 
entire  depression  may  be  underlaid  with  such  forma- 
tions. The  best  known  part  of  this  field  is  on  the  east 
side  of  Cook  Inlet  north  of  Kachemak  Bay.  Here  the 
formation   of   partially   indurated   sands  and   clays   is 


interbedded  with  lignite  seams  of  moderate  thickness. 
Coal  is  also  widely  distributed  over  the  Alaska  penin- 
sula, the  most  important  of  the  known  fields  being  the 
Chignik  and  Herendeen  bay  where  both  bituminous  and 
sub-bituminous  have  been  found.  The  Xenana  field,  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  lower  Tanana  valley,  is  under- 
laid with  beds  ranging  three  to  30  feet  in  thickness. 

In  northern  Alaska  the  known  fields  fall  into  three 
groups,  viz.,  the  Cape  Lisburne,  the  Colville  basin  and 
the  Wainwright  Inlet  groups.  In  quality  the  coal- 
bearing  formations  recognized  range  from  lignitic, 
through  sub-bituminous,  to  high  grade  bituminous.  The 
Cape  Lisburne  is  the  most  important  group ;  high  grade 
.bituminous,  with  a  76  per  cent,  fixed  carbon  and  three 
per  cent,  ash  analysis,  has  been  reported  there.  Coal- 
bearing  formations,  particularly  lignitic,  are  known  to 
exist  in  other  parts  of  the  territory.  The  lack  of  de- 
tailed knowledge  of  the  territory  as  a  whole  prevents 
any  trustworthy  estimate  of  its  total  coal  area  and  re- 
sources being  made  at  the  present  time. 

The  production  of  coal  in  Alaska  in  1917  showed  a 
400  per  cent,  increase  over  that  for  the  preceding  year 
and  more  coal  was  mined  in  the  preceding  year  (1916) 
than  the  total  output  up  to  1889.  Production  and  eon- 
sumption  since  1899  are  shown  in  the  following  table: 

Produced  Total 

in  Alaska,  foreign  coal, 

Imported  from        chiefly  chiefly 

States,  chiefly           sub-"  bituminous      Total 

from  Washington,    bitumi-  from             coal 

Bitumi-  Anthra-  nous  and  Total           British           con- 
Year,             nous.         cite-         lignite,  domestic.   Columbia,    sumed. 

1899...  *10,000       1,200  11,200  50,120  61,320 

1900...  15,048       1,200  16,248  56,623  72,871 

1901.  ..  *24,000       1,300  25,300  77,674  102,974 

1902...  *40,000       2,212  42,212  68,363  110,575 

1903...  64,625  1  1,447  66,073  60,605  126,678 

1904...  36,689       1,694  38,383  76,815  115,198 

1905...  67,707  6  3,774  71,487  72,567  144,054 

1906...  68,960  533  5,541  75,034  47,590  122,624 

1907...  45,130  1,116  10,139  56,385  88,596  144,981 

1908...  23,402  491  3,107  27,000  72,831  99,831 

1909...  33,112       2,800  35,912  74,316  110,228 

1910...  32,138       1,000  33,138  73,904  107,042 

1911...  32,255       900  33,155  88,573  121,728 

1912...  27,767       355  28,122  59,804  87,926 

1913...  61,666       2,300  63,966  60,600  124,566 

1914...  41,509  41,509  21,882  63,391 

1915...  46,329       1,400  47,729  36,878  84,607 

1916...  44,934       13,073  58,007  36,454  94,461 

*By  fiscal  years  ending  June  30. 


492 


CANADA 


TBB  BOMELAND  of  the  brave  Ladj  of  the 
Snows  is  both  a  coal  producer  and  a  heavy  con- 
sumer. The  present  output  of  the  coal  fields  of 
Canada,  while  small  compared  with  the  total  produc- 
tion of  the  United  States  or  even  with  that  of  the 
major  producing  states,  such  as  Pennsylvania,  Weal 
Virginia,  Illinois,  Ohio  or  Kentucky,  is  one  of  grow- 
ing possibilities  as  the  great  Northwest  is  further  de- 
veloped in  a  transportation  and  industrial  way.  At  the 
same  time  the  Dominion  is  one  of  the  important  fac- 
tors in  the  coal  trade  of  the  United  States.  It  con- 
sumes approximately  twice  as  much  coal  as  it  pro- 
duces, and  the  greater  part  of  its  imported  fuel  comes 
from  the  mines  of  the  United  States. 

The  known  coal  fields  of  the  Dominion  are  esti- 
mated to  cover  an  area  of  approximately  29,000  square 
miles,  while  the  areas  probably  underlaid  with  coal  for- 
mations total  approximately  ?!),000  square  miles.  Esti- 
mates made  five  or  six  years  ago  placed  the  known 
areas  at  26,219.31  square  miles  and  the  areas  probably 
underlaid  with  coal  at  82,662.5  square  miles.  Since 
that  time,  however,  production  has  become  an  actuality 
in  certain  of  the  districts  then  classified  as  probably 
containing  coal  reserves.  This  explains  the  difference 
between  the  estimates  given  in  the  first  sentence  of 
this  paragraph  and  those  just  quoted. 

The  fields  from  which  production  is  reported  lie  in 
Alberta,  British  Columbia,  New  Brunswick,  Nova 
Scotia,  Saskatchewan  ami  the  Yukon  Territory.     The 

Nora  Scotia  Seldfi,  which  are  probably  the  best  knowi:. 
are  exposed  in  five  areas.  \\y...  the  Cumberland  (includ- 
ing the  Joggins  and  Springhil]  areas),  the  Pictou,  In- 
verness, and  Cape  Breton  or  Sydney.  In  some  parts  of 
the  Nova  Scotia  field,  submarine  operations  are  car- 
lied  on.  Certain  mines  in  the  Sydney  district  have 
Workings  extending  over  a  mile  out  from  the  shore 
and  the  submarine  limit  is  estimated  at  from  three 
to  five  miles.  Unlike  the  Nova  Scotia  formation,  which 
contains  coal  measures  of  great  thickness,  the  seams  in 
New  Brunswick  are  thin  vein  deposits  ranging  from 
18  to  •.'-.'  inches.  The  principal  operations  have  been 
Carried  on  in  <^iiceii*s.  Kind's  and  Kent  counties.  An- 
thracite mixed  with  shale  has  been  found  in  St. 
John  County  in  a  thick  seam,  "but  the  amount  of  coal 
it  BO  small  that  no  mining  has  been  done." 


The  Saskatchewan  coal  fields  contain  two  coal-bear- 
ing formations.  The  upper  or  Tertiary,  having  a  maxi- 
mum thickness  of  18  feet,  is  comparable  with  the  Fort 
Union  group  of  North  Dakota.  The  lower  coal  bearing 
formation  is  known  as  the  Belly  River  and  contains  two 
seams,  one  of  which  attains  a  maximum  thickness  of 
eight  feet  and  the  other  which  ranges  between  four  and 
seven  feet.  The  Tertiary  beds  are  exposed  in  the  hilly 
country  of  southern  Saskatchewan,  where  a  number  of 
lignite  seams  are  being  mined.  D.  B.  Dowling  of  the 
Geological  Survey  of  Canada  says  that  "in  the  western 
part  of  the  field  the  coal  is  generally  brown  in  color; 
in  the  central  portion  it  is  very  nearly  black  and  has 
the  appearance  id'  sub-bituminous  coal,  but  does  not 
stand  weathering."  The  Belly  River  formation  is  ex- 
posed in  the  Saskatchewan  valley  in  the  western  part  of 
the  valley. 

Alberta  coals  have  been  found  in  three  distinct  hori- 
zons, viz.,  the  Edmonton  and  part  of  the  Paskapoo  for- 
mation, the  Belly  River  and  the  Kootenay.  The  rocks 
of  the  Edmonton  division  cover  a  large  part  of  southern 
Alberta.  At  the  top  of  the  formation  is  found  a  group 
of  seams  which  unite  at  places  into  one  thick  seam;  the 
aggregate  thickness  of  the  seam  increases  in  a  north- 
west direction,  being  five  feet  south  of  the  Bow  River 
and  13  feet  at  Calgary;  the  maximum  thickness  is 
found  on  the  North  Saskatchewan  River  west  of  Ed- 
monton, where  the  outcrop  is  a  25-foot  seam.  A  north- 
ward extension  of  this  seam,  says  Mr.  Dowling,  who  has 
made  an  extensive  study  of  the  coal  resources  of  Can- 
ada and  to  whose  reports  the  writer  is  indebted  for  the 
information  with  regard  to  the  Dominion  coal  fields, 
splits  into  at  least  two  10-foot  beds  at  the  Grand  Trunk 
Pacific  Pembina  River  crossing.  Several  hundred  feet 
below  the  thick  seams  a  number  of  smaller  workable 
seams  are  found.  •"The  coal  of  this  basin  shows  a  grad- 
ual change  in  character  from  lignite  in  the  extreme 
northeastern  par!  to  a  coking  coal  in  the  foothill  areas." 

The  Belly  River  formation  underlies  an  area  of  ap- 
proximately Hi. 000  square  miles  in  eastern  Alberta.  "A 
belt  along  the  borders  of  the  area."  says  Mr.  Dowling. 
"is  generally  considered  to  be  the  best  part  of  the  field 
on  account  of  the  occurrence  in  it.  near  the  top  of  the 
formation,  of  a  very  persistent  coal  seam  which  has  been 
eroded  from  a  large  part  of  the  exposed  area.     In  the 


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northern  part  of  the  area  the  seams  appear  to  be  very 
thin.  Near  Medicine  Hat  two  seams  each  about  five  feet 
thick  are  exposed ;  westward  a  seam  of  better  grade  coal 
is  mined  at  Taber,  while  the  seam  mined  at  Lethbridge 
supplies  a  still  better  coal."  The  character  of  the  coal 
changes  as  the  mountains  are  approached;  the  coal  in 
the  foothills  is  generally  much  harder  than  in  the  plains 
area  and  in  many  cases  has  coking  qualities. 

The  coals  of  the  Kootenay  formation,  which  are  con- 
sidered the  most  valuable  in  Canada,  are  exposed, 
only  in  the  uplifted  fault  blocks  that  form  the  Rocky 
Mountains  and  at  the  crests  of  the  anticlines  in  the 
foothills.  The  greater  part  of  the  coal  is  high  grade 
bituminous ;  some  semi-anthracite  and  anthracite  also 
occur.  The  Alberta  areas  of  the  Kootenay  formation  are 
found  in  both  the  outer  ranges  and  in  the  foothills  ex- 
tending in  a  northerly  direction  from  near  the  interna- 
tional boundary  to  beyond  the  Atbabaska  River;  north 
of  that  latitude  most  of  the  coal  bearing  areas  appear 
in  the  foothills.  From  south  to  north  the  areas  of  this 
formation  may  be  described  as  follows :  One  work- 
able seam  has  been  found  in  North  Kootenay 
pass.  The  Coleman  field,  a  narrow  strip  cross- 
ing the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway  at  Coleman,  con- 
tains, 16,  10  and  8-foot  seams.  The  Blairmore-Frank 
area  contains  about  50  feet  of  coal  in  six  different  seams 
"ranging  from  31/)  to  17  feet  in  thickness.  The  Liv- 
ingston range,  which  has  not  yet  reached  commercial 
importance,  contains  one  section  of  13  seams  with  an 
aggregate  thickness  of  43  feet  and  another  with  21 
seams  and  an  aggregate  thickness  of  125  feet.  The 
Moose  Mountain  area  in  the  foothills  west  and  south 
of  Calgary  has  three  coal  seams  with  an  aggregate 
thickness  of  35  feet.  A  portion  of  the  Elk  River  coal 
field  crosses  the  Kananaskis  watershed;  one  seam  of  13 
feet  has  been  uncovered.  The  Cascade  area  shows  at 
least  15  seams  with  an  aggregate  thickness  of  85  feet; 
in  the  valley  of  the  Cascade  River,  the  eastern  flank  of 
the  mountain  contains  beds  of  anthracitic  character 
which  approach  true  anthracite  opposite  Banff.  Beyond 
the  small  Palliser  area  lies  the  Costigan.  In  the  south- 
ern part  of  the  Bighorn  field,  a  number  of  seams  have 
been  discovered;  a  20-foot  bed  of  coking  coal  is  being 
exploited  on  the  Brazeau  River.  Other  areas  explored 
include  the  Shunda  Creek.  Nikanassin,  the  area  west  of 
the  McLeod  River,  Folding  Mountain,  Brule  Lake, 
Roche  Miette  and  Moose  Creek,  Baptiste  River  and 
Muskeg  River  areas. 

The  Southern  British  Columbia  coal  measures  in- 
clude the  Flathead  River,  Crow's  Nest,  Upper  Elk  River, 
Bull  River,  Midway,  Okanagan,  Princeton,  Tulameen, 
Nicola  and  Quilcbena,  Fraser  River  Delta,  Kamloops, 
Hat  Creek  and  North  Thompson  River  districts.  The 
Crow's  Nest  field  is  of  the  present  greatest  commercial 
importance.  Its  area  is  approximately  230  square  miles. 
At  Morrisey.  reports  Mr.  Dowling,  there  are  23  seams 


with  an  aggregate  thickness  of  21G  feet  in  3,676  feet 
of  measures;  at  Fernie,  23  seams,  172  feet  of  coal  in 
2,250  feet  of  measures;  at  Sparwood,  23  seams,  163 
feet  of  coal  in  2,050  feet  of  lower  measures  and  24  seams, 
43  feet  of  coal  in  2,015  feet  of  upper  measures.  These 
last;  named  measures  contain  a  number  of  thin  seams 
of  cannel  and  high  volatile  bituminous.  At  Corbin,  a, 
seam  125  feet  thick  is  being  recovered  by  stripping. 
The  Flathead  River  (Kootenay  formation)  area,  al- 
though faulted,  contains  bituminous  that  promises  to  be 
of  great  value.  The  most  important  part  of  the  Upper 
Elk  River  area  of  Kootenay  coals  is  the  Green  River  sec- 
tion which  contains  ten  seams  with  97  feet  of  coal  of 
character  very  like  that  of  the  Crow's  Nest  field. 

The  Central  British  Columbia  coal  measures  include 
the  Fraser  River,  Bear  River,  Lightning  Creek,  Skeena 
River,  Morice  River,  Telka  River,  Bulkley  River  and 
Zymoetz  River  areas.'  As  iu  the  case  of  several  of  the 
Southern  British  Columbia  areas,  many  of  the  coal 
measures  so  far  reported  are  of  little  or  no  present 
economic  importance.  The  Fraser  River  areas  are 
chiefly  lignitic  and  have  not  been  developed  to  any 
great  extent.  In  the  Bear  River  field,  three  seams  of 
an  aggregate  thickness  of  21  feet  have  been  reported; 
the  coal  is  coking  bituminous.  Bituminous  coal  has 
also  been  found  in  the  Morice  River  district;  some  is 
known  to  be  non-coking,  while  some  in  the  Gold- 
stream  may  be  available  coking.  In  the  Goat  Creek 
section  of  the  Telka  River  field  coal  believed  to  be 
of  coking  quality  has  been  found,  while  the  Cabin 
Creek  branch  of  Goat  Creek  contains  coal  approach- 
ing the  anthracitic  grade.  Eleven  seams  aggregating  16 
feet  have  been  exposed  by  stripping  in  the  Bulkley  River 
field. 

The  Northern  British  Columbia  coal  measures  in- 
clude the  Kispiox  River,  Groundhog  Mountain,  Substut 
River,  Peace  River,  Liard  River  and  Atlin  districts. 
In  the  Groundhog  Mountain  field,  estimated  at  170 
square  miles,  "the  coal  is  all  semi-anthracite  and  in 
some  instances  is  classed  as  anthracite."  Small  seams 
of  lignite  are  found  in  the  Substut  River  district.  Thin 
seams  of  fairly  high  grade  bituminous  occur  in  parts 
of  the  Peace  River  field.  The  Liard  River  district  is 
known  to  contain  lignite  deposits.  Little  is  known  re- 
specting the  deposits  of  the  Atlin  district. 

The  coal  measures  of  Vancouver  Island,  known  as 
the  Nanaimo  series,  underlie  approximately  1,800  square 
miles,  but  the  area  underlaid  by  workable  coal  seams  is 
estimated  at  approximately  600  square  miles.  The 
basins  known  or  believed  to  contain  workable  seams 
are  the  Koskeemo,  the  Suquash  and  portions  of  the 
Comox,  Nanaimo  and  Alberni.  At  least  two  of  the 
several  seams  of  the  Suquash  basin  contain  workable 
coal  of  low  carbon  and  high  moisture  content,  grading 
down  from  bituminous  toward  sub-bituminous  or  lig- 
nitic coal.     At  least  three  of  the  several  seams  of  the 


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Coniox  field  have  been  exploited.  The  coal  is  a  coking 
bituminous  and  is  the  highest  in  fixed  carbon  mined  on 
the  island.  Extensive  operations  have  been  carried  on 
since  1888.  Mining  has  been  carried  on  the  Xanaimo 
field  since  1860;  the  coal  is  a  high  volatile  bituminous 
"of  fair  quality  and  cokes  readily.'* 

The  coal  measures  of  the  Queen  Charlotte  islands, 
though  very  small  in  the  area  of  the  known  coal  bear- 
ing formations  show  a  range  in  quality  bom  anthracite 
down  to  brown  lignite.  The  largest  area  of  the  Cre- 
taceous series,  which  range  from  semi-anthracite  to  low- 
darhon  bituminous,  borders  on  and  underlies  Skidegate 
inlet,  which  separates  Graham  and  Moresby  islands;  it 
also  extends  northward  on  Graham  island  for  about  20 
miles.  The  lignite  deposits  are  found  in  widely  scat- 
tered outcrops  in  the  northeastern  part  of  Graham 
Island  :  the  seams  range  from  one  to  13  feet  in  thick- 
iic«.     The  Yukon  coal  fields  range  from  lignite  to  an- 


thracite, but  have  not  as  yet  been  extensively  developed 
because  of  transportation  difficulties.  The  belief  is  ex- 
pressed, however,  that  this  territory  may  contain  coal 
bearing  formations  of  great  area. 

Newfoundland  also  contains  some  undeveloped  coal 
areas  on  the  eastern  side  of  the  island.  The  forma- 
tions are  an  extension  of  those  of  Nova  Scotia  and 
New  Brunswick.  The  largest  tract,  approximately 
1.100  square  miles,  is  south  of  the  Bay  St.  George.  The 
lliimlier  Kiveror  Grand  Lake  area  is  second  in  potential 
importance. 

Canadian  coal  production  during  the  past  decade  is 
shown  in  the  tabulation  at  the  end  of  this  article.  In 
1918,  Canada  produced  13,267,023  tons.  Her  imports 
were  13,709,873  tons,  principally  from  the  United 
States.  Canadian  exports  were  2,130,359  tons.  The 
summary  of  Canadian  coal  and  coke  production  is  as 
follows: 


CANADIAN    COAT.  AND  COKE  PRODUCTION'. 
Tons,  Tons 

Province. 

Nova    Scotia     

British   Columbia    . 

Alberta    

Saskatchewan  .... 
New  Brunswick  . . 
Yukon    Territory 

Totals     10.511,426  10.886,311   10,501.475  12,909,152   11,323,388  14.699,953  15,012,178  13,637.519  13,267,023  14,483,395  14,015.588. 


Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

Tons, 

1907. 

1908. 

1909. 

1910. 

1911. 

1912. 

1913. 

1914. 

1915. 

1916. 

1917. 

h.:;:,  i.i:)3 

6,652,539 

5,653,081 

6.431.142 

7,004,420 

7,791,440 

7,980,073 

7,370,924 

7,463,370 

6,912,140 

6,324,684 

2,364.898 

2,333,708 

2,606.127 

3,330,745 

2.542,532 

3,220,899 

2,714,420 

2,239,799 

2.065,613 

2,584,061 

2,418.929 

1,591,579 

1,685,661 

1,994,741 

2,894,469 

1,511,036 

3,446,349 

4,014,755 

3,683,015 

3,360.818 

4,559,054 

4,723,139 

151.232 

150,556 

192,125 

181,156 

206,779 

196,325 

212,897 

232.299 

240,107 

281,300 

355,304 

34,584 

60,000 

49.029 

55,455 

55,781 

42,780 

70,311 

98,049 

127,391 

143,540 

188,660 

16.600 

3,847 

7,364 

16,185 

2,840 

2,160 

19,722 

13,433 

9,724 

3,300 

4,872 

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KTilAS    ROGERS,    Toronto,    Ontario, 

President  and  Treasurer  The  Crow's  Nest  Pass  Coal  Co., 
Ltd.,  25  Toronto  Street,  Toronto,  was  born  in  York  County, 
Ontario,  June  23,  1850.  In  1876  he  established  a  coal  business 
in  Toronto,  which  in  1897  became  the  Elias  Rogers  Co., 
Ltd.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Pacific  Coast  Collieries. 
Mr.  Rogers  was  President  of  the  Toronto  Board  of  Trade 
in  1898.  Mr.  Rogers  is  also  President  National  Life 
Assurance  Co.,  Vice  President  Imperial  Bank  of  Canada, 
and  has  many  other  large   interests. 


ALFRED    ROGERS,    Toronto,    Ontario, 

President  of  The  Elias  Rogers  Co.,  Ltd.,  Toronto,  On- 
tario, has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty 
years.  He  was  born  at  Newmarket,  Ontario,  July  13,  1874. 
He  is  also  President  of  Rogers  Supply  Co.  and  Alfred  Rogers, 
Ltd.,  Director  St.  Mary's  Portland  Cement  Co.,  and  Director 
Ridley   College. 


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M    Min      Rill     llAHSHALJ.,      I. ironto,     Ontario, 

Vice  President  Standard  Fuel  Co.,  Ltd.,  !)7  Glen  Road, 
Toronto,  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  twenty 
years  and  was  born  in  Toronto  October  13,  1880.  He  went  to 
France  when  the  war  broke  out  as  Captain  In  the  15th 
Battalion  (4«th  Highlanders).  In  June,  1917,  he  was  dec- 
orated with  the  Distinguished  Service  Order  by  Kins 
George  V.  and  now  is  Assistant  Adjutant  and  Quartermaster 
General  of  the  Fourth  Canadian  Division  with  rank  of 
Lieutenant  Colonel. 


(Copyright  Lambert  Weston.  Ltd..  25  Sandgate  Road, 
Folkstone;  also  39  Bromuton  Square,  S.  W.,  &  15  Bench 
Street,    Dover.) 


\IIHI,    (  l.IKFOHIJ    MARSHALL.   Toronto,   Ontario, 

Vice  President  of  the  Standard  Fuel  Co.,  Ltd.,  Toronto. 
Ontario,  was  born  at  Toronto,  February  ^8.  188.1,  and  has 
been    In    the    coal    business    twenty    years. 


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CAPTAIN    GEORGE    J.    GUY,    Hamilton,    Ontario, 

Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  Gillies-Guy, 
Ltd.,  Hamilton,  Ontario,  has  been  in  the  coal  trade  for 
over  twenty  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the  Murton 
Coal  Co.  and  the  Rogers  Coal  Co.,  both  of  Hamilton.  He 
was  born  at  Hamilton,  June  3,  1867.  Mr.  Guy  was  an  Alder- 
man for  several  years  and  Chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Harbor  Commissioners   appointed  by   the   Government. 


JOHN     W.     GILLIES,    Hamilton,     Ontario, 

Secretary-Treasurer  of  Gillies-Guy,  Limited,  of  Hamilton, 
Ontario,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He 
was  born  in  North  Nation,  Ontario,  August  3,  1865,  and  was 
formerly  in  the   lumber  business  at  Saginaw,  Michigan. 


JAMES    A.    HARRISON,  Toronto,   Ontario, 

President  of  the  J.  A.  Harrison  Coal  Co.,  Limited,  Toronto, 
Ontario,  is  President  of  the  Canadian  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-eight 
years.  He  was  born  in  Durham  County,  Ontario,  March  24, 
185S.   and   is   highly   respected   in   his   city. 


K.   J.  HARRISON,  Toronto,  Ontario, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  J.  A.  Harrison  Coal  Co., 
Limited,  57  Brock  Ave.,  Toronto,  Ontario,  has  been  inter- 
ested in  the  coal  business  six  years  and  is  a  native  of 
Toronto.     He   was  born  July   27,   1895. 


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i  inn  mi  i:.  mil.  Toronto,  Ont„ 
Manager  for  C.  A.  Wilson  &  Co.,  Ltd., 
wholesale  coal  merchants  at  Toronto, 
Ontario,  was  formerly  with  the  Le- 
high Valley  Railroad  and  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  for  thirteen  years. 
He  was  born  at  Cremung,  New  York, 
April    12.    1867. 


GEOHGE  J.  i  II  1  \  I  I.I  :i(.  London, 
Member  of  the  coal  firm  of  Chantler 
Bros,  at  London.  Ontario,  has  been  in 
the  coal  business  twenty-eight  years. 
The  business  was  established  in  1878 
as  Campbell  &  Chantler.  Mr.  Chantler 
was  born  in  Canton,  England,  May  30, 
1866.  H.  N.  Chantler,  his  brother,  was 
born    in    1864    in   Canton,    England. 


WILLIAM    T.    OKI  II  Mill,    London,    Ontario, 

Member  of  the  Arm  of  John  G.  Orchard  &  Sons,  45  York  St., 
London,  Ontario,  entered  the  business  twenty-seven  years 
ago,  when  It  was  established  by  his  father.  He  has  filled 
the  otlice  of  President  of  the  London  Retail  Coal  Dealers' 
Association.     He  was  born   In  Canada  July  14,  1872. 


ROSE  BROTHERS  COAL  CO.,  LTIJ., 
Toronto,    Ontario,    Canada. 

This  company  has  its  head  office  in 
the  Canadian  Pacific  Railroad  building 
at  Toronto  and  its  affairs  are  directed 
by  Alexander  Rose,  Hugh  Rose  and 
Norman   E.   Arnot. 

Alexander  Rose,  President  of  the 
company,  was  born  in  Ross-Shire. 
Scotland,  and  first  entered  the  coal 
business  at  Liverpool,  England,  thirty- 
six  years  ago.  in  the  accounting  de- 
partment of  the  Meyrick  Bankes  col- 
liery offices.  He  came  to  Canada  in 
1886  and  was  with  the  BUM  Rogtrs 
Co.  until,  with  his  brother  Hugh  and 
Norman  E.  Arnot,  he  established  the 
business  of  the  Rose  Brothers  Coal  Cp. 

Hugh  Rose  was  born  at  Ross-Shire. 
Scotland,  and  after  service  as  yard- 
master  for  the  Meyrick  Bankes  collier- 
ies at  Liverpool,  he  came  to  Canada  in 
1886  with  his  brother,  Alexander,  and 
with  him  was  engaged  by  the  Ellas 
Rogers  Co.,  until  the  present  company 
was   formed. 

Norman  E.  Arnot  was  born  at  To- 
ronto thirty-five  years  ago  and  has 
been  identified  with  the  coal  business 
all  his   life. 


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WILLIAM    FAWCRTT   PARKIN,   Lindsay.   Ontario, 

Retail  coal  merchant  of  Lindsay,  Ontario,  was  born  in  Lind- 
say September  12,  1893,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
the  past  three  years,  and  is  one  of  the  progressive  young 
business  men  of  Lindsay.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Digby 
Lumber  Co.  of  which  his  father  is  owner  and  General 
Manager,   and  also   does   an   extensive   wood   business. 


HOIST.   J.    WEBSTKR,   London,    Ontario, 

President  of  the  Webster  Fuel  Co.,  London,  Ontario,  filled 
the  ofrice  of  Director,  of  President  two  years,  and  of  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer  five  years,  of  the  Canadian  Retail  Coal 
Association.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
four  years  and  was  born  at  London  in  May,  1872.  Mr. 
Webster  organized  and  is  Manager  of  the  Fireproof  Ware- 
housing Co.,  Ltd.,  which  does  a  general  warehousing  and 
forwarding  business  and  is  now  the  largest  of  its  kind  in 
Western  Ontario, 


MRS.    HEATA    IHMBEHSTO\E,    Ileverly,    Alberta. 

Head  of  The  Humberstone  Coal  Co.,  Beverly,  Alberta,  was 
born  July  24,  18(>9,  in  Germany,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty  years.  She  came  to  Canada  in  1897 
and  married  William  Humberstone  two  years  later,  assist- 
ing him  in  the  coal  business  until  1912,  when  she  took  over 
the  business  and  since  then  has  conducted  it  very  success- 
fully. Her  husband,  William  Humberstone,  walked  behind 
ox  carts  from  Winnipeg  to  Edmonton  in  1880  and  started 
mining  coal.     He   is  now  eighty-one  years  of  age. 


I).    B.   ,IACQ,L'BS.   Toronto,    Ontario, 

Senior  member  of  the  coal  firm  of  Jacques,  Davy  &  Co.,  18 
Richmond  St.,  East,  Toronto,  Ontario,  was  born  in  York 
County,  Ontario,  December  2,  1863,  and  has  been  engaged  in 
the  coal  business  for  eighteen  years.  Mr.  Jacques  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Toronto  Section  of  the  Retail  Merchants"  Asso- 
ciation of  Canada. 


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CANADA  —  Alberta 

EDWARD  S.  <l  LYEK,  proprietor  of  the  North  West 
Coal  Co..  Edmonton,  Alberta,  was  born  January  11,  1881, 
in  Delaware.  Ohio,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
sixteen  years.  Mr.  Culver  was  formerly  connected  with 
Maynard  Brothers,  New  England  Coal  Co.,  and  the  General 
Hocking  Fuel  Co.,  all  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 

WILL,  C.  Dl  NX.  4  23  Tegler  Building,  Edmonton,  Alberta, 
Canada,  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  Lakeside  Coals,  Ltd., 
and  of  the  Wabamun  Power  &  Coal  Co.,  Ltd.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  seven  years.  He  was  born  in  Wiscon- 
sin   May    26,    1X65. 

DPI  tn:i<  M.  <;\HI.\M>.  Manager  Trimble-Garland  Lum- 
ber Co.,  Lacombe,  Alberta,  was  born  August  21,  1886,  in 
Green  County,  low*,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
the  past   five    years. 

M.  «'.  HAM IIO  of  F.dson,  Alberta,  Canada,  is  Secretary  of 
Rambo  ,v  llaldiii,  owners  of  the  Keystone  anthracite  mine. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  seven 
years.  He  was  born  in  Montgomery  County,  Pennsylvania, 
March   is,   1846. 

C.  6.  SHELDON,  Edmonton,  Alberta,  Canada,  represents 
the  Humberstone  Coal  Co.  as  General  Manager.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  three  years  and  has 
served  a  term  as  Treasurer  of  the  North  Alberta  Coal  Oper- 
ators' Association.  He  was  born  April  14,  1880,  at  Spring- 
bo  ro,   Pennsylvania.  , 

D.  H.  YATES  is  a  member  of  the  coal  Arm  of  Becker  & 
Yates  at  Warner,  Alberta.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business- 
for  eleven  years.  He  was  born  at  Stillwater,  Minnesota, 
in    July,    1877. 

CANADA  —  British  Columbia 

WALTER  R.  GILLEY  is  Managing  Director  for  Gilley 
Bros.,  Ltd..  at  Xew  Westminster,  British  Columbia.  He  was 
born  at  St.  Andrews,  New  Brunswick,  October  22,  1859, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the  last  twenty- 
nine  years. 

JOHN  DINCAN  McXEILL,  1629  Main  St.,  Vancouver, 
British  Columbia,  is  the  Managing  Director  and  President 
of  McNeill,  Welch  &  Wilson,  Ltd..  at  Vancouver,  British 
Columbia.  He  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for 
over  twenty  years,  conducting  his  business  under  different 
names  until  four  years  ago,  when  the  present  company  was 
incorporated.  Mr.  McNeill  was  born  April  22,  1866,  at 
Paisley,  Ontario. 

JAMES  EDWARD  PAINTER,  JR.,  617  Cormorant  St., 
Victoria,  British  Columbia,  is  Manager  for  J.  E.  Painter  & 
Sons,  coal  merchants.  He  has  been  fourteen  years  in  the 
business.      He    was   born   at  Hamilton,   Ontario,   June   2,    1886. 

CANADA  — Manitoba 

DAVID  IIOWMXX.  IS]  Main  St.,  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  is 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the  David  Bowman  Coal 
&  Supply  Co.,  Ltd.  He  also  is  President  of  Mackenzie  & 
Thayer.  Ltd,  Saskatoon,  Saskatchewan,  and  a  Director  of 
the  Dominion  Lime  &  Coal  Co.  of  Regina.  Saskatchewan. 
He  was  formerly  with  the  Conger  Coal  Co.,  Toronto,  and 
the  Winnipeg  Supply  &  Fuel  Co.,  Ltd.  Mr.  Bowman  served 
M  Secretary  Of  the  Winnipeg  Coal  Dealers'  Association  for 
three  years.  He  was  born  at  Gait,  Ontario,  August  3,  1869. 
His  company  ■  is  selling  agent  for  the  Oliphant-Munson 
Collieries   of  Yellowhead   Pass   in   the  Rocky   Mountains. 

DAVID  HOMEIi  CLARY,  268  Portage  Ave.,  Winnipeg. 
Manitoba,  represent!  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.,  Ltd.,  as 
Manager.  From  r.Ul  to  1916  he  was  employed  as  a  chemical 
engineer  by  the  Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  at  Duluth,  Minnesota, 
since  which  time  he  has  filled  his  present  position.  He 
was   born   at  Monroeville,   Ohio,   March    11,    1882. 

D.  I-:.  I'IMSKK  Is  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Kenton,  Mani- 
toba. Canada,  who  has  been  fourteen  years  in  the  business. 
He   was  born   December  11.    1873,  at  Nairn,  Ontario. 

VICTOR  (.1  HUM  l.T.  President  and  General  Manager  of 
Guilbault!'.  Ltd.,  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  succeeded  his  father, 
the  late  Kdward  ( luilbau It.  as  head  of  the  concern,  who 
had  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-one  years.  Mr.  Guil- 
bault la  a  member  of  the  wholesale  section  of  the  Canadian 
Credit  Men's  Association.  He  was  born  in  St.  Boniface, 
where  his  father  was  the  pioneer  coal  merchant. 

MAX  urns,  Manager  Douglas  Fuel  Co..  Ltd.  Winnipeg. 
Manitoba,  was  burn  February  13,  1886,  in  Russia,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal   business  for  two  years. 


V.  Ul'HKE  RAYMOND,  Sales  Manager  Winnipeg  Supply 
&  Fuel  Co.,  298  Rietta  Street,  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  Canada, 
was  born  in  Ionia.  -Michigan,  August  5,  1878.  and  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  formerly  with 
the  Monarch  Coal  Co.  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  the  Pitts- 
burgh Coal  Co.  and  Carnegie  Fuel  Co.  of  Minneapolis,  Min- 
nesota. 

DYSON  P.  SMITH,  603  Electric  Railway  Chambers.  Win- 
nipeg, Manitoba,  is  the  Western  Manager  for  the  Empire 
Coal  Co.,  Ltd.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  the 
last  seventeen  years  and  was  formerly  with  the  North 
Western  Fuel  Co.  and  the  Consolidation  Coal  Co.  He  was 
born  January  7,  1872,  at  Dowagiac,  Michigan.  Mr.  Smith 
is   popular  and   has   many    warm   friends  in   the   coal  trade. 

DANIEL  D.  WOOD,  MM  Itoss  Ave.,  Winnipeg,  Manitoba, 
is  President  and  Manager  Of  D.  D.  Wood  &  Sons,  Ltd.  He 
is  a  Director  of  the  Breekenridge  &  Lund  Coal  Co.,  Ltd., 
and  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  seventeen 
years.  Mr.  Wood  was  born  April  17.  1859,  at  Bilston.  Staf- 
fordshire,  England. 


CANADA  — New  Brunswick 


OBOBGB  MeAVITY  III. I/. AIM).  Vice  President  of  the 
Consumers'  Coal  Co..  Ltd.,  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  Canada, 
was  born  January  4,  1881,  in  St.  John,  and  has  been  In  the 
coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  Is  also  a  Director  in  F.  W. 
Blizard.  Ltd.,  miners'  agents  and  brokers  in  Nova  Scotia 
coals. 

CLAYTON  J.  FLEMMIX'G  is  the  Owner  and  Manager  of 
the  Flemming  Coal  &  Wood  Co.  at  Woodstock,  New  Bruns- 
wick, and  has  been  in  the  business  for  four  years.  Mr. 
Flemming  was  born   in  Woodstock   in   1892. 

GEORGE  E.  FORD  of  Sackville.  New  Brunswick,  Canada, 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  about  thirty-six  years 
and  is  the  President  of  George  E.  Ford  &  Sons,  Ltd.,  im- 
porters of  anthracite.  Mr.  Ford  was  born  December  11,  1847, 
at  Sackville. 

JAMES  S.  MeOIVERX,  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  was 
born  in  St.  John  December  8,  1852,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  since  his  youth,  succeeding  to  the  business 
established    by    R.    P.    MeGivern. 

FRANCIS  I'ENISTOX  STARR,  51  Carleton  St.,  St.  John. 
New  Brunswick,  is  President  of  R.  P.  &  W.  F.  Starr,  Ltd., 
who  are  also  agents  for  the  Dominion  Coal  Co.  Mr.  Starr 
was  born  in  St.  John  in  1868  and  has  been  actively  connected 
for  thirty-two  years  with  the  business,  which  was  founded 
in   186!. 

HENRY  N.  STETSON  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Consumers'  Coal  Co.,  Ltd.,  at  St.  John,  New  Brunswick.  He 
has  been  engaged  in  the  business  for  five  years.  He  was 
born  at  St.   John    in    1880. 

ASA  BBBBBBT  VAN  WART,  coal  merchant  at  Fred- 
ericton,  New  Brunswick,  has  been  in  the  retail  business 
for  more  than  a  Quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  born  at 
Fredericton    in    1852. 

WILLIAM  McKENZIE  WELDON,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Moncton.  New  Brunswick,  was  born  September  9,  1853,  at 
Dorchester,  New  Brunswick,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness for  forty-three  years.  He  was  formerly  with  the 
Spring  Hill  Coal  Co.,  Cumberland  Railway  &  Coal  Co.,  and 
the  Dominion  Coal' Co.,  Ltd. 


CANADA  — Nova  Scotia 

I.  SIDNEY  III. i:\KIIOW,  Manager  Blenkhonn  &  Sons, 
Canning.  Nova  Scotia,  was  born  September,  1848,  at  Corn- 
wallis,  Nova  Scotia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty  years.  # 

GEO.  B.  Ill  III  lli:i.l..  Managing  Director  Bras  D'or  Coal 
Co..  Ltd.,  of  North  Sydney.  Xova  Scotia,  was  born  in  1880 
in  North  Sidney  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty 
years.  He  is  also  Interested  In  the  Maritime  Coal  Railway 
&  Power  Co.  and  is  a  consulting  engineer. 

JAMES  NORWOOD  DHOTI  S  is  sole  partner  in  the  firm 
of  S.  Cunard  &  Co.  at  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia.  He  was  born 
at  Norwood,  England,  June  27.  1864.  Mr.  DufTus  has  been 
connected  with  this  old  established  and  prominent  firm  for 
thirty-four    years. 

HI  (ill  D.  MAI 'KEN7.IE.  St.  Paul  Building,  Halifax,  Nova 
Scotia,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  forty-nine  years 
and  is  the  President  of  the  Hugh  D.  Mackenzie  Co.,  Lim- 
ited. From  1869  to  1914  he  was  Bales  and  Shipping  Agent 
for  the  Intercolonial  Coal  Mining  Co,  Mr.  Mackenzie  was 
born   at    Plctou.  Nova  Scotia,  January    21.    1862. 


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JOHN  R.  IIcULLEN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Truro,  Nova 
Scotia,  was  born  October  13,  1885,  in  Truro,  and  has  been  in 
the  coal   business  for  three  years. 

TIBERT  SALTER,  North  Sydney,  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Joseph  Salter's  Sons,  successors  to  Joseph 
Salter.  The  business  has  been  conducted  for  nineteen 
years  under  the  latter  name  and  for  seventeen  years  under 
the  former.  He  is  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia  and  was  born 
in  1859.  Joseph  Salter,  who  is  also  connected  with  the  firm, 
was  born  in  1871. 

THOMAS  J.  SEARS  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
at  Antigonish,  Nova  Scotia,  for  seven  years.  He  was  born 
at   Lochaber  Antigonish,   June   30,    1864. 

JOHN  THOMAS  SMITH,  barrister-at-law,  Amherst,  Nova 
Scotia,  is  President  of  The  Royal  Coal  Co.,  Limited.  He  has 
been  interested  in  coal  matters  during  the  past  twenty-six 
years,  having  formerly  operated  as  an  individual.  He  was 
born  at  Amherst,  June  14,  1835. 

WM.  E.  VAN  BLARCOM,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Digby, 
Nova  Scotia,  was  born  September  16,  1871,  in  Digby,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  twenty  years. 


CANADA  —  Toronto,  Ontario 


NORMAN  E.  ARNOT  is  a  member  of  the  Rose  Brothers 
Coal  Co.,  Ltd.,  at  Toronto,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  since  his  boyhood  days.  He  was  born  thirty- 
six  years  ago   in   Toronto. 

GEORGE  HROWN  is  the  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Geo.  Brown  &  Son,  361  Parliament  St.,  Toronto,  Ontario. 
He  formerly  was  with  the  Conger  Coal  Co.  and  the  Lake 
Simcoe  Ice  &  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  at  Barrie,  Ontario, 
January    4,    1865. 

G.  WILSON  HROWN,  361  Parliament  St.,  Toronto,  Ontario, 
is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  George  Brown  &  Son.  He  was 
born  April   6,   1889,   at   Orillia,   Ontario. 

JOSEPH  WYLD  CORSON,  549  King  St.,  East,  Toronto, 
Ontario,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years 
and  is  Manager  of  the  Corson  Coal  Co.  He  was  born 
December  26,   1864,  and  is  a  native  of  Ontario. 

THOMSON  D.  IJUNLOP,  Toronto,  Ontario,  is  President 
of  The  Dunlop  Coal  Co.,  Ltd.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  twelve  years  and  has  served  as  Vice  President  of 
the  coal  section  of  the  Toronto  branch  of  the  Retail  Mer- 
chants' Association  of  Canada.  Mr.  Dunlop  was  born  in 
Scotland  in  1874. 

JAMES  A.  GLOVER  is  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  The 
Standard  Fuel  Co.,  Ltd.,  22  Howland  Ave.,  Toronto,  Ontario. 
He  is  a  native  of  Scotland,  born  April  5,  1861,  and  has  been 
in   the.  coal  business  for   nearly  thirty  years. 

THOMSON  GRINNELL,  843  Girrard  St.,  Toronto,  Ontario, 
senior  partner  and  Manager  of  the  firm  of  Thomas  Grinnell 
&  Son,  is  the  oldest  retail  coal  merchant  in  Toronto,  having 
started  in  business  about  forty-six  years  ago.  Mr.  Grinnell 
was  born  April  17,  1841,  in  Cheltenham,  Gloucestershire. 
England.  He  entered  the  British  naval  service  at  the  age  of 
fourteen  and  served  about  eleven  years.  He  came  to  Canada 
in    1869. 

F.  G.  HARROLU  is  owner  of  the  business  of  Harrold's 
Coal  Corp.,  having  two  offices  in  Toronto,  Ontario, 
314  Danforth  avenue  and  346  Carlow  avenue.  He  has  been 
in  the  business  eleven  years  and  is  a  member  of  the  Retail 
Merchants'  Association  of  Toronto.  Mr.  Harrold  was  born 
at  Newmarket,   Ontario,  December  3,   1881. 

RAYMOND  WALKER  KERR  is  Manager  for  The  Rogerson 
Coal  Co.,  Ltd.,  at  Toronto,  Ontario.  He  was  formerly  with 
A.  E.  Rogerson  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  nine  years. 
He  was  born  in  Toronto  July  15,  1895. 

FRED  K.  ROBINSON  is  Manager  of  The  Black  Diamond 
Coal  Co.,  2004  Dundas  St.,  Toronto,  Ontario.  He  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  about  four  years.  He  was  born 
in  1872  at  St.  Mary's,  Ontario. 

HARRY  SEDDON  is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  C.  A.  Wilson 
&  Co.,  Ltd.,  57  Queen  St.,  West,  Toronto,  Ontario,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  for- 
merly with  the  Outwood  Coal  Co.  He  was  born  August  25, 
1885,  in   Toronto. 

ERNEST  WILLIAM  TRENT,  327  Confederation  Life  Build- 
ing, Toronto,  Ontario,  is  Secretary-Treasurer  and  a  Director 
of  the  Grenadier  Ice  &  Coal  Co..  Chapman's,  Ltd.,  -and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  He 
has  served  as  a  committee  member  of  the  Toronto  Coal 
Exchange  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade  for 
thirty  years.  He  was  born  in  the  County  of  York,  Ontario, 
August    12,    1863. 


C.  A.  WILSON,  57  West  Queen  St.,  Toronto,  Ontario,  is  the 
President  of  the  firm  of  C.  A.  Wilson  &  Co.,  Ltd.  He 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years  and  was 
born   March   10,   1850,   at  Markham,   Canada. 


CANADA  —  Ontario 


G.  H.  M.  BAKER  is  President  and  Manager  of  the  Baker 
Lumber  Co.,  Lindsay,  Ontario.  He  has  been  in  the  business, 
including  coal,  for  thirty-three  years.  Mr.  Baker  was  born 
at  Carleton  Place.  Ontario,  in  1861.  Formerly  he  was  con- 
nected  with   the   Rathbun   Co. 

JAMES  R.  BAKER  is  the  head  of  the  firm  of  J.  R.  Baker 
&  Son  at  Grand  Valley,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for   seven   years.     He  was  born   in   England. 

PETER  BERGES,  coal  merchant  at  St.  Jacobs,  Ontario, 
is  the  pioneer  dealer  at  that  place  and  has  been  fifteen 
years  in  the  business.  He  was  born  at  St.  Jacobs  Decem- 
ber 10,   1865. 

E.  RICHARD  BLOW,  Whitby,  Ontario,  is  the  proprietor 
of  a  coal  business  and  has  been  in  the  trade  for  thirty-two 
years,  formerly  with  John  Blow  &  Son.  He  was  born  at 
Whitby  February  6,  1860. 

JAMES  ROBERT  BRESNAN,  6  King  E.,  Brockville, 
Ontario,  is  General  Manager  of  the  firm  of  J.  R.  Bresnan 
&  Son.  He  was  formerly  with  George  E.  Shields  of  Brock- 
ville, whose  business  he  took  over  some  years  ago.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty  years.  He  was  born 
at  Buffalo,  New  York,  June  30,  1847.  James  Arthur  Bres- 
nan, Secretary-Treasurer  of  J.  R.  Bresnan  &  Son,  Brock- 
ville, Ontario,  was  born  February  1,  1886,  and  has  been  with 
the  firm   for  eleven  years. 

EDWIN  BROWN,  proprietor  of  E.  Brown  &  Co.,  Port 
Hope,  Ontario,  was  born  August  27,  1865,  in  Port  Hope  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty-five  years.  He  was 
formerly  connected  with  the  firms  of  J.  A.  Brown  &  Co.  and 
Brown  &  Henning.  Mr.  Brown  is  President  of  the  Canadian 
Retail  Coal  Association  and  has  always  taken  an  active 
interest  in  every  movement  for  the  betterment  of  coal  trade 
conditions. 

ISRAEL  BRUBACHER  is  a  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Elmira,  Ontario,  where  he  has  been  in  the  business  for 
seven  years.  He  was  born  April  18,  1866,  at  Hawksville, 
Ontario. 

WALTER  BLRNSIDE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Kincardine, 
Ontario,  was  born  August  26,  1873,  at  Madoc,  Canada,  and 
has  been  in   the  coal  business  for  seventeen  years. 

JOHN  GEORGE  BISSETT  BLTTERWOHTH,  President  of 
the  J.  G.  Butterworth  Co..  Ltd.,  Ottawa,  Ontario,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  thirty-six  years.  He  was  born  in 
Hawkesbury.  Nova  Scotia,  August  28,  1848.  This  com- 
pany does  a  large  business  and  operates  three  complete, 
modern  plants  with   capacity  of  nearly  30,000  tons. 

■WILLIAM  CHAPPLE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Meaford. 
Ontario,  was  born  in  Meaford  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  three  years. 

JOSEPH  E.  CHEVRIER  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  at  Cornwall,  Ontario,  for  over  twenty  years.  He 
was  born  at  Vaudreuil,  in  the  province  of  Quebec.  October 
23,  1868.  Mr.  Chevrier  built  the  first  silo  coal  pocket  in 
that  section.  He  was  elected  Mayor  of  the  city  in  1917  by 
acclamation. 

JAMES  tTTHBERT  CLARK  is  the  Proprietor  and  Man- 
ager of  a  retail  coal  business  at  Sarnia,  Ontario,  which  h( 
has  conducted  for  nineteen  years.  He  was  born  at  Sarnia 
in  1871. 

WALTER  LEWIS  CLARKE,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  Hall 
&  Holcomb.  Ltd.,  80  Elgin  Street,  Ottawa,  Canada,  was  born 
in  Ingersoll.  Ontario,  January  24,  1874,  and  has  been  with 
George  A.  Harris,  Hall  &  Holcomb,  and  Hall  &  Holcomb, 
Ltd.,  during  all  that  time.  He  has  been  interested  also  in 
the  building  business  and  at  one  time  was  a  silent  partner 
in  another  coal  firm. 

J.  STANLEY  COITLTER,  a  retail  coal  merchant  at  Essex, 
Ontario,  has  been  doing  business  there  for  nine  years.  He 
was  born   at   Essex   October   24,   1893. 

ROBERT  CRAWFORD,  Kingston,  Ontario,  has  been  in 
the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-six  years.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  (he  firm  of  Booth  &  Co.,  retailers  at  Kingston. 
He  was  formerly  connected  with  R.  C.  Carter  &  Co.  Mr. 
Crawford  was  born  at  Kingston  in   1854. 

MICHAEL  FRANCIS  CRAY,  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Guelph,  Ontario,  has  been  in  the  business  twenty-nine  years, 
having  owned  a  yard  at  Hespeler,  Ontario,  for  nine  years, 
from  1904  to  1913.  He  was  born  at  Goderich,  Ontario,  in 
December,    1869. 


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A.  J.  CREIGHTOX  is  the  owner  of  a  coal  business  at 
Owen  Sound,  Ontario,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  business 
for  sixteen  years.  He  formerly  was  with  the  Sivil-Crelgh- 
ton  Co.,  and  was  also  connected  with  the  Davis-Smith- 
M.ilonc  Co.  for  a  time.  He  has  served  as  First  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Coal  Section  of  the  Retail  Merchants'  Associa- 
tion.     He  was  born  in  Owen  Sound  June  24,   1858. 

.inn  n  M.  DALY,  retail  coal  merchant  at  19  York  St., 
London,  Ontario,  has  been  in  the  business  for  thirty-three 
years.  He  was  formerly  the  junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
D.  Daly  &  Son,  established  by  his  father  in  1885.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the  Canadian  Ketail  Coal  Association.  Mr.  Daly 
was  born  in  London,  Ontario,  October  13.  1866,  and  is  one 
of  the  best  known  coal  merchants  in  Ontario. 

FRANK  A.  Dl'NLOP  is  the  Managing  Director  and  Secre- 
tary-Treasurer or  The  Dunlop-Magee  Company,  Limited. 
991-993  Barton  St.,  East  Hamilton,  Ontario.  He  was  born 
at  Hamilton  In  1891  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Hamilton  Rotary  Club, 
under    "Retail    Coal"    classification. 

W.  1..  DOWKI.I.Y,  Ottawa,  Ontario,  is  a  retail  coal  mer- 
chant who  has  been  in  the  business  twenty-six  years.  He 
is  a  Director  of  the  Canadian  Retail  Coal  Association.  He 
was  born  at  Ironside,  Quebec,  February  4,    1869. 

WILLIAM  DRl'RY  has  conducted  a  retail  coal  business 
at  235  Wellington  St.,  Kingston,  Ontario,  for  twenty-four 
years.     He  was  born  at  Kingston  in  1857. 

WILLIAM  EDWARDS.  22  Grant  St.,  Brantford,  Ontario, 
has  been  in  the  retail  coal  business  for  thirty-eight  years. 
He  was  born   in   London,  Kngland,   in   1851. 

JOHN  ELLIOTT  is  the  senior  member  and  Manager  of 
the  firm  of  John  Elliott  &  Son  at  Agincourt,  Ontario.  He 
has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  about  twenty-one 
years.     He  was  born  at  Agincourt  December  18,  1854. 

W.  H.  EVES,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Newmarket.  Ontario, 
was  born  in  1871  in  the  County  of  York  and  has  been  in 
the   coal   business   for   twelve   years. 

J.  E.  A.  FITZGERALD,  coal  merchant  of  Peterboro.  On- 
tario, has  been  in  the  business  for  nearly  twenty  years. 
He  was  for  several  years  a  Director  of  the  Canadian  Retail 
Coal  Association.  He  was  born  in  Peterboro  January  5, 
1870.  Associated  with  Mr.  Fitzgerald  is  T.  E.  Pratt  who 
is  one  of  the  oldest  coal  men  in  that  city. 

JOHN  FLYNN,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Hespeler,  Ontario, 
was  born  January  28.  1856.  in  Hespeler  and  has  been  In 
the  coal  business  fourteen  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  W.  F.  Cray. 

JOHN  8.  GATFIEI.D  is  Managing  Owner  of  the  J.  S. 
Gatfleld  Coal  Co.  at  Amherstburg,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in 
the  business  for  the  past  four  years.  He  was  formerly 
connected  with  Duff  &  Gatfleld,  vessel  agents.  Mr.  Gatfleld 
was   born   at   Amherstburg   February   22,    1878. 

ARTHUR  GAITIIIEH  has  been  four  years  in  the  retail 
coal  business  at  Cummlng's  Bridge,  Ontario.  He  was  born 
at   Rigaud  in  the  province  of  Quebec. 

D.  H.  GILLIES,  664  King  St.,  London,  Ontario,  is  senior 
member  of  the  coal  firm  of  D.  H.  Gillies  &  Son,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  business  thirteen  years.  Mr.  Gillies 
was  born  at  Buckingham,  Quebec,  May  21,   1861. 

PATRICK.  GLEESON  has  been  the  proprietor  of  a  coal 
business  at  Xananee,  Ontario,  for  eight  years.  The  yard, 
which  was  one  of  the  first  operated  in  eastern  Ontario  in  the 
retail  coal  trade,  was  founded  by  the  Downey  Co.  and  later 
owned  by  the  late  C.  E.  Bartlett.  Mr.  Gleeson  was  Manager 
for  J.  R.  Dafoe  many  years.  He  was  born  in  Napanee  De- 
cember  20.  1862. 

FRANK  B.  GREGORY  is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Toner 
&  Gregory  at  Collingwood,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in.  the 
coal  business  thirty-six  years.  He  was  born  In  Albany, 
New    York,    in    1851. 

JOHN  C.  HAY  is  the  sole  proprietor  of  the' coal  business 
•  ■r  John  C.  Hay  &  Son  at  Listowel.  Ontario.  He  has  been 
nineteen  years  in  the  business.  Mr.  Hay  was  the  first 
I'residcnt  of  the  Canadian  Retail  Coal  Association  and 
filled  the  office  for  four  consecutive  years.  He  Is  at  present 
a  liirector  and  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee,  He 
was  for  two  years  a  Director  of  the  International  Coal 
Association.  He  was  born  at  Howmansvillc.  Ontario,  In 
184*.  Mi-  Hay  is  very  highly  respected  and  has  always 
taken  a  keen  Interest  In  every  movement  for  the  better- 
ment of  the   trade. 

JOHN  JOSEPH  HENEY  is  President  of  John  Heney  & 
Son,  Ltd.,  at  Ottawa.  Ontario.  He  has  been  engaged  In  the 
coal  business  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  born  In  Ottawa 
May   27.    1861. 


ARTHUR  HILLMER  has  been  doing  business  for  eleven 
years  at  Oakville,  Ontario,  under  the  name  of  Hillmer  Fuel 
&   Ice  Co.     He  was  born  at  Oakville,  December   15,   1875. 

JAMES  ALEXANDER  HOCKING  of  Brampton,  Ontario, 
owns  a  retail  coal  business  which  he  has  conducted  for  six 
years.     He  was  born  at  Brockville,  Ontario,  May  21,  1865. 

RALPH  TILLER  HOLCOMB,  80  Elgin  St.,  Ottawa, 
Ontario,  is  Vice  President  and  General  Manager  for  Hall 
&  Holcomb,  Limited.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  coal 
business  for  about  thirty  years.  Mr.  Holcomb  was  born 
at  Windham,  New  York,  September  28,  1869. 

JOHN  HOWES,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Harriston,  On- 
tario, Canada,  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  He 
was   born  April   14,   1855,  in  Hespeler,  Ontario. 

JOHN  WESLEY  HUNT  is  the  Proprietor  of  the  business 
of  J.  W.  Hunt,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Ayr.  Ontario,  and 
has  been  in  the  business  twenty-three  years.  He  is  a  native 
of  Ontario,  born  .October   8,  1850. 

JOHN  E.  DITCHINGS  Is  the  owner  of  the  coal  business 
of  J.  E.  Hutchings  &  Co.  at  Niagara  Falls,  Ontario.  He  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  industry  for  over  forty  years, 
and  formerly  was  with  Thomas  Myles  Sons  at  Hamilton, 
Ontario,  and  with  the  Ohio  Coal  Co.  at  St.  Paul.  Minnesota. 
He   was  born   in   England   in   1853. 

JOHN  C.  IRVIN,  Weston,  Ontario,  is  Local  Manager  for 
the  Gibson,  McCormack,  Irvin  Co.,  Ltd.,  in  which  he  is  a 
stockholder.  He  has  been  eight  years  in  the  coal  business. 
He  was  born  at  Pontypool,  Ontario,  November  27,  1884. 

THOMAS  CHARLES  JEWELL  of  Bowmanville,  Ontario, 
is  Secretary-Treasurer  of  McClellan  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  coal  business  for  over  forty  years. 
He  was  born   February,   1859,  at  Solina,  Ontario. 

ANDREW  JOHNSTON  of  Stratford,  Ontario,  is  senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Andrew  Johnston  &  Son.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was 
born    in    the   north   of   Ireland   May    2,    1845. 

ANGUS  W.  JOHNSON,  General  Manager  M.  B.  Johnson 
&  Son,  St.  Thomas,  Ontario,  was  born  March  12,  1885,  at 
Brownsville,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years. 

MARSHALL  B.  JOHNSON,  President  M.  B.  Johnson  & 
Son,  St.  Thomas,  Ontario,  was  born  March  26,  1855,  at  St. 
Catherines,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
six  years. 

A.  KIRKPATRICK,  Lefroy,  Ontario,  was  born  in  Tyrone, 
Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  forty  years. 
In  addition  to  retailing  coal  Mr.  Kirkpatrick  operates  a 
grain    elevator   and   does  a  general    merchandising   business. 

WILLIAM  F.  KOLIIE  is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  W.  F.  Kolbe  &  Co.  at  Port  Dover,  Ontario,  and  "has  been 
doing  a  coal  business  there  for  three  years. 

SAMI  I'-I,  LESLIE  LAMBERT,  retail  coal  merchant  of 
Welland,  Ontario,  has  been  in  the  business  for  nineteen 
years. 

WILLIAM  II.  LONGFIELD  is  senior  member  in  the  Arm 
of  Longfleld  Bros.,  coal  merchants,  at  Mount  Brydges, 
Ontario.  He  has  been  in  the  business  for  four  years  and 
was  born  at  Belmont.  Ontario.  April  21.   1877. 

NDOTH  I.IKH.  retail  coal  merchant  at  Tlllsonburg.  On- 
tario, has  been  in  the  business  for  ten  years.  He  was  born 
March   27,    1853,   at    St.   Thomas,   Ontario. 

TINDILL  LINDY,  retail  merchant  at  Rockwood.  Ontario, 
was  born  Febrifary  16,  1851.  at  Bolton.  Ontario,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal   business  for  twenty-nine   years. 

DANIEL  O.  MABEE  is  the  only  exclusive  retail  coal 
merchant  at  Bolton.  Ontario,  having  bought  the  business  of 
W.  G.  Dick  in  1912  and  of  John  Arnott  In  1914.  He  has 
been  in  business  for  six  years,  and  was  born  November 
22,   1866,  at  Albion,  Ontario. 

FRED  MANN  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  John  Mann  & 
Sons,  Brantford,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
since  boyhood,  it  having  been  established  by  his  father. 
John  Mann,  in  1868.  Fred  Mann  has  tilled  the  offices  of 
('resident.  Vice  President  and  Director  of  the  Canadian 
Ketail  Coal  Association.  He  was  born  September  27.  1868, 
in     Mi  ant  ford.  John     Mann,     the     founder,     also     had     coal 

interests    In    London    and    Toronto.      He    died    September    9, 
1917,   aged    80    years. 

J.  C.  MARK,  Manager  Park  Hill  Lumber  &  Mfg.  Co., 
Park  Hill,  Ontario,  was  born  April  18.  1862.  and  has  been 
In  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years.  He  was  formerly 
with  the  firm  of  \V.   II    Mark  &  Co. 


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JOHN  MARKS,  East  Hamilton,  Ontario,  has  been  in  the 
coal  business  for  six  years.  He  formerly  was  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Payne  &  Co.,  and  became  sole  owner  of  the 
business  after  two  years  partnership.  Mr.  Marks  was  born 
February  7,  1883,  at  Bristol,   England. 

RODERICK  JIARTVX,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Ripley, 
Ontario,  has  been  in  the  business  for  eighteen  years.  He 
formerly  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  McKenzie  &  Martyn. 
He  was  born  in  Ripley  April   15,   1869. 

JOHN  McCLELLAN  is  President  of  McCiellan  &  Co.,  Ltd., 
Bowmanville,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
more  than  fifty  years.  He  was  born  at  Bowmanville  in 
April,    1839. 

A.  McFARLAXD  of  A.  &  C.  McFarland,  retail  coal  mer- 
chants, of  Fenelon  Falls,  Ontario,  was  born  May,  1866,  and 
has  been   in  the  coal  business  for  eleven  years. 

W.  H.  MoGANNON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Morrisburg, 
Ontario,  was  born  September  12,  1851,  at  Prescott,  Ontario, 
and   has  been   in   the  coal   business  eighteen   years. 

JOHN  ».  MOREHOUSE  is  Manager  at  Ottawa,  Ontario, 
and  General  Sales  Agent  for  the  east  for  The  Connell 
Anthracite  Mining  Co.,  Limited.  He  has  been  in  the  coal 
business  for  twenty-four  years  and  formerly  was  con- 
nected with  The  Old  People's  Coal  Co.  of  Canada,  whose 
equipment  was  taken  over  some  years  ago  by  the  Connell 
Anthracite  Mining  Co.  Mr.  Morehouse  was  born  at  Elmira, 
New  York,  forty-eight  years  ago,  and  has  an  unusually  wide 
acquaintance   in   the   Canadian   coal  trade. 

M.  J.  MORRIS  is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Morris  Bros., 
Alexandria,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  Ave 
years  ' 

CHARLES  JAMES  MYLES,  President  Thomas  Myles'  Sons, 
Ltd  S  James* St.,  North,  Hamilton,  Ontario,  was  born  in  Ireland 
January  9  1844,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  coal  business  six- 
ty-six years.  The  Mvles  family  started  in  the  coal  business  in 
Ireland  in  the  year  'l811,  and  the  business  at  Hamilton  was 
established  bv  Thomas  Myles  in  1852.  W.  H.  Myles,  Secretary 
of  the  company  and  son  of  Charles  James  Myles,  represents  the 
fourth  generation  to  be  engaged  in  the  coal  business. 

JAMES  MURPHY,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Fort  William, 
Ontario,  was  born  in  1863  at  West  Liberty,  Iowa,  and  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Murphy 
started  about  thirty  years  ago  handling  coal  for  the 
Canadian  Pacific  Railroad  as  a  contractor,  and  subsequently 
entered  business  for  himself.  He  owns  his  own  dock,  and  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  most  substantial  citizens  in  that 
section. 

CHARLES  H.  NIENABER,  General  Manager  Fort  William 
Coal  &  Dock  Co.,  Ltd.,  Fort  William,  Ontario,  was  born  in 
1872  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  twenty-four  vears.  He  is  also  associated  with  the  Val- 
ley Camp  Coal  Co..  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Mr.  Nienaber  is  well 
known  and  has  many  warm  friends  in  the  coal  trade  of  the 
Xorthwest.  .  He  was  for  ten  years  in  the  retail  coal  busi- 
ness at  St.  Paul  with  his  brother  and  afterwards  with  the 
Pittsburgh  Coal  Co.  and  the  Northern  Coal  &  Dock  Co.  be- 
fore taking  his  present  position. 

NOECKER  BROS,  have  been  in  the  retail  coal  business 
since  1903  at  Drayton,  Ontario,  under  the  present  name. 
They  have  been  in  the  grain  trade  since  1869  under  the 
name  of  L.   A.   Noecker. 

RICHARD  G.  OKE,  the  owner  of  a  retail  coal  business  at 
Whitby,  Ontario,  was  born  in  1846  in  Devonshire,  England. 
He  followed  the  building  trade  thirty-five  years  when  he 
purchased  the  lumber,  coal  and  wood  business  of  Gross  & 
Granger,  and  has  continued  the  same  until  the  present  time. 

PHILIP  CHARLES  PATRIARCHE  has  been  in  the  retail 
coal  business  for  thirteen  years  at  Burlington,  Ontario. 
He  was  born  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  February  10,  1875. 

P.  w.  PEARSON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Newmarket, 
Ontario,  was  born  December  20,  1862,  in  Newmarket  and  has 
been   in   the   coal   business   for   fifteen   years. 

JAMES  A.  PELKEY  has  been  in  the  retail  coal  and  wood 
business  at  Trenton,  Ontario,  for  the  past  two  years.  He 
was  born  May  12,  1863,  at  Cannifton,  Ontario. 

I).  S.  PRATT  conducts  a  retail  coal  business  at  Midland, 
Ontario,  and  has  been  there  for  eighteen  years.  He  was 
born  at  Coburg,  Ontario,  in   1868. 

WILLIAM  I.  PliRKIS,  proprietor  of  I.  D.  Purkis  &  Son, 
Prescott,  Ontario,  was  born  in  May,  1863,  in  Prescott  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-five  years.  This 
business  was  established  in  1856  by  the  father  of  Mr.  Purkis. 

MARTIN  B.  REIDEL  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
nine  years,  with  an  office  at  Waterloo,  Ontario.  His  resi- 
dence  is  at   Kitchener.   Ontario. 


JOHN  EWING  ROXBURGH  has  been  in  the  retail  coal 
business  at  Norwood.  Ontario.  Canada,  since  1903.  He  was 
born   in  Norwood  February  18,   1876. 

WALTER  SARJEANT  is  President  and  General  Manager 
of  The  Sarjeant  Co.,  Ltd.,  with  head  office  in  Barrie,  On- 
tario. He  was  born  in  England  July  31,  1868.  He  entered 
the  coal  business  over  thirty  years  ago  under  J.  S.  Johnston, 
whose  partner  he  afterwards  became.  Later  he  and  his 
brother,  S.  Sarjeant,  purchased  the  business.  He  developed 
the  business  until  they  operated  yards  at  Barre,  Orillia, 
Midland  and  Chatham.  The  latter  two  were  sold  in  1917. 
Mr.  Sarjeant  has  served  as  a  Director  of  the  Ontario  Coal 
Dealers'  Association. 

ARTHUR  SAYLES  is  the  Manager  and  Proprietor  of  the 
Paris  Coal  &  Lumber  Co.  at  Paris,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in 
the  business  for  over  thirty  years.  He  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  Gillies  Bros.  He  was  born  at  Paris,  Ontario, 
July   1,    1869. 

G.  T.  SCOTT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Erin,  Ontario,  was 
born  in  1871  in  Erin  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for   twelve   years. 

SEMMENS  &  SON,  retail  coal  merchants  of  Hamilton. 
Ontario,  Canada,  have  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty- 
eight   years    in    Hamilton. 

KURVEN  J.  SHIRTON,  Manager  of  The  William  Shirton 
Co.,  Ltd.,  Dunnville,  Ontario,  has  been  in  the  coal  business 
for  about  nineteen  years.     He  was  born  in  1882  at  Gainsboro. 

LAWRENCE  PATRICK  SHORTALL,  Gananoque,  Ontario, 
is  Vice  President  and  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Citizens' 
Coal  &  Forwarding  Co.,  Ltd.  He  has  been  five  years  con- 
nected with  the  coal  business.  He  was  born  in  Brewers 
Mills  July  25,  1873.  W.  T.  Sampson  is  President,  of  the 
company. 

JAMES  H.  SMART  of  Smart  &  Williams,  Kingsville,  On- 
tario, was  born  February,  1845,  and  although  he  has  only 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  three  years  he  has  had  fifty 
years'    mercantile    experience. 

WE  A.  SMITH  of  Gait,  Ontario,  was  born  September 
12,  1883,  at  Harrietsville,  Ontario,  and  has  been  in  the  coal 
business    for    twelve    years. 

CHARLES  HENRY  TAYLOR,  President  of  The  Hamilton 
Lumber  &  Coal  Co.,  Ltd.,  Hamilton,  Ontario,  was  born  in 
Hamilton  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  twenty-five 
years. 

CLARKE  TAYLOR,  Gananoque,  Ontario,  is  the  Owner  and 
Manager  of  the  business  of  James  Taylor  &  Son.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  sixteen  years.  He  was  born  in 
Gananoque   December    19,    1876. 

STEWART  A.  THOMPSON  is  General  Manager  of  the 
coal  business  belonging  to  the  T.  A.  Thompson  Estate  at 
Iroquois,  Ontario.  He  has  held  the  position  for  six  years, 
or  since  the  death  of  his  father,  T.  A.  Thompson,  who 
conducted  the  business  for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Thompson 
was  born  in  Iroquois  August  19,  1893. 

JOHN  M.  THORNDIKE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Beach- 
ville,  Ontario,  was  born  April  21,  1870,  in  Beachville,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  fifteen  years. 

WILLIAM  F.  TONER  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Toner 
&  Gregory,  Collingwood,  Ontario.  In  1882  the  coal 
business  was  added  to  lumber,  but  since  1912  the  firm  has 
discontinued  its  lumber  department  and  dealt  exclusively 
in  coal.     Mr.  Toner  was  born  in  Collingwood  in  1875. 

FRANKLIN  ELMORE  VAN  LUVEN,  retailer  at  Napanee, 
Ontario,  was  born  September  19,  1861,  at  Camden,  Ontario 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  eighteen  years. 

MARCUS  A.  WARE,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Fonthill, 
Ontario,  was  born  August  5,  1876,  at  Allanburg,  and  has 
been   in  the  coal  business  for  seven  years. 

FREDERICK  JAMES  WATT,  of  Curries,  Ontario,  has  been 
in  the  coal  business  for  one  year,  having  purchased  the 
business  of  W.  E.  Smith,  which  had  been  established  for 
twenty   years. 

MENNO  L.  WEBER  has  been  a  retail  coal  merchant  at 
St.  Jacobs,  Ontario,  since  1916.  He  has  also  engaged  in  the 
flour  and  feed  business  since  1913.  He  was  born  in  St. 
Jacobs  March    29,  1860. 

NEIL  WETTLAUFER,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Tavistock, 
Ontario,  was  born  July  4,  1885,  in  Tavistock  and  has  been 
in   the   coal   business   for   two   years. 

CHARLES  H.  WILLOUGHBY,  born  February  10,  1872, 
at  Spencerville,  now  owns  the  coal  business  at  Longwood, 
Ontario,  formerly  owned  by  Duncan  McRae.  Mr.  Wil- 
loughby  took   it   over  two  years  ago. 


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EDWIN  ALFRED  WOUIIIIUI  SK,  Manager  of  Woodhouse 
«V-  Co.,  Dundas.  Ontario,  was  born  October  23,  1845,  In  Eng- 
land, and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-one 
years. 


CANADA  —  Prince  Edward  Island 


M.  I..  BHADSHAW.  Secretary  Joseph  Read  &  Co.,  Ltd., 
Summerslde.  Prince  Edward  Island,  Canada,  has  been  con- 
nected with  his  present  company  ten  years.  He  was  a 
regular  correspondent  with  I'attison  &  Bowns,  Dickson  & 
Eddy  and  several  Canadian  companies. 

GEORGE  BDWABD  Kill,  retailer  at  Charlottetown, 
I'rince  Edward  Island,  was  born  September  10,  1844,  at 
Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
ten  years. 

ALFRED  PICKARD,  Charlottetown,  Prince  Edward 
Island,  is  the  owner  of  the  retail  business  of  A.  Pickard 
&  Co.,  and  has  been  handling  anthracite  and  bituminous 
coal  eighteen  years.  He  was  born  in  Charlottetown  August 
16,    1878. 

JOSEPH  READ,  President  Joseph  Read  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  Sum- 
merside,  Prince  Edward  Island,  Canada,  was  born  in  Sum- 
merside  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  thirty  years.  Mr. 
Read  is  a  member  of  the  Dominion  Parliament  and  his  com- 
pany carries  on  the  largest  and  most  extensive  produce 
business    in    the    Maritime    provinces. 


CANADA  —  Montreal,  Quebec 


iiMiii.it  I  mi  \  I  it.  146  Xotre  Dame  St.,  West,  Montreal, 
is  President'  of  The  Hartt  &  Adair  Coal  Co.  and  has  been 
engaged  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-five  years.  He  was 
born  at  Rutherglen,  Scotland,  August  11,   1864. 

wiihkw  BA1LE,  President  of  Andrew  Baile,  Ltd.,  whole- 
sale and  retail  coal  merchants  of  Montreal.  Quebec,  was 
born  February  22,  1842,  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  and  estab- 
lished   his    present    business    in    Montreal    in    1869. 

7.EPHIHIX  BEAllAGE,  1869  Cote  des  Nieges  Road. 
Montreal,  Quebec,  is  senior  member  of  the  coal  firm  of  Z. 
Beaucage  &  Fils.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for 
sixteen  years. 

ALEXANDER  DICK,  112  St.  James  St.,  Montreal,  Quebec, 
Is  General  Sales  Agent  for  the  Dominion  Coal  Co.,  Ltd., 
He  was  for  some  years  with  the  Cumberland  Railway 
&  Coal  Co.  and  the  Canada  Coal  &  Railway  Co.  He  has 
been  in  the  coal  business  for  thirty-nine  years.  Mr.  Dick 
was  born  at  Stellarton,  Nova  Scotia,  October  17,  1866. 

CLARENCE  E.  F.  DUMAHESO,  is  Vice  President  of  The 
Hartt  &  Adair  Coal  Co.,  146  Notre  Dame  St.,  West,  Mon- 
treal, Quebec.  He  was  born  at  Montreal,  March  21,  1885, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  sixteen  years. 

Wl'olNE  GI  TOT,  retail  coal  merchant  of  Montreal,  Que- 
bec, was  born  January  17,  1880.  at  Mortcerf,  France,  and 
has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-three  years,  four- 
t.-.-n  years  with  E.  Lemire  &  Son.  Ltd.,  and  nine  years  for 
himself. 

NELSON  W.  HOWARD,  Metiill  Building,  Montreal,  Quebec. 
is  Managing  Director  of  the  Geo.  Hall  Coal  Co.  of  Canada, 
Ltd..  and  has  been  In  the  business  for  eleven  years. 
Hi-  is  tin'  Canadian  representative  of  the  Rochester  &  Pitts- 
burgh Coal  *  Iron  Co.  Mr.  Howard  was  born  at  Ogdens- 
burg.  .\V\v    York,  In  December,  1884. 

J.  II.  UOI  I.ECi.  \iiie.  Manager  Leclaire  &  Frere.  Mon- 
treal, Quebec,  was  born  In  Sorel,  Quebec,  and  has  been  In 
tin'  rani  business  ten  years.  He  Is  also  Interested  In  the 
Prudential  Coal  I'm,  Ltd,  HI*  father,  J.  L.  Bruno  Leclaire, 
of  Sorel,  Quebec,  who  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  fifty 
vents,    is   alto   a    shipbuilder   contractor. 

■Mm  LEMIKE.  196  Versailles  St.,  Montreal.  Quebec, 
Is  President  anil  General  Ma  nager  of  E.  I,einire  K-  Sons, 
I, td  He  has  been  c  ng:i  a  ••<!  in  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-six  years.  He  was  born  at  St.  Isidore  of  LaPrairie, 
Qaebeo,  January  7.  1853.  Associated  with  Mr.  Lemire  are 
his   sons,   Oswald,   Joseph    E..   Hcrcule   and    Rodolphe. 

CH\HLES  PETHIE.  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager Lee  Coal  CO.,  Ltd.  Pr.  leident  Prudential  Coal  Co.,  and 
Vice  President  United  Btatei  Con!  Corp.,  Montreal,  Canada, 
was  born  In  Quebec  In  1880.  and  has  been  engaged  In  the 
"ii  business  since  1904.  This  company  Is  Interested  In 
several  anthracite  anil  bituminous  coal  operations,  and 
handles  their  tonnage  In  the   Dominion  of  Canada. 


FAHQ.I  HAH  ROBERTSON,  President  Farquhar  Robertson, 
Ltd.,  of  Montreal,  Quebec,  was  born  April  14,  1850,  in  Glen- 
garry County,  Ontario,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for 
thirty-eight  years.  Mr.  Robertson  has  served  as  President 
of  the  Montreal  Board  of  Trade,  Montreal  General  Hospital, 
Governor  Verdun  Hospital,  Director  Merchants'  Bank  of 
Canada,  and  as  Harbor  Commissioner. 

EDGAR  FERGUS  TOI.lll  itsT.  only  son  of  Thomas  Fer- 
guson Tolhurst,  and  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  T.  F. 
Tolhurst  ,t  Son,  6468  Lajeunesse  St..  Montreal,  Quebec,  has 
been  with  the  firm  five  years.  He  was  horn  in  Montreal 
May  4,  1898.     He  is  now  In  the  Service  abroad. 

THOMAS  FERGUSON  TOLHURST,  6468  Lajeunesse  St., 
Montreal,  Quebec,  is  senior  partner  in  the  Arm  of  T.  F. 
Tolhurst  &  Son.  He  has  been  in  the  coal  '  business  five 
years.     He  was  born  in  Montreal  July  7,   1869. 

ROBERT  ALLAN  WEBSTER,  10  St.  John  St.,  Montreal, 
Quebec,  has  been  in  the  retail  coal-  business  off  and  on 
for  thirty  years.  Formerly  he  was  with  Geo.  M.  Webster 
&  Co.  of  Quebec  City  and  Wm.  Muir  &  Son,  Ltd.,  of  Mon- 
treal.    He  was  born   in  the  city  of  Quebec  October  17,   1865. 


CANADA  — Quebec 


MAXIMILIAN  DAMASO  BRISF.TTE,  80  St.  Thomas  St., 
Longueuil,  Quebec,  is  Manager  for  D.  Brisette  &  Co.,  and 
has  been  in  the  business  for  eleven  years.  He  was  form- 
erly with  D.  Brisette,  his  father,  who  founded  the  business. 
Mr.  Brisette  was  born  at  Longueuil. 

JAMES  HAMILTON,  retail  coal  merchant  at  Chateauquay, 
Quebec,  has  been  in  the  business  for  twenty-three  years. 
Formerly  he  was  connected  with  the  Lehigh  Valley  Coal 
Co.,  Millspaugh  &  Green,  Wm.  Mino  &  Sons,  and  F.  Robert- 
son.    He  was   born  July  16,   1871,  at  Chateauquay. 

EDWARD  DES  JARDINS,  JR.,  retail  coal  merchant  at 
Hull,  Quebec,  was  born  April  26,  1891,  at  Ironside,  Quebec, 
and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  six  years. 

J.  N.  ARTHUR  LECLAIRE,  of  Leclaire  &  Fils,  Sorel.  Que- 
bec, was  born  September  26,  1889,  in  Sorel  and  has  been 
in    the    coal    business    for    ten    years. 

J.  L.  BRUNO  LECLAIRE,  senior  member  of  Leclaire  & 
Fils  of  Sorel,  Quebec,  was  born  May  1,  1858,  at  St.  Ours, 
Quebec,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  business  for  twenty-seven 
years.  Mr.  Leclaire  has  four  sons  who  are  also  interested 
in  the  coal  business  and  has  yards  at  Ottawa  and  Montreal. 

MARTIN  MADDEN,  senior  member  of  Madden  &  Son  of 
Quebec.  Canada,  was  born  May  23.  1869,  in  Quebec  and 
the  firm  has  been  in  business  forty  years.  Mr.  Madden 
has  served  as  Alderman  for  St.  Peter's  Ward,  the  commer- 
cial ward  of  the  city,  twelve  years,  and  was  Chairman  of 
the  Water  Works  Committee  when  he  resigned  in  1918.  He 
still  represents  Quebec  West  in  the  Provincial  Parliament 
of  Quebec. 


CANADA  —  Saskatchewan 


WILLIAM  MAXW 'ELL  CAHMENT  is  a  retail  coal  merchant 
at  Kamsack,  Saskatchewan,  of  eleven  years  standing.  He 
is  a  native  of  Scotland  and  was  born  in   1854. 

LEONARD  T.  FAYER,  718  High  St..  West.  Moose  Jaw, 
Saskatchewan,  is  Manager  for  the  Sterling  Coal  Co.,  Ltd., 
and  has  been  four  or  five  years  in  the  coal  business.  He 
was  born  at  Greensboro,  Vermont,  September  8,  1883.  The 
other  officers  of  the  company  are  C.  A.  Baker,  President; 
S.    p.   W.  Cooke,   Secretary,  and  G.  G.   Jewell.   Vice   President. 

GORDON  STEWART  HUNTER,  218  Twenty-first  St..  East. 
Saskatoon,  Saskatchewan,  is  Manager  of  The  Spicer  Coal 
Co.,  Ltd.,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  for  four 
years.  He  Is  Interested  In  a  coal  mining  property  at  Dinant. 
Alberta.  Mr.  Hunter  was  born  at  Wiarton.  Ontario,  March 
17,    1885. 

ROGER  I".  STRICKLAND.  Saskatoon,  Saskatchewan.  Is 
Managing  Director  of  the  Saskatchewan  Supply  &  Fuel 
Co.,  Ltd.,  and  has  been  In  the  coal  business  six  years. 
He  has  filled  the  office  of  President  In  the  Saskatoon  Fuel 
Dealers'  Association  and  In  the  Saskatchewan  Fuel  Dealers" 
Association.     He  was  born  May  7,  1885,  at  Lnkefield,  Ontario. 

FREDERICK  JOHN  WALSH,  President  and  licneral  Man- 
ager Walsh  Coal  Co.,  Ltd,  Moose  Jaw.  Saskatchewan,  was 
born    May    5,    1875.    at    Salem,    Ontario,    and    has   been    In    the 

coal    business    ten    years. 


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THANKS  TO  PHOTOGRAPHERS 

The  co-operation  of  many  leading  photographers  in  various  cities  throughout  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  has  made  it  possible  for  us  to  reproduce  the  likenesses  of  so  many  prominent  coalmen  in  this 
work.  Among  those  who  are  especially  entitled  to  credit  for  the  assistance  they  have  given  us  are  the 
following : 


Birmingham,  Ala.,  Stephenson  Studio. 

New  Haven,  Conn.,  The  Donnelly  Studio. 

Chicago,  111.,  Matzene  Studio. 

Peoria,  111.,  Burkart  Studio. 

Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  Peck's  Studio. 

Indianapolis,  Ind.,  Chas.  F.  Bretzman. 

Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  Geo.  Graham  Holloway. 

Harlan,  Ky..  W.  W.  Choate. 

Lexington,  Ky.,  F.  E.  Johns. 

Middlesborough,  Ky.,  C.  E.  Orcbaugh. 

Pineville,  Ky.,  Star  Photo  Co. 

Baltimore,  Md.,  Bachrach  Studio. 

Worcester,  Mass.,  Schervee  Studio. 

Detroit,  Mich.,  C.  M.  Hayes  and  Co. 

Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Lee  Bros. 

St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Go]  ling  Studio. 

Kansas  City,  Mo.,  Henry  Moore. 

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  J.  Edward  Bosch. 

Lincoln,  Neb.,  Alva  C.  Townsend. 

Omaha,  Neb.,  The  Hevn  Studio. 

Albany,  N.  Y..  The  Wendell  Studio. 

Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  Leo  J.  Buckley. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Pohle  Studio. 

New  York  City,  N.  Y.,  Gessford  Studio. 

New  York  City,  N.  Y.,  Underwood  &  Underwood. 

Bochester,  N.  Y.,  Mock,  the  Photographer. 

Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  Arthur  J.  White. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Fairbanks  Studio. 

Canton,  Ohio,  Courtney  Studio. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Benjamin  Studio. 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  B.  Frank  Moore. 
Columbus,  Ohio,  Baker  Art  Gallery. 
Dayton,  Ohio,  J.  S.  Corbitt. 
Jackson,  Ohio,  J.  W.  Miller. 
Xelsonville,  Ohio,  Lee  McDowell. 
New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  The  Green  Studio. 
Toledo,  Ohio,  C.  L.  Lewis. 
Wellston,  Ohio,  A.  Monroe  Handley. 
Greensburg,  Pa.,  Kough  Studio. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Marceaxi  Studio. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  B.  W.  Johnston. 
Scranton,  Pa.,  J.  B.  Schriever. 
Uniontown,  Pa.,  The  Croft  Studio. 
Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  Wildermuth  &  Sterns, 
Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  Bronson  Studio. 
Knoxville,  Tenn.,  Knaffl  &  Brakebill. 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  Grav's  Studio. 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  w/G.  Thuss. 
Roanoke,  Va.,  The  Cole  Studio. 
Charleston,  W.  Va.,  Sylvan  Wallace. 
Clarksburg,  W.  Va.,  The  Amon  Studio. 
Fairmont,  W.  Va.,  Walter  E.  Johnston. 
Fairmont,  W.  Va..  Ernest  Schwaner. 
Grafton,  W.  Va,  W.  B.  Loar. 
Huntington,  W.  Va.,  The  Thomas  Studio. 
Logan,  W.  Va.,  Carter  &  Carter. 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  Klein  Studio. 
London,  Ont.,  George  A.  Henry. 
Toronto,  Ont.,  Fred  Wm.  Lyonde. 


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